From bestselling, award-winning travel memoir author Cory Mortensen comes a story about second acts, reinvention, and the remarkable people who decide to show up.

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Cory Mortensen has spent a lifetime taking unlikely paths. From dropping out of college to working on remote Wake Island, from project managing award-winning architecture firms to selling everything and traveling the world, his adventures became the memoirs The Buddha and the Bee, UNLOST, and Embracing Bewilderment.

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He later built and sold a company, wandered South America with his wife Kate, consulted for businesses, and eventually settled in Phoenix, Arizona.

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But at fifty-six, Cory decided to try something new. He became a bicycle tour guide. Leading strangers through mountains, coastlines, and historic landscapes around the world, he quickly realized the job wasn’t really about the bike. It was about the people.

 

The nervous riders.

 

The overconfident riders.

 

The quiet riders who surprise everyone.

 

The riders chasing adventure, healing, or simply a fresh start.

 

People Who Show Up is a funny, thoughtful look at the personalities, stories, and small transformations that unfold somewhere between the first pedal stroke and the final mile.

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Because sometimes the most interesting journeys aren't the ones across the world...

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they’re the ones inside the people who decide to show up.