Getting Ahead Without Losing Heart

By Andy Fleming

Explores the intersection of ambition and meaning. Through the voices of seven young adults, the book examines how people navigate the tension between career success, personal values, relationships, and purpose.
Real stories of pivotal life decisions. Readers encounter individuals facing difficult choices about love, work, identity, and the definition of success in a demanding professional world.
A reflective journey on life and career paths. Andy Fleming weaves these personal accounts together with his own reflections on stepping on and off the fast track.
Invites readers into deeper self-examination. Each story includes reflection questions and resources that encourage readers to think more intentionally about their own life and work choices.

About

Getting Ahead Without Losing Heart is an insightful exploration of the career and lifestyle decisions of seven distinctive young adults, who chronicle their important educational and career choices in their own voices. Readers meet, among others, a successful Wall Street trader who dreams of becoming a doctor, and a former automobile shop secretary who makes it into investment banking and faces a choice between the position she earned and the man she loves. The author weaves together these intimate and insightful accounts through his journey on and off the fast track during the period of these interviews. Each story includes questions for reflection and discussion, and Fleming has added an appendix of books and films he has found catalytic for those who wish to explore life-work themes further.

Reviews

“Andy Fleming’s Getting Ahead Without Losing Heart explores the arenas of love and work, of marketing and meaning, of ambition and service, of success and rewarding ways of living. This is a book about success that includes a full accounting of the need for integrity, for spirit, for friendship, for contributions to the common good, and for joy in the work we do… The book… will hold your attention and your heart.”

Jim Fowler, Author of Stages of Faith

Bring These Ideas Into Action

If the themes in this book resonate with your own interest regarding career, purpose, and living/working with integrity, there are two ways to go deeper.

Purchase the Book. Further explore Fleming’s journey, interviews, and reflections. Buy on Amazon.

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