about THE BOOK
Try A New Path:
Breaking Free, Growing Beyond Comfort
Try a New Path blends personal story, research, and practical reflection to help readers understand what happens when a successful life no longer feels fully aligned. Moving from conformity to uncertainty, doubt, fear, and comfort, Shanelle Simmons shows how people are shaped by what the world teaches them to value, then slowly pulled away from themselves as they face the unknown. The book reveals how those forces influence our choices and invites readers to wake up to the truth that there is still more for them to do, become, and claim.
Part memoir and part roadmap, this book is written for readers who are not starting over from nothing. They are building from experience, reexamining old definitions of success, and learning how to trust themselves in a new season. Along the way,
Try a New Path
helps readers draw on their talents, lessons, and lived experience to move forward and keep growing on a new path.
Learn About the Five Pillars of Growth
How accomplished people build confidence before, in, and beyond the unknown
The Five Pillars of Growth offer a practical framework for moving beyond conformity, doubt, fear, and comfort while building confidence in the unknown.
Knowledge
Replaces confusion with clarity so you can make informed moves.
Physical Fitness
Builds steadiness and follow-through when change feels uncomfortable.
Spiritual Grounding
Keeps you anchored in purpose when the old definition of success no longer fits.
Circle
Protects your growth by surrounding you with people who reflect possibility and truth.
Mindset & Self-Talk
Challenges fear-driven narratives and rebuilds self-trust through action.
Each pillar is powerful on its own. Together, they help you move beyond conformity, doubt, fear, and comfort and build a life that fits who you are becoming.
In Try a New Path, these pillars are not just explained. They are lived, tested, and applied through real stories and hard-won lessons.
How Try A New Path Came to Life
Try a New Path didn't begin on a shelf. It began as a question - and a community that said yes before the book was finished.
Through a pre-sale campaign supported by early backers and the Manuscripts team, this book found its first readers before it ever went to print. That early response wasn't just encouraging, it was proof that the message was needed.
Those early supporters helped bring Try A New Path to life and planted the seeds for The Fifth Path, LLC - a platform built to carry this work forward through coaching, speaking, and tools for people ready to grow beyond where they've been.
The book is the beginning. The Fifth Path is where the work continues.
Bulk Orders / Book Clubs / Organizations
Ordering for a team, book club, or event? I offer bulk bundles, signed copies, and facilitated sessions that bring Try a New Path off the page and into real conversation and action.
Coming Soon: Audiobook
Soon you won’t just read it—you’ll hear it. I’m narrating the audiobook myself. Tap “Notify Me” and I’ll send the link the moment it’s live.
