Media Coverage

Posted by winjaw on Aug 25, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 0 comments

Below are various links to media coverage on Everyone Needs A Sam:

October 17, 2010: Here’s a link to the talk I gave at Abiding Harvest United Methodist Church. It’s about 30 minutes and audio only.

July 31, 2010: The Newnan Times Herald ran a story about Everyone Needs A Sam as their lead cover story on their Religion Page. Click here.

Chapter Two – Some Sams Come And Go

Posted by winjaw on Jun 3, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 0 comments

Following is an excerpt from Chapter Two of “Sam:”

One of my greatest Sams was no Bible-thumper. At one time I worked for him, later in my career we were peers running affiliated companies. While we were separated by many states running our respective companies, this guy dropped more pearls of wisdom on me than anyone else in my career.

We’d bump into each other at some meeting or just have a chance phone call. Almost every time, at some point he’d pull out “you might want to think about that.”

Chapter One – The Sam

Posted by winjaw on Jun 1, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 2 comments

Everyone needs advice; everyone needs what I call a “Sam.”

Sams are mentors. They come in all shapes and sizes and backgrounds. But they can be one of your strongest allies as you go down the path of your life journey.

Over the next couple of weeks, we’re running excerpts from my upcoming book, Everyone Needs A Sam.

Today, an excerpt from Chapter One – The Sam

Table Of Contents

Posted by winjaw on May 27, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 0 comments

“Everyone Needs A Sam” focuses on seeking wisdom and finding mentors on your life journey. These Sams are the ones standing beside you and guarding your back.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be highlighting excerpts from the book. We hope you’ll take a moment and submit a guest post for consideration about a Sam in your life so others can learn from what you learned.

So what’s in Sam?

The Table of Contents is usually a pretty good place to start, so following are the chapter titles and sections:

Excerpt From The Forward

Posted by winjaw on May 26, 2010 in Excerpts/Media | 0 comments

Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be running excerpts from the book, “Everyone Needs A Sam.”

The Little Black Dress and I always seemed to attend big churches, from 3,000 members and up. The smallest we ever attended regularly had about 500 members.

One Sunday, while living in Georgia, we visited a small church – Jones Chapel. On a good day, maybe 75 people showed up. We loved the people, we loved the pastor, and we never left until the pastor – John Freeland – left to take another church.

I asked John, who is now the senior pastor at Skyland United Methodist Church in Atlanta, to write the Forward to Sam, and he graciously agreed.

Following is an excerpt from his Forward: