Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business

Boxing and the Art of Life

De: Ed Latimore

Narrado por: Ed Latimore

We’ve all got a choice. We can get better at fighting or worse at life.

Every day, we absorb body blows: some glancing, others that knock us to the mat. It doesn't matter how well-prepared or tough you think you are. Everyone, at some point, is hit with a haymaker from life. It's the cost of living. And just like in the ring, opting out of pain is not an option.

In Hard Lessons From The Hurt Business, former heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore takes listeners on a journey from his hardscrabble childhood in Pittsburgh's public housing projects to his signing with Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sport. With honesty and humor, Ed shares how the discipline of boxing served as his rite of passage into manhood and gave him the tools he needed to overcome his childhood trauma and the demons of alcoholism.

Ed’s story is one of learning the hard lessons of maturity in perhaps the harshest way possible—from the hurt business. It’s a story about finding self-mastery in the face of uncertainty, discovering the power of forgiveness, and embracing pain and adversity to design a life of purpose.

Like Ed says, “How we absorb life's blows and rally through bruised and bloodied rounds shows who we are at our core. We sacrifice, weep, heal, and carry on. In hardship, we transcend.”

©2025 Ed Latimore (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Anyone Can Change Their Life If The Want It

This is a story of hope like you’ve never heard. A young man destined for a life of hardship and pain, Ed takes you back to what life was like in the projects of the inner city. The challenges that would keep most from aspiring to anything. An addiction that most would never beat. Ed Latimore is the real deal! Clean and sober and highly successful. This story is more than inspiring, it’s life giving. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to be motivated to go after what life tried to take from you.

Interesting, well narrated by author, Good pacing

I liked listening to the authors narration, and I have found the pacing to be great. It’s been both enjoyable and insightful.