This book is worth 40 regular “self-help” books on the shelf at your bookstore. This writer is spot on with his perspective and his suggestions for making life better. Brutal, but honest and oh so useful. I’ve already made some foundational changes, and it looks good on me. Count me in on the EMFT revolution!

When I first bought it, I thought it would take a year to get through. It’s a thick book. But once I started, I got sucked in and pulled along, and time was suspended. Start to finish brilliant! I’m a fan.

Wow. What a ride! I never knew that I could put a mask on some of my lifelong challenges, but the book helped me identify some of the “Tigers” I face and gave me some great new strategies to help me in the fight. It’s a deep dive into some interesting, profound (and sometimes uncomfortable) ideas for different ways to attack the circumstances of life everyone faces. I laughed out loud through a lot of it and even cried a couple of times, but the author does a great job with the research he offers, history lessons, and his own life experiences. I wish I could have read it thirty years ago. I bought my son a copy and will encourage him to read it! Well done!

Amazing book! So glad I bought it. I’ve made so many notes in it; I may need to buy another to keep around.

DMcG writes a no-holds-barred guidebook that drives readers toward self-awareness, accountability, and transformation in pursuit of purpose, peace, and enlightenment. As a woman who fought to find her own power — forging ahead with equal parts passion and perseverance, what some call “grit” — I found this book deeply resonant. It speaks to the warrior spirit forged through adversity and sharpened by life’s hardest battles. Having faced and overcome some of my own greatest challenges, I saw pieces of my journey reflected throughout these pages. This is not a gentle self-help book filled with clichés — it is a call to confront yourself honestly, reclaim your strength, and step fully into the person you are capable of becoming.

I was on a half-full connecting flight through Chicago last month, reading the first half of EMFT, when the flight attendant randomly asked how my book was. Given that she probably sees people reading all the time on flights, I was taken aback that she noticed this particular book; she did say the title had grabbed her attention. After we exchanged some light pleasantries (where are you from/live, etc), she pivoted to some hard/life challenges she’s had with her family and friends. I told her the book’s message—we all have inner “tigers” to fight—is delivered with an unapologetic honesty that is impossible to ignore.

It’s a must-read for anyone looking to break through stagnation and radically upgrade their life. I feel fortunate to have met the author and explained to her the man and heart behind the book. I gave her my book as I deplaned. It’s rare when a book creates the opportunity for the reader to positively impact a stranger.

What a great book! This really shows how you can identify things in life that hold you back. When you put a name on a problem or issue, it becomes easier to overcome. I have incorporated what I learned in this book into everyday life. Fight on!

If you haven’t read this book, better put on some big-boy or big-girl pants before you do. Let me be clear: it is not a self-help book in the traditional sense. It’s a philosophical gut check — part war manual, part mirror, part call to arms for people tired of sleepwalking through modern life. Every Motherf’er Fights Tigers doesn’t hand out soft affirmations or one-trick fixes. It challenges you to think harder, live stronger, take responsibility for your health, your mind, and your soul, and stop outsourcing your life to systems that profit from your weakness. This book will either light a fire in you or make you highly uncomfortable. Probably both.

EMFT is a book about “slaying the dragon” — not the dragon of difficult bosses, toxic coworkers, a broken culture or even poor health, but the dragon inside us. It confronts the endless hunger for self-improvement, purpose, and self-mastery within the hard boundaries of real-world reality.

This is not a comfortable read. EMFT forces you to confront the habits, excuses, and illusions that quietly hold you back, then challenges you to push beyond them. Part philosophy, part personal development, and part practical life manual, it reads like Ayn Rand fused with Stephen Covey — but with far more intensity and urgency.

What makes the book compelling is its scope: it feels like three or four books woven into one. It tackles mindset, discipline, ambition, morality, and personal responsibility without softening the edges. Whether you agree with every argument or not, EMFT demands engagement.

For readers committed to growth and willing to wrestle with uncomfortable truths, EMFT is more than a book — it is a daily call to “slay the dragon.”

First thing … you better buckle up and get ready because this ain’t just a book to make you feel good about giving it a try or wishing you were in a better place. And it’s not some cookie-cutter list of why you should go to the gym or watch your carb intake or get your nose out of your damn phone. EMFT is a pointed finger at your soul with a reminder that nobody promised you anything in life and the hard truth that YOU are the only person who can turn yourself towards how to live, how to drive to your goals with unending zeal, and how to FIGHT ON !

Take your time as you read, because I catch myself stopping from time to time, re-reading a paragraph or a page, and letting it really sink in … and sometimes to catch my breath because what Dale gives you will make you think about what’s going on in your life and inspire you to get rid of the garbage. Share what you get out of it with your family and friends … or better still … BUY THEM A COPY ! This is how I take my life back and fight my tigers – thanks for that Dale.