Danielle LaPorte - The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms

Wise, engaging, and, above all, different.

Michael Bungay Stanier,
Do More Great Work

She tells the truth, straight up. Money, failure, power, appreciationThe Fire Starter Sessions doesnt leave anything out of the mix, and Danielle pours it on with a heaping dose of encouragement and possibility-thinking.

Barbara Stanny, Overcoming Underearning

Danielles 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, Making Ideas Happen

Danielle LaPorte is scary smart, yet so kind and practical that she kindles the fire in you without causing you to feel consumed by the flames. She has the knowledge you need to succeed. Lean in and listen close. What she has to say is what our spirits need to hear.

Martha Beck, Steering by Starlight

Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and youll be one, too, after reading this masterpiece. For best results, read in your igloo and emerge with a suntan.

Chris Guillebeau, The Art of Non-Conformity

Danielles passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.

Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

The revolution youve been waiting for, it will shake up and wake up every aspect of your life. Danielle LaPorte offers soulful wisdom to create a blueprint for moguls, spiritual rock stars, and lovers of life. Skinny-dip head first into this hot and fabulous book. I dare you.

Kris Carr, Crazy Sexy Diet

A modern masterpiece that will impact millions of lives, for generations to come. Its outrageously inspiring, wise, and actionable. I simply cannot recommend it enough. Prepare for a religious experience. Youre going to fall in love with this book.

Marie Forleo, www.MarieForleo.com

The new, badass Artists Way.

Linda Sivertsen, Generation Green

Copyright 2012 by Danielle LaPorte, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

Crown Archetype with colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

LaPorte, Danielle,
The fire starter sessions / Danielle LaPorte. 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Self-actualization (Psychology)2.Self-realization.3.Quality of work life.4.Social entrepreneurship.I.Title.

BF637.S4L358 2012
158.1dc23

eISBN: 978-0-307-95212-7

Cover design by Maria Elias

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It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road tobetter days, but revelations, and lavishnessof someones soul, inspired and ablaze.

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this is more than a book.

TheFireStarterSessions.com is an extended experience where you can access:

The Workbook o Fire, a free downloadable booklet of the worksheet questions from the book.

The Camp Fire Guide, a free guide for creating a book club or group experience.

A companion video program, an online community, resource lists and plenty of other treats and truly useful tools.

1. There is nothing I can give you that you dont already have. Some of you will find this notion wildly arousing and affirming. Yeah! Others may experience instant despair. What? Isnt this a self-HELP book? Fret not. Were going to shine a light on the deeply inherent good stuff you have to giveand theres plenty of it.

2. It all comes down to this: You become a trailblazer by virtue of being your genuine self. It is that simpleand that profound.

3. I admit it: I want to be your favorite pyromaniac of clarity, love-fueled ambition, and results.

4. I may not know you, but I love you already. There, I said it.

LoveLove,

When being real is your priority, the various parts of your life start to groove. Your career will begin to reflect your true passion; your living room will match your values; your friends will fit your soul; and your wealthof which there are many definitionswill start to measure up with your notion of freedom. Sometimes the courage to be true to yourself comes in the form of an out-loud declaration, a rebellion, or a love-drenched vow. Other times its a quiet conviction that we can read in your eyes. Mighty or discreet, authenticity is the muscle that helps you shake up beliefs, policies, and restraints, and gives you the strength to do the things some say cant be done. Being genuine is the foundation of integrityoften inconvenient and not always painlessbut the only way to go if youre here to really, truly, fully live.