How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience by Andrew Fitzgerald is an inspirational memoir that readers will appreciate and learn from the extensive life lessons, strategies, and tools to help them gather strength to face life’s challenges. At nineteen years old, death stared Andrew in the face as his heart accelerated abnormally, requiring stopping and restarting. After marrying Jane, they moved to the United States from Ireland, hoping to have a better future. They soon returned to Ireland but later relocated to the United States permanently on the condition that they would push themselves beyond their comfort zones. As a child, Andrew was actively involved in his family’s business, which enabled him to develop an excellent work ethic that served him well throughout his career. He was a global beverage brand builder who worked with big names like Heineken, Cadbury, Guinness, and Smirnoff. While he was still working for Coca-Cola, his company was restructured, and COVID hit, resulting in layoffs that put him out of work. Devastated and frustrated, he fell into depression but came around, managed his thoughts and feelings, and even attained higher levels in his career. Andrew and Jane did not give up hope of having a child, despite the four miscarriages that Jane experienced.

Andrew Fitzgerald offers links to various topics that he discusses. These provide readers with reference sources where they can discover more about specific issues related to his ideas. The author also shares the life lessons that he learned through his challenges. Readers will benefit from the attitude and determination that Andrew had while searching for solutions to his predicaments. Andrew’s journey is a motivational story that will inspire readers with courage, hope, and resilience to overcome life’s challenges instead of wallowing in self-pity. I recommend How Did I Get Here? to readers facing stressful and challenging situations in their lives. Through this story, they will draw strength, hope, and courage to overcome their problems and move on.

In How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience, Andrew Fitzgerald recalls his gains and losses and the lessons he learned from life while living in Ireland and the USA. His story began in Ireland, where he fell in love with sports and experienced medical challenges that came close to claiming his life. Andrew was forced to confront adversity, from facing obstacles while attempting to move to the US and dealing with his wife’s miscarriages to defending himself against slander in a board meeting and enduring the challenges COVID-19 brought to the corporate world. Fortunately, Andrew's story is one of triumph and rising above the challenges. As a father and husband with an impressive business career, he writes his story to inspire readers facing difficulties and discouraging circumstances to keep their heads up and keep pushing for better days.

It's clear to see that Andrew Fitzgerald is an intelligent, keen observer when you follow his perceptions about the things he noticed when comparing Ireland with the USA, such as the fast-paced culture of the USA and Ireland's smaller, closer-knit communities. The memoir includes captivating stories from the different stages of the author's life and the various lessons he learned in the process. A summary of these is made available at the end of each of the book's four sections, making them easier to access. I especially loved the advice about going with the flow instead of getting too attached to outcomes, as my goals felt less burdensome after embracing this mindset. How Did I Get Here? is both deeply insightful and entertaining. It's a must-read for travel enthusiasts, business people, sports lovers, and fans of knowledge-packed memoirs. Thank you for this transformative experience.

In How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience, Andrew Fitzgerald tells us about his life and the lessons he has learned along the way. The first thing Fitzgerald reveals is how he died twice, before describing how he and his wife managed to move to America after winning the Diversity Visa lottery program. At first, they only stayed in America for a short time and then returned to their native Ireland, but later decided to move to America permanently. In addition to these events, Fitzgerald tells us about his work experiences in America, explaining the differences compared with life in Ireland. There were personal tragedies, such as four miscarriages before the birth of his son, Alfie.

How Did I Get Here? is much more than a memoir. Andrew Fitzgerald does not just tell his story and explain to readers what it meant for him and his wife to move to America and what differences they found, but he did something much more special. He has used his life experiences to share what he has learned with his readers - things that can help them when they are in painful situations or do not know what to do. I appreciated the honesty with which the author told his story and his courage in revealing the painful facts that he and his wife faced - many would not have dared. This inspirational book has a lot to teach readers, and I recommend it to those fascinated by other people's life experiences.

How Did I Get Here? Traveling The Road To Resilience is a memoir about Andrew Fitzgerald’s journey through life from Ireland to America, using resiliency as his talisman through difficult times. He traversed through two deaf experiences as he flat-lined in Cork Hospital and had to be resuscitated twice at the age of nineteen. Fitzgerald was diagnosed with WPW Syndrome, Wolf-Parkinson-Whyte Syndrome, which causes a rapid heartbeat that can be lethal. Fitzgerald learned not just to survive, but to thrive. He and his wife, Jane, decided to relocate from their native home of Cork, Ireland to San Diego, California to begin a whole new life. Jane suffered four miscarriages in four years as they attempt to start a family in America. Fitzgerald and his wife never lost faith or hope of becoming parents as they struggled through the stages of grief to reach their dream.

Andrew Fitzgerald’s comparisons between living in Cork, Ireland versus living in San Diego, California are the highlights of his memoir. I was interested in reading the comparisons and contrasts of two different cultures, yet very similar as they are both Western countries. Fitzgerald’s passion for his business really shines through as he discusses his corporate climb to different positions. This short, but comprehensive read emphasizes how resiliency is such an important trait in dealing with life’s struggles and carrying on. How Did I Get Here? shares Fitzgerald’s wisdom to help motivate, encourage, and inspire readers to overcome their own adversity in life.