50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road [Paperback]

Tavis Smiley (Author)

In the tradepaper edition of this engaging and attractively illustrated gift book, media personality and social entrepreneur Tavis Smiley shares 50 hard-won lessons heï¾’s gleaned from a life thatï¾’s taken him from a crowded Indiana trailer to an internship in the office of Los Angelesï¾’s first and only black mayor, to friendships with cultural luminaries such as Maya Angelou and Quincy Jones, to hosting television and radio programs on BET, NPR, and PBS, and guiding and supporting the next generation of leaders with his Tavis Smiley Foundation. Whether itï¾’s overcoming your fears, finding your own unique voice and staying true to it, or using the inescapability of time to keep you marching to ever greater heights, these lessons will help those just starting out in life as well as those in need of a recalibration of priorities in order to finally achieve their dreams. Each lesson is accompanied by an illustration in the style of Smileyï¾’s popular Empowerment cards, building to a unique, expressive, inspirational wholeï¾—just what readers have to come to expect from the incomparable Smiley.