From a life-threatening illness to a best-selling book to an NBC primetime drama in March 2020: faced with one of life’s greatest challenges, Bruce Feiler reached out to six men who helped shape him and asked each one for a piece of advice for his young daughters: how to live, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. In this funny, moving presentation, Feiler relates the lessons he learned about the power of friendship, the importance of relying on our community whatever challenges we face, and how to celebrate what’s most precious in our lives. In a separate talk, Feiler delivers a pioneering and timely roadmap to navigat...
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Bestselling Author and New York Times Columnist
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Bruce Feiler is one of America’s most popular voices on contemporary life. He is the author of six consecutive New York Times bestsellers; the presenter of two prime-time series on PBS; and the inspiration for the drama Council of Dads on NBC. Feiler’s two TED Talks have been viewed more than two million times. Employing a firsthand approach to his work, Bruce is known for living the experiences he writes about. His work combines timeless wisdom with timely knowledge turned into practical, positive messages that allow people to live with more meaning, passion, and joy.
His new book Life Is In The Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate the growing number of life transitions with greater purpose and skill. It will be published on July 14, 2020.
For more than a decade, Bruce has explored the intersection of families, relationships, health, and happiness. His book The Secrets of Happy Families collects best practices from some of the country’s most creative minds. The book was featured on World News Now, GMA, and TODAY and excerpted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Parade. The Council of Dads describes how, faced with one of life’s greatest challenges, he asked six friends to support his young daughters. The book was profiled in People, USA Today, and Time, and was the subject of a CNN documentary hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Since 2001, Bruce has been one of the country’s preeminent thinkers about the role of spirituality in contemporary life. W describes his 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. (“An instant classic,” The Washington Post). The book spent a year and a half on The New York Times best-seller list and has been translated into fifteen languages.
Abraham recounts his search for the shared ancestor of the monotheistic religions. (“Exquisitely written,” Boston Globe). Where God Was Born describes his trek visiting biblical sites throughout Israel, Iraq, and Iran. (“Bruce Feiler is a real-life Indiana Jones,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution). America’s Prophet is the groundbreaking story of the influence of Moses on American history. The First Love Story is a journey across four continents exploring how Adam and Eve shaped our deepest feelings about relationships. (“A miraculous thing—the literary equivalent of breathing new life into a figure of clay,” New York Times Book Review; “Feiler’s best work yet,” Publishers Weekly).
Feiler is the writer/presenter of two prime-time series on PBS: Walking The Bible (“Beguiling,” The Wall Street Journal) and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler, in which he retraces pilgrimages in France, India, Japan, Israel, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. (“Feiler is the perfect guide,” Newsday).
Bruce Feiler has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television. A former circus clown, he has been the subject of a Jay Leno joke and a Jeopardy! question, and his face appears on a postage stamp in the Grenadines.
A native of Savannah, Georgia, Bruce lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters.
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The Power of Community: How to Survive and Thrive in Difficult Times
The Secrets of Happy Families: Surprising New Ways to Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
Sacred Journeys: Lessons from Retracing the Roots of Spirituality and the Path to Coexistence Around the World
Mastering Transitions: Navigating the Disruptions, Transformations, and Reinventions of Work and Life
The Power of Storytelling: How to Harness the Science of Storytelling to Connect, Persuade, and Thrive
12 Trends Reshaping the Family: How Millennial Parents, Digital Kids, Overworked Moms, and Active Dads Are Changing How Families Shop, Spend, and Connect
The ABCs of Meaning: Agency, Belonging, and Cause – What Every Organization Needs to Know
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Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family
Need a Fresh Start? How to Master a Life Transition | Bruce Feiler | TEDxIEMadrid
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The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
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