Drive: 9 Lessons to Win in Business and in Life

Written by Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Beth Clark and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Narrated by Jaimee Paul, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller

An inspirational, practical guide to success in business and life learned through the opportunities and challenges of growing up as the daughter of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. and becoming one of the most influential women in professional sports.  A successful businesswoman shares her story of growing up in the world of NASCAR and the lessons she learned along the way.

Just like a racecar as it takes to the track, each of us needs a certain amount of fine-tuning for our journey through life. In Drive, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, daughter of Dale Earnhardt Sr. and sister to Dale Jr., opens up about growing up in the world of NASCAR, sharing the lessons she learned about being a successful business leader and what she discovered, often the hard way, about winning in life.

Kelley never felt she was winning at anything until she began to deal with the thoughts and feelings that were driving her decisions and taking her in the wrong direction. Her journey of transformation is what empowered her to run the family business in an entirely different way than she had previously and to lead people not only with her head but also with her heart.

Drive offers nine important lessons learned about winning in business and in life, given not as a formula for greatness but as insight from a fellow traveler on a journey that is sometimes difficult, painful, unexpected, or confusing and sometimes exhilarating and joyful:

• Be Authentic and Approachable
• Manage Your Emotions
• Succeed Using Strengths
• Let Go to Move Forward
• Customize Your Communication
• Know How to Make Decisions
• Aim for the Win-Win
• Show Kindness
• Live a Balanced Life

Become a stronger person and a more effective leader by facing the truth about your own life in a healthy way and then drive to the win!

Workbook content to help you apply Kelley’s nine lessons is available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9780785229346

Kelley Earnhardt Miller

Kelley Earnhardt Miller is part owner and general manager of JR Motorsports and is considered one of the most prominent businesswomen in NASCAR today. She oversees the company’s race team, management team, and business ventures for her brother, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The daughter of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, Earnhardt Miller graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a BA in business administration. A multiple-award recipient, she was named in 2015 as one of SportsBusiness Journal’s Game Changers/Women in Sports Business for her impact on the motorsports industry. Kelley is married to L.W. Miller and is mom to Karsyn, Kennedy, and Wyatt.

Reviews for Drive

[Kirk Barnett · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Lots of great nuggets of information. Well worth the time.

[susan0316 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I don't read a lot of self help books and definitely don't read how to succeed in business since I'm retired and it doesn't apply to me. However, when i saw that this book was written by Dale Earnhardt's daughter and because I live in Nascar country, I decided to give it a read. I thought that the beginning of the book was very interesting - Kelly talked about growing up with a famous but distant father, problems with her step mother and the closeness she had with her brother Dale, Jr. She also talked about the early mistakes she made in her career and how she changed to become a successful as the vice-president of JR Motorsports. When she got into the success in business part of the book, it wasn't applicable to me but I wish that I'd have had this kind of advice when I was starting in my career.