Off the Line: How to Become a Restaurant Coach, Consultant, and Strategist — Forty-six years in kitchens distilled into a roadmap for operators ready to step off the line and sell what they know. Part field guide, part business blueprint, it shows chefs and restaurant veterans how to turn hard-won experience into a consulting practice — diagnosing what's broken, pricing the fix, and landing the clients. The same clarity-over-chaos approach that runs The Parise Group, on the page.
How Not to Bomb: The Complete Guide to Standup Comedy — Thirty years of stage time, from New York clubs to Vegas headlining, turned into a working manual for anyone who wants to command a room. It's about writing, timing, bombing, and getting back up — the craft of standup, but also the nerve. The same resilience that powers the keynote and the podcast, on the page.
Now What Do We Do? A Practical, Honest Guide to Reinventing Your Life After 50 — For anyone staring down a second act and wondering if it's too late. Drawing on a career that's spanned kitchens, comedy clubs, and boardrooms, it's a straight-talking guide to starting over with what you've already got — no platitudes, no pretending it's easy. Reinvention is a process, not a pep talk.