Spare Room, The, Emily Chang
Spare Room, The, Emily Chang
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Spare Room, The
Define Your Social Legacy to Live a More Intentional Life and Lead with Authentic Purpose

Author: Emily Chang

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/30/2021


Synopsis

Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the worlds most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere shes lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected, or marginalized, to find sanctuary in her spare room. Among her deeply personal accounts, Emily shares heart-wrenching stories of an emotionally abused child bride, a dying eighteen-month-old boy born with hydrocephalus, and the abused daughter of a local prostitute. With the sixteen young people she and her family have cared for, Emily has found that living into her Social Legacy has not only deeply enriched her home life, it has also enabled her to become a more authentic and relatable leader in the workplace. Each time she opened the door to her spare room, Emily found herself in a front-row seat, witnessing one of lifes incredible stories unfold. Integrating work and life, she introduced her spare room kids to colleagues and encourages her team members to invest in their own Social Legacies. Now more than ever, social purpose has become an urgent leadership imperative. The Spare Room will help you identify your Social Legacy to live a more intentional life and lead with authentic purpose.

About Emily Chang

Emily Chang is currently the CEO of McCann Worldgroup, China, and previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Starbucks. She has spoken at the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Summit and C2 in Montréal. With her husband of twenty years, eleven-year-old daughter, a rescue mutt, and a pygmy hedgehog, she has shared her spare room with sixteen young people, five dogs, one turtle, one guinea pig, and 129 snails. For more information, visit www.social-legacy.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Edwin on July 24, 2022

Inspiring book that challenges me to be more intentional in life to create meaningful difference in other people's lifes.......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on April 20, 2021

Illustratively written with emotive stories that painted an indelible picture in my mind. I couldn’t put this book down. Following the inspiring stories in each chapter are personal development exercises and frameworks to help readers identify actions to create a lasting impact and live a life with m......more

Goodreads review by Tom on May 06, 2021

Author Chang's book illustrates through real stories the jagged edges of offensive tragedies against children and youth. Through her sefless actions of harbouring 16 children over 20 years in her home spare room, one will be forced to reconsider their own life priorities. I could recall in my lifeli......more

Goodreads review by Scarlet on March 26, 2022

In times of uncertainty I always turn to books. The Spare Room is perfect reading for those seeking to enrich their lives with meaning and lead a life with purpose. What is your social legacy? What does that even mean? Emily Chang's brilliant, insightful and well laid out book, walks us step by step......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on June 18, 2021

I read many self development books but this one stands out as providing actionable journaling and prompts to help a person brainstorm what each of us can do to have an impact. I really loved how the author's stories are inspiring yet seem not out of reach for the average person to model. For example......more