Overview
The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms. With her signature in-the-trenches truth-telling and humor, Danielle reframes popular self-help and success concepts to cut through dull thinking and fear in order to get straight to your core desires, pragmatism and courage.
The Fire Starter Sessions is oxygen for aspirations and a modern-day philosophy for people who want to believe that ‘consciousness and cash can co-exist…that desire will burn the way to fulfillment…that all dreams are renewable.’ Each session in the book is accompanied by worksheets that are provocative and results oriented. Danielle’s unique personal narrative of loss and achievement – from boardrooms to ashrams – flow with stories of women and men who stopped playing it safe and became freedom seekers and fear tamers
Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, in The Fire Starter Sessions she reframes popular self-help and success concepts, including:
- Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself.
- Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.
- Screw your principles (they might be holding you back).
- We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It’s the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it’s what leads to true fulfillment.
Why We Like It
Reviews
“Danielle’s passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
“Danielle’s work is jam-packed with keen insights and a force of energy that pushes you in invaluable ways. The content is practical and ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.”
—Scott Belsky, author of Making Ideas Happen
“A mesmerizing blend of soul, smarts, and grit, The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to a more engaged state of being. One that starts in the heart and burns its way into every fiber of your being.”
—Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty
“LaPorte has made something that’s inherently difficult look easy: makes us aware that the power was with us all along. Harder than it looks. Well done, Danielle.”
—Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody and Evil Plans
About the Author
Danielle LaPorte is the bestselling author of The Fire Starter Sessions (Random House, 2012). An entrepreneur, social media sensation, and inspirational speaker, Danielle has been featured in Elle, Body + Soul, Vogue Australia, Better Homes & Gardens, Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Huffington Post, Entertainment Tonight, USAToday and BusinessWeek.com. She was a news show commentator for CBC, and is a former director of a Washington DC think tank, where she managed a team of analysts studying global trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank.
Over a million visitors have gone to DanielleLaPorte.com for her straight-up advice―a site that’s been deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes. Danielle lives in Vancouver, BC with her young son.
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Overview
The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms. With her signature in-the-trenches truth-telling and humor, Danielle reframes popular self-help and success concepts to cut through dull thinking and fear in order to get straight to your core desires, pragmatism and courage.
The Fire Starter Sessions is oxygen for aspirations and a modern-day philosophy for people who want to believe that ‘consciousness and cash can co-exist…that desire will burn the way to fulfillment…that all dreams are renewable.’ Each session in the book is accompanied by worksheets that are provocative and results oriented. Danielle’s unique personal narrative of loss and achievement – from boardrooms to ashrams – flow with stories of women and men who stopped playing it safe and became freedom seekers and fear tamers
Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, in The Fire Starter Sessions she reframes popular self-help and success concepts, including:
- Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself.
- Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.
- Screw your principles (they might be holding you back).
- We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It’s the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it’s what leads to true fulfillment.
Why We Like It
Reviews
“Danielle’s passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
“Danielle’s work is jam-packed with keen insights and a force of energy that pushes you in invaluable ways. The content is practical and ignites the mind in ways that could change your career and life.”
—Scott Belsky, author of Making Ideas Happen
“A mesmerizing blend of soul, smarts, and grit, The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to a more engaged state of being. One that starts in the heart and burns its way into every fiber of your being.”
—Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty
“LaPorte has made something that’s inherently difficult look easy: makes us aware that the power was with us all along. Harder than it looks. Well done, Danielle.”
—Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody and Evil Plans
About the Author
Danielle LaPorte is the bestselling author of The Fire Starter Sessions (Random House, 2012). An entrepreneur, social media sensation, and inspirational speaker, Danielle has been featured in Elle, Body + Soul, Vogue Australia, Better Homes & Gardens, Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Huffington Post, Entertainment Tonight, USAToday and BusinessWeek.com. She was a news show commentator for CBC, and is a former director of a Washington DC think tank, where she managed a team of analysts studying global trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank.
Over a million visitors have gone to DanielleLaPorte.com for her straight-up advice―a site that’s been deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes. Danielle lives in Vancouver, BC with her young son.
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