Marianne Pestana

Book Cover: Go Big
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Publisher: 2026
Excerpt:

Discover a life lived by instinct, curiosity, grit, and joy in Go Big: The Earnest Pursuit of Personal Growth by Kevin Ladd—a reflective, funny, and deeply human story about building a meaningful life one imperfect, audacious yes at a time.

From a childhood in small-town Maine with a black-and-white TV and an overactive imagination, to blue-collar beginnings in carpentry shops, to his unexpected leap to success in the burgeoning tech world, Ladd traces the winding backroads—literal and figurative—that shaped him. Along the way, he shares the lessons earned through work, creativity, motorcycles, mistakes, friendships, craftsmanship, and the stubborn refusal to live life on autopilot.

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This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a lived-help book. It’s a reminder that curiosity is a muscle, effort is a form of pleasure, and the doors and windows of life don’t open without someone willing to turn the knob and discover what lies behind them.

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