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[Innerspace] InnerSpace: Success by the Cup for Michael Gates Gill

January 17, 2008 |


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Michael Gates Gill has an amazing story.  Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he appeared to have everything   But he says that what he lacked was substance.

Read on to discover how a coffee shop saved his life.

In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. First, he was downsized at work. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor. Gill had no money, no health insurance, and no prospects. One day as Gill sat in a Manhattan Starbucks, a 28-year-old Starbucks manager named Crystal Thompson approached him, half joking, to offer him a job. With nothing to lose, he took it, and went from drinking coffee in a Brooks Brothers suit to serving it in a green uniform.

His book is How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like everyone Else

Michael Gates Gill is the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill and he was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising where he was employed for over 25 years. He currently lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he’s ever had.

I found out about him on a wonderful show called The Big Idea.  and you can see him tell his story in his own words here.

Below you can watch his appearance with Authors@Google and hear his enlightenment in a cup story. 

And here is another lesson that authors can learn from him.  He has written his book, so naturally he makes royalties from the book.  But also he is a speaker.  as an author, you will make some money from your book, but the royalties are incidental as compared with what you can earn from other services, such as speaking, doing workshops, creating a membership community, offering a coaching program, and the like.  If you would like to be a fly on the wall and create your own book following a model that works, please visit Books Mean Credibility and experience entrepreneurial authoring.

Ken McArthur of JV Alert is the first person to experience author coaching in front of an audience.  Each week Glenn Dietzel and I assist him in creating not only his book, but the business he is building around it.  His book is complete now, so those joining the community will have several weeks of recorded sessions to guide you through writing your own book.

Watch the Authors @ Google Interview

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Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady of Storyation.com is an author, dynamic speaker, author coach, story coach.

She is the author of I'll Push, You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling Through Life with Blinders On

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