The Fifth Vital: A Prelude

By Mike Majlak & Riley J. Ford

The Fifth Vital: A Prelude - Mike Majlak & Riley J. Ford
  • Release Date: 2020-04-25
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 96 Ratings

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.

Reviews

  • Future Netflix Show

    5
    By Ramez_BH
    Amazing!!! Can’t wait to read the whole Book
  • Insane

    5
    By dev dev 69
    Really good i would recommend for everyone
  • Intrigued

    5
    By TypicalNico
    Very intrigued to read the book and interested in buying it to read the whole thing been a fan for a while never been into books but this is Intriguing
  • Inspiring

    5
    By Aswence
    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.
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    5
    By MilenaBastos203
    Thank you for this. Thank you.
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    5
    By arianalanae_
    Definitely have to read the book now!