Ideas for a Freer Life
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Freedom Always Book Circle
The Freedom Always Book Circle is a small, guided literary experience for people ready to translate insight into action. Each month, 20 participants explore one transformational book through structured reading, reflection, and weekly live conversation designed to fit into real life and spark real change.
Limited to just 20 members per cohort, this circle brings together thoughtful, curious, growth-oriented adults who want deeper conversations, more meaningful reflection, and a place to explore the big questions of life.
Each month, we read one transformational book—drawing from philosophy, psychology, emotional intelligence, spirituality, creativity, reinvention, and the art of living well.
We don’t meet to simply “review” a book.
We meet to apply it.
This is a space where books become catalysts.
Where insights become embodiment.
Where people reconnect with freedom, possibility, and the next chapter of who they’re becoming.
Inside the Freedom Always Book Circle, you’ll find:
- A guided reading structure
- Weekly reflection prompts
- A private community space
- A live, 30– minute weekly facilitated session with Igor and Raad
- And the kind of conversations you didn’t realize you were craving
This is where books meet bravery.
Where community meets consciousness.
Where wisdom meets the freedom to choose differently.
Read with us.
Reflect with us.
Reimagine with us.
Beginning Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 at 9:30 AM PST
Raad Ghantous and Igor Turkusic
Raad Ghantous began The Raad Life by telling stories. What started in interiors expanded into ideas, conversations, and a broader philosophy of intentional living in midlife. Trained in design, Raad approaches books the same way he approaches spaces: as tools for reflection, authorship, and reinvention. Through podcasts, long-form conversations, and curated reading experiences, his work invites Gen Xers to live with more clarity, freedom, and presence.
He is joined by Igor Turkušić, a strategic interventionist and creator of Master of Life Awareness. Igor’s work is grounded in human needs psychology, emotional intelligence, and universal laws of nature. With decades of experience developing behavior-change programs and more than 400 educational talks on body, mind, and spirit, he brings structure, depth, and practical insight to personal transformation.
Together, they host the Freedom Always Book Circle at The Raad Life—an intimate book club designed for thoughtful adults who believe reading should lead to real change. This is not a fast-read club or a performance space, but a guided conversation where books become frameworks for living well.
The Freedom Always Book Circle is for those ready to take authorship of the second half of life—with intention, discipline, and meaning.
WEEK 1 — The Invitation to the Second Half of Life
- What changes when the “performance phase” ends
- Noticing the subtle shift from ambition to depth
- Prompt: Where in your life is a new beginning quietly asking for space?
WEEK 2 — Descent & The Truth That Finds You
- How your life dismantles what isn’t you anymore
- Why the losses of midlife are actually initiations
- Prompt: What part of your past pain became a turning point instead of an ending?
WEEK 3 — The Rise: A Freer, Truer You
- Living from soul vs. ego
- The new metrics: meaning, integrity, alignment
- Prompt: If you lived with “Freedom Always” as a compass, what would shift?
WEEK 4 — Integration & Live Circle Session
:30 weekly minute guided session including:
- Group reflections
- Stillness + writing moments
- Paired breakout conversations
- Guided inquiry by Igor and Raad
- Closing ritual for anchoring the month
- Prompt: What truth from this book becomes your compass for the next decade?