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The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms [Hardcover]

Danielle LaPorte
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“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, author of Steering by Starlight
 
“The revolution you’ve 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 headfirst into this hot and fabulous book. I dare you.”
—Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Diet
 
“Danielle’s passion leaps off the page, and reading a few chapters of this book will ignite you into action.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
 
 “Danielle’s 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, author of Making Ideas Happen
 
The Fire Starter Sessions is the new, bad-ass Artist’s Way.”
—Linda Sivertsen, author of Generation Green
 
“A mesmerizing blend of soul, smarts, and grit, The Fire Starter Sessions is a revelation. A virtual road map to a more engaged state of being. One that starts in the heart and burns its way into every fiber of your being.”
—Jonathan Fields, author of Uncertainty
 
“Danielle LaPorte is the rockingest, most authentic, and truly lovely guide to lucrative self-realization I know. Buy this book and find yourself . . . and your future.”
—Rebecca Walker, author of To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
 
“LaPorte has made something that’s inherently difficult look easy: makes us aware that the power was with us all along. Harder than it looks. Well done, Danielle.”
—Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody and Evil Plans
 
“Danielle does something incredibly refreshing with her work: she tells the truth, straight up. Money, failure, power, appreciation—The Fire Starter Sessions doesn’t leave anything out of the mix, and Danielle pours it on with a heaping dose of encouragement and possibility thinking.”
—Barbara Stanny, author of Overcoming Underearning and Secrets of Six-Figure Women
 
“Fresh, compassionate, practical, sassy, designed (and design is one crucial way that content becomes useful), wise, engaging, and, above all, different.”
—Michael Bungay Stanier, author of Do More Great Work and End Malaria
 
The Fire Starter Sessions shows us how to do what the world tells us we can’t: be unapologetic about our deepest desires and live a life beyond our wildest dreams. Danielle reminds us that all the passion and inspiration we’re seeking lies within us—and she guides us to uncover that beautiful fire and share it with the world.”
—Gabrielle Bernstein, author of Spirit Junkie
 
The Fire Starter Sessions is a modern masterpiece that will impact millions of lives, for generations to come. It’s outrageously inspiring, wise, and actionable. I simply cannot recommend it enough. Prepare for a religious experience. You’re going to fall in love with this book.”
—Marie Forleo, MarieForleo.com
 
“I don’t know about you, but a spreadsheet has never made my hair stand on end, my pulse race, and my brain surge with creative ideas. Read this book and weep—with relief and joy—that you don't have to check your soul and humanity at the door to get killer business results.”
—Pamela Slim, author of Escape from Cubicle Nation
 
“Danielle has a real voice. She puts out her true beliefs without sugarcoating ideas to placate folks.”
—Yvonne Bynoe, author of Who’s Your Mama?: The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers and Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture
 
“Danielle is one serious Fire Starter, and you’ll be one, too, after reading this masterpiece. For best results, read in your igloo and emerge with a suntan.”
—Chris Guillebeau, author of The Art of Non-Conformity

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The Fire Starter Sessions is an apathy-kicking, integrity-infusing guide to defining success on your own terms.
 
As the creator of DanielleLaPorte.com--deemed “the best place online for kick-ass spirituality,” Danielle LaPorte’s straight-talk life-and-livelihood sermons have been read by over one million people. Bold but empathetic, she reframes popular self-help and success concepts:
 
: Life balance is a myth, and the pursuit of it is causing us more stress then the craving for balance itself.
: Being well-rounded is over-rated. When you focus on developing your true strengths, you enter your mastery zone.
: Screw your principles (they might be holding you back).
: We have ambition backwards. Getting clear on how you want to feel in your life + work is more important than setting goals. It's the most potent form of clarity that you can have, and it's what leads to true fulfillment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant. But was there any doubt it would be?, May 23 2012
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Brilliant. Just what you come to expect from Danielle LaPorte. Ferocity and Heart. I keep being struck deeply by the words, the call, to step up and do my work. I love the anecdotes, I seriously burst into tears, you can feel the humanity, the truth about what we're grappling with as human beings and this baby peers right in, takes you on a tour of yourself and lures you higher. Bravo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, heartfelt advice, May 13 2012
This review is from: The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms (Hardcover)
This is book feels like a direct talk with Danielle. It's open, direct, and cuts right to what you need to hear. The worksheets are very useful - each one asks a few pointed questions that helped me to get to the nub of the things that are holding me back. To get a sense of Danielle's style and direction, check out her blog posts, which are a major source of fodder for this book. If you love her blog, this book will be valuable for you.
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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Want to set your life + work on fire?, Feb 23 2012
By Elizabeth Metz "Muse" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms (Hardcover)
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First, a disclaimer: I've got a preview copy, so there may be minor differences between this review and the final product in April. It seems pretty complete, both in content and formatting, so it probably won't be all that much different, but just in case, there you have it.

