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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes entrepreneur and author Martin Sawa, who discusses his life as a Ukranian immigrant to the United States at thirty with a wife and child, and dreams of a successful life promised to his parents.

Navigating the skyscrapers of San Francisco and the gritty streets of Oakland, Sawa is on the verge of fast money and fame in a land of opportunity and fortune. But his world comes crashing down around him when he suffers a devastating personal loss, causing him to reevaluate the meaning of success.

Over a period of three decades (1978-2012), Sawa takes the reader through a time of sweeping technological, social, and political change in California. While grappling with apex predators on nine-figure deals in San Francisco real estate, he rides the entrepreneurial roller coaster of prosperity and ruin. Scrambling between boardrooms and juke joints, between priests and psychics, he sets out to realize the deal of a lifetime.

Sawa's book, The Other Side of Success: Money and Meaning in the Golden State is the unvarnished account of one man’s search for meaning as his professional life is constantly challenged by the impact of love, family, religion, and race. In this memoir, Sawa strives to find home in the truest sense, while struggling with the  unforeseen costs of making it.

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