The life you built can no longer contain who you are becoming.
Written from the perspective of a former elite athlete, military leader, and student of reinvention.
Try a New Path
explores how conformity, doubt, fear, and comfort can keep us tied to roles we have outgrown, and what it takes to move forward with clarity, courage, and purpose.
Get Inside Try a New Path
Explore the forces that keep you tied to old identities and what it takes to move forward.
Who It's For
This book is for you if:
- You’ve achieved a great deal and still want something more.
- You’re in a transition and unsure what comes next.
- The life you built no longer fits who you are becoming.
- You’re outgrowing old roles and definitions of success.
- You want more than inspiration. You want a way forward.
What It Gives
- A clearer understanding of what keeps you stuck
- Language for the inner tension of outgrowing old roles and definitions
- A deeper understanding of the Underbrain and how it shapes change
- Four pillars to support reinvention: knowledge, physical fitness, faith, and circle.
A Note from Shanelle
I wrote Try a New Path because I needed it.
The biggest transitions in my life did not begin when things fell apart. They did not begin because I lost passion for what I was doing. They began with an internal pull I could no longer ignore.
Athletics gave me a path. The military gave me a path. Both gave me structure, purpose, challenge, and clear ways to measure progress. I knew how to work hard inside systems that told me what came next.
What I did not know was how to move when the old life still worked.
That became the real challenge. Not starting over from nothing, but stepping away from roles, identities, and definitions of success that still looked valid from the outside. Not because they were wrong, but because they no longer fit who I was becoming.
I wrote this book from inside that tension, trying to answer a question many of us face at some point: What do you do when there is no clear map, no prescribed next step, and no title waiting for you, yet you still know you are being called forward?
This book is an invitation to stop living by default and start choosing your life with intention. It is for anyone who senses they are meant for more, even if they cannot fully name it yet.
Try a New Path is where that conversation begins.
The Fifth Path is where the work continues.
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