{"id":2478,"date":"2022-11-08T19:21:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/?page_id=2478"},"modified":"2022-11-08T19:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:21:36","slug":"wake-up-with-purpose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wake-up-with-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up with Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Black-Elegant-New-Collection-Fashion-Brand-Website-Homepage-Banner-2.png\" alt=\"Black Elegant New Collection Fashion Brand Website Homepage Banner (2)\" height=\"1260\" width=\"2240\" title=\"Black Elegant New Collection Fashion Brand Website Homepage Banner (2)\" \/>\n<h2>\n\t\tPart life story, part philosophy text, and part spiritual guide\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p><strong><em>New York Times<\/em><\/strong> <strong>bestseller!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sister Jean&#8217;s wit, wisdom, and common sense has broad appeal and application that transcends religious creed, belief, and even feelings on Loyola&#8217;s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>Along with her collaborator Seth Davis, an award-winning writer, broadcaster and\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0best-selling author,\u00a0<em>Wake Up with Purpose!<\/em>\u00a0lets you experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sister Jean&#8217;s words and her spirit.<\/li>\n<li>her sharp sense of humor.<\/li>\n<li>life lessons gleaned from one hundred years of living.<\/li>\n<li>universal themes that connect us all.<\/li>\n<li>priceless wisdom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The driving force inside\u00a0<em>Wake Up with Purpose!\u00a0<\/em>is the narrative of Sister Jean&#8217;s fascinating life&#8211;from\u00a0teaching at a Catholic school during the Second World War to serving on a Chicago college campus in the sixties and beyond to cheering from the sidelines of a men&#8217;s basketball tournament in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>As you learn about Sister Jean&#8217;s century-long life, you&#8217;ll feel just like the Loyola students do when they knock on her office door, plop down in a chair, and ask if she would have time to chat, an activity that she still does daily.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/aps.harpercollins.com\/hcf?isbn=9781400333516&#038;retailer=amazon&#038;locale=US\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tORDER NOW\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/9781400333516-DustJacket_FO5-Edited.png\" alt=\"9781400333516-DustJacket_FO5 - 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She has spent her entire adult life working as a teacher, administrator, and volunteer, first at elementary and grade schools in Chicago and Los Angeles, and later at Mundelein College and Loyola University. Since 1994, Sister Jean, as she is known, has served as team chaplain for Loyola&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team. She gained national &#8211; and international &#8211; fame in 2018 when the Ramblers went on a Cinderella run to the Final Four.\u00a0 Sister Jean has been a household name ever since. In August 2022 Sister Jean celebrated her 103rd birthday.<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Seth Davis<\/strong> is an award-winning college basketball studio analyst for CBS Sports and a senior writer for college basketball at The Athletic. Since 2004 he has been a mainstay of CBS and Turner Sports coverage of the NCAA tournament. Seth is the author of eight books, including the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestsellers\u00a0Wooden: A Coach&#8217;s Life\u00a0and\u00a0When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball; the memoir\u00a0Equinunk,\u00a0Tell Your Story: My Return to Summer Camp; and\u00a0The Soccer Prince, a novel for middle school readers. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Melissa, their sons, Zachary, Noah, and Gabriel, and their Goldendoodles, Clarence and Sadie.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Dark-Orange-Blue-Indigo-Bright-Bold-Organic-Tiktok-Profile-Picture.png\" alt=\"Dark Orange Blue Indigo Bright Bold Organic Tiktok Profile Picture\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" title=\"Dark Orange Blue Indigo Bright Bold Organic Tiktok Profile Picture\" \/>\n<h3>\n\t\tSign up for the Harper Select newsletter to be the first to read an excerpt of Wake Up With Purpose!\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Brown-Minimalist-Fashion-Email-Newsletter-4-Edited.png\" alt=\"Brown Minimalist Fashion Email Newsletter (4) - Edited\" height=\"561\" width=\"1236\" title=\"Brown Minimalist Fashion Email Newsletter (4) - Edited\" \/>\n\t\nlabel {\ndisplay: inline-block;\nwidth: 140px;\ntext-align: left;\n}\n\n\n<label for=\"email\">Email:<\/label>\n\n<br \/>\n<label for=\"first_name\">First Name:<\/label>\n\n<br \/>\n<label for=\"last_name\">Last Name:<\/label>\n\n<br \/>\n\n\n\n\n<br \/><br \/>\n\n\n\t<p>By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Harper Select, a division of HarperCollins Focus (501 Nelson Place, Nashville, TN 37214 USA) providing information about products and services of Harper Select and its affiliates. 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Along with her collaborator Seth Davis, an award-winning writer, broadcaster and\u00a0New York Times\u00a0best-selling author,\u00a0Wake Up with Purpose!\u00a0lets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2478","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wake Up with Purpose - Harper Horizon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.harpercollinsfocus.hcusweb.com\/harper-horizon\/wake-up-with-purpose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wake Up with Purpose - Harper Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Part life story, part philosophy text, and part spiritual guide New York Times bestseller! 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