Growing Up In The Hustle: A memoir of Survial, Hustle and becoming more than my circumstances

Growing Up in the Hustle — KDP Book Description Growing Up in the Hustle is a raw, emotional, and deeply personal story of survival, love, motherhood, heartbreak, and finding the strength to keep going. Growing up in North Philadelphia, Candee learned early that life doesn’t always give you time to prepare for its hardest lessons. Surrounded by family instability, complicated relationships, painful experiences, and the realities of the streets, she learned how to survive long before she understood what it meant to heal. As she grows from a young girl searching for security into a woman navigating love, motherhood, loss, and repeated relationship patterns, Candee begins to recognize how the experiences of her childhood followed her into adulthood. From absent and complicated male role models to heartbreak, generational patterns, moving from place to place, and searching for the kind of love she always wanted, each chapter reveals another layer of the woman she would eventually become. But Growing Up in the Hustle isn't simply a story about hardship. It's about resilience. It's about loving even after you've been hurt, laughing through difficult moments, making mistakes, getting back up, and finally understanding that where you come from does not have to determine where you end up. Unfiltered, vulnerable, humorous, and heartfelt, this memoir is for anyone who has ever had to survive their past while learning how to create a different future. The hustle may be where Candee grew up—but it doesn't get to decide where her story ends.