Miles of Books: The Compass Within + The Alchemist
Another Mother Runner
Sarah Bowen Shea
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Readers who love novels with a strong message or parable will appreciate the takeaways from this conversation between Coach Liz Waterstraat and Sarah Bowen Shea. In a first, Coach Liz talks about two works of fiction—The Compass Within: A Little Story About the Values That Guide Us and The Alchemist—yet the books offer up strong, actionable life lessons that Coach Liz sagely shares.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Elliptigo for its support. |
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| 0:23.6 | Welcome to Miles of Books. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shea, along with Coach Liz Waterstrot, who is, wait for it, |
| 0:30.6 | sharing two novels with us. |
| 0:33.1 | That's right. |
| 0:34.0 | No nonfiction. |
| 0:35.4 | Liz, you're putting people on notice. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't know that I would go as far as calling these novels, but they do fall outside of my typical nonfiction read. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I also, from I have not read these books, but from what I've sussed out online, |
| 0:55.5 | I wouldn't deem these traditional novels. |
| 0:58.1 | It seems to me that the theme that unites these two books is that they both deal with the quest for |
| 1:02.5 | authenticity, fulfillment, and meaning. |
| 1:05.5 | Would you agree? |
| 1:06.8 | Yes. |
| 1:07.6 | These books are about exploring what it means to be alive and what it means to pursue your best self. And so they are really about the hero's journey, which we will get into sooner than later. |
| 1:22.5 | That's very interesting. I wrote a note to my son after I saw him perform in his most recent musical |
| 1:29.9 | and that I said that on stage he really seems to be alive, that he's not just living, |
| 1:35.2 | but that he's alive. And so I'm intrigued by this then. Okay, so let's jump in. The first |
| 1:42.6 | book has a very long title. It is The Compass Within, a little story about the values that guide us. And it's by a guy named Robert Glazer. And it was just published in October, so it's fresh on the shelves. Yeah. So Robert Glazer, he's got a lot of roles. He's an author. He's a speaker. He's an entrepreneur. He does a lot of work on |
| 2:03.0 | leadership and culture and personal development. He also has a very popular newsletter called Friday Forward, |
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