Chris Gardner has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged).
The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
Summary
The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street. At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving from shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner makes an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. Here is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children, a story that appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.
©2006 Chris Gardner (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Start Where You Are
Summary
New York Times best-selling author Chris Gardner returns with a fantastic inspirational self-help book that hopes to provide direction in a time of great uncertainty. If you've been dealing with the loss of a job or home, or have had a health or financial crisis, Start Where You Are abounds with lessons that offer hope and provide a road map for starting anew. This is also the ideal book for anyone ready to launch a personal or professional undertaking, or someone who simply wants to break through the cycles and thinking that have limited his or her potential in the past.
©2009 Chris Gardner (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
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En busca de la felycidad [The Pursuit of Happiness]
Summary
A la edad de veinte años, Chris Gardner, nativo de Milwaukee, recién terminando La Marina, llegó a San Francisco para seguir una carrera prometedora en la medicina. Considerado un hijo prodigio de la investigación científica, sorprendió a todos y a sí mismo estableciendo su punto de vista en el competitivo mundo de las altas finanzas. Sin embargo, apenas había entrado a una posición de gran nivel en una empresa de prestigio, Gardner se encontró atrapado en una red de circunstancias increíblemente difíciles que lo dejaron como parte de los ciudadanos sin hogar y con un hijo pequeño. Motivado por la promesa que se hizo a sí mismo como un niño huérfano de nunca abandonar a sus propios hijos, los dos pasaron casi un año moviéndose entre refugios, moteles, comedores públicos, e incluso dormir en el baño público de una estación de metro. Nunca cediendo a la desesperación, Gardner hizo una transformación asombrosa pasando de ser parte de la ciudad pobre e invisible a convertirse en un jugador de gran alcance en su distrito financiero. Más que un libro de memorias de éxito financiero de Gardner, esta es la historia de un hombre que rompe el ciclo de su propia familia sobre hombres que abandonan a sus hijos. Legendario, triunfante e increíblemente honesto, En busca de la felicidad evoca a héroes como Horatio Alger y Antwone Fishe, y apela a la esencia del sueño americano. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2015 Chris Gardner (P)2015 Thomas Nelson Publishers
Permission to Dream
Summary
In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents big ideas for turning your “one day” into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life - from the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness. On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives - and ours. Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: “Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?” After five years, he feels an urgency - what he calls, “Atomic Time” in which every second counts - to find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become president of the United States, he knows it’s time to reclaim his own permission to dream. Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success. At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true life - even during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous career - from a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it. His tools include the “new 3 R’s” - or the Rep, the Rap, and the Rolodex - which reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of others - so all can still have access to the American Dream. Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time, it’s never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will be - to go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers. A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into action - beginning right now.
©2021 Chris Gardner and Mim Eichler-Rivas (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers