Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Resilience: Between Pain and Purpose featuring the Growth Codes
Dr. Marlon Rollins · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Dr. Marlon Rollins (author-narrated)
72/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Rollins built this from real loss - his sister's suicide - and turned it into a genuinely useful resilience framework spanning emotional, spiritual, physical, and relational health. Hearing him narrate his own material in his own voice gives it real weight and authenticity, worth the listen. Just know the suicide discussion deserves a heads-up for sensitive listeners going in.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Discusses a family member's suicide - content note for sensitive listeners. We still scored it 72; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Author-narrated, and it shows - his own lived experience comes through directly in the delivery.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing68
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit70
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict72
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