Adversity catches people off guard in a life's weaker areas, Vickie Lanthier argues. The military veteran sets out frameworks for meeting it with deliberate action instead of reaction.

Readical Key Points

• A self-help guide to personal agency and adversity, drawn from research, interviews and the author's own experience, as the publisher describes it
• Topics the publisher names: spotting gaps before they cause trouble, recovering from a financial crisis and moving from reaction to confident action
• Paperback, 184 pages, Gibson Quinn Publishing, 2026

Lanthier starts from the premise that hard times will keep arriving, and that what a person can change is how ready they are and how they respond. The book pairs a mindset with practical frameworks for finding weak points in advance, regaining footing after a money blow, and widening one's influence over one's own life. She draws on a military career that included four deployments, on her work in entrepreneurship, and on interviews and research.

Readers dealing with a financial setback, stress or uncertainty, and readers who want a plan in place before the next hard stretch, are the audience. Lanthier supplies the frameworks and the steps; the storms, and the choices made inside them, stay with the reader.

About the Author

According to her publisher, Vickie Lanthier spent twenty-six years with Canada's National Defence, first in uniform and then as a consultant, and deployed four times. She went on to found girlgonegood.com, a hiking resource site, and qualified as a registered nurse after completing a nursing degree at the University of Ottawa in 2020.

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