Ad Man to Island King: A Life of Reinvention (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798896179467)

From the smoke-filled ad rooms of 1960s England to the bright, unforgiving lights of Los Angeles - and finally to the shores of Kauai - Ad Man to Island King is not a success story.

It's a survival story.

Mike Hough didn't just reinvent his career.

He lost everything that once defined him - reputation, marriage, certainty - and had to decide whether to disappear quietly or start again from nothing.

This memoir isn't about winning.

It's about what happens when winning no longer matters and you're forced to rebuild a life based on who you actually are, not who you once pretended to be.

With wit, candor, and hard-earned clarity, Hough traces a life that moves from advertising pitch rooms to personal collapse, from ambition to fatherhood, from heartbreak to faith, and from the illusion of control to something far more durable: purpose.

Ad Man to Island King is a book for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of their own undoing and wondered if a second act was still possible.

Sometimes it is. New Wife, New Life.

Sometimes it's the only act that matters.