--- title: Kenneth Carnesi Lost His Career, His Possessions, and Everyone Around Him. Then He Wrote a Trilogy About Rebuilding description: The South Carolina author's three books on resilience skip the studies and start with the wreckage. author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief) date: 2026-04-16T18:49:57.870Z updated: 2026-05-25T10:06:35.552Z canonical: https://www.richmanmagazine.com/article/kenneth-carnesi-resilience-trilogy image: https://cdn.nanimediahouse.com/carnesi-trilogy-featured.webp categories: CEO Profiles content_type: Profile region: South Carolina publication: Sovereign Magazine about: - type: Person name: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. description: Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. is a Brooklyn-born author and business leader based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A qualified attorney with a JD from New York Law School and professional certificates from Harvard and Wharton, he serves as COO and Director of Government Sales at Anaptyx LLC. He is the author of 13 books, including the resilience trilogy After The Fall, Get Back Up, and Unfinished Business, written from his lived experience of losing his career, his possessions, and the people closest to him, then rebuilding from nothing. url: https://kennethcarnesiauthor.com/ jobTitle: Author and COO at Anaptyx LLC sameAs: - https://kennethcarnesiauthor.com/ - https://www.instagram.com/kennethcarnesi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethcarnesi - https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr - https://medium.com/@carnesi.ken --- Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. was a qualified attorney with a JD from New York Law School, professional certificates from Harvard and Wharton, and a business consulting career that took him across Europe and the former Soviet republics. In 1998, the Vatican ordained him a Knight in the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ, later recognised at the Court of St. James in London. Then he lost all of it. His career, his possessions, his relationships. By the time he came out the other side, the people closest to him had gone. His trilogy of [books about resilience](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/finding-confidence-after-setbacks-more-than-a-conqueror) - *After The Fall*, *Get Back Up*, and *Unfinished Business* - comes directly from that period. There are no studies cited, no psychological frameworks borrowed from other people's research. Every chapter draws on what Carnesi went through and what he did to come back from it. ### Book: After The Fall *The Raw, Honest Truth About Getting Up From a Fall That Took Everything Away* By Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. The Raw, Honest Truth About Getting Up From a Fall That Took Everything Away [Books.by](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/after-the-fall) ## Three books, three stages Each book covers a different part of the recovery, and each chapter ends with exercises and practical suggestions that Carnesi used himself. *After The Fall* deals with the immediate aftermath. It stays with the loss rather than skipping ahead to recovery. Carnesi treats that early period as its own stage, separate from rebuilding, with its own demands. *Get Back Up* is more practical. It lays out steps for moving forward: structured exercises, concrete actions, less reflection and more doing. This is the book for the point where you have processed what happened and need to figure out what comes next. *Unfinished Business* covers what most people skip. The relationships they never repaired, the questions they never sat with, the parts of their life they left behind when everything fell apart. Carnesi's point is that you can rebuild your career and your finances and still be carrying wreckage if you avoid the harder, personal work. ### The resilience trilogy - [After The Fall](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/after-the-fall) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Get Back Up](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/get-back-up) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Unfinished Business](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/unfinished-business) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. ## Every page earned Most self-help books about [overcoming adversity](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/jennifer-sukalo-lost-everything-at-24-then-she-built-a-framework-that-s-helped-50-000-people-) are written by therapists, researchers, or coaches who have studied hardship from the outside. Carnesi writes from the inside. He went through it, tried things, kept what worked, and put that into the books. That gives the exercises a different weight. They are not designed in a clinical setting or drawn from someone else's case study. They come from a man who needed them himself and refined them over years of rebuilding. For readers going through [serious setbacks](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/how-to-rewire-your-mind-and-career-a-practical-playbook-from-business-success-and-stroke-reco) of their own, that firsthand grounding is what makes the trilogy land. > "You already have everything you need to rebuild." > — Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. ## Who Kenneth Carnesi is now Carnesi is COO and Director of Government Sales at Anaptyx LLC, a bulk Wi-Fi provider serving resorts, hotels, the US Army, and the US Navy. Under his leadership the company won Best Wireless Internet Service Provider three years running