EVERYBODY CAN’T GO: A Memoir on Survival, Boundaries, and Becoming Unshakable

Everybody Can’t Go is the story of a woman who spent decades being the strong one — the fixer, the rescuer, the one everybody called when something went wrong — until she finally asked the question that changed everything: What would happen if I built something for me? This is not a story of perfection. It’s a story of survival — from pain that tried to break her, to choices that almost buried her, to the moment she finally chose herself. Told through raw, unflinching memoir woven with practical wisdom on boundaries, generational healing, and spiritual authority, Leslie Martin takes readers from a commuter train breakdown that changed the trajectory of her life, through the slow, hard work of rebuilding — boundary by boundary, prayer by prayer — into a woman finally building the life, business, and legacy she was always meant to have. Leslie doesn’t offer a polished success story. She offers something more honest: the truth about what it costs to keep surviving long after survival stopped being enough, and what becomes possible the moment you stop. This book is for the woman who has been called strong so many times she forgot she was allowed to be tired.