Inspired, Not Retired examines the bond between a father and a son, a profound mentorship that provided leadership lessons used throughout the son’s successful 32-year military career. This book provides tools and insights for everyone from the emerging leader to the retired person who wants to make an impact. Mentorship can ease the transition into civilian life and inspire continued service. Relationships fuel lives, but leadership drives the car. In this book, Dr. Randolph illustrates how positive parental influence through mentoring can cultivate a declared introvert into a highly effective and successful leader. Leadership should inspire us to begin another chapter while continuously serving others. Mentorship can provide understanding along the way.

Inspired, Not Retired eBook examines the bond between a father and a son, a profound mentorship that provided leadership lessons used throughout the son’s successful 32-year military career in a digital format. This book provides tools and insights for everyone from the emerging leader to the retired person who wants to make an impact. Mentorship can ease the transition into civilian life and inspire continued service. Relationships fuel lives, but leadership drives the car. In this book, Dr. Randolph illustrates how positive parental influence through mentoring can cultivate a declared introvert into a highly effective and successful leader. Leadership should inspire us to begin another chapter while continuously serving others. Mentorship can provide understanding along the way.

Enjoy listening to your books? Inspired, Not Retired Audiobook is just for you! Listen to all your favorite stories at your leisure at home, work, working out, or whatever your activity. In this book, Dr. Randolph illustrates how positive parental influence through mentoring can cultivate a declared introvert into a highly effective and successful leader. Leadership should inspire us to begin another chapter while continuously serving others. Mentorship can provide understanding along the way.

This leadership workbook is for you! Developing and writing Inspired, Not Retired: Leadership Lessons from Father to Son was a great joy for two reasons: First, it allowed me to recall the awesome times with and sage advice from my father. Second, it caused me to recount my leadership journey, incorporating the lessons learned along the way. But that was my journey and my lessons. This leadership workbook is for you! This leadership workbook may be used to either begin or reflect on your leadership journey. This leadership workbook may be used to develop your leadership lessons. This leadership workbook may allow you to reminisce about the life-changing times with a coach, mentor, or parental-type loved one who inspired your leadership journey. This is your workbook! Read it, complete it, study it, and enjoy it. This may be the blueprint for guiding your leadership quest.

It was an Abnormal Sunday. As Pastor Stanley Moore entered the sanctuary with the processional, everything seemed surreal. • The church was so packed, that people filled the aisles sitting in folding chairs. • The choir sang to the heavens with a melody that sounded like angels. • The air in the church felt electrified. It was an Abnormal Sunday because a transcendental question was asked to Pastor Moore: Can I Trust You with Trouble? That’s the question Pastor Stanley Moore heard God ask him as he sat in the pulpit. This was just before preaching the Sunday sermon to a packed church, but shortly after hearing his youngest daughter brutally murdered over the phone. Losing over 60 percent of his female family members in the next 11 months, Trouble became Pastor Moore's constant companion, embracing him at every turn. Enduring monumental grief and personal illnesses during the next three...

It was an Abnormal Sunday. As Pastor Stanley Moore entered the sanctuary with the processional, everything seemed surreal. • The church was so packed, that people filled the aisles sitting in folding chairs. • The choir sang to the heavens with a melody that sounded like angels. • The air in the church felt electrified. It was an Abnormal Sunday because a transcendental question was asked to Pastor Moore: Can I Trust You with Trouble? That’s the question Pastor Stanley Moore heard God ask him as he sat in the pulpit. This was just before preaching the Sunday sermon to a packed church, but shortly after hearing his youngest daughter brutally murdered over the phone. Losing over 60 percent of his female family members in the next 11 months, Trouble became Pastor Moore's constant companion, embracing him at every turn. Enduring monumental grief and personal illnesses during the next three...

Winner, Award Finalist, Nonfiction - Adventure | 2025 International Book Awards, Readers' Favorite. “Although I left the fight in Iraq, the fight had not left me.” Colonel Burl Randolph, Jr., always felt that way after returning home from each combat deployment to Iraq, and it took him months to return to ‘normal.’ In the series The Iraq I Knew…: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda in Iraq, he chronicles his journeys on each combat operation using remarkably intense and vivid stories. In Book I: Into the Storm, newly promoted Captain Randolph described his emotional experiences from the alert notification to the grueling deployment to Operation Desert Shield. The harsh deserts of Saudi Arabia had vicious windstorms, no rain, and substandard living conditions. They used “burn barrels” and “pee tubes” as bathrooms, contributing to some of the exposure to toxic elements. Randolph recounted Operation Desert Storm...

It Was An Abnormal Sunday... As Pastor Stanley Moore entered the sanctuary with the processional, everything seemed surreal. Based on what he had just heard, Pastor Moore heard the voice of God ask: "Can I Trust You with Trouble? Losing nearly 60 percent of his women family members in 11 months, Trouble became Pastor Moore's constant companion, embracing him at every turn. Read his story and how he proved that God could trust him with trouble. Rev Pastor Stanley Moore was a devoted servant of God as a pastor, father, husband, son, brother, and leader. His story is an example to everyone of how God can trust us with trouble if we keep our faith in Him. Listen to Rev Moore's story in this riveting audiobook, full of passion and emotion.

Recipient of the 2025 International Book Awards Award Finalist, Nonfiction - Adventure Readers' Favorite Annual International Book Contest. “Although I left the fight in Iraq, the fight had not left me.” Colonel Burl Randolph, Jr., always felt that way after returning home from each combat deployment to Iraq, and it took him months to return to ‘normal.’ In the series The Iraq I Knew…: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda in Iraq, he chronicles his journeys on each combat operation using remarkably intense and vivid stories. In Book I: Into the Storm, newly promoted Captain Randolph described his emotional experiences from the alert notification to the grueling deployment to Operation Desert Shield. The harsh deserts of Saudi Arabia had vicious windstorms, no rain, and substandard living conditions. They used “burn barrels” and “pee tubes” as bathrooms, contributing to some of the exposure to toxic elements....

Recipient of the 2025 International Book Awards Award Finalist, Nonfiction - Adventure Readers' Favorite Annual International Book Contest. “Although I left the fight in Iraq, the fight had not left me.” Colonel Burl Randolph, Jr., always felt that way after returning home from each combat deployment to Iraq, and it took him months to return to ‘normal.’ In the series The Iraq I Knew…: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda in Iraq, he chronicles his journeys on each combat operation using remarkably intense and vivid stories. In Book I: Into the Storm, newly promoted Captain Randolph described his emotional experiences from the alert notification to the grueling deployment to Operation Desert Shield. The harsh deserts of Saudi Arabia had vicious windstorms, no rain, and substandard living conditions. They used “burn barrels” and “pee tubes” as bathrooms, contributing to some of the exposure to toxic elements....

Recipient of the 2025 International Book Awards Award Finalist, Nonfiction - Adventure Readers' Favorite Annual International Book Contest. “Although I left the fight in Iraq, the fight had not left me.” Colonel Burl Randolph, Jr., always felt that way after returning home from each combat deployment to Iraq, and it took him months to return to ‘normal.’ In the series The Iraq I Knew…: From Saddam Hussein to Weapons of Mass Destruction to Al Qaeda in Iraq, he chronicles his journeys on each combat operation using remarkably intense and vivid stories. In Book I: Into the Storm, newly promoted Captain Randolph described his emotional experiences from the alert notification to the grueling deployment to Operation Desert Shield. The harsh deserts of Saudi Arabia had vicious windstorms, no rain, and substandard living conditions. They used “burn barrels” and “pee tubes” as bathrooms, contributing to some of the exposure to toxic elements....