Choose To Be You

CHOOSE TO BE YOU!

The stigma surrounding mental health has often kept our society from being willing to engage in important conversations surrounding the challenges that many people face each and every day. Through sharing his personal story and the daily battle he fights as someone who lives with anorexia, Mark Brown offers a voice of advocacy, inspiration, hope, and encouragement.

In Choose To Be You, Mark provides practical ideas that can be implemented into your daily routine to help you focus on working towards mental wellness. We all face pressure to live up to certain standards and often compromise who we are at our core in order to live up to the expectations of others. Whether you are an educator, student, or someone looking to live life as the best version of you, this book will help you find the courage to look yourself in the mirror and Choose To Be You!

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Mark Brown has opened his heart in order to move you forward in life. This book, Choose To Be You is more than sharing a few good ideas. It is an exploration into what many of us are feeling and living with and a guide to how to make the world a better place. This is a book you need to read again and again.
Steven Bollar aka Stand Tall Steve - Speaker, Trainer, Author, Renaissance Hall of Fame

Real, Honest, Insightful - In Choose to Be You, Mark Brown takes the reader on a journey that is not just his but could belong to any student in our classrooms and hallways. Mark opens his heart about his own struggles and how he has both overcome and applied them to his leadership journey supporting and honoring his students. This book needs to be your next educational read!!
Darrin M Peppard, Ed.D. - Superintendent and Author of Road To Awesome, Renaissance Hall of Fame

Choose to be You is a compilation of reminders to live your WHY. Mark uses his personal stories to share with us a remarkable view into what it means to overcome adversity. His transparency is a model for us all on how to live life on purpose, using who we are at our core to positively influence those around us.
Bethany Hill - Educator/Administrator , Cabot, Arkansas

As great as social media is to connect and collaborate with other educators, watching the highlight reel of others can cause imposter’s syndrome or the guilt of feeling one doesn’t measure up to some false narrative in their role. In Choose to Be You, Brown shares his personal story, offering the needed encouragement to just simply be who YOU are! As an educator, your fingerprints of impact are unique; with each imprint being personal and authentic. So, be proud. Be fearless. Be who you are meant to be!
Thomas C. Murray - Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools Ⓡ, Best selling author of Personal & Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences that Impact a Lifetime, Washington, D.C.

Mark Brown's writing is vulnerable and compelling. As a school leader it can be easy to lose yourself when you are trying to be everything to everybody. Mark reminds us that our beauty lies in our humanity, and isn't until we fully embrace that humanity--imperfections and all--that we truly can be whole enough to lead and love bravely
Dr. Amy Fast - Principal, Author, Education Commentator