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Darrell W. Gurney

Darrell W. Gurney

Long Beach, California

Darrell Gurney is the Founder of TheBackForty.com and CareerGuy.com. For 30+ years, Darrell has helped individuals discover and create lives and careers that make a difference for themselves and others.

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Darrell W. Gurney (TheBackForty.com, CareerGuy.com) is a PCC-level Executive/Life/Career Coach (International Coaching Federation) and Licensed Spiritual Counselor. He supports individuals at all levels to make empowered life, career and purpose-focused transitions. His first book, Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters, won the Clarion Award for Best Book by the Association for Women in Communications and was reviewed in Publishers Weekly. His most recent book, Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest, was endorsed by bestselling thought leaders such as Harvey Mackay, Keith Ferrazzi and Dr. Ivan Misner.

A personal, career and business coach and brand strategist, Darrell’s "Stealth Method" of thought-leader networking has helped folks expand their reach within both careers and new client circles. His PlayGame Method™ of life and personal coaching has individuals playing bigger games in life and having more fun in the process. He speaks and leads workshops for both professional and trade associations as well as for leading MBA programs such as those at Harvard, Tulane and Wake Forest Universities. He is a media expert on subjects such as networking, midlife expansion, meaningful work and finding one’s passion.

Darrell offers webinars and programs that get people out and connected while expanding themselves and others. He's currently bringing out his next book, The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half, and has developed a reality show, Dream Job Life (Winner of the New Hope Film Festival for Best Webisode), where he pulls people out of career ruts by getting them in touch with their earliest aspirations. More info available at TheBackForty.com, CareerGuy.com and DreamJobLife.com.
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The Back Forty

7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half

The Back Forty is an epic, life-transformational, and seminar-in-a-box message inciting innovative midlife possibilities. It asks and answers the trajectory-shifting questions: What if the first half of life was only R&D, research, and development, for your best half/second half? What if you have yet to do what you came here to do?

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Over 40% of the American population are beyond the age of forty, and that second half of life includes some important choices. Erik Erikson, the late renowned psychoanalyst and researcher into stages of life, points to the ages of 35 to 65 and on as times in which individuals must choose between generativity versus stagnation and integrity versus despair.

What does this mean for the average person? It means that in approaching and moving through midlife, everyone must choose whether their life and trajectory is set in stone or whether real and lasting leveling-up of one’s “lot in life” is truly possible.

Has the first half of life, with all of its conditioning, challenges or “failure to launch” set limits on who we can be and what we can do, or is truly anything still possible for us? The Back Forty says possibility lives!

The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life’s Radical Second Half is an epic, life-transformational, and seminar-in-a-box message inciting innovative midlife possibilities. It asks and answers the trajectory-shifting question “What if you have yet to be who you came here to be and do what you came here to do, and what if your biggest game is yet to come?”

Through an engaging series of authentic, deeply personal stories, innovative exercises and insight-inducing activities, readers are guided through a method and mindset to decipher life’s Front Forty into a formula for a freed-up and radical second half/best half of life. Playing off a metaphor, the book posits that the second half of life is akin to “the back forty” of a farm: a huge, uncultivated patch of land with infinite growth potential.

Darrell Gurney, the author, is an executive, entrepreneur and career coach, licensed spiritual counselor and previously published author. Over his 30-year career as a coach, advisor and licensed spiritual counselor, he has supported thousands of individuals to transform their life, career, and business trajectories. He gives keynotes, teleseminars, and workshops for MBA programs as well as professional and community organizations; has been quoted and interviewed by major publications such as Forbes, US News & World Report, and The Wall Street Journal; and has published Amazon bestsellers in the fields of careers and passions.

Most important, he’s a baby boomer with a message of hope and inspiration for those approaching midlife and beyond. Drawing from his coaching and careers expertise as well as his spiritual and personal-development passions, this message is about recovering and discovering play, passion and purpose at any age. . .no matter what you’ve been through.

The book was inspired by Darrell’s own personal experience. At age 40, he found himself broke amidst a career shift while also mired in a half-million-dollar custody suit over his son. He’d never felt more like a loser. Yet, in a moment of inspiration, he was struck by a radical notion he heard inside his heart, “What if the first half of my life has simply been R & D, research and development, setting me up to be who I came here to be and do what I came here to do in the second half? What if my biggest game is yet to come?”

