Our Books
The Weight of Responsibility
Leadership Lessons From a Marine Sergeant Major
by Sgt. Maj. David Devaney
Forward by Tyler Martin
In The Weight of Responsibility, Sgt. Maj. David Devaney, USMC (Ret.), looks back at over three decades in the Marine Corps and the hard-earned lessons that shaped him from a young infantry Marine searching for direction into a Scout Sniper, Drill Instructor, combat leader, First Sergeant, and Sergeant Major responsible for developing and protecting generations of Marines.
Drawn from Devaney’s journals, essays, letters, speeches, poems, and personal reflections, this is an unfiltered account of leadership as it is actually lived—not as a title, but as a daily obligation. He writes candidly about discipline, trust, accountability, combat, failure, wounded warriors, fallen friends, difficult decisions, and the personal cost of doing what is right when the easier choice is available. He also confronts the responsibility carried at home: the sacrifices made by a wife and family while a Marine answers the demands of service.
Devaney preserves a piece of Marine Corps history through his years in the Scout Sniper community, the mindset, standards, and institutional knowledge of a profession that helped shape his approach to leadership.
Street Tales
by Tyler Martin
The first in a series of books based on interviews from this highly successful Podcast of the same name – Street Tales.
Street Tales is podcast book. It’s not meant to be read as a novel but rather as a series of conversations that highlight certain stories that author, Tyler Martin wants to bring to life. These are not six autobiographies rather they are six compelling interviews with unique individuals.
The first three interviews are with people who’ve dealt with addiction, criminality, hitting rock bottom, but who rebuilt their lives with hope and eventual success. The second three interviews introduce the reader to the Street Tales team who co-host the show. They’re all law enforcement professionals who took very different paths to the same career field.
“You can decide to change at any point in your life. You can come from any bad place to a better place if you decide to. Just because you’ve done bad things, it doesn’t make you a bad person. These guys still had their humanity and deep down were good people.
Happiness is a choice. Success is a choice. It is also important to realize that you can come from any background and wind up in law enforcement.” – Tyler Martin
Martin sees this as the first in a series of books based on interviews from his highly successful Podcast of the same name – Street Tales.