Imagine this: You’re a senior executive at one of the largest advertising films in the world. You have a great salary, a loving family, and a life of luxury.
Suddenly, it’s all gone. Your job, your money, your marriage, and on top of that, you’re diagnosed with a brain tumor. With nowhere to go and in your fifties, what would you do?
For many, it would be so easy to just give up on life, but for Michael Gill, he would find a whole new start and fulfillment at a place he least expected. Starbucks.
As a self-described “son of privilege”, Michael had always lived at the top of white American society. Now, he found himself working at Starbucks serving those that used to serve him while working under an ethnic minority.