This notion became the springboard for a personal journey which became The Back Forty. It enabled him to begin living his second half of life markedly free from what had come before: a truly radical possibility at midlife.

Through this Back Forty paradigm, readers are empowered to see themselves as the solely responsible designers of their entire life, past and present, with any sense of victimhood compassionately dissolved. This revolutionary and causal perspective provides the necessary freedom and power to similarly, but now consciously, cause the future they truly want.

The book presents a set of life elements to be, as the title states, “embraced” so the reader can open up to a new and larger definition of themselves within which their unique formula of self-expression arises. By exploring and embracing these seven elements:

Your Past
Your Present
Your Gifts
Your Values
Your Initiation
Your Purpose
A Presence

readers will find relief, renewal and purposeful direction in becoming freed up and fired up, for a radical second half: a full, fresh and out-of-the-box remainder of life that wasn’t "just going to happen anyway."

As more and more individuals reach the age of “What’s next?” after kids, career shake-ups, divorces, and various forms of mid-life crises – and especially during these current, extraordinary and upending times of domestic and world crises – this message and formula for embodying Frank Sinatra’s words “the best is yet to come, and won’t it be fine” is timelier than ever.

The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life’s Radical Second Half brings renewed meaning and purpose to beleaguered boomers and the midlife seekers who face a rapidly changing world. When it feels like the world is standing still is the perfect time to change it. Wayne Dyer spirituality meets Richard Nelson Bolles career direction meets Rick Warren purposeful inquiry.

Sales arguments

  • The Baby Boomer demographic is currently the second largest market in the US (just overtaken by the millennials) and in 2017 over 50% of the US population was over the age of 50. Boomers currently control about 70% of the disposable income in the US and over the next 20 years their spending is expected to increase by 58% ($4.74 trillion annually). If a segment of the population has the most means to grow and develop, this is it.
  • Author is a 30-year Life/Career/Business/Executive Coach and Licensed Spiritual Counselor.
  • Author has produced two previous books with top endorsements and Forewords such as Harvey Mackay, Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Ivan Misner, Mark Victor Hansen, T. Harv Eker and Joyce Lain Kennedy.
  • Author has social media and mailing lists reach of 54,000.
  • Author is a regular speaker for MBA, EMBA, FEMBA and Alumni programs, Rotary, church and other community groups, and is a quoted and hosted expert on national media and television in major markets.

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Audience

"The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half" appeals to readers in midlife transitions, including career, business, relationships, health, financial, etc., as well as spiritual and purpose seekers in all age groups. Freud taught that the two greatest existential human needs are meaningful work and satisfying relationships. Midlife “awareness” itself begins from one’s mid-thirties to mid-fifties. The ensuing career, relationship and other challenges and desires of midlife grow ever more poignant for decades from then on. Therefore, the market for this book will easily span a thirty- to forty-year segment of the population.

Advance praise

“Through his spiritual daring, Gurney sheds light upon the vital subject of discovering one’s inner wholeness at any age and stage on life’s journey. He moves his readers into a revolution in consciousness: loving ourselves for who we are, for the innate capacities of the heart and soul.”
–Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning and Founder of The Agape International Spiritual Center

“The Back Forty is yet another testament to the Unstoppable spirit in each of us. Darrell Gurney intimately shares his own midlife quest for purpose, stepping beyond fear and doubt to pave the way for each of us to have our second half of life be the best half. This is required reading if you want the next phase of your life to be the best part ever!”
–Cynthia Kersey, bestselling author of Unstoppable and Founder of The Unstoppable Foundation

“Darrell Gurney tilled the soil of his personal experience and harvested an inspiring process for embracing challenges and living life to the fullest. In The Back Forty, Gurney offers a crucial counter to the prevailing pessimism about aging and shows his readers the best is yet to come!”
–Margit Cox Henderson, Ph.D., author of Optimistic Aging: from Midlife to the Good Life, an Action Plan

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Bright Communications LLC is a woman- and veteran-owned custom publisher in Hellertown, PA. Founding CEO Jennifer Bright is a Book Doula, whose passion is helping authors bring their books to life. Our team of expert editorial, design, and marketing pros help authors go from idea to completed books and retain 100% of the rights to their work. We also offer four custom publishing packages and a $1900 self-publishing assist program.

