ABOUT THE BOOK
About The Book
THE ZONE
This is the story of the Hellman family going back to 1930’s pre-Nazi Romania. Isidore Hellman was an unlicensed bootleg dentist who learned how to pull teeth working as an apprentice to a real dentist in New York City. He discovered the pain killing miracle of Morphine and used it extensively to treat his patients. Isidore went to Romania to help his Uncle who was injured in a farm accident.
Isidore met the love of his life, Gusta, a local seamstress with a nasty toothache. They married and had two children, my father and my Uncle. One day Gusta sees her best friend and her family slaughtered and burned by the Nazi’s as she was hiding in a bush from a distance.
Gusta runs back to Isidore on horseback and tells him what she saw and that night they leave Romania by train to France. They buy a ticket on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary. Isidore’s son, my father, was Jack Hellman. They settle in New York. Shortly thereafter, Isidore dies from an overdose of Morphine. Gusta, Jack and his brother Leo, are left to fend for themselves and survive the difficult life of new immigrants during the difficult years of the Depression in New York City without a father.
I was born in 1959. My mother suffered a brain aneurysm which left her paralyzed, mute and bedridden for the next 30 years. My father was unwilling to raise two kids on his own, remarries a woman who could have been the Wicked Witch of the West. With three kids of her own, my sister and I were thrown into a life that would have destroyed most people and my sister was proof of that. However, instead of letting myself get destroyed, I fought back, learned how to survive and think “outside the box” and I learned to see and create things that others didn’t or couldn’t see. I went on to study engineering at Clemson University and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
I became a serial entrepreneur using this “gift” of being able to see the unseen opportunities that are all around us. This is what I call “The Zone”. I used the Zone to create many new products and companies, with just a few dollars to start with. The purpose of this book is to give you the knowledge, courage and the inspiration to follow your “Zone” and to be fearless in your endeavor to achieve financial freedom and free yourself from your 9-5 job and boss. This book is a roadmap on how to do that along with some interesting stories to keep your attention. Welcome to my world and “The Zone”
Why Choose The Book
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Packed with real stories, life lessons, and insights that readers say changed their perspective. This book delivers practical wisdom wrapped in relatable storytelling, because it’s not just words on a page — it’s a guide, a mirror, and a spark for transformation.