WARREN, Ohio – A Sharon, Pa., man penned a book to help people who face struggles similar to what he overcame.
“I had a very rough upbringing,” Kieran Davis said. “I experienced homelessness as a kid, and it’s not the happiest story. But through that – when I turned 18, 19 – I moved away from home, and this started the most aggressive personal development journey ever.”
He read a lot, sought mentors and enrolled in courses aimed at personal growth and development.
“I put it all in a book to help someone kind of avoid a lot of the trial and error and deep pain that I had to go through trying to solve it the hard way,” Davis said.
“Our Solemn Oath, A Call to Wake Up” is available at OurSolemnOath.com and through Amazon.
Davis is a business adviser with the Minority Business Assistance Center at YBI and was recognized as a Shenango Valley Chamber of Commerce 2024 30 Under 40 Award nominee.
Readers quoted on the book’s website report that it’s written for anyone at any life stage and hail its depth.
The book focuses a lot on finding your purpose.
“A lot of us, sometimes we view our occupation as our purpose when that’s just a vehicle that allows us to utilize our gifts,” Davis explained. “So it’s a very deep process. It’s somewhat in philosophy, almost with a tie in in business, because that’s who I am at my core as well.”
Davis said he determined through introspection and study that his purpose is to teach people, to help them through some of the things he endured and to help them realize their value.
He likened the discovery of his purpose to a defrosting window.
Hints come in self realization, understanding your gifts and passions and acknowledging your frustrations, Davis said.
“And as you start to really dive down that rabbit hole with understanding yourself, with finding yourself, the window starts to get unfrosted and unfogged, and you start to get a bigger picture,” he said.
Davis said “Our Solemn Oath” is for people who are drifting or aimlessly going through life on autopilot without a goal, purpose or intentionality.
“Perhaps you came from a rough environment and you never really thought about what you wanted to do,” he said. “You’re just kind of just doing whatever, taking care of whatever responsibility you have, just working and not really seeing yourself being more than what’s in front of you.”
Davis said a person could read the book in an evening.
“It’s very straight to the point,” he said. “It’s read like a conversation. It would just feel like I’m having a conversation with you, one on one.”