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Children Fiction, Christian Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT Fiction, Literary Essay, Literary Fiction, Mind & Body, Mystery, Thriller, Horror & Suspense, Mythology & Folk Tales, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Women's Fiction, YA Fiction, Art & Photography, Biography & Memoir, Business & Money, Career & Success, Children Non-Fiction, Christian Non-Fiction, Coloring Books for Grown-Ups, Comics & Graphic Novels, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Communication Skills, Corporate Culture, Crafts & Hobbies, Creativity, Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship & Small Business, Health, Fitness & Dieting, History, Humor & Entertainment, Illustrated Books, Journalism, Management & Leadership, Marketing & Sales, Mindfulness & Happiness, Money & Investment, Motivation & Inspiration, Nature & Environment, Parenting, Personal Growth & Self-Improvement, Philosophy, Politics & Social Sciences, Popular Science, Productivity & Time Management, Psychology, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, Sports & Outdoors, Technology & the Future, Travel, YA Non-Fiction, Science Fiction & Humour

United Kingdom, United States, Canada

eBooks2go logo eBooks2go

100 copies • Completed manuscript.
eBooks2go, Inc. was founded in 2011 to provide the missing link for all your publishing needs. Our end-to-end solutions provide the guidance and support that enable publishers and independent authors to pursue their passions. To date, we have helped more than 750 authors and 100 publishers worldwide. We offer an array of simple and affordable solutions to assist self-publishing authors at every stage of the book publishing process. Our comprehensive service offering includes editing, print and eBook production, book marketing, cover designs, ISBN registration, and even website designs. We are a single source for all of your publishing needs.

Service publisher

Children Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mind & Body, Mystery, Thriller, Horror & Suspense, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, YA Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Business & Money, Career & Success, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Health, Fitness & Dieting, History, Journalism, Personal Growth & Self-Improvement, Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Sports & Outdoors, Technology & the Future, Travel

Worldwide

Finn-Phyllis Press, Inc logo Finn-Phyllis Press, Inc

250 copies • Completed manuscript.

At Finn-Phyllis Press, our goal is simple: help you tell your story in a powerfully vulnerable way, publish it so that it can sit next to any New York Times bestseller in terms of quality, and support you as you reach the readers who need to hear what you (and you alone) have to say.

We believe that every story matters.

We believe that the smallest moments of connection create the widest reaching ripple effect of change.

We believe that book publishing doesn't have to be overwhelming, feel high-pressure, or take years to complete.

We believe that authors deserve to earn 100% of the profits---it's your story, after all!

We believe that 100% of the rights to your story are your own (and should remain that way).

We believe that while most stories aren't, in and of themselves, completely unique, no one else has your exact perspective or experience, and that is your superpower.

We believe in partnerships. This isn't our first rodeo (although, in full transparency, we've never been to an actual rodeo), and it is our privilege to guide our authors every step of the way. We are proud of our no-tears-or-panic-attacks policy.

We believe in the bells and whistles that help our clients increase their impact---and leave the ones that don't in the metaphorical slush pile.

We don't have an actual slush pile.

Are you with us so far? If so, let's talk about what's next... 

We are passionate about powerfully vulnerable storytelling, inspiring backstories, and yet-to-be-discovered voices. We believe that everyone has a powerful story and that those stories are meant to impact the entire world, one reader at a time.

Run by 5X author Elizabeth Lyons, Finn-Phyllis Press was established in 2004 and has been actively publishing impactful stories since 2016.

