Break or Become: How Hard Roads Make Better Leaders

By Peter Rice

BRAKE OR BECOME
How Hard Roads Make Better Leaders

What happens when life breaks the map you were following?

Six weeks after losing his wife to cancer, Peter Rice makes a decision that sounds almost impossible: he takes his two young sons across Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago.

What begins as an attempt to survive grief becomes something far more powerful.

Step by step, across mountains, villages, and endless miles of road, Peter discovers that the hardest moments in life do not just test us - they transform us. Leadership stops being about control, titles, or certainty. Instead, it becomes about endurance. Presence. Humility. Carrying responsibility when your own heart is breaking.

Brake or Become is not another leadership book built on business theories and motivational clich s. It is a raw and deeply human story about loss, fatherhood, resilience, faith, service, and the quiet courage required to keep moving forward when life changes forever.

Part memoir. Part leadership manifesto. Part survival story.

This book is for:

Anyone navigating grief or major life changeLeaders carrying pressure nobody else can seeFamilies impacted by cancerVeterans, caregivers, and those who serve othersAnyone standing at a crossroads asking: What now?

At its core, Brake or Become asks a question every person eventually faces:

At some point, life hits hard enough to change you forever.

The question is not whether you will struggle.
The question is who you become because of it?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H15ZK4TB
• ISBN13: 9798195900441
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"