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🍽️ SET YOUR TABLE - The Book is LIVE (yes, really)

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Brian Cook

May 7th

🍽️ The Book is here!

Tribe - It's live.

Set Your Table: A Strategic Framework for Reclaiming Your Life is on Amazon. Right now. Today.

πŸ”— https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX3733HQ​

& for launch week+, the Kindle edition is $0.99.

Less than a cup of coffee. Less than a song on iTunes used to cost. Less than almost anything else you'll buy this week.

Here's the deal. I didn't write this book to get rich. I wrote it because I lived the Freedom Gap & I know too many of you are living there too. The $0.99 price is intentional. I want this in as many hands as possible during launch week.

But I need your help with something.

Please leave a review.

Honest. Short. Long. Whatever feels true. Reviews are how Amazon decides which books to surface & which to bury. Reviews are how the next reader, the one who needs this most, finds it. Reviews are how a small book breaks through.

If you've read even part of the manuscript, the workbook, or anything I've shared from it, your voice counts.

Not sure what to say? Here are a few starting points πŸ‘‡

πŸ“ Example 1 β€” The Operator

Bought this expecting another self-help book. Got something different. Cook writes like a soldier & thinks like a strategist. The Freedom Gap framework gave me language for what I've been feeling for a decade. Read it in two sittings. Already re-reading.

πŸ“ Example 2 β€” The Veteran

33 years in uniform, four cardiac arrests, & a framework for the rest of us. This is the book I wish I'd had at the end of my career. Brian doesn't preach. He gives you a map. The Four Domains chapter alone is worth ten times the price.

πŸ“ Example 3 β€” The Professional

I run a team of 40. I've read every leadership book on the bestseller list. This one is different because it starts with you, not your org chart. The Five Pillars are a deceptively simple lens. Highly recommend for any leader trying to stop running on fumes.

πŸ“ Example 4 β€” The Skeptic

Was prepared to roll my eyes. Didn't. The chapter on grit & the chapter on dropping the armor hit harder than expected. Real, lived-in writing. Recommend it.

Take any of these as inspiration. Or write your own. Three sentences is plenty. The algorithm doesn't care how long it is. It cares that it's there.

Two asks. One link.

βš”οΈ Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX3733HQ βš”οΈ Leave a review (after reading even a few pages, that's allowed): same link, scroll down, click "Write a customer review"

That's it. That's the whole favor.

To everyone who has been on this journey with me, the endorsers, the editors at Manuscripts, Carol, Phil, Sara & the kids, the Tribe, and every one of you who replied to a draft or argued with me about a footnote: thank you. This is yours as much as mine.

Now let's go close the gap.

πŸ“š Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX3733HQ πŸ“‹ Starter Workbook: https://setyourtable.kit.com/products/set-your-table-starter-workbook βœ‰οΈ Waitlist for what's next: https://setyourtable.kit.com/b75d4d8f27​

Stay in the fight - Brian

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