from 2022 to 2024 and secured a 20-year GSA Schedule 70 IT contract. In 2024 he received a Global Recognition Award for leadership in the IT and bulk Wi-Fi industry. He has been listed in Executive Who's Who, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in International Business, and in 2026 was named Best Business Guidebook Author in South Carolina by Best of Best Reviews. He has published 13 books in total, from business guides to a Brooklyn memoir called *The Accent Never Leaves*. His next release, [All Hope Abandon](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/kenneth-carnesi-awards-all-hope-abandon), is expected in summer 2026. ### More books by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [What We Find In The Ashes](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/what-we-find-in-the-ashes) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Faith Over Logic](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/faith-over-logic) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [The Accent Never Leaves](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/the-accent-never-leaves) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Silenced By Consent](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/silenced-by-consent) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [The Art of Storytelling](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/the-art-of-storytelling-vwu2x7) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [The Future Of Bulk Wi-Fi](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/the-future-of-bulk-wi-fi) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [The Metric Minimalist](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/the-metric-minimalist) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Understanding Business Metrics](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/understanding-business-metri-dirm2r) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [Validate Business Ideas](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/validate-business-ideas-tqjxds) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. - [SWOT Analysis](https://books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr/swot-analysis) by Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. The trilogy is available at [books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr](https://www.books.by/kenneth-carnesi-sr). **About Kenneth Carnesi, Sr.** Author and COO at Anaptyx LLC Kenneth Carnesi, Sr. is a Brooklyn-born author and business leader based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A qualified attorney with a JD from New York Law School and professional certificates from Harvard and Wharton, he serves as COO and Director of Government Sales at Anaptyx LLC. He is the author of 13 books, including the resilience trilogy After The Fall, Get Back Up, and Unfinished Business, written from his lived experience of losing his career, his possessions, and the people closest to him, then rebuilding from nothing. [Website](https://kennethcarnesiauthor.com/) ## FAQ **Q: Where to start when you have hit rock bottom?** Accept the situation first rather than forcing yourself to rebuild immediately. Rock bottom is a stage of its own, and skipping past it often means carrying the damage later. Sit with the loss for a period, then begin with small, specific actions: one structured task a day, one honest conversation, one practical step toward stability. Books written by people who have lived through serious setbacks, such as Kenneth Carnesi, Sr.'s *After The Fall*, can be useful during this early stage because they focus on the exercises that worked for the author in that same phase. **Q: How does failure contribute to personal growth?** Failure on its own does not produce growth. Growth comes from what you do afterwards: the habits you build, the honest assessment you make, and the specific work you put in during recovery. It tends to come from confronting parts of yourself that success keeps hidden, like unresolved relationships, avoided questions, or aspects of your life you have been running from. Books drawn from the author's own recovery, including Kenneth Carnesi, Sr.'s resilience trilogy, focus on the practices built during that recovery phase rather than on the failure itself. **Q: Which inspirational books are based on true stories?** Several well-known inspirational books draw on the author's own life. Classic examples include *Man's Search for Meaning* by Viktor Frankl and *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* by Maya Angelou. More recent lived-experience titles include Kenneth Carnesi, Sr.'s trilogy *After The Fall*, *Get Back Up*, and *Unfinished Business*, written from his own experience of losing his career, his possessions, and his personal relationships before rebuilding. Books rooted in real experience tend to resonate because the author has tested the ideas in their own life rather than synthesising them from research. **Q: What books should I read for personal growth?** The best personal growth book depends on what you are working through. *Atomic Habits* by James Clear covers behaviour change; *Man's Search for Meaning* by Viktor Frankl covers meaning and survival. For rebuilding after serious setbacks, Kenneth Carnesi, Sr.'s *Get Back Up* offers structured, practical steps drawn from his own recovery, and *Unfinished Business* covers the internal work most self-help books avoid, like unresolved relationships and questions left unanswered. Any growth book is only useful if you apply the exercises, so pair reading with consistent practice.