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Triumphing over anything with the four 'Ps'

Ed Hajim talks about his four 'Ps': Passion, Principles, Partners and Plans.

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Turning a Troublesome Beginning into a Life Beyond His Imagination

Successful Businessman, Ed Hajim, Author of “One the Road Less Traveled” shares his story of resilience with guest host Maggie Rodriguez on the nationally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom, to share his success story using The Four P’s: Passion, Principles, Partners and Plan.


Bloom airs in 40 markets across the country, with a reach of approximately 36 million households, and in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Madison, WI.

You can watch Bloom in the Tampa Bay Market weekdays at Noon on WTTA: Spectrum 1006; Frontier 514; DirecTV 38; Dish 38; Comcast 43, and look for Bloom early mornings on WFLA News Channel 8.

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How Ed Hajim overcame staggering odds to

achieve the American Dream

If adversity builds character, then Ed Hajim has one made of granite. Abandoned by his mother at the age of three, kidnapped by his father who informed Ed that his mother had died, and thrown into the foster care system, Hajim experienced a childhood marked by unimaginable heartbreak. Miraculously, he endured through the turmoil and emerged as a highly successful businessman and community leader. Today, Hajim is a devoted husband and father who has given generously to the institutions that helped him along the way. The founder of the Nantucket Golf Club, Hajim and his wife of fifty-five years, Barbara, have been coming to Nantucket for decades.

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POWERFUL MEMOIR FROM BUSINESSMAN ED HAJIM

Ed Hajim is the author of “On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom”. Hajim’s book tells his story about how his life growing up was anything but ordinary. At a young age he was abandoned by his father after his Dad kidnapped him and told him that his mother was dead. Ed grew-up in foster homes and orphanages. Despite his chaotic upbringing, he went on to Harvard Business School and became a Wall Street tycoon. He later learned that his mother was still alive! Hajim tells Lauren Sivan what he hopes people take away from his story, plus he gives us the keys to his success!



You can find “On The Road Less Traveled” in bookstores and online now.

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My dad told me my mom was dead – then I met her 57 years later

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WGN-TV Chicago interviewed Ed Hajim about his new book On The Road Less Traveled An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom.

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Ed Hajim’s “On the Road Less Traveled” Takes Us on an Unforgettable Journey

“A bend in the road,” says Ed Hajim, “is not the end of the road.”


He should know. At the age of three, Hajim was kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told that his mother was dead. He pressed his face against the car window, watched the miles pass and wondered where life would take him. It took him on a journey from one dire situation to the next, from one crowded orphanage to an unfamiliar foster home, from having one semi-present parent to having none. It was a daily struggle to survive.


Yet somehow, not only does Hajim make it through, but using his own grit and determination, he flourishes. His life comes full circle and he lives the American dream as an accomplished, respected Wall Street executive and model family man with great moral fibre and the means to give back to a world that early on seemed intent on rejecting him.

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From tragedy to triumph: Former Greenwich man’s memoir details tough upbringing and later success




Feb. 28, 2021

Updated: Feb. 28, 2021 8:33 a.m.


The early years of Ed Hajim’s life read like a tragedy.


At 3-years-old, Hajim, now 84, was kidnapped from his mother’s home by his father and driven across the country.


His father told Hajim his mother had died, and that he was Hajim’s only family. Then his father left to go to sea with the United States Merchant Marines.


Hajim spent most of his childhood being bounced between foster homes and only occasionally spending time with his father.


The constant change was deeply painful for Hajim, a longtime Greenwich resident who now splits his time between Nantucket, Mass., and a home in Florida.


“Do you know what happens when you go to five different schools between the ages of 5 and 10?” asks Hajim. “You have rites of passage at all those places. You find out who you can beat up, and who you can’t. And it’s hard. It’s really hard.”


Eventually, Hajim went from foster homes to orphanages, which carried their own obstacles.


Yet, even in the midst of so much struggle, Hajim thrived. He did well in school, played sports and made friends. As he grew up, he continued to do well, despite his difficult upbringing.


Today, he’s a seasoned Wall Street executive with more than 50 years of investment experience, who held senior management positions with the Capital Group, E.F. Hutton and Lehman Brothers before becoming chairman and CEO of Furman Selz.


He is now chairman of High Vista, a Boston-based money management company.


Hajim has chronicled his trajectory in his new memoir, “On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom,” which comes out March 2.


The book details his rise from a troubled childhood to a successful adulthood, and his path to unearthing the secrets of his past.


As he began to start his own family, Hajim started sharing his past with others, including Barbara, now his wife of more than 50 years.

It was Barbara and their children who encouraged him to write the book. “When I got to be in about my early 70s, my wife and kids said, ‘We want something so the kids can remember Grandpa,’ ” he says.


It took him years and a few different ghost writers to produce “Road Less Traveled,” but Hajim says the experience was ultimately cathartic for him, even though it forced him to confront the adversity he faced growing up.


“I welled up a lot at the earlier stages (of writing),” he said. “A few times I had to put it down. I just couldn’t handle it.”


Hajim says it was particularly “illuminating” to go back and read old letters between himself and his father. Despite their difficult relationship, he says he never hated the man.


“I love my father,” he says. “He tried.”


Hajim says he’s not sure there is any one thing he wants people to glean from the book, but he does hope his story sends the message that anything is possible.


“But I hope different people get different things out of this book,” he says.

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