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Mind & Body, Women's Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Business & Money, Career & Success, Communication Skills, Corporate Culture, Creativity, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurship & Small Business, Health, Fitness & Dieting, Humor & Entertainment, Management & Leadership, Marketing & Sales, Mindfulness & Happiness, Money & Investment, Motivation & Inspiration, Parenting, Personal Growth & Self-Improvement, Productivity & Time Management, Religion & Spirituality, Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture

Worldwide

Happy Self Publishing logo Happy Self Publishing

100 copies • Completed manuscript.
Happy Self Publishing has helped 500+ authors to get their books self-published, hit the #1 position in the Amazon bestseller charts, and also establish their author website & brand to grow their business. And the best thing is, we do all this without taking away your rights and royalties. Let's schedule a call to discuss the next steps in your book project: www.meetme.so/jyotsnaramachandran

Service publisher

Children Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mind & Body, Mystery, Thriller, Horror & Suspense, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, YA Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Business & Money, Career & Success, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Health, Fitness & Dieting, History, Journalism, Personal Growth & Self-Improvement, Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Sports & Outdoors, Technology & the Future, Travel

Worldwide

IngramSpark logo IngramSpark

100 copies • Completed manuscript.
Ingram is a rather large company with several different divisions and supplies books to bookstores and libraries in over 200 countries around the world. Ingram also has a print on demand digital printing company, Lightning Source. IngramSpark is the platform that combines those two services together. At IngramSpark, we work with authors and independent publishers to print their books for orders they need (no minimum order) and we have a way to list the books as available for sale to all of Ingram’s 39,000+ customers- distributors, bookstores, retail outlets, libraries, etc., so you never miss a sale. You would provide us with the print-ready digital files (one for the cover and one for the interior) and we print the books as they are sold through our distribution partner’s websites. We pay you for those sales approximately 90 days later. The compensation you earn is based on the retail price you set, minus the wholesale discount you offer our distribution partners, minus the print cost.

Service publisher

Children Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mind & Body, Mystery, Thriller, Horror & Suspense, Romantic Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, YA Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Business & Money, Career & Success, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Health, Fitness & Dieting, History, Journalism, Personal Growth & Self-Improvement, Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Sports & Outdoors, Technology & the Future, Travel

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  • Glenn Ackerman
    on Nov. 25, 2020, 2:59 a.m.

    Excited to be a part of this exciting journey. I am in full support of you and your work.

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 1, 2020, 9:21 p.m.

      Glenn,
      Thank you brother.

      IF you'd be up for doing something that could create more traction through an "influencer interview" like they describe in item #6 in this article, let me know. I'd love for us to engage in playing together in some way.

      After all, you are an influencer.

      h t t p s : // medium.com /publishizer /how-to-sell-more-book-copies-in-only-30-days-5-easy-tips-64772ac708f2

      Darrell

  • Alesia Jackson
    on Nov. 25, 2020, 5 a.m.

    Darrell,

    Wishing all the best to you during this very exciting publishing period for your new book “The Back Forty” and the adventure ahead! Here’s to much future success in 2021. I’m grateful for your friendship and leadership. Blessings!! Happy Thanksgiving!

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 1, 2020, 9:38 p.m.

      Alesia,
      Thank you so much.

      IF you'd be up for doing something that could create more traction through an "influencer interview" like they describe in item #6 in this article, let me know. I'd love for us to engage in playing together in some way.

      After all, you are an influencer. And this might be a way for us to discuss it together. . .while others watch. Good exposure for both of us, and we can invite our respective followers.

      h t t p s : // medium.com /publishizer /how-to-sell-more-book-copies-in-only-30-days-5-easy-tips-64772ac708f2

      Let me know your thoughts.

      Darrell

      P.S. Had to post the link that way because this system doesn't want links posted. But the article is from the same group.

  • John Dade
    on Nov. 30, 2020, 3:13 p.m.

    Hello Darrell,

    Congrats on your new book! Looking forward to reading it and discussing it with you!

    Cheerz!

    John Dade

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 1, 2020, 9:36 p.m.

      John,
      Thank you sir.

      IF you'd be up for doing something that could create more traction through an "influencer interview" like they describe in item #6 in this article, let me know. I'd love for us to engage in playing together in some way.

      After all, you are an influencer. And this might be a way for us to discuss it together. . .while others watch. Good exposure for both of us, and we can invite our respective followers.

      h t t p s : // medium.com /publishizer /how-to-sell-more-book-copies-in-only-30-days-5-easy-tips-64772ac708f2

      Let me know your thoughts.

      Darrell

      P.S. Had to post the link that way because this system doesn't want links posted. But the article is from the same group.

