Why I Created the Book Club Guide
Books don’t change people. People change people. Books just start the conversation.
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”
Maya Angelou
Reading a book alone can change your mind. Reading it with other people can change your life.
When I finished Punching Above Your Weight, I kept thinking about who I’d written it for, which was the underestimated. The people who get up before dawn to squeeze in a few pages before the day starts making its demands. The people fighting battles nobody else can see.
I didn’t want it to be one more book you read and forget. I wanted it to stay with you, and to show up in the choices you make and the fights you decide to take on.
That’s why I made the Book Club Guide. No publishing blog told me I should. I made it because I believe in the power of sitting in a circle, whether it’s a living room, a break room, or a grid of faces on Zoom, and asking each other real questions:
Where are you pulling your punches?
What ghosts are slowing you down?
What fight is yours alone to take on?
There are ten questions for every chapter, and none of them have easy answers. They’re there to help you see yourself a little more clearly, and to stand a little straighter the next morning.
Books don’t change people. People change people. Books just start the conversation.
If your club, your team, or your circle wants to use it, the guide is free. I hope it gives you one more reason to get together and talk about the things that matter.