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Fully Alive

Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life

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Fully Alive tells the story of an astoundingly successful young entrepreneur's immersion in Amazonian indigenous spirituality, its life-changing impact on him, and how he integrated the lessons he learned to build a successful, socially responsible company, live a purposeful life, and make a difference in the world.
Building a start-up is like being thrust into the middle of the Amazon rainforest: living every day on the edge of your comfort zone, vulnerable to the unexpected challenges constantly being thrown your way, and constantly shifting to meet daily demands and do everything and anything you can to survive, let alone thrive.

Vulnerable, raw, and deeply transparent, Fully Alive reveals powerful tools and lessons that can teach all of us how to grow toward and beyond our personal edges, no matter our circumstances.

Tyler Gage shares his spiritual adventures and the business savvy that helped him create RUNA, a pioneering organization that weaves together the seemingly divergent worlds of Amazonian traditions and modern business, demonstrating how we can dig deeper to bring greater meaning and purpose to our personal and professional pursuits.

From suburban youth to immersion in the Amazon to entrepreneurial success, Tyler's journey clearly shows that passion and opportunity can be found in the most unexpected places. Captivated by a rare Amazonian tea leaf called guayusa that had never been commercially produced, Tyler started RUNA to partner with the indigenous people of Ecuador to share its energy and its message with the world.

Using the spiritual teachings, lessons, and healing traditions of the Amazon as his guide, Tyler built RUNA from a scrappy start-up into a thriving, multimillion-dollar company that has become one of the fastest-growing beverage companies in the United States. With the help of investors such as Channing Tatum, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Olivia Wilde, RUNA has created a sustainable source of income for more than 3,000 farming families in Ecuador who sustainably grow guayusa in the rainforest. Simultaneously, RUNA has built a rapidly scaling nonprofit organization that is working to create a new future for trade in the Amazon based on respectful exchange and healing, not exploitation and greed.

Practical tools and lessons are woven throughout the story of Gage's successes and failures, offering guidance on how to relate to obstacles as teachers and how to accomplish our personal and professional goals in the often uncertain circumstances we find ourselves in.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 5, 2017
      Gage, CEO of energy-drink company Runa, hits too many notes familiar from other business memoirs in this debut. The book begins with Gage awaiting the results of a vote that could remove him from the company before flashing back to his youth. As a freshman at Brown, Gage struggled with competing desires: he wanted to please his parents and teachers but also itched to rebel against their expectations. Seeking a sense of direction and a mentor, he took time off and connected with a botanist studying in the Amazon. It was there that Gage first tasted guayusa, the tea which provides the main ingredient in Runa’s drinks. Gage remembers the experience as unremarkable, commenting that he wishes it could have been a dramatic moment of realization but that life doesn’t always provide one. Eventually, Gage found himself back at Brown and trying to start a company with some friends. While recounting Runa’s subsequent founding, Gage occasionally returns to the theme of lacking a clear-cut narrative, but he fits his experiences neatly enough into a familiar arc of discovery, revelation, and reflection. The story of Gage’s success works as a coming-of-age story but not as a particularly revelatory one.

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