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Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of your 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 identified as having a brain tumor. Without money or medical 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 genuine fish out of water.
But fate brings an urgent teacher into his life who opens his eyes from what living well really looks like. The two appear to possess nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is employed to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he activities being a person in a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the worthiness of effort and humility, as well as what it truly methods to respect someone else.
Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship exists, a family begins to heal, and, because of his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a feeling of self-worth and happiness he hasn't known before.
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