How Starbucks Saved My Life: a Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Biographies & Memoirs

Gill, Michael Gates

Professionals & Academics

Penguin??Books

How Starbucks Saved My Life

Gotham Books

Explores the possibilities of going from a steady paycheck to owning a business, with information on the psychological makeup needed and the basics of running a business

Fired Up!: The Proven Principles of Successful Entrepreneurs

Business & Money

Paterson, Sheila

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

The riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all-and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Memoirs

Penguin Audio

A guide exploring the possibilities of readers going from a steady paycheck to owning their own businesses includes information on the psychological makeup needed, as well as the tangible nuts and bolts of running a business. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Fired Up!: From Corporate Kiss Off Entrepreneurial Kick Off Take Charge your Destiny Our Do

Management & Leadership

VIKING

The riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all-and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks.

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

Thorndike Pr

How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places

Self-Help

Happiness

Blackstone Pub

A riches-to-rags story about a former advertising executive who, after losing his high-paying job and developing a brain tumor, took a job at Starbucks under a young African-American manager, whose positive character and disadvantaged background helped the author heal and understand the value of respecting others.

Gotham

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it all—and was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-old boss, at Starbucks. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person. Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.

Humor & Entertainment

Avery

Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including: ·Leap...With Faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim). ·Let Yourself...Be Helped: Pride is even more paralyzing than fear. ·Look...with Respect at Every Individual You See: Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path. ·Lose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness. Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, How to Save Your Own Life provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves. Watch a Video

Personal Transformation

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