Michael Gill – How Starbucks Changed My Life

A dramatic talk that tells the surprising story of someone who had everything that the American Dream is supposed to provide-- big house, six figure job and social status--and lost it all. The surprising news: by that very loss of material riches Michael found a new kind of spiritual happiness he could never have imagined. The son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, Michael Gates Gill was a creative director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising, where he was employed for over twenty-five years. He lives in New York within walking distance of the Starbucks store where he works, and has no plans to retire from what he calls the best job he’s ever had.