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Sit Down,
Shut Up,
Hold On

Lessons from a life of big dreams, insanely bad circumstances, and starting over.

Sit Down, Shut Up, Hold On — book cover, standing on a storm-lit shoreline

Life is unpredictable. Life is painful. Life is hilarious. Life is amazing.

So sit down.
Shut up.
Hold on.

The Book

What do professional baseball, fishing boats, failed businesses, family chaos, medical crises, financial collapse, faith, and starting over have in common? They are all part of Clay Eavenson’s story.

Honest

Not polished stories from a man who always made the right call. Bad decisions, unexpected consequences, broken dreams — written down exactly as they happened.

Funny

Answered prayers, unanswered prayers, family, friendship, faith, anger and laughter. Some chapters are deeply serious. Others are completely ridiculous. Many are both.

Useful

Protecting the people you love, knowing when to let go, finding meaning inside hard circumstances, and beginning again without pretending the last chapter didn’t happen.

This is not a book about avoiding failure.

It is about discovering that failure is not always the end of the story.

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About Clay

Dreamed big.
Life hit hard.
Built again. (and again, and again...)

Husband. Father. Former professional baseball player with the New York Yankees. Former real estate agent. Former fishing guide. Current entrepreneur — and a reluctant expert in rebuilding after disaster.

Clay writes with the kind of honesty that admits he was often the common denominator in his own problems, and with the humor needed to survive that realization.

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Clay Eavenson in a Yankees uniform at spring trainingClay Eavenson on the field after a gameClay and Paige EavensonClay and Paige Eavenson on the water
Quote from the book: If you put my life into a movie, people would walk out of the theater saying: that was ridiculous. None of that would ever happen to one person. I understand. There are parts of my life I would not believe either if I had not been standing there when they happened.
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