Adulting 101

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Pub Date 1 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 23 May 2018
Broadstreet Publishing Group LLC | Broadstreet Publishing Group, LLC

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Description

Today’s students are hammered with high expectations for their academic studies. Basic life skills are mostly not taught in classrooms, so graduates are on their own to figure out how to live successfully in the everyday world. Without any guidance, where do you start?

Adulting 101 is a clever, compelling, and relevant manual that will show you how to:

Choose your boss, get a job (or at least not lose one) and deal with co-workers

Buy insurance and understand exactly what you need

Begin saving and investing your money

Buy a car

Set goals, prioritize, and get work done

Write a professional email

Navigate sex, dating, and relationships (but not in that order)

Manage your time effectively

Measure success as God sees it

And much more!

This book will give you everything you need to succeed and to make a real impact. It’s a manual of how to change the world, and be the person you were meant to be. 

Today’s students are hammered with high expectations for their academic studies. Basic life skills are mostly not taught in classrooms, so graduates are on their own to figure out how to live...


Advance Praise

Adulting 101 is a must-read book for anyone, whether you are just entering the “real world” or have been in it for decades. The timeless principles shared by Josh and Pete will have you referencing the book for years to come.

—Andy Stanley, author, communicator, and founder of North Point Ministries


I love meeting young leaders who are eager to change the world. In their new book, Adulting 101, Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty provide a much needed, practical guide for the next generation of world changers. Their inside out approach to personal change will inspire readers to cultivate a growth mindset essential for success in life.

—Dan T. Cathy, Chairman and CEO, Chick-fil-A, Inc.


It seems that some of the practical things an aspiring adult needs to know, like how to create a personal budget, interview for a job, or even take out a loan to buy a car are left to the “learn as you go” educational model. Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty are out to change that with this fantastic and insightful new book, Adulting 101. It is a great book and a useful resource for anyone trying to figure out some of the basics of being on their own.

—Governor Mike Huckabee, best-selling author and political commentator


In Adulting 101, Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty share practical, accessible, and authentic wisdom to help students navigate the transition from college to their lives as independent adults. This is a resource young adults can return to over and over again for advice.

—Jonathan R. Alger, President, James Madison University


Adulting 101 is a practical guide for one of the most exciting times in a person’s life. Josh and Pete have captured decades of experience and written a book every young person should read. Read it and apply what you learn. You’ll get a ten-year head start on adulthood!

—Mark Miller, best-selling author and speaker


I wish every young person would read this book! Whoever does and takes it to heart will be much more likely to lead a successful life. Warning: Pete and Josh have packed so much great advice and wisdom into this book—you will need to refer to it often to realize the full benefit.

—James M. Herr, Chairman, Herr Foods, Inc.


Adulting 101 is a hole-in-one! I wish I had this essential guide for adult life before I started competing on the tour. This book will help you build a worldclass career and become personally fulfilled. If you are in your twenties, read this book! It is a game-changer. Adulting 101 should top the reading list for any graduate, parent, college student, or anyone working with adolescents.

—Brittany Lincicome, LPGA champion, @Brittany1golf


Pete and Josh know high school and college students very well, and they’ve written a book that tackles dozens of topics important to becoming an adult. I’m very impressed and encourage those who are “adulting” to read what these authors have written.

—Denny Rydberg, President Emeritus, Young Life


Adulting 101 is a practical and engaging guide on how to live an intentional life that leaves the world a better place than you knew it before. It’s both pragmatic and visionary and will help set young adults on a trajectory to live an extraordinary life.

—Ellie Holcomb, Dove Award-winning singer and songwriter


Are you between sixteen and twenty-nine years old? If so, Adulting 101 is a mustread— engaging and powerfully practical. If you follow the principles provided on its pages, you will increase your chances of being successful by 1,000 percent or even more. This is the book I wish someone had given me at that important age!

—Michael Licona, PhD, Associate Professor of Theology, Houston Baptist University


Adulting 101 is Real Talk. Learn from it. You’ll be glad you did. Apply its advice and you will be killing it, especially with what is most important in life. Maximum impact begins on a solid foundation, which you’ll find in this book.

—Mark Cathy, Chick-fil-A Inc., Operator Support and Cathy family member

Adulting 101 is a must-read book for anyone, whether you are just entering the “real world” or have been in it for decades. The timeless principles shared by Josh and Pete will have you referencing...


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ISBN 9781424556366
PRICE US$14.99 (USD)
PAGES 160

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Featured Reviews

Can you ever have too much good advice? NOPE!! I wish someone had told me…

…some of these things before I left for college. I would have had less financial trouble in front of me and more good decisions behind me. Know anyone that you wish could skip common life mistakes? I’ve already made a mental list of three college-aged young people that are going to be gifted with this book; my daughter is one of them.

Adulting 101 is like every piece of helpful advice someone could get from wise parents, uncles and aunts, grandparents, and financial advisors compacted into one book. It has reams of practical, useful advice on a wide array of subjects from how to dress for a job interview and how to get the best deal for a car to deciding between renting an apartment or buying a house. There’s advice on relating to others, being a good leader, investing, and so much more that would be boring for me to actually list it all out. (Check out the table of contents.) There’s not a lot of fluff. Okay, there’s not ANY fluff.

I think it’d be awesome if this book was required reading for high school juniors or seniors. There are some things where everyone is better off if we don’t have to learn it the hard way.

My only complaints about this book are that 1) the info is so dense, the lists could have been broken up more into sections with easy-to-find headings or indexed, and 2) the appendices have so much good information, they should have been included as part of the book itself, since so many people ignore appendices. I’d hate for anyone to miss the advice in the appendices that is not replicated in the body of the book itself.

Heads-up, this is a Christian book, although that only crops up in a couple of sections, and the advice in Adulting 101 is valid no matter one’s creed or religion. No advice is invalidated by that context. I just mention that for the sake of those who find it unacceptable to come into contact with anything remotely touching upon Christianity.

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requested because we all need a little help adulting now and again.

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This book is what all college kids need. From freshman thru grads- and even graduating high school seniors. Tons of absolutely needed info wiitten by one guy who has spent his adult life leading adolescents and another who is Chick Fil A operator with incredibel business sense. Terrific advice. Heartily recoommend this book

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I didn't love this. I couldn't get beyond the repeated use of hastags. I love a good self help book. This just wasn't the one for me.

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Adulting 101, is a well written how-to guide for teens and young adults. The advice is practical and well explained. In this book you'll find advise for everything from how to have a good job interview, be a good leader, manage your finances and choosing and apartment or house.
Josh Burnette and Pete Hardesty are thorough in their explanations but are never condescending to the reader.

Thank you net galley for a free copy for an honest review

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