Build Wealth. Grow Strong. Live on Purpose. Field-tested frameworks for money, work, and a life you can be proud of.

Success with money comes from breaking free of the rules that keep most people poor. —JCK

A blunt, unapologetic roadmap for building real wealth—without permission, excuses, or the outdated beliefs that keep most people broke.

Overview:
This isn’t another “save $5 a day and retire at 92” book. Money’s Dirty Little Secrets goes straight to the truth and reveals the principles that separate wealth builders from wishful thinkers. You’ll learn how money actually works, why most people never master it, and how to take control of your financial life with clarity, confidence, and grit.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Rewire your relationship with money so it becomes your ally
• Build habits and systems that create unstoppable financial momentum
• Break free from the lies, myths, and cultural clichés that keep people poor
• Think independently, act decisively, and spot opportunities others miss
• Design a life where wealth, purpose, and personal responsibility work together

Who This Book Is For:
• Anyone tired of living under fear, scarcity, or financial confusion
• Young adults who want to build wealth early instead of playing catch-up at 40
• Readers who want real-world principles—not hacks, gimmicks, or wishful thinking
• People who appreciate strong, straightforward truth with zero sugarcoating
• Anyone determined to build a life of freedom, security, and financial dignity

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A home-based business doesn’t need big money—it needs clear thinking, simple systems, and the courage to start. —JCK

How to Launch Smart, Stay Lean, and Build Something Real from Day One

A straight-talking, practical guide for anyone who wants to start a profitable home-based business without debt, stress, or guesswork. This book strips away the noise and gives you a clear blueprint for launching a real business—lean, smart, and built to last.

Overview:
Most people overcomplicate starting a business. They think they need a fancy office, piles of cash, or a big following. You don’t. This book shows you exactly how to start with what you have, keep your costs near zero, avoid the traps that sink new entrepreneurs, and build a business that actually makes money—not just noise. If you want clarity, confidence, and a proven path forward, this is where you begin.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Choose the right business idea that fits your skills, lifestyle, and budget
• Build a lean, low-cost startup foundation—even with limited resources
• Understand your numbers so you avoid surprises and stay profitable
• Attract real customers without wasting money on marketing gimmicks
• Create simple systems that make your business stable, scalable, and stress-free

Who This Book Is For:
• Anyone who wants to start a home-based business without taking financial risks
• People tired of side-hustle hype who want something real and sustainable
• First-time entrepreneurs who need clear steps—not vague inspiration
• Busy adults looking to earn extra income without quitting their day job
• Anyone who wants a practical, no-nonsense guide from someone who’s built a business from scratch

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How Grace Rebuilds You, Refines You, and Strengthens You From the Inside Out

Grace isn’t what rescues you—it’s what rebuilds you —JCK

A bold, hope-filled guide for anyone rebuilding after loss, hardship, or a season that didn’t go as planned. The Grace Effect shows how grace works—not as a soft comfort, but as a strengthening force that reshapes your character, restores your identity, and helps you rise again with courage, clarity, and purpose.

Overview:
Life will break you in ways you never expected. But grace—quiet, steady, unearned—has the power to make you stronger than you were before. In this book, Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. shares the principles, truths, and hard-won insights that helped him rebuild after brain surgery, facial paralysis, and a long journey back to wholeness. This is a book about resilience, identity, healing, and the inner strength that only grace can create.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Rise after setbacks and rebuild your confidence, identity, and purpose
• Develop emotional and spiritual resilience that lasts through adversity
• Find strength in suffering instead of being defined by it
• See hardship as preparation—not punishment
• Live with clarity, courage, and a renewed sense of meaning

Who This Book Is For:
• Anyone rebuilding after struggle, loss, or a season of being knocked down
• People who want a deeper, richer understanding of grace
• Readers seeking strength, clarity, and steady encouragement—not clichés
• Men and women who want a faith-rooted path to resilience without religious jargon
• Anyone looking to reclaim their identity and rebuild their life with purpose

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Mindful nursing isn’t something you add to your work—it’s the mindset that transforms the way you care, lead, and live. —Michele Kunz, RN

A clear, practical, and empowering introduction to mindful nursing—designed for students, new nurses, and seasoned professionals who want to bring greater clarity, purpose, and resilience into their daily practice. This book shows you how mindfulness strengthens not only your patient care, but your confidence, communication, and overall well-being as a nurse.