  • Darrell W. Gurney
    on Dec. 1, 2020, 9:07 p.m.

    Hey Guys!
    Sorry, I'm just seeing this comments section! Didn't realize it was here.

    Thanks so much for your supporting this pre-order campaign!

    We'll be in touch shortly regarding your bonuses, one of which is the private Facebook group that you'll be founding members of.

    More to come. . .both now and for the next half/best half of life on the way!

    Radically,
    Darrell & Alexandra
    Founders and Back Forty Fliers

  • Trish Carr
    on Dec. 2, 2020, 6:39 p.m.

    I am excited for the new book and can't wait to get my copy!

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 3, 2020, 3:02 p.m.

      Trish,
      You are an amazing mover and shaker of women into their highest and greatest expressions of Self.

      It's a privilege to partner and play with you and Womens Prosperity Network and all your wonderful members!

      Darrell

  • Donna Blevins
    on Dec. 2, 2020, 7:44 p.m.

    Loved being on the webinar LIVE with Trish Carr of WPN. You spoke to me.

    Donna Blevins, PhD

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 3, 2020, 3:05 p.m.

      Hi Donna!
      Thanks for taking the time to join the webinar and hear something personal for yourself in this message.

      It's really my privilege to support the work (and play) of Womens Prosperity Network and I look forward to having you in our joint-intentioned tribe of creating a second half/best half of life, business and Self-expression.

      Darrell

  • Barry Pogorel
    on Dec. 2, 2020, 11:56 p.m.

    Good luck with this, Darrell!

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 3, 2020, 3:08 p.m.

      Barry,
      Thank you sir. Please share the possibility of this idea when folks could really use it.

      Darrell

  • Gail Elen
    on Dec. 6, 2020, 1:30 a.m.

    Hi Darrell - congratulations on your new book! As part of your friends and family circle and someone who listened to the Womens Properity interview you did I want to ask for Double Bonuses!!! Big Hug and warmest regards.

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 18, 2020, 2:25 p.m.

      Gail!
      We're all over it with you! Thanks for your owning of this message for yourself, even from our first experimental 2-day INFUSE workshop 5 years ago! Your taking to the philosophy like your own is exactly what this is about, and we appreciate your abiding support as we move the ball forward now with the book.

      Darrell

      P.S. Have those powerful women you're associated with get a taste of this!

  • Brian Baird
    on Dec. 7, 2020, 5:04 p.m.

    looking forward to being part of the journey...BKB

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 18, 2020, 2:22 p.m.

      Hey Brian,
      You have been thus far, and so glad to have you riding it further. Together, who knows what we can all do in this second half/best half.

      Thanks for spreading the word.

      Darrell

  • Dean Regan
    on Dec. 21, 2020, 1:51 a.m.

    I'm eager to read THE BACK FORTY. Darrell is specific, direct and inspiring.

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 23, 2020, 5:09 p.m.

      Thanks Dean for traveling this road with us for a bit.

      I look forward to continuing our walk along this path as it gets wider and more colorful.

      Darrell

  • John 'jb' Brown
    on Dec. 23, 2020, 12:36 a.m.

    Many THANKS!

    And a Happy, Successful, Prosperous and Healthy NEW YEAR!!

    Sincerely,
    jb

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 23, 2020, 5:08 p.m.

      Same to you and your wonderful family John.

      Bigger games ahead!

      Darrell

  • mimi peak
    on Dec. 23, 2020, 6:15 a.m.

    Congratulations!! Great job!!

    • Darrell W. Gurney
      on Dec. 23, 2020, 5:07 p.m.

      Thanks for supporting the message Mimi!

      See you in The Back Forty!

      Darrell

  • Brian Germain
    on Dec. 23, 2020, 6:48 p.m.

    Looking forward to your book. Congratulations to you. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

  • Ralph Leyva
    on Dec. 24, 2020, 3:31 a.m.

    Thanks, Darrell, let's make this magic happen!!

  • Danette McGee
    on Dec. 24, 2020, 4:09 a.m.

    Wishing you much success with the Back Forty!! Looking forward to reading it!!

    Love ya cuz!
    Danette