FORTHCOMING · 2026
Lightning Strikes Twice
You were never the recipient of lightning.
You were always the source.
There’s a specific kind of silence nobody warns you about.
Not the peaceful kind.
The kind that arrives after you’ve done everything you set out to do – built the company, led the division, held the seat – and the chapter closes. Whether you chose it or it chose you, the result is the same: the thing that defined your days isn’t there anymore. You’re not struggling. You’re not unhappy. You’re somewhere you didn’t expect to be.
What most people do next is dive into starting over. New sector. New title. New pitch. What almost nobody does is stop and ask the more important question: What exactly drove the First Act in the first place?
Not the company. Not the title. Not the market timing. The specific way you think, decide, read a room, build trust, and see around corners – the recipe that was operating in you the entire time, generating results you could produce but never quite explain.
That recipe didn’t retire when the First Act ended. It’s still there. And Lightning Strike Twice is the book that shows you how to find it – and what to build with it.
This isn’t a career framework. It’s not a coaching program in book form. It’s a rigorous methodology to bring to the most important transition most high-achievers will ever face. Forensic, precise, and written for the person who has already proved what they’re capable of – and is ready to do it again, this time with a clear map.
CARLY VIVIAN
“The methodology that drove your First Act was operating the entire time – below the surface, generating a recipe you never had to articulate. Until now. This book is how you decode it.”
“You were never the recipient of lightning.
You were always the source.”
— Carly Vivian, Lightning Strikes Twice
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