From Skateboard Kid to Entrepreneur
by SFC RET William A. Stephens Jr.
✨ “No Filter isn’t just my story — it’s every veteran, every survivor, every person who’s ever stared their demons in the face and refused to back down.” 🎖🔥
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🛹🎖💥 “From skateboards to the battlefield, from breakdowns to breakthroughs — this is the journey of a man who lost everything and built it back, unfiltered.”
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🎃📖⚡ “Step inside the last chapter of my trilogy — raw, real, and dropping on Halloween 2025. This isn’t a book. It’s a reckoning.”
✨ No Filter: From Skateboard Kid to Entrepreneur – A Mental Health Journey ✨
📖 This is more than a memoir — it’s a survival story, a confession, and a battle cry.
What happens when the kid on the skateboard grows up, trades wheels for boots, and finds himself on the frontlines of war, fatherhood, and mental health?
William A. Stephens Jr. takes you on a no-holds-barred journey through the highs and lows of a life lived at full throttle.
This book doesn’t ask for sympathy — it demands honesty. No Filter is the third installment in William’s powerful trilogy that began with The Mirror and The Broken Mirror.
Here, he dives even deeper, peeling back the final layers to reveal a man who has been broken, rebuilt, and refuses to stay silent.
It’s about facing the demons that haunted him after the battlefield. It’s about the toll of PTSD, the pain of fractured relationships, and the unrelenting fight to keep going — not just for himself, but for the ones he loves and the community he serves.
If you’ve ever wondered what resilience really looks like, this book is your answer.
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🔥 What You’ll Discover Inside:
• 🛹 Childhood on the Edge – From the streets to the skate park, where rebellion and resilience were born.
• 🎖 Life in Uniform – A front-row seat to deployments, leadership, and the toll that service takes on the soul.
• 💔 The Breaking Point – PTSD, loss, and family struggles laid bare with brutal honesty.
• 🧠 Mental Health Uncensored – No sugarcoating. Just real talk about trauma, therapy, and survival.
• 💼 Entrepreneurship with Purpose – How 1821 Productions became a platform to give “Voice to the Voiceless.”
• 🎃 The Final Chapter – Why No Filter is dropping on Halloween 2025, and what it means to confront your demons.
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💡 Why This Book Matters:
• ✅ Perfect for readers who crave real, unfiltered storytelling.
• ✅ A lifeline for veterans, survivors, and anyone navigating their own mental health battle.
• ✅ Proof that you can lose it all, fight back, and still build something bigger than yourself.
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⭐ Reader Takeaways:
• 🌌 Hope in the darkness.
• 💥 Courage to speak your truth.
• 🔑 Permission to build your own legacy.
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🎯 Ideal For:
• 📚 Fans of military memoirs & survivor stories
• 🎙 Advocates of mental health & PTSD awareness
• 🚀 Dreamers & doers chasing purpose
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The Broken Mirror and The Mirror, Black Edition are collections of raw, unfiltered entries built as tools for your mental toolbox—created for anyone living with trauma, PTSD, or mental health challenges. Everyone carries scars, even me. If you’ve never been to hell and fought your way back, these pages will show you the view from the other side, reflecting the many “broken mirrors” of pain, resilience, and survival. The Mirror, Black Edition dives even deeper into the darkness, confronting the voices that tried to silence me and bringing the shadows into the light. 1821productions.com
William A. Stephens Jr. is a retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class, decorated combat veteran, and award-winning author whose work exposes the raw realities of PTSD, trauma, and survival. Recognized with the International Impact Book Award and nominated for the Eric Hoffer Award, he shares unflinching truths through his platform, 1821 Productions – Voice of the Voiceless. His upcoming memoir, No Filter, continues his mission to inspire, lead, and give strength to those fighting their own battles.
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