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A Life Told Through Signs, Struggles, and Survival

A man wakes up one morning, and his legs say, No.

The trucks, the restaurants, the late-night deals, the endless phone calls, all of it stops. All he can do is sit, breathe, and take a few shaky steps to the mailbox. That’s where this book begins: not in a boardroom or on a stage, but on a sidewalk, at walking speed.

In ADDICT: SIGNS, STORIES & SAYINGS, writer, entrepreneur, and mental health practitioner Mustafa Tut-Brown tells the story of a life lived at full tilt, and what it took to finally slow down enough to read the signs the universe had been posting all along.

“It’s not a lecture or a sermon. It’s a mirror.”

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WHAT THE BOOK IS

A Memoir of Hustle, Collapse, and Grace

For twenty years, this book kept getting interrupted by births and funerals, marriages and divorces, launches and evictions, breakdowns and second chances. Every chapter was lived before it was written.

Addict is a part memoir and part field guide. It moves from a childhood in a rural Caribbean village, to teenage exile in Canada, to decades of serial entrepreneurship — shipping, moving, cafés, construction, consulting, six trucks on the road, and more skeletons in the closet than doors to hold them.

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What Readers Are Saying

“I picked this up thinking it would be another ‘grind harder’ entrepreneur story. It’s the opposite. Mustafa puts language to something I’ve felt for years but couldn’t name: the way chasing success can become its own addiction. The stories about the trucks, the bank calls, and his body finally saying ‘no’ hit uncomfortably close to home — in a good way. I finished the book and immediately started writing down my own ‘signs.’”

Jordan M. small business owner

Honest without being bitter. What surprised me most is how fair he is. He doesn’t sugarcoat the pain, but he also doesn’t spend 200 pages blaming banks, partners, or family. He owns his mistakes, tells the truth about systems, and somehow still leaves room for grace. As an immigrant who’s tried to ‘make it’ in a new country, I felt seen, not preached at.

Claudia R. first-generation professional

“The ‘signs’ stayed with me for days.” “The short ‘signs’ between chapters are what I keep coming back to: the fuel light story, the glass-house rules on the fridge, the moment his son called him out after the grocery store. They’re simple enough to remember but deep enough to sit with. This is a book I’ll be quoting in conversations for a long time.”

Rev. Alex D. pastor and community organizer

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Who is it for?

It’s written for immigrants and strivers, parents and partners, burned-out professionals, side-hustlers, ministers, mentors, and the people who hold everyone else together while quietly falling apart.

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ABOUT

MUSTAFA TUT-BROWN

Mustafa Tut-Brown has been many things: a barefoot kid in a Caribbean village, an angry teen in Canadian high schools, a university radio host, a shipping broker, a moving-company owner on a bicycle, a restaurateur, a financial consultant, a father of six, and a man who once thought hustle could outrun grief.

He calls his true alma mater the “University of Hard Knocks” — with courses in pain, suffering, success, failure, and reinvention. Later in life, he returned to formal study, spending three years in philosophy and earning a diploma in mental health and addictions.

Today, he brings all of that, the truck stops and the lectures, the breakdowns and the book knowledge, into his work as a writer, speaker, and mentor. He lives by a simple confession:

“I don’t throw stones because I’ve been living in a glass house, and I’ve got skeletons in all my closets.” –Mustafa Tut

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Addict is Mustafa Tut Brown’s second chance: an attempt to tell the truth carefully, so someone else doesn’t have to learn every lesson the hardest possible way.

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