PocketAuthor founder · author · host
Ervin Lamont Coty is a master barber, author, transformation coach, PocketAuthor co-founder, and host of Write A Book About It.
The PocketAuthor thesis, lived
You already know enough to write something valuable. PocketAuthor helps you turn lived expertise into an asset.
Ervin’s path—from serving people directly, to publishing his own frameworks, to helping build an author platform—shows what can happen when experience is treated as source material instead of something that disappears.
About Ervin
Licensed as a Georgia master barber in 2007, Ervin Lamont Coty built his perspective through more than two decades of service, conversation, disciplined practice, and entrepreneurship. His path from operator to author reflects PocketAuthor’s central belief: lived knowledge can become useful intellectual property when it is captured, structured, and shared. His published work explores gratitude, purpose, self-validation, and personal mastery through a connected body of ideas he calls The Proof Philosophy. Today, he helps founders, experts, operators, and aspiring authors recognize the book inside what they already know—and develop the consistency to finish it.
Books and audio
A personal-growth book about gratitude, purpose, and treating each day as an opportunity.
EPUB · 2024 · ISBN 9798991046503A guide to inner mastery, self-validation, discipline, and building confidence from lived evidence.
Big Thrill Logistics LLC · 2025 · ISBN 9798991046565A continuation of the Proof framework centered on purpose and the Four Proofs of Self.
Author-narrated audiobookThe broader blueprint connecting daily gifts, self-proof, purpose, mental mastery, and lived philosophy.
The Proof Philosophy Blueprint · audiobookPublic record and appearances
These links lead to licensing records, book and audio catalog pages, and public interviews. Retailer availability can vary by country.
Write A Book About It
The show looks for the useful book inside lived experience, professional practice, original frameworks, and consequential questions.