From Boardrooms to Back Alleys—and Back Again
Gordon Lownds is a visionary Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Sleep Country Canada and ListenUP! Canada, building two of the country’s most successful retail brands.
But behind the boardroom victories was a hidden spiral into crack addiction that nearly cost him everything.
In Cracking Up, Lownds pulls no punches in recounting his rise, fall, and long road to recovery.
Honest, unflinching, and unexpectedly funny, his memoir confronts the stigma of addiction while offering hope that even in the darkest places, recovery is possible.
Life to Paper Publishing is a hybrid publisher that specializes in nonfiction books that focus on:
- mental health
- addiction
- recovery
- trauma
- grief
- identity
- health
- healing
- personal transformation
We believe in stories that change lives.Yours could be next.
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