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Triumph in the Trenches

Vol. 3 of the Bestselling and Award-Winning Series

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What if Survival Was Never the Goal?

You were taught to play the game: work twice as hard, stay quiet, and make it look easy. We’ve learned to navigate workplaces that were never built with us in mind—performing excellence, shrinking ourselves, and enduring harm just to survive.

But what if we told you that surviving was making you sick?

What if we told you that the stress, silence, and self-sacrifice were not just unfortunate side effects but warning signs? And that you have every right to choose differently.

What if we showed you ways to stop letting the system define success and start building lives that reflect your values, boundaries, and vision?

Triumph in the Trenches, Vol. 3 is your roadmap to healing, reinvention, and power beyond the systems that shaped us. Whether you're redefining how you show up at work or building something of your own, this book offers real stories, strategies, and pathways forward.

A Word About the Cover

The cover of Triumph in the Trenches is green in honor of Victor Hugo’s Green Book for Negro Motorists—a guide that once helped Black travelers find safety and belonging on uncertain roads.

The hot air balloons nod to a different kind of navigation.

During the Civil War, balloons were used for aerial reconnaissance, giving scouts the ability to rise above the battlefield and see what couldn’t be seen from the ground.

This book offers a higher vantage point. A broader view and the clarity to move forward on your own terms.

Through these stories, you’ll learn to:

Reclaim your vision and value
Recognize patterns of adversity
Redefine your definition of success
Resist internalizing harm and stand in your worth
Reframe rest and resistance as essential, not optional

This is not just a book. It’s a map, a mirror, and a lift.

Lisa Hurley is a three-time Anthem Award-winning activist, writer, podcaster, and community builder. Her work centers Black women and converges at the nexus of self-care, community care, joy, and rest.

Hurley is the author of Space To Exhale: A Handbook For Curating A Soft, Centered, Serene Life, a transformational book created to help people beat burnout, embrace rest, and curate a soft, fulfilling life. In addition, she is the founder of The Great Exhale, a serene virtual community focused on sisterhood and soft living, where Black women can relax, lay their burdens down, and exhale.

Lisa is an Executive Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a juror for the Anthem Awards. A respected figure, she has been honored as one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs to follow on LinkedIn, voted as one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Black Creators, and recognized as one of the Top 10 Anti-Discrimination Activists in the world. As a result of her activism, her words have been quoted in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Sweet July, Adweek, and more.

A strong believer in good vibes, Lisa is a second-generation Reiki Master known for her inspiring affirmations on TikTok. Of Caribbean heritage, Lisa has an understandable preference for warmer climates. Her love languages are sunshine, laughter, and naps.

Most professional development books aren’t written to liberate. They’re written to help you adjust to dysfunction. That’s why so many push:

Grit over grief
Visibility over values
Optimization over rest
Soft skills over self-worth

And while 340,000 Black women and 193,000 Black men lost their jobs during the first half of 2025, the message we continue to get is that if we just work harder, we’ll be safe.

They want you:

Stuck in a cycle of self-improvement,
Centering system-pleasing and performance,
And ignoring structural harm.

Triumph in the Trenches, Vol. 3 takes a different approach.

While other books teach you how to play the game or win inside the system, Triumph 3 asks:

What if the system isn’t worth winning in?
And how can you thrive whether you stay or leave?

The voices in this book answer those questions. Each contributor shows what it looks like to survive, heal, and rebuild in the face of job loss, instability, and systems never designed for us to win.

This anthology is a blueprint to reclaim your power whether you stay, leave, or build something new. And it’s not about domination or hustle culture, it’s about wholeness, clarity, and moving forward on your terms.

If you’re tired of performing and ready to pivot, pre-order your copy today.

Start Your Gifts Early

Why wait until February to start your Triumph journey? Pre-order today and get instant access to tools that help you show up with confidence, connection, and clarity right now.

Your Triumph Starter Kit includes:

🎶 Focus & Flow Playlist – Curated on Spotify to help you stay grounded and motivated

💄 Beauty Cheat Sheet – Camera-ready tips for looking and feeling your best on video

🧘🏾 Stretches for Stress Relief – Quick, simple moves to release tension during the day

🤝 8 Steps to Networking – Build authentic professional relationships that open doors

📅 Your copy of Triumph in the Trenches, Vol. 3 will ship on February 10, 2026

If you’ve done everything “right” and still feel stuck, unseen, or undervalued...

If you have the title and the status but lack the stability to breathe or feel safe...

If you're questioning whether the version of success you’ve built still serves you...

This book is for you.

Triumph 3 doesn’t ask you to choose between your paycheck and your peace, your ambition and your well-being, or your rest and your relevance.

It shows you how to honor all of it as well as your right to define success on your own terms.

You have nothing to prove.

You don’t have to perform to be successful.

You just have to choose you—and this book shows you how.

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