The Back Forty Tour

"The Back Forty: 7 Essential Embraces to Launch Life's Radical Second Half outlines the basic tenets of an approach to life that maintains that midlife is a time to revise perspectives to reach for new opportunities for growth and fulfillment. It's a welcome antidote to the notion that midlife begins the slow slide into inability and retirement from life, providing readers with an inspirational survey of these opportunities and how they may be realized. Consider it a perfectly timed tool for reevaluation."

-Midwest Book Review

"In The Back Forty, Darrell Gurney has laid down an effective and inspiring roadmap for getting deep and insightful with oneself at the midpoint-or any point-of life. Disassembling, recontextualizing and causing one's purposeful life going forward, guided by these seven Embraces, ensures anyone a future of possibilities that weren't going to 'happen anyway.' This is indeed radical thinking."

-Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50's only two-time winner of #1 Leadership Thinker in the World, the World's #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker

"Yes, your first half of life was simply research and development. This outlines what to do with the second half. Inspiring wisdom for any age, don't enter or leave midlife without The Back Forty."

-Chip Conley, New York Times best-selling author of Wisdom @ Work and founder of Modern Elder Academy

"The Back Forty is a 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 himself and 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, best-selling author of Unstoppable and founder of The Unstoppable Foundation

"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, best-selling author of Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation and founder/spiritual director of The Agape International Spiritual Center

"The Back Forty is an honest, authentic take on how the most challenging moments lead to powerful truths. It provides an opportunity to examine the past like a scientist and experiment with creating mindsets which will set you up for a joyful present and enriching future. As Darrell points out: 'The only start that matters is the one you make now.' So true."

-Barbara Waxman, MS, MPA, PCC, coach, gerontologist, speaker, author of Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife

"The Back Forty is a profound and engaging inquiry into what it takes to expand when society is betting you'll contract. For anyone seeking to clear their path of self-imposed obstacles, habits, behaviors and attitudes so they can build a rich and fulfilling second half of life, The Back Forty serves as a bible of empowerment."

-Sally Helgesen, author of How Women Rise, The Web of Inclusion, and The Female Advantage