Judd Shaw

Judd Shaw is the USA Today bestselling author of How to Live Authentically: The Surprising Cure for Loneliness and Disconnection.

By every external measure, his life was working. He had built a successful New Jersey law firm with his face on billboards across the state, the markers of a career most people would envy, and a public reputation as someone who had figured it out. Internally, something else was true. An addiction nearly killed him. He spent time in a jail cell. There was a moment on his garage floor when he considered ending his life.

This book is what he learned after he stopped pretending. At its center is the Connection CURE, a framework built from lived experience and grounded in research, designed to help readers come back to themselves and into real connection with the people around them.

Judd is also the founder of Brave Ideas Co. and a sought-after keynote speaker whose Brave Space framework has been delivered to audiences ranging from senior executives to treatment court professionals. He is the author and creator of Sterling the Knight, a children’s picture book series that introduces young readers to the same ideas at the root of his adult work: empathy, self-awareness, and the courage to be yourself.

He writes from inside the work. Still in it, still learning. Not as someone who figured it out, but as someone willing to walk beside you while you do.

Judd lives in Florida with his wife and family.