The Road Less Traveled From Ed Hajim An Unlikely Journey From The Orphanage To The Boardroom

About this episode

Ed Hajim shares his inspiring journey from an orphanage to success in the boardroom, offering guidance to young people on designing their lives with intention.

At 89, he is actively engaging teenagers and college students—not lecturing, but offering guidance from a lived roadmap for life. A bit about Ed: his first book, an engaging memoir - The Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey From The Orphanage To The Boardroom - shares at the age of 3, Ed Hajim was kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told his mother is dead. Then he was abandoned, raised in orphanages and foster homes. Ed overcame extraordinary adversity to build a life that embodies the American Dream: University of Rochester, Navy service, Harvard Business School, leadership at the highest levels of Wall Street, Horatio Alger Award recipient, founder of the Nantucket Golf Club, married to his wife Barbara for 60 years and has three grown children and is a proud grandfather. His next book focuses on The Ed Hajim Four Ps: Passions, Principles, Partners and Plans. As Ed explains, these have been the constants in his life, his inner voice to make decisions that match his hopes and execute ideas to get to his goals – and he shares them in his follow-up book THE ISLAND OF THE FOUR Ps: A Modern Fable about Preparing for Your Future - Plus, the Ed Hajim Life Design…

People in this episode

Guest: Ed Hajim

Topics covered

• memoir
• life lessons
• personal development
• education
• overcoming adversity

Keywords

• American Dream
• Four Ps
• life roadmap
• Navy service
• Harvard Business School

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey From The Orphanage To The Boardroom, THE ISLAND OF THE FOUR Ps: A Modern Fable about Preparing for Your Future

Books & works: The Road Less Traveled From Ed Hajim, An Unlikely Journey From The Orphanage To The Boardroom, The Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey From The Orphanage To The Boardroom, Horatio Alger Award, The Ed Hajim Four Ps: Passions, Principles, Partners and Plans, THE ISLAND OF THE FOUR Ps: A Modern Fable about Preparing for Your Future - Plus, the Ed Hajim Life Design Course

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