Twenty One Summers

Twenty One Summers explores the amount of time we have in life, the goals we hope to achieve, and the Blind Spots that often unknowingly keep us from reaching them. It is a guidebook, a pathway or way of living that offers valuable insights, inspiring readers to take the first step toward bringing positive change to their lives and those of others. These changes, goals, and dreams, are their Twenty One Summers. Practical Strategies and processes from individual’s personal lives, and the worlds of art and technology, are provided to help the reader identify and overcome Blind Spots as they realize their Twenty One Summers during any phase of life. The book is brought to life through seventeen stories that illustrate the challenges faced and successes achieved by people like the reader, and those they aspire to be. This is a diverse group of people, including the authors, from varied international backgrounds who have made the decision to change their lives in big ways and small with a profound impact on their future and their communities. Though following extraordinarily different paths we found that each has applied a similar process as they work toward their goals. Our subjects are from Japan, Cameroon, Nepal, Australia, United Kingdom, Belarus, Ireland, Russia, Israel, small rural towns in Missouri, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, and cities like Salt Lake City, Seattle and New York. They include tech entrepreneurs, home makers, first responders, fashion designers, photographers, artists, activists, students, senior executives, editors, film makers, educators, engineers, women’s rights and LGBTQ advocates, mountaineers, and one National Geographic person of the year. They work in areas ranging from corporate and tech to the arts, adventure travel, and not for profits.