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All Pride, No Ego author Jim Fielding (Photo by Ben Rollins) Fielding’s book is part memoir, part business advice TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm SezBookwormSez@yahoo.com ll Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and .Leading Authentically by Jim Fielding; c.2023, Wiley; $28; 213 pages. Auditions are always nerve-wracking.
Will the part be yours? You sure practiced enough before you were judged — and that’s what an audition is, a judgment. Can you handle the lines?
Are you a fit for the part you want, or would you be better at a walk-on? Being someone else in a play is fun but not always easy.
Neither, says Jim Fielding in his new book All Pride, No Ego, is being someone else at work. Born in Toledo into a big extended clan, Jim Fielding says that it looked like he was a member of “the perfect, nuclear family.” The truth was, though, that “vulnerabilities and dysfunctions were numerous,” and that included homophobia, which was a problem: When he was six years old, Fielding realized he was gay.
