In this episode, CL sits down with self published author Joseph Rodrigues (@PalookaJoeWrites) to talk about the recent publication of his debut book titled "What Happens When Everything Goes Down? A Story of One Man's Spiritual Journey".
A gritty memoir of one man’s spiritual journey, after hitting rock bottom and losing his mind, he must crawl back to standing on his own two feet in an attempt to get his sanity back!
The youngest from a family of twelve, Joseph Adam Rodriguez writes about a time in his life when everything fell apart. Bored and wasting away in the back of a kitchen at a dead end job, he questions if this is all there really is to life. Throwing caution to the wind he embarks on a journey through time and space. He uses every trick in the book to unravel the mysteries of the universe following the signs he telepathically receives from his angels in a psychological thriller that will have you questioning, “Why do we exist?”
The story begins with farewells to the family back home and the only life he’s ever known. After a brother calls up and invites him to move in and start his life anew. Wanting to break away from his mundane existence he sets off on a quest to find his life partner which his gut was certain he would meet on this journey. He moves away for the chance to meet the love of his life in a tragic tale of following your life path, growing up, and finding your true destiny. That is only the beginning of his spiral down into madness. Backstabbed, betrayed, and abandoned, he must rely on the kindness of strangers to help him persevere. Never letting go of hope, even in the darkest of circumstances, all the way up to the very end. A gripping tale of every life lesson from thirty two years of existence, condensed into something that you won't be able to put down. In the short span of a month he meets the love of his life, is betrayed, backstabbed, abandoned by everyone he knows, hits rock bottom, and lives to tell the tale.