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New Memoir Chronicles Twenty-Year Journey Through Entrepreneurial Failure, Spiritual Awakening, and the Art of Reading Life’s Warning Signs
Addict: Signs, Stories, Sayings by Mustafa Tut-Brown Offers Raw Testament to Survival, Resilience, and the Patterns We Ignore Until We Can’t
TORONTO, ON – February 17, 2026 – After two decades of writing, rewriting, and living through the very lessons he chronicles, Mustafa Tut-Brown releases Addict: Signs, Stories, Sayings – a genre-defying memoir that reads like a survival manual written by someone who barely survived.
Part personal testimony, part philosophical meditation, and part practical guide, the book offers an unflinching look at serial entrepreneurship, addiction to success, and the spiritual awakening that comes when the body finally says “no.” Tut-Brown’s narrative spans thirty years of business ventures – from freight transport to nightclubs, from financial consulting to restaurants – each one a classroom, each failure a lesson in reading the signs that appear before everything falls apart.
“I don’t throw stones because I’ve been living in a glass house, and I’ve got skeletons in all my closets,” writes Tut-Brown in the book’s opening pages. This radical honesty sets the tone for a work that refuses easy redemption arcs in favor of something more valuable: a forensic examination of the moment before collapse.
Born in the Caribbean and raised between two worlds, Tut-Brown left home at seventeen after a fight over dishes. What followed was a decades-long odyssey through the intersection of immigrant hustle, entrepreneurial ambition, and the kind of precarity that defines modern working life for millions.
“Every venture was a classroom,” Tut-Brown writes. “Each failure, a lesson.”
Throughout the book, he identifies the warnings that appear before relationships end, businesses collapse, and health crises emerge. These observations accumulate into a diagnostic toolkit for recognizing when the ground beneath you has already started to give way.
About the Author
Mustafa Tut-Brown is a serial entrepreneur, philosopher, and survivor who has spent thirty years building and rebuilding businesses across multiple industries. He holds a degree in philosophy and a diploma in mental health and addictions. Born in the Caribbean and based in Toronto, he is a father of six and a devoted student of what he calls “the University of Hard Knocks.”
Addict: Signs, Stories, Sayings represents twenty years of writing and revision, with every chapter lived before it was written.
Addict: Signs, Stories, Sayings is available for purchase through Amazon and other online book platforms.
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