How Starbucks Saved My Life - Conversation with Michael Gates Gill

You’ve heard the expression, “when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade“? Well, Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else made coffee instead. Fired from his high-powered advertising job, he was broke, divorced, and diagnosed with a brain tumor. At the age of 63, he donned the green apron and black cap. “Until after I was 60, I thought I was happy because I was six-figure income and the whole markers of success that other people said, ‘wow, you’re