Keith Boykin is a TV and film producer, national political commentator, New York Times bestselling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Keith is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition and a Lambda Literary Award-winning author of five books. Keith was a co-host of the BET talk show “My Two Cents,” starred on the Showtime reality television series “American Candidate,” worked as an associate producer of the film “Dirty Laundry,” and has appeared on numerous TV shows.

At twenty-seven years old, Keith Boykin left behind a lucrative law career to work for the Clinton administration in the White House. But when his skills were underutilized, he quit his prestigious post after two years. Since then, he’s published five books, taught at several colleges, cofounded a national civil rights organization, starred on a reality TV show, cohosted his own television show, and served as a TV commentator. And he did it all by committing to a different professional path and by choosing freedom. Throughout his life, Boykin has quit a string of jobs, careers, organizations, and residences in pursuit of the autonomy and purpose that he eventually achieved.

In a society which promises that great things come from hard work, Boykin counters that great things come from quitting. To him, nothing is more important than personal freedom: not money, not the veneer of success, and certainly not goals that other people have for his life. Quitting means change. And change is the first step on the path to freedom.

Cut to the present, and Boykin is cheering on the millions of Americans who left their jobs in what has become known as the Great Resignation. This new wave of “quitters” may not be quitting the White House, as he once did. Instead, it’s about quitting jobs that he considers to be eternal “preplanned treadmills” rather than valued ways of life. Boykin writes that quitting “is for anyone” and it’s not just about quitting your job; it’s letting go of anything else that doesn’t serve you, like your city or your relationship.

Available October 12 as both an ebook and audiobook narrated by the author.