About The Author
Samaad Barnes
I don’t just write about discipline, business, growth, and legacy. I’ve had to live them. My name is Samaad Barnes. I’m an author, entrepreneur, educator, father, and founder of Pure Love Pies. My story began with family, the values I was raised on, and a mother whose love, giving spirit, and
recipe would eventually become part of everything I built.
After years of working in education and pouring into young people, I took my mother’s navy bean pie recipe and a belief in entrepreneurship and ownership and turned it into Pure Love Pies in 2017. What started with a pie became something much bigger.
Entrepreneurship taught me lessons about discipline, sacrifice, leadership, failure, consistency, money,
people, and perseverance. Losing my mother also changed the way I viewed success. I began to understand that life is not simply about what you earn or accomplish. It is about what you build, who you
impact, and what you leave behind. That is why I write.
My books are an extension of my journey and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. Through my writing, I want to inspire adults, entrepreneurs, and young people to understand that where they start does not
determine where they finish.
I’m still building, still learning, and still growing. I’m not writing from the finish line. I’m writing from the journey.
