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Executive in Passage

When Life Lets You Know It's Time to Change, Let that Knowing Lead You

Executive in Passage is a compelling memoir about a successful Fortune-500 advertising executive who can no longer tolerate the split between his values and his work.

I had quit smoking but was making ads for Marlboro. I was working on Kellogg’s while restricting the kids’ intake of presweetened cereals. I was asked to keep GM’s gas guzzlers selling during the nation’s worst oil crisis...

There was no denying it.

My ideals conflicted with the career I'd been building for 15 years. My marriage had gone dead. An urgent yearnng had crept into my soul.

As I moved forward, I entered a period of disorientation and sometimes dispair. But some inner sense of rightness kept pulling me on.

Finally, after a tortuously difficult time, I was delivered into a new way of life — one filled with inner quiet and renewed success — an experience I can only describe as uncommon fulfillment.

As the reader, you'll follow this mid-career executive as he dares to follow the guidance of his inner voice — even as it takes him through private inner struggles and a meltdown in the boardroom of one of America’s largest corporations, and from there into Hollywood's famed movie studios, and ultimately around the corner of his own psyche.

This teaching memoir is one man's story. But it is so intimate and raw, the reader can't help but accompany him on his journey, and grow and learn along the way.

The story is his. But the passage is universal.

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Executive in Passage: It’s rare to have an opportunity …

... to share someone else's intimate disclosure [as] he came to understand what was important and true to him. Figuring large are three prime concepts: He has a quiet inner voice that doesn't clamor to be read more

Douglas A. Russell Sunrise Magazine, Theosophic Society May 3, 2020

This book selected me!

Executive in Passage fell off the shelf at the local bookstore. I couldn’t put it down and ended up reading it from cover to cover within a day. Not only was it a validation of read more

M. J., Boulder, CO May 2, 2020

Trusting your inner guidance….

For me, that was the resonance in my heart as I read and quietly absorbed into my deepest core, Don Marrs' beautiful work about life transition and personal transformation. Other than my own personal guidance, read more

MorganPhDiva Singer/songwriter May 2, 2020

For anyone questioning his/her path in life

This book is about honoring the process of life. I read it years ago [first edition] and can honestly say it was one of the baby steps necessary to get me to the point where read more

Staci Backauskas Author, The Fifth Goddess May 2, 2020

Captivating! Transformative!

Don and Paige Marrs wrote a powerful, moving, intimate, vulnerable account of his transformation into "right livelihood". I was mesmerized; it is truly life-changing and brilliant. Accompanying Don on his sacred journey is such a read more

Paula Ray Los Angeles May 2, 2020

Comforting and eye-opening for anyone in a life transition

As I began reading, I was instantly drawn into the heart-space of Executive in Passage. Marrs’ journey looks different from mine on the outside — for him it started as career change, for me it’s read more

Susan Gray May 2, 2020

Your book spoke to my husband’s soul

I read Executive in Passage a few days before we left on a long camping trip. I brought it along and read it aloud to my husband during the long hours we spent driving through read more

S. R. Orange County, CA May 2, 2020

Prescribed reading for men in crisis

I think every man in mid-life should read this book. Hugely inspiring, full of insights and healing, Donald takes us through the rites of passage in response to that 'inner voice' which must be heard. read more

Mr. M. P. Evans United Kingdom May 2, 2020

Finished reading it again, and again, it is a passage of light

I was about halfway through my ‘Subtle Agenda’ journey when I found your book the first time. I cannot even begin to tell you the comfort it gave me. I just finished reading it again, read more

J. G. TV Network President May 2, 2020

A journey of resolving the conflicts between material success and core values

Executive in Passage takes us through the crisis many people experience these days when they feel a conflict between material success and their most central values. It’s beautifully written with raw honesty, courage, and inspiring read more

Sarah Edwards, LCSW, PhD Psychologist May 2, 2020

A book for all times

There are tremendous changes going on in corporate America right now, and this book should be appealing to many executives because of those changes. A powerful book about personal change. It is not a religious read more

Virginia Sink Oklahoma Tribune-Star April 29, 2020

Wonderful book that really helped me

This book has helped to lead me from the confusion that I had in my own career. So often we fear doing what internally we know is right for us. This book gave me a read more

Robert April 2, 2020

… frank and engaging account

Donald Marrs was a highly successful advertising executive in Chicago when he began to hear an inner voice calling him to seek deep meaning in life. This is his frank and engaging account of a read more

Yoga Journal April 2, 2020

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March 3, 2020

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