WL Laney was raised in an abusive alcoholic's home until he left to support himself when he turned fifteen. Unable to complete his college education due to a lack of funds, WL learned to use everything he had to create a series of businesses in his adult life. He willingly shares his successes, struggles and failures in an effort to show you, the reader, that if he could do it, so can you. Another of Mr. Laney's popular books "The Phoenix Success Strategy" talks in detail about losing everything at age fifty nine and how he got it all back and more by focusing on helping other people succeed.