By every medical account, Tommy Ball should be dead. Instead, he’s here to tell you that survival is possible.

Born into parental addiction that has spanned generations, his family was destroyed by alcohol and prescription pills. Yet he rose to become a multiple all-conference Division I performer in football and track at Appalachian State, then an executive sales and operations leader, trying to break the generational curse. He was close until the same drive that fueled his success nearly destroyed him.

Using the structure of a football game (four quarters that mirror life’s seasons), he shows how inherited trauma, corporate pressure, and family addiction pushed him to rock source bottom, and how he found the strength to finally break the cycle.