Overview:
Nursing is demanding—physically, mentally, and emotionally. This primer distills the essential principles of mindful nursing into a simple, accessible guide that you can apply immediately. You’ll learn how to stay focused under pressure, communicate with greater compassion, maintain emotional balance, and build the professional resilience needed to thrive in a constantly changing healthcare environment.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Stay calm, centered, and present during challenging clinical moments
• Strengthen your communication, confidence, and clarity with patients and colleagues
• Reduce stress and prevent burnout before it starts
• Build emotional resilience that supports both your work and your personal life
• Bring more meaning, compassion, and purpose to every shift

Who This Book Is For:
• Nursing students preparing for the real-world demands of patient care
• New nurses seeking confidence, stability, and emotional strength
• Experienced nurses looking to reconnect with purpose and prevent burnout
• Educators and preceptors who teach, mentor, and model mindful practice
• Any nurse who wants to elevate their career and their well-being

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The Builder’s Guide to Wealth, Work & a Life That Lasts

Success isn’t an accident—it’s a vocabulary. Learn the words, master the principles, change your life. —JCK

A clear, compelling, and deeply practical guide to the timeless principles that build character, strengthen mindset, and create sustainable success. The Success Lexicon breaks success down into the essential traits, disciplines, and mental frameworks that high-achieving people live by—organized in a way that makes them easy to learn, apply, and live out every day.

Overview:
After decades of building a business, raising a family, and navigating the real-world challenges of work, money, leadership, and resilience, Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. distilled the lessons that actually matter into a powerful A–Z framework. Each word in this Lexicon captures one core building block of a successful life—rooted in discipline, faith, personal responsibility, and independent thinking. This is the book you return to again and again as you grow.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Build the habits, traits, and mindset that create long-term success
• Strengthen your character, discipline, resilience, and emotional mastery
• Think for yourself in a world that rewards conformity over clarity
• Work with purpose, lead with integrity, and live with higher standards
• Apply timeless principles to your career, finances, relationships, and identity

Who This Book Is For:
• Young adults who want a roadmap for building a strong life from the start
• Professionals and entrepreneurs seeking clarity, discipline, and direction
• Parents, mentors, and leaders teaching the next generation how to succeed
• Readers who value personal responsibility, faith, character, and truth
• Anyone who wants a simple, powerful guide to becoming the person success requires

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Faith. Work. Responsibility. Legacy.

Strong lives are not stumbled into—they are built. —JCK

A serious, clear-eyed essay series examining what it actually takes to build a life that endures. The Builder’s Life explores faith, moral order, work, wealth, leadership, and legacy through lived experience—not theory, ideology, or performance. These essays are written for readers who want orientation, not reassurance, and principles, not slogans.

Overview:

After four decades of building a business, educating professionals, raising a family, and navigating real-world responsibility, Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. brings together the ideas that quietly shape strong lives over time. The Builder’s Life is a four-volume essay series organized around a single conviction: meaningful lives are constructed through discipline, clarity, courage, and accountability.

Each volume approaches the builder’s life from a different angle—moving from first principles to lived consequence—without sentimentality or outrage. The series does not chase trends or arguments. It clarifies what lasts.

This Series Explores How To:

• Build a life anchored in faith, moral order, and personal responsibility
• Think independently in a culture that rewards conformity and drift
• Work with discipline, integrity, and long-term perspective
• Carry authority without posturing or performance
• Build wealth, character, and legacy without losing clarity or purpose

Who This Series is For:

• Men and women who refuse to drift through life on borrowed assumptions
• Builders, leaders, and professionals who value responsibility over comfort
• Readers seeking clarity rather than motivation or ideology
• Parents and mentors concerned with legacy, not trends
• Anyone committed to building a life that can carry weight over time

This series is not motivational.
It is not partisan.
It is written for serious people willing to carry responsibility.

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Legacy isn’t something you leave behind—it’s something you live on purpose every single day. —JCK

A bold, practical, and deeply personal guide to building a life that outlasts you. The Legacy Code distills the timeless principles every man, woman, parent, and leader needs if they want to create a life of meaning, strength, faith, and generational impact. These aren’t theories—they’re the rules that build families, fortify character, and shape futures.

