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, 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.

Along the way, Tut-Brown doesn’t spare himself. He writes about:

• The addiction to success – chasing the next deal like a drug, long after the joy is gone.
• Businesses that boomed, then burned – restaurants locked overnight, trucks wrecked at 3 a.m., credit scores torched.
• Love, loss, and glass-house rules – divorce, grief, blended families, and the four lines taped to his fridge.
• The day his body shut down – the “whale” that swallowed him and forced him to learn to walk again, one small step and one honest sentence at a time.

Threaded through it all are “signs” — short, punchy vignettes and sayings drawn from ordinary life: a low-fuel light, a spoiled fridge, a gym full of people scrolling instead of sweating, a phone that suddenly needs a passcode.

Each sign is a small warning, a quiet blessing, or a hard truth about work, money, love, and becoming who you actually are.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This isn’t just for entrepreneurs (though it may save a few).

This book is for anyone who has ever:

• Worked three jobs and still felt broke in every sense of the word
• Looked at a relationship and thought, The glove just doesn’t fit
• Called a friend at midnight and said, “I don’t know what I’m doing.”
• Stared at a blank page — or a blank future — and wished for a manual
• Felt the quiet ache of depression and kept going anyway

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.

If you’ve ever suspected that life does give you signs, you just didn’t know how to read them. This book is for you.