What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope?After Kim and her husband decide to quit their jobs to travel around the world, they’re given a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away. The only three rules for the envelope: Don’t overthink it; share your experiences; don’t feel pressured to give it all away.Through Ecuador, Peru, Nepal, and beyond, Kim and Brian face … Nepal, and beyond, Kim and Brian face obstacles, including major challenges to their relationship. As she distributes the gift to people she encounters along the way she learns that money does not have a thing to do with the capacity to give, but that giving—of ourselves—is transformational.
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The yellow envelope, one gift, three rules, and a life-changing journey around the world by Kim Dinan
Love hearing of the locations and things they learn at each new location.
Starts in India where Kim and Wendy are traveling through. Like this author already as she’s straight forward and descriptive about things that matter to me.
Back in time we find Kim quitting her job and her husband Brian are going to travel the world.
Three years prior she wanted to just write from Oregon as her run calms her.
Like the time they spend together searching for themselves and discovering themselves alone and apart.
Feel like this is two stories in one: one about the trips around the world and the other story is about them as they travel around the world.
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Interesting. The reason that I did not give it a 5 was because at times I did not like the writer. But I did like how it ended and she redeemed herself. I would like to know more about her generous friends.
I loved it! Inspired me to give to others in need, especially those we easily overlook!
Nice story
I did not like the book although I had really thought I would enjoy it knowing it’s premise. It was a very slow read.
Great personal adventure narrative. Would like to read more by this author!
Way too much introspection on the part of the author. It completely derailed an otherwise entertaining memoir because it was hard to take her seriously. Or care about her. She was way too “me” focused to be a sympathetic figure–everything she wrote about took a backseat to working through her rather selfish personal & private issues. Found myself thinking “poor husband!”
Great story of travel and the spiritual growth it inspired in the writer. Wonderful travelogue as well as being very well-written and inspirational.
This book is GREAT! The author’s willingness to share is open, alive, truthful, and honest. Her self-discovery is remarkable.
Love travel, real life stories. The author was honest and coming to accept that life is good, even if it doesn’t always turn out exactly like one envisions.
Interesting story line. Part travelogue, part marriage therapy. The marriage therapy/self discovery part was a little too much, but overall a good book.
Very original and inspirational regarding the purpose of the yellow envelope, giving money where needed. I could have done with a little less of the author’s personal agonizing over her marriage, need to be alone, but did enjoy the trials and tribulations of traveling freelance on the cheap.
Wonderful authentic story and hope to read more from this author.
I really enjoyed this memoir, of a trip the author and her husband took to different areas around the world. The author felt she needed to find out who she was as a person not defined by another or a place, and to figure out her relationship with her husband . Would you sell everything that you own, quite your job and take off on a trip around the world? That is exactly what the Author and her husband did, first through parts of South America and then on to Asia.
Friends of the author and her husband, at their farewell party, gave them a Yellow envelope, with $1.000 in it to use in anyway they wanted but it came with 3 simple rule: : Don’t overthink it; share your experiences; don’t feel pressured to give it all away.
In the beginning I was a bit irritated by her quest to find herself, as I felt she was being a bit selfish and critical, but as the story evolves you find out that that was a necessary step to her growth and in the long run, both of them were able to see their lives more clearly and to grow from it. The yellow envelope , was also a very instrumental in their transformations.
I felt as a reader, following their journey of self discovery made me think about my life and what I need to do to make it more memorable. Great book.
I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this via Net Galley