Success Made to Last Legends with Ed Hajim, Horatio Alger winner and Author

At the age of 3, Ed Hajim was kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told his mother was dead. He pressed his face against the car window and watched the miles pass. He had no way of knowing where life would take him. Where you’d least expect.   In a memoir filled with human drama, wisdom and timeless life lessons, ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom, we learn Ed's improbable story of how he bounced from foster homes to orphanages, living a daily struggle to survive, to realizing the American dream.    Ed would be the perfect guest for Foster Care Awareness Month (May).    Hajim served as a senior executive at such firms as E.F. Hutton, Lehman Brothers, Furman Selz and other financial institutions, regularly transforming fledgling operations into profitable growth machines. His life accomplishments were rightfully acknowledged in 2015 with the Horatio Alger Award, given to Americans who exemplify the values of initiative, leadership, and commitment to excellence and who have succeeded despite personal adversity. Ed would argue that his early traumatic experiences and rough upbringing informed his choices, and even set him apart in business. On the Road Less Traveled is packed with anecdotes of how Hajim used his ingenuity to achieve his goals and also provides insight into what he learned from some of his life’s defining moments:   “Not having control produced a strong drive to seek freedom as a goal.”“Later in life I realized that my childhood seemed to give me a foundation for recognizing the need for balance between self, family, work and community.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/success-made-to-last-legends--4302039/support.