Fireside: Seasoned Leaders' Reflections on Work, Life, and Life After Work

by Blake Leath, Sharon Anderson (Editor), Stan Chou (Illustrator)

Fire has the seemingly mystical capability to burn and destroy but also illuminate, refine, purify, comfort, protect, save, and generate something new. In that vein, FIRESIDE is a collection of 17 raw, reflective, frequently transformational conversations featuring a diverse cast of characters—a seasoned miner, forester, financier, counselor, engineer, inventor, psychologist, pastor, author, performance coach, and Chip Gaines’ father among them. Uniting this disparate assembly, however, is a rather uncommon denominator in today’s increasingly superficial, artificial, overly staged, filtered, and curated postmodern intimate dialogue regarding one’s potential epilogue. Sharing timeless wisdom for leaders of every age and stage, FIRESIDE’s interviewees give pause and cause to reflect deeply about one’s own values, behaviors, relationships, and past—however meaningless or broken it may seem—that we might each become more focused and intentional as we author any tomorrows remaining to our name. The collection reads like a treasured transcript of dear friends gathering one last time to reflect on work, life, life after work, and hellbent to leave it all on the field.

525 pages, Paperback

Published August 15, 2020