No Pain, No Gaines: The Good Stuff Doesn't Come Easy

by Chip Gaines

Overview

A New York Times bestseller! In a world that feels increasingly disconnected, it’s time to reclaim a life of rich, authentic connection—because we are all made better when we trust one another and work together.

In his most vulnerable book to date, Chip Gaines opens up about his lifelong pursuit of building relationships with people from all walks of life. Chip emphasizes the importance of seeing people for who they are and not for what they can do for you, enabling you to build a strong community and a life of meaning, joy, and connection.

How does it happen? By being intentional about choosing the company you keep. Chip explains the value of seeking out people who are electrified by living according to their purpose, who will stand beside you as you tackle new challenges, and who bet on each other instead of the status quo. The key is being true to yourself, figuring out what you want to do with your life, and finding people who will lift you up along the way.

No Pain, No Gaines will open your eyes to valuable lessons, including how to:

• Find the risks worth taking
• Value what you bring to the table
• Resist the status quo
• Look outside yourself and your circle and foster connections with others
• Get comfortable with being uncomfortably kind
• Live life fully awake, not asleep at the wheel

A good life doesn't always come easy, but that's because the good stuff never does. It requires faith in people. It requires faith in yourself. It requires hope. And it requires a willingness to grow even when it hurts. In No Pain, No Gaines, through hard-won lessons and personal stories all told with his trademark blend of wit and wisdom, Chip Gaines will coach you on how to make your life rich and your relationships run deep.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785237914
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	70,640
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Chip Gaines is the co-owner and cofounder of Magnolia and a New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Story and Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff. He is constantly reinventing the wheel on what we can achieve together and is always eager to give back to individuals and communities.

Born in Albuquerque and raised in Dallas, Chip later graduated from Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business with a marketing degree. An entrepreneur by nature, Chip has started a number of small businesses and has remodeled hundreds of homes in the Waco area.

But more than any good adventure or hard-working demo day, Chip loves an early morning on the farm and a slow day spent with Jo and their five kids.

Editorial Reviews

03/22/2021

Gaines (Capital Gaines), former cohost of HGTV’s Fixer Upper, dispenses tips on building one’s personal network in this insightful guide to forging “authentic human connection.” Gaines defines a network as “the group of people with beating hearts and passions who live and love and try and fail, and who are there beside you as you do the same,” and writes that it requires as much sweat, pain, and fear—and is as important—as hard physical work. He encourages readers to think of a network as more than a business concept and focus instead on meaningful relationships: instead of asking, “How can you help me get ahead?” he suggests wondering, “What can we learn from one another?” Gaines also asks readers to try “fear fact-finding” by creating a list to illustrate how likely imagined fears are to happen. Each chapter is rounded out with a handwritten “bottom line” truism (“living true to yourself is a nonnegotiable”) that has shaped Gaines’s worldview. Throughout, his vulnerability is charmingly refreshing: “I’m asking you to keep your arrows in the quiver for just a moment and hear me out,” he writes of facing fears. Fans of Fixer Upper and the Gaines’s Magnolia Network are in for a treat. Agent: Byrd Leavell, United Talent Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly