What financial advisers are reading this summer
Debra Taylor, Principal, founder and lead wealth manager, Taylor Financial Group
Professional read: "When Breath Becomes Air” (2016) by Paul Kalanithi
Description / Reason: This book can help with client relationships and is good to share with clients. When noted neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi is given his diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic lung cancer, he is forced to see this disease, and the process of being sick, as a patient rather than a doctor. This book urges you to analyze how you live your life and is a valuable tool to help you develop and define your personal and professional purpose.
Leisure read: “Homeland Elegies” (2020) by Ayad Akhtar
Description: In Homeland Elegies, part memoir and part novel, Akhtar writes about an American-born son and his Pakistani immigrant father who also happens to be a nationally recognized doctor. The book discusses with candor the possibilities and limitations of American life.