Overview:
In a world obsessed with shortcuts, noise, and instant gratification, legacy has become a lost art. This book brings it back. Drawing from decades of business building, family leadership, and personal hardship—including brain surgery, recovery, and rebuilding—Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. lays out twelve rules for living with purpose, conviction, and long-term vision. This is a handbook for people who want to win at the things that actually matter: faith, family, work, discipline, character, and contribution.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Build the inner strength and discipline required for a meaningful life
• Lead your family with clarity, courage, and intentionality
• Align your values, actions, and long-term goals into one coherent direction
• Overcome setbacks and use adversity as fuel for growth
• Live with purpose today so you can leave a legacy tomorrow

Who This Book Is For:
• Men and women who want a deeper, more principled approach to success
• Parents, grandparents, and mentors determined to pass on wisdom—not just wealth
• Young adults seeking strong guidance for building a life of substance
• Readers tired of empty self-help trends and ready for timeless truth
• Anyone committed to becoming a person future generations will be grateful for

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A life doesn’t collapse all at once—it collapses one neglected pillar at a time. But it’s rebuilt the same way: through faith, responsibility, work, and the courage to live for something bigger than yourself. —JCK

Culture changes. Trends collapse. Feelings shift. But the foundations that hold a life together haven’t changed in a thousand years. Faith, responsibility, work, and legacy—these are the four structural pillars every strong life rests on. When one cracks, the whole thing wobbles. When all four are strong, you become unshakable.

This book is a bold, clear, and deeply practical roadmap to building a life that actually holds under pressure. It distills decades of real-world experience—business, family, faith, hardship, rebuilding—into a framework ordinary people can use to create extraordinary stability. No theories. No elite lectures. Just the timeless principles handed down through generations, reframed for a world drowning in excuses and shortcuts.

Overview:

After 40+ years of building businesses, leading a family, overcoming setbacks, and helping thousands of professionals grow, Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. identified the four foundational forces that determine whether a life stands strong or collapses under stress.
This book lays them out clearly:

Pillar 1: Faith — the foundation
Pillar 2: Responsibility — the structure
Pillar 3: Work — the engine
Pillar 4: Legacy — the destination

Each pillar is practical, actionable, and grounded in the building blocks of character: discipline, clarity, courage, humility, grit, and grace. This is the book you return to year after year as you build a life worthy of those who come after you.

The Book Will Show You How to:

• Build a life on solid foundations instead of trends, noise, or emotion
• Strengthen the habits and virtues that create stability and long-term success
• Break the cultural addictions to blame, excuses, and victimhood
• Develop the discipline and work ethic that make hard things possible
• Live for something larger than personal comfort or momentary wins
• Build a legacy—moral, financial, spiritual—that guides the next generation
• Become unshakeable in a world engineered to make you fragile

Who This Book Is For:

• Young adults who want clarity, purpose, and a framework for adulthood
• Men and women rebuilding after hardship and wanting a stronger foundation
• Professionals, leaders, and business owners looking for direction that lasts
• Parents seeking to pass on virtue, stability, and moral clarity
• Readers who believe faith, responsibility, and work still matter
• Anyone tired of living life on shifting sand

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A Practical Guide to Strength, Identity, and Becoming the Man You Were Built to Be

Grace doesn’t make you soft. It makes you stronger than the man you were yesterday. —JCK

A direct, no-nonsense guide for men who want to rebuild their strength, reclaim their identity, and rise above the challenges that life throws at them. The Grace Effect for Men takes the principles of grace and applies them to the real struggles men face—pressure, responsibility, setbacks, fatigue, doubt, and the quiet battles no one sees.

Overview:
Modern men are carrying more weight than ever—family, work, health, finances, expectations, and the pressure to stay strong no matter what. But real strength doesn’t come from muscle, bravado, or pretending you’re fine. It comes from grace—the sharpening, strengthening, steadying force that rebuilds you from the inside out. In this book, Joseph C. Kunz, Jr. shows men how to face adversity with clarity, resilience, and conviction, using grace as their greatest tool for becoming the man they were meant to be.

This Book Will Show You How To:
• Rebuild your strength, identity, and sense of purpose after hardship
• Face pressure with clarity instead of frustration or withdrawal
• Use discipline, faith, and grace together to grow into a stronger man
• Carry your responsibilities with confidence—not resentment
• Lead your family, your work, and your life with integrity and conviction

Who This Book Is For:
• Men rebuilding after setbacks, loss, or a season of being knocked down
• Husbands, fathers, and grandfathers who want to lead with strength and example
• Young men seeking direction, purpose, and deeper identity
• Men of faith who want spiritual strength without clichés or superficial advice
• Anyone who wants a gritty, honest guide to becoming a man of character