Still Standing

It started with a phone call and a hustle. It ended with a SWAT team, a surveillance drone over the building, and a million-dollar bond.In between, there was money, loyalty, betrayal, a chaotic trip through the Amazon, a jail cell that defied belief, and a cast of people who were never supposed to become family. Still Standing is the darkly funny, brutally honest story of how a kid from a broke Midwest household built an operation, lost almost everything, and walked out the other side with his footing — and his sense of humor — somehow intact.It's about poverty and power. About the people who stay and the people who fall off. About laughing because the alternative is worse.He lost a year. He lost people he'll never get back. But he's still standing — and he wrote it all down.