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Chris Schembra

New York
As seen in: Rolling Stone, Apple Podcasts, Forbes, CNBC, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Flipboard, Thrive Global
WSJ Bestselling Author. USA Today’s “Gratitude Guru”. Sparked 500,000 relationships around dinner table.
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GiveMaxxing: The Art of Giving in a World Built on Taking

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By Chris Schembra
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Gen Z is maxxing everything. Their looks. Their sleep. Their gains. Their smell. So why are we still giving at the bare minimum? Ten years ago, I cooked pasta for strangers in a 350-square-foot Manhattan apartment. No agenda. No pitch. No networking. Just a table, one gratitude question asked at 7:47 PM, and the willingness to slow down long enough for something real to happen. I didn’t know it then, but I was GiveMaxxing before the word existed.
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The Man in the Hole: A Leader’s Guide to Reading the Arc

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By Chris Schembra
| Rolling Stone Verified
My friend Sarah, VP at a Fortune 500 company, sat across from me last week and said, “Chris, I don’t recognize myself anymore. I’m winning at work and losing everywhere else.” She paused. “And I’m not even sure when this started.” I knew exactly what had happened to her. Someone achieves everything they thought they wanted, and it feels like nothing. The empty feeling at 2 AM doesn’t go away. She needed permission to understand what was actually happening. So I told her a story.
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The Loneliest Uphill Climb Is Also the Highest Ground

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By Chris Schembra
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My father moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in 1976 when Palmetto Dunes Resort was pretty much a dirt road. Three miles of undeveloped coastline with more mosquitoes than humans, and zero reason for anyone from the Northeast to believe it would ever be anything other than a flyover stop on the way to Florida’s beaches. For years, he made a lonely uphill climb trying to convince the world that this strip of Lowcountry was worth their attention.
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