Book News: The Answer is You is Launching April 26 (updated)!

The Answer is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact is coming out April 26 (updated, supply chain issues!)! And like my mother who was most kindly worried that they might run out, you are very welcome to pre-order a copy on Indiebound, Barnes&Noble, Bookshop.org, Amazon, Indigo and Mango - so many choices!

For the book, I interviewed 21 social entrepreneurs, activists, and changemakers from all around the world, ranging from Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Navajo Nation, and more. One was 16 when I interviewed her, one has grandchildren, a good half are Solver teams but I did not want it to be just about tech-based social entrepreneurs, so there are many others as well. The biggest thank you to all of these incredible problem-solvers who accepted to spend time on Zoom with me sharing their success, trials, tribulations, doubts, and more so that I could showcase their impact and their work.

First and foremost, I hope you will find their stories, their passion, their superpowers and their continual search for a solution to a problem that robbed their sleep, inspiring and fascinating.

 But this is also a book for you and for all of those who are (or are looking to start) in the hard business of creating a life full of impact. Throughout these stories, I intersperse my own advice and frameworks. Through these, I am hoping to give you a sense of how to think about your own superpowers, the problems that resonate with you, your purpose, powers, privilege, and more so that you too can get started or continue living a life full of impact, whether that is through your career, your volunteering, your giving, and more.

I hope you find it helpful–because overall, as per the title: The Answer is You.

We will only solve the biggest challenges of our time: injustice, inequality, and the climate crisis if we all get in the game, and do the best we can to change its unfair rules. I would love your thoughts and feedback if you get a chance to read all or part of it!

The good news is that if you do buy this book, 50% of the net profits I make will go towards some of the organizations who are featured in the book as well as Solve Innovation Future, the philanthropic investment vehicle of Solve.

I would also love your thoughts and ideas on launch and marketing as my publisher and I think this through, notably do please write in your ideas on:

·      Book clubs and book stores you like who might be interested

·      Relevant speaker series, conferences, corporate employee events, student clubs, or other venues who you think would like to host a talk

·      Journalists / bloggers / newsletter owners / ‘influencers’ I should get in touch with in the hope that they review or write about the book

·      Fun and creative ways to launch or market whether in-person (COVID-permitting), virtual, on social media and more

·      If you want to be involved somehow – e.g. you want to host a mini-book party at your house or work, you want to start a discussion group with your friends, you want to write a review on Amazon or on your own newsletter, all most appreciated!

In the meantime, please feel free to post about the upcoming launch on social media and there is some helpful images and hashtags here.

Unfortunately, the book is not going to market it itself (I am not after all an Obama or Stephen King) but I wrote it because I hope it will be useful and engage those who are or want to get started in using their talent and ingenuity to better the world, so all you can do to help is most appreciated.

With immense gratitude,
Alex Amouyel.