The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams

By Jerry Gladstone

The Common Thread is not based on theory but on real interviews and the author’s personal relationships with Academy and Grammy Award winners, Super Bowl and World Series Champions, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legends, boxing and UFC World Champions, best-selling authors, billionaires, and Olympians. Readers get instant access to insights, wisdom, disciplines, and habits of high-profile celebrities. The Common Thread provides strategies for the reader to step out of their comfort zone, silence negative self-talk, understand and overcome fear, learn how to take advantage of opportunities often missed, and discover and use their mental mindset for their own success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781630475291

Jerry Gladstone

Bestselling Author Jerry Gladstone is highly regarded in the self-development industry as a speaker and success coach Certified by The International Coach Federation (ICF). At the age of twenty-six, he founded a small fine art company and grew it into an international business that specialized in the production, distribution, and marketing of a wide variety of entertainment fine art. Jerry’s business associations have given him unique access to movie studios and celebrities, including “Rocky” himself, Sylvester Stallone. In conversations with Sylvester and other super achievers, Jerry observed a “Common Thread” to success that inspired him to author The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams. In 2020, Jerry then came out with his second book, Old School Success for the Millennial Generation & Beyond, which offers old school wisdom to the new generation. The inspiring stories found within are provided by Academy Award and Grammy winners, Super Bowl champions, music icons, Olympians, UFC champions, and billionaires. Jerry was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Long Island. He and his wife, Brooke, currently live in Florida with their three children, Austin, Allie, and Emma.