Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives

How do you want to live?
Are you living a life you love—or just getting by?
 
Many people today are searching for more joy, meaning, and fulfillment in their lives. LIFE Entrepreneurs shares the inspiring stories of people who didn't settle for just okay. Instead, they intentionally designed lives of purpose, passion, and adventure.

Through the book, you'll discover:

✅What's most important to you
✅Your vision of the good life
✅A framework for creating an extraordinary life, with actionable approaches
 
The Entrepreneurial Spirit—Applied to Your Life. In LIFE Entrepreneurs, Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek offer fresh stories and strategies for creating an extraordinary life. "LIFE entrepreneurs" are ordinary people who intentionally craft their lives through distinctively entrepreneurial behavior—and, in so doing, create lives of success and significance. (You don't have to be a business entrepreneur to be a LIFE entrepreneur.)

Drawing on revealing interviews with 55 people from all walks of life, the authors provide vivid examples, frameworks, and strategies for helping you boost your quality of life.

Live boldly.
Blaze your own path.
 
LIFE Entrepreneurs tells the stories of people who have reinvented themselves and infused their life and work with energy, impact, and fulfillment. It is a clarion call for integrating your life and work with purpose and passion.

Ordinary people creating extraordinary lives.
Mavericks in the art of living.
People taking their lives back.
 
Who Is This Book For?
Today, many people are looking for opportunity, challenge, and the chance to develop their talents, achieve success, and make an impact. But they are also looking for a rich home life, rewarding friendships, active lifestyle, and deeper fulfillment.

LIFE Entrepreneurs is for those who want more out of their days on the planet. It's for those contemplating or experiencing a life change, facing a challenge or crisis, or starting to think about their legacy. It is for those who are achieving success in work but want more out of life.

LIFE Entrepreneurs is for those who know they could be getting more out of life but aren't sure how—as well as for those who are already living a good life but want it to be great. Everyone can be a life entrepreneur. This book is for you if you're interested in:
 
 

• Happiness
• Success
• Fulfillment
• Personal growth
• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Social impact
• Purpose
• Service
• Adventure
• Don't just make a living.
• Make a life that matters.

 
What's in it for Readers?
LIFE Entrepreneurs is a clarion call for living and leading with purpose and passion. It has inspired readers from all walks of life—students, professionals, changemakers, executives, entrepreneurs, parents, retirees, and more—to redefine success, align their lives with their deepest values, and take courageous steps toward a life of meaning.

Whether you're just starting out, feeling stuck, or ready to realign your life and work with what truly matters, this book offers a powerful framework and relatable stories that will spark transformation.

Gain the clarity and courage to make bold life decisions.

 
What You'll Gain from the Book:

✅ A fresh, entrepreneurial approach to personal development and life design
✅ Tools for aligning your life and work with your values—so you live with purpose, not just productivity
✅ Inspiration from real people who have taken bold steps to create fulfilling lives
✅ Guidance through life transitions—whether you're launching, pivoting, or rebooting
✅ Encouragement to break free from society's script and define success on your own terms
✅ Confidence to pursue your passions and contribute meaningfully to the world
✅ A spark to reconnect with your dreams—even if they've been buried for years
 
LIFE Entrepreneurs is for those who want more than just a job or a title. It's for those who seek a life of intention, impact, and integrity.

Are you ready to design a life you love?

Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek are co-authors of LIFE Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives.
 
Christopher Gergen is an impactful and influential entrepreneur, author, and changemaker with over 25 years of global experience building and scaling systems-based solutions. He is co-author of the nationally acclaimed book, LIFE Entrepreneurs, CEO of Regenerative Organic Alliance, and founding partner of Raleigh Founded, North Carolina's largest entrepreneurial co-working community. Christopher was CEO of Forward Impact, working to channel capital into high-impact solutions addressing economic inequity. He also co-hosts the Moving the Needle podcast and advises organizations such as the Sullivan Foundation. A serial founder, Christopher previously co-founded SMARTHINKING and Forward Cities and has taught at Duke University.
 
Gregg Vanourek is co-author of three influential books, including LIFE Entrepreneurs (a manifesto for living with purpose and passion) and Triple Crown Leadership (a winner of the International Book Awards and written with his father). He runs a personal development and leadership company and offers his signature Crafting Your Life & Work online course. Gregg teaches at the Stockholm Business School and has taught at the University of Denver, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, and Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. He was a senior executive at an ed tech startup, now a market leader. Gregg has given a TEDx talk and talks or workshops in eight countries, and he's a graduate of the Yale School of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Claremont McKenna College.