{"product_id":"from-bedridden-to-the-boardroom-david-good-9798996312504","title":"From Bedridden to the Boardroom: Life Begins When You Lose Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome mornings, the entire project for the day was making it fifteen feet to the bathroom.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Good spent most days of the week in bed. Migraines and neck pain that had not let up in months. A depression that medication after medication failed to touch. A twenty-year software career that was finished. He was thirty-seven years old, and by any reasonable projection, that was the end of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt wasn't.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighteen sessions of electroconvulsive therapy did not touch the depression, and they took something with them. His memory became a library with missing books. He rebuilt anyway, from a boba tea shop in West Michigan and from his room at night, running virtual events for people in other countries who could not find a room of their own either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat grew from it became \u003cstrong\u003eInternational Friend Connection\u003c\/strong\u003e, a peer-led volunteer community that reached more than fifty chapters in over twenty countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix years into it, after his mother's death, he was diagnosed autistic. At forty-three, he finally had an explanation for the loneliness that had been the water he swam in since childhood, and for why he had spent his life reverse-engineering things other people seemed to receive for free. Two years after that, he was in the boardroom of one of the world's largest community platforms, telling them what he had built with it. The same path carried him to the United Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the honest account of how that happened, including the parts most recovery stories leave out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat finally helped was not one thing.\u003c\/strong\u003e TMS, experimental psychedelic treatments, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy all mattered. So did a room full of people who were glad he showed up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe research is only now catching up to how psychiatric medication behaves in autistic bodies, which nobody could have known at the time. Therapy, which he does not dismiss and which he credits with saving his life, was never built to give him the thing he needed most: somewhere to go after the fifty-minute hour ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRead this if any of the following sounds like you\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou have been counted out, sidelined by illness, or left out of the design, and you are looking for a way forward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou love someone who is neurodivergent, isolated, or starting over.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou care about loneliness, belonging, and building real community.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou have lost everything, including hope.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBob Burg\u003c\/strong\u003e, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Go-Giver\u003c\/em\u003e, calls David one of his \"real-life action heroes.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Siegel\u003c\/strong\u003e, former CEO of Meetup and Investopedia, chose him to represent hundreds of thousands of organizers worldwide. \u003cstrong\u003ePerry Knoppert\u003c\/strong\u003e, founder of The Octopus Movement, puts it plainly: \"He is not trying to fit into the old world. He is helping to create the next one.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDr. Liliya Bakiyeva Wheatcraft\u003c\/strong\u003e, autistic psychiatrist and author of \u003cem\u003eAUTISTIC First Principles\u003c\/em\u003e, calls it \"a no-stigma, psychologically safe ecosystem\" and \"a much needed resource.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Good is a \u003cstrong\u003ePoints of Light honoree\u003c\/strong\u003e and a recipient of \u003cstrong\u003emultiple Presidential Service Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e for volunteer leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing anyone said to him in that bedroom would have convinced him, so he is not going to try to convince you. He will only tell you this. That bedroom was not the last room he was in, and some of the rooms that came after were good. 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