In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to best-selling author and living legend Dr. Taj Shotwell. Dr. Taj talks to us about how to avoid mistakes that professionals make and lose it all. Dr. Taj Shotwell, is an educator, Amazon bestselling author, poet, songwriter, screenwriter, and playwright. She was born Theresa Ann James the sixth and middle child of eleven children raised in Memphis, Tennessee by a career Army Sargent and a gospel singer/homemaker. Obtained former education in San Francisco where she taught business at colleges and universities while working as an accountant. Joined the faculty at FAMU in the business school and later education, teaching accounting, professional development, and educational leadership courses, and chaired a department before retirement. Written and published five non-fiction books including a 3-part series coming of age in Memphis based on her life called Middle Child. She also wrote a fiction drama faith-based book Maggie: Never Bitter which she adapted as a musical and won contest awards in 2016 and 2017.