The Fifth Vital: A Prelude
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4.4 • 98 Ratings
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Publisher Description
PRELUDE TO THE FIFTH VITAL
Mike Majlak was a seventeen-year-old from a loving, middle-class family in Milford, Connecticut, when he got caught up in the opioid epidemic that swept the nation. For close to a decade thereafter, his life was a wasteland of darkness and despair. While his peers were graduating from college, buying homes, getting married, having kids, and leading normal lives, Mike was snorting OxyContin, climbing out of cars at gunpoint, and burying his childhood friends. Unable to escape the noose of addiction, he eventually lost the trust and support of everyone who had ever loved him. Alone, with nothing but drugs to keep him company, darkness closed in, and the light inside him—the last flicker of hope—began to dim. His dreams, potential, and future were all being devoured by a relentless addiction too powerful to fight. Despair filled him as he realized he wasn't going to survive.
Somehow, he did…
HE NOT ONLY SURVIVED,
HE THRIVED.
Now he's a social media personality with millions of followers, and an entrepreneur, marketer, podcaster, YouTuber, and author who hopes to use his voice to shine a light for those whose own lights have grown dim.
This is the prelude to his story.
Customer Reviews
Inspiring
Watched the impulsive podcast with mike as the guest and wanted to see what the prelude was about... 2 hours later i ordered the book.
The goat
Loce it thank you for the read and having this in my library your podcats alome have helped me tremendously and I appreciate you brother from one sober brother to another chicago in the building 🫡😈🪬💯
Enjoyed reading
I enjoyed this book! I’ve never watched Mike’s you tube videos or any of his work, but this book was interesting and gives some good advice that I think many people could use.