Book Review: Health and Wealth Is Always Green

Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

An inspirational business success story about what’s possible with determination and adaptability 

There are so many ways to fail as a business owner. It could be your fault, somebody else’s fault, nobody else’s fault, you name it. Businesses grow and fail and sometimes come back, a little different from before. Health and Wealth is Always Green is a memoir meets business self-help book about Donnie P. and his brother going from elderly care business-owners to becoming successful weed entrepreneurs. This book acts an excellent reminder to entrepreneurs that success is elusive and ever-changing. And while it can be difficult, it is definitely still possible.

Things happen all the time, and sometimes you can’t see them coming.“Suddenly, the police burst down our door with guns blazing. Police cars were all over our office.” Yes,Donnie and his brother Omar are running a great elderly care business, but no, they are not immune to be raided by the police, stripped of everything they needed to do their business. If they were going to continue running it, they were going to have to win it in court. And unnecessarily! They fought it, and the charges were dropped. As a first time entrepreneur, you don’t know what you’re going to have to be prepared for. It’s a testament to their business acumen that they were so well prepared that they were ready for a fight before it happened.

In addition to being a personal story about overcoming adversity, it’s also a book aimed at entrepreneurs or people who have the fire inside them to start their own businesses. Donnie P. is motivational and inspirational in his voice and you can tell he genuinely wants his readers to succeed.

While the business tips are almost always sound, they can be pretty vague at times. We are told to be prepared, be determined, be willing to adapt, but there isn’t quite as much practical business-owning advice as much as there is inspirational advice. For a book with so much attention drawn to helping entrepreneurs improve, there’s a lot of attention being drawn to his personal story. And for a book about his personal story, there’s a lot of paragraphs dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and those in his field. We also don’t get as much about weed as I expected from a book with cannabis in its subtitle. I’d love to start a cannabis business, but I still don’t think I’d know how to do it well.

In the end, Health and Wealth Is Always Green is an impressive personal success story that’ll inspire down-and-out entrepreneurs to get back up again. If you’re looking for some inspiration amidst some harsh realities, you are going to gain something from this book.

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