🔥 HELL & PARADISE
An American Odyssey 🔥
By Anton Volney
If David Goggins collided with Baldwin, and Kendrick Lamar narrated—it’d feel like this.
✅ Witness the birth of “Mr. Congress”—the salsa outlaw who heals through rhythm
✅ Read the true story of a man who helped 25 baby sea turtles escape death
✅ Watch Anton go from broke, broken, and depressed… to Mike Tyson-level strength
✅ Get the inside scoop on ghosting your entire family for 5 years (and why it worked)
✅ Laugh through RoachGate, CockyGate, and SpitGate—yes, real chapters
✅ Understand the psychology of pathological giving… and how to break free
✅ Read the most haunting account of a dying mother—raw, vulnerable, unforgettable
✅ Discover what it’s like to live inside a real-life dance cult
✅ Learn why dancing saved his life (and why it might save yours)
✅ Explore a Caribbean childhood shaped by abuse, beauty, and resilience
✅ Be there for a romance that’s beautiful, twisted, and tragic
✅ Learn why Erika read 60+ romance novels and wrote The Cockiest Cowboy to Have Ever Cocked
✅ Journey through trauma so vivid, you’ll forget it’s not a film
✅ Be beat by teachers with sticks named “Long, Hot & Spicy”
✅ Experience paradise that feels like a prison
✅ Watch a gold watch shatter a family legacy
✅ Witness total ego death… from a single bird chirp
✅ Encounter dancing ancestors and hallucinatory healers
✅ Heal through flute, fists, and full-bodied movement
✅ Feel every gut-punch, heartbreak, and revelation in cinematic clarity
✅ See how unresolved grief warps generations
✅ Burn the doormat you used to be
✅ Understand what it means to live loud, dance hard, and heal completely
✅ Meet the man who trained AI to become his therapist
✅ Feel the rage of injustice—and the relief of boundaries
✅ Learn why “No” is a sacred spell
✅ Laugh your ass off. Then cry. Then laugh again.
✅ Discover the genius of Tumblr-era feminism
✅ Follow Anton’s mission to save his sister from misdiagnosis
✅ Witness a copywriter for Tony Robbins lose everything—and rise from ashes
✅ Watch a real man fall apart—and come back mythic
✅ Read writing that punches like Bukowski, dances like Kendrick
✅ Feel how dance is medicine, not metaphor
✅ Debate ass-eating in a tropical apartment (context matters)
✅ Live inside a symphony of survival, sensuality, and self-reclamation
✅ Witness an emotional jailbreak in real time
✅ Read the book readers say “feels like a soul mirror”
✅ Enter the mind of a man who trained himself to be fearless
✅ Understand what it’s like to lose your voice—literally and metaphorically
✅ Meet a real-life dance queen who roundhouse kicks depression
✅ Learn why softness is power, not weakness
✅ Get real stories, real heartbreaks, real growth—with zero filter
✅ See how roaches, floods, and whales helped write this book
✅ Feel the beauty and war of spiritual upbringing
✅ Watch generational trauma get its ass kicked
✅ Learn why love without boundaries isn’t love—it’s self-erasure
✅ Discover how trauma becomes myth when told right
✅ Read the therapy session that becomes a war cry
✅ Understand how one man made a sacred book from brokenness
✅ Feel your own story start to crack open
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