That said, I'm a long-time reader of White Hot Truth, and have the Spark Kit, which is the $150 program on which this book is based. If any of you are also readers, and are wondering if this book is different enough than the kit to be worth buying, I'll tell you right now: it's worth every penny. In fact, it might actually be better than the Spark Kit (sorry, Danielle...), since it seems to go in much more depth in a few practical areas.

If you haven't seen the original Spark Kit, know this:

There is no way you can read this book and *not* start taking action. From the preface chapters that give you permission to start making your own way to your dream to the last pages that give you the bottom-line secret to success (it's simpler than you'd think, but harder than you can imagine), every step between your life now and the life you want to live is spelled out with a raging spirituality and enlightening practicality that the author's known for. You'll burn, but it's a good burn. A clarifying fire. One that reminds you who you really are.

The Firestarter Sessions is separated into three sections: Mojo, Moxy, and Results. MOJO deals with who you are and what you want. MOXY covers productive dreaming and the often-hard parts that everyone faces once they know where they want to go. RESULTS takes all the dreaming and planning and puts it to work, redefining everything from marketing to your relationship with money, and sends you off to do the work you were put on this earth to do, that only you can do. Each chapter (there are several in each section) has not only the clear, soul-full writing and perceptive advice that LaPorte's known for, but also has worksheets to help you take that knowledge and make it your own. Apply it to your own journey. Take everything to the next step. It flows so easily that it's easy to forget you're building a kind of explosively powerful fire under your own tailfeathers.

As if that's not enough: The Firestarter Sessions is more than just a book. The preview copy I have is vague, with notes about what's to come -- but the FSS *experience* is multimedia. There looks to be an online component to enhance the content within. From a forum to video content to a downloadable version of the worksheets in the book, all the fires don't go out when you close the cover at the end. There's even instructions on finding or starting your own Fire Starter Groups locally, to find other people who want to take their own paths to what they've always wanted.

I can't recommend this book (and experience) highly enough. Preorder it. Buy an extra one to give to a friend. Pick up enough to share with everyone you know who needs more passion and permission to build a life that's made just for them.

93 of 108 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't set me on fire, April 16 2012
By Julia Rietmulder-Stone - Published on Amazon.com
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I got this book based on the Martha Beck endorsement. I just recently started reading Beck, and she, well, sets me on fire. It's become clear to me that I need to find a passion and make it happen, so this book seemed perfect for me.

It's okay. I think I like Danielle LaPorte, although I'm not even sure of that. I don't love the soulfully sassy persona so many women in this genre seem to cultivate -- like it's way too expected at this point. LaPorte definitely has that persona. "I'm a smart, feminine, playful innovator with a soulful business who makes spiritual ("cellular") connections everywhere I go! And this is how you can be like me!" I *do* want to be like that, but I'm not sure it feels so original here.

I think LaPorte has good ideas and a good grasp of what she's selling, but I don't find her exercises or worksheets compelling. Not that they're bad, or pointing me in the wrong direction, but they don't necessarily feel relevant, or fire-starting, for me.

I think if you *know* specifically what career path you want already, this might be more useful. She starts with a few exercises related to finding that, but so much of the book assumes you have a dream and a vision, I think it would be more useful if you need motivation help rather than visioning help. Most of her examples, too, talk about people who need motivation help rather than visioning help, so I'm guessing this is where her strength is.

So yeah, if you have a vision and need help developing the faith and motivation to just make it happen, this is probably a good fit. If you're looking for help in developing that vision, this probably isn't the place to start.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Set Your Soul On Fire, Mar 4 2012
By O. Brown "Ms. O. Khannah-Brown" - Published on Amazon.com
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I was not familiar with Danielle LaPorte's WhiteHotTruth.com blog before reading my preview copy of her book. I had no idea what I was in for. This is an explosive guide, sort of a really economical coaching-in-a-book with multiple sessions (16 in all), one that is passionate, intense, and effective. I worked my way through the book, which is laid out in a wild format with varying fun font sizes (but easily read), perfect for doing the included worksheets and for taking notes and writing your dreams in the margins (I did a lot of this). The book explores how to thrive no matter what your life situation--how to dream--all written in the author's entertaining and intense and to-the-point style. I have read many coaching books--I am a certified life coach--and this is a great one!

The author explores familiar topics like being authentic, doing what you love, "cheap easy" versus "quality easy", core desired feelings, life balance (not) etc. but in a really fresh new way. She puts together information from many other teachers and coaches in a format that packs maximum impact and really motivates the reader to make the changes they long for in their lives.

I felt as though I had been coached by someone talented enough to set my soul on fire--and I am now empowered to move forward.

Highest recommendation.
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