DC Morby has spent a lifetime building companies from the ground up—and rebuilding his own life after losing everything.
His first book, Leaving Duckland, helps readers recognize the habits that quietly hold them back through humor, memorable stories, and practical insight. It's the wake-up call.
His second book, GO: Your Superpower, Limitless Human Capacity, answers the next question: "Now what?" It introduces the V16 Pillars—a practical framework for choosing your future instead of waiting for it to choose you.
The V16 Platform is built on one simple belief: you have more power to choose your future than you realize. That belief comes to life through three connected parts.
Leaving Duckland
The Wake-Up Call
A humorous look at the 13 habits that hold us back. Leaving Duckland helps readers recognize the everyday behaviors that quietly sabotage their potential—and inspires them to take the first step toward something better.
The framework itself — sixteen principles for transformation, from recognizing your power to choose, to overcoming the hidden behaviors that hold people back. This is the foundation everything else is built on.
What is the V16 Platform ?
GO
Your Superpower
Once you recognize what's holding you back, GO answers the next question: Now what? It introduces the life-changing idea that your greatest superpower is the ability to choose—and teaches you how to turn intention into decisive action.
The 16 Pillars
The Framework
The V16 Pillars provide the roadmap for lasting transformation. Sixteen connected principles guide individuals from awareness to purposeful action and lifelong growth.
The Ladder
A high school painting job, one last reach, and a fall that knocked DC unconscious. The ladder wasn't broken. The wall wasn't the problem. The ground it stood on was. A story about building your life on a stable foundation — and making sure, before you climb, that you've put your ladder against the right wall.
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DC MORBY draws on decades of building — and rebuilding — to deliver stories and concepts with a sharp, memorable moral. Each talk is built around signature stories, adapted to the audience in the room. Here is a sample of short messages with meaning.
A church game, a hidden steel plate, and a 65-year contractor who couldn't drive a single nail. A story about the unforeseen challenges nobody sees coming — and why good people sometimes still end up in the wrong place, through no failure of skill or character.
The Bent Nail
The Machete
It took DC six months to build a company's new computer system — and four days to train the man who'd run it. The lesson: someone has to cut the first path through the jungle so everyone else can walk it. A story about leadership, sacrifice, and what it costs to go first.
LEAVING DUCKLAND
A HUMOROUS LOOK AT THE 13 HABITS THAT HOLD US BACK
Wake Up. Stop Ducking. Start Living.
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Some people don't wake up one morning and decide to ruin their future.
Instead, they duck one difficult conversation... one important decision... one opportunity... one responsibility... until one day they realize they've built a life they never intended.
Leaving Duckland introduces a humorous but powerful way of recognizing the habits that quietly hold us back. Through memorable stories, relatable illustrations, and practical insights, this book will help you identify the patterns that keep you stuck and inspire you to take the first step toward lasting change.
Leaving Duckland is the beginning.
GO shows you how to move forward.
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GO.
Your Superpower Awaits.
Every meaningful journey begins with a single decision.
GO introduces a simple but powerful idea: the greatest superpower you will ever possess is one you already have—the power to choose. Through true stories, practical insights, and timeless principles, this book will help you recognize your own limitless human capacity and take the first step toward the life you were meant to build.
GO begins the journey. The V16 Pillars help guide the way.
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V16 Academy
A nonprofit extension of this work, bringing the Pillars and life-skills training to young adults finding their direction and people rebuilding after addiction or incarceration.
