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From Chump to Cause Leader: Gregg Allen's Journey to a Restored Identity

On the outskirts of the Las Vegas Strip, away from the noise and neon, a small co-ed support group meets with a singular purpose: to walk alongside people who are leaving what its founders call "the homosexual lifestyle and identity" and to point them toward what they describe as wholeness in Jesus Christ. The ministry is called Restored Identity, and at its center is a man who says he spent nearly three decades finding his own way out before he ever thought about leading anyone else.

A Rough Start in Gary, Indiana

Gregg Allen is a native of Gary, Indiana, and a former Chicago resident. By his own account, his story didn't begin with triumph — it began with what he has publicly called "a very dark turn" early in life, followed by years of underachievement and internal struggle. In interviews and promotional material tied to his memoir, Allen and those close to him describe a childhood marked by pain that shaped decades of what he refers to as "bondage" — struggles with identity, faith, depression, and same-sex relationships that he says left him searching for something he couldn't name.

It's a narrative he later spent years turning into a book.

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The Trusted Tax Man: How Daryl Beecher built a business on integrity and faith
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Daryl Beecher has been doing taxes professionally since 1997, and in nearly three decades of practice he's built his business, The Trusted Tax Man — almost entirely without a website or a marketing budget. His growth has come the old-fashioned way: word of mouth, repeat clients, and a reputation for doing things above board. 

But underneath the returns and the referrals is a story that starts long before the accounting degree — with a six-year-old boy in Akron, Ohio, who decided he wanted whatever it was the Christians around him had.

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