Roll The Calls
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Before you opened the book, what did you picture when you heard the words 'Hollywood agent'? Did reading it make that picture warmer or colder?
Was there a page where you caught yourself grinning or saying 'oh no' out loud? Read us the setup, no spoilers needed, just the feeling.
The book runs on phone calls and quick connections. What is a call or message in your own life that changed something for you, and how did it feel in the moment?
Emanuel's version of ambition is loud and relentless. Did reading about that energy leave you charged up or quietly tired? Be honest, there is no wrong answer here.
Family shows up again and again as the thing underneath the hustle. Which family moment in the book landed softest for you, and did it remind you of your own people?
The entertainment business here is built on relationships that are part friendship, part transaction. Have you ever felt that blur in your own work, and was it comfortable or strange?
By the later chapters, what did you find yourself wishing for him, not in business terms but in human ones? What would have felt like enough?
Thinking about the whole book as a life story rather than a career story, what did it quietly teach you about what you want the pace of your own days to be?