This book, based on hundreds of reviews and personal emails and stories, has helped people improve relationships (including marriages), navigate the education system (for instance, college students choosing schools and majors), and career direction. It has helped people understand their motivations better and make more informed choices with agency. It has helped thousands of people stop wasting their time chasing things they don't care about to impress people who don't necessarily care about them. The book has even served as an entry point for many people into thinking more deeply about their life's purpose, about spirituality, and about how they …

The book, "13 Step Guide to Success", provides a common sense approach to leading a more fruitful life. This is not meant to make a person a millionaire, it is meant to have you find a purpose in yourself and within your community to make things that much better. Readers who have contacted the author have said after just a few weeks they are putting away devices at dinners, they are speaking to people on the street, and feel so much better about it.

The book "Heroic Choices" describes the cycle of personal transformation. Each stage is named, examined and explored. Each chapter is one stage and draws on an eclectic variety of sources to breathe life into personal growth. The book triangulates my personal story and research participants' stories, and I took inspiration from Joseph Campbell's theory of the "mono-myth," or the "hero's journey," and Jack Mezirow's theory of "transformative learning. I have grounded the book in familiar stories to create a down-to-earth and practical guide for anyone on a path of personal growth, to illuminate the moments that feel the darkest are, …