It’s time to align your daily choices with your values.

Sharon Schneider, a philanthropy consultant to some of the world’s most prominent families and companies, distills her expertise into pragmatic guidance you can use to create a value-centered life.


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“Sharon Schneider's Handbook is a wonderful guide to aligning your heart and mind, allowing you to simultaneously find greater peace and do more good in the world. This is a must-read for everyone looking to become the person they aspire to be.”

— Devin Thorpe, Superpowers for Good

 

“Sharon Schneider offers both voice and direction to our collective desire to live with greater, positive impact — to combine purpose with our life practice. It's a must-read for the impact generation of any age!”

—Jed Emerson, The Purpose of Capital

About the book

The social impact book for your normal, everyday life.

Handbook for an Integrated Life combines proven solutions with do-able ideas to create a daily life that aligns with your personal values. Sharon’s book draws also draws on her 20+ years of experience across philanthropy and impact investing.

Yet not one to take herself too seriously, Sharon shares many of her own humorous stories and the tips she’s learned as a mom trying to do her best every day.

 

With Sharon’s principles, you will be empowered to

  • Identify the cultural norms that lead you away from your goals

  • Differentiate between giving back and simply giving

  • Reconsider your buying habits

  • Resist the allure of convenience

  • Align more of your spending to your values

  • Harness the full power of your household

  • Raise socially aware kids

 

Learn to make simple changes to align how you

  • Feed yourself and loved ones

  • Buy and care for clothing 

  • Clean your home

  • Give to charities and causes

  • Use your money wisely - even when you’re not using it

  • Show up to work

  • Celebrate special moments

  • And so much more

An excerpt from the book

“At one point in her journey away from being a meat eater, my daughter Audrey considered going all the way to veganism, because she understood the treatment of cows and chickens to get eggs and dairy products for human consumption was not much better than industrial meat production. And—I’m not gonna lie—I resisted. I didn’t want to give up eggs—they’re my breakfast almost every day, and we bake a lot, and it would just feel like one less source of protein in an increasingly protein-scarce vegetarian diet. But I wanted to respect her feelings about the treatment of the cows and the chickens.


So I did some research on egg producers in our area and found a local co-op that sells eggs from a few local farmers who have small flocks and harvest eggs from happy chickens with plenty of grass and sunshine and room to run. We now get our eggs each week from Farmer Gavin, a teenager working with his family to treat the chickens ethically. The chickens live in mobile coops with regular access to fresh grass and long runs featuring slides and swings.


Thank God for the Farmer Gavins in this world. I now pay $5.60 per dozen, instead of $3.00 or so for conventional eggs at the grocery store, but my family feels a lot better knowing the chickens that produced our breakfast are leading good little chicken lives.”


 

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    “While we all aspire to lead a life integrated with our values, everyone’s road has its own twists and flat tires along the way. Fortunately, Sharon Schneider has created a map to help us get closer to our destination.

    In Handbook for an Integrated Life, Sharon shares her own family's journey. So much of her narrative and framework resonated with my family’s experience as my wife and I built a family while also building Honest Tea, Beyond Meat, PLNT Burger, and Eat the Change.”

    — Seth Goldman, Co-Founder & CEO, Eat the Change

     

    “Reading this book made me look in the mirror and feel at odds with my own self – seeing the gap between my quotidian choices and the moral compass I purport to hold. Even me – someone who “does good work” in her day job, but knows deep down she can do more to co-create a better world.

    Schneider holds a mirror to that struggle, lets us know we can do better, and gives us practical – if not inspirational – micro methods to nudge ourselves, and in so doing the world, to be the more just version of itself we all know it can be.”

    —Maria Kim, President, REDF