Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story Audiobook (Free)

A moving and inspirational memoir from your beloved maverick carpenter on HGTV’s smash hit Fixer Upper that shows how to convert your interests and craft right into a career and celebrates the power of meaningful work.

Now known to a variety of fans of Fixer Upper simply because Chip and Joanna Gaines’s go-to table maker and acclaimed artisan, Clint Harp hasn’t often lived the DIY desire we see in the show. Ten years ago, he was dutifully functioning at a sales job that, while it offered security for his family members, do about Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Tale nothing to help him achieve his unfulfilled dreams of creating furniture.

With the support of his wife, the encouragement of a coach, and a life filled with lessons, he finally took the jump, quitting his job and setting out on the quest to become a carpenter. Without formal training, financing, workspace, or customers, the Harps had been quickly over the edge of economic collapse. After that Clint met Chip Gaines at a gas place—an opportunity encounter that proclaimed the next chapter on a wild trip Clint could never have imagined possible.

Spanning Clint’s remarkable trip—from a childhood learning carpentry and hard work at his grandfather’s knee, through his struggles to balance pursuing his dreams with assisting his family, to his partnership with Chip and Joanna Gaines and the many ventures and misadventures of filming Fixer Upper—Handcrafted is certainly part memoir and part manual for dreamers of most backgrounds. “From the floor of his 1st shop to the foundations of Habitat for Humanity houses, to building furniture for the world to see, Clint Harp is usually living a handcrafted lifestyle” (Chief executive Jimmy Carter).