Never one to stop questioning the status quo, his books draw on the secular works of Daniel Kahneman, Malcom Gladwell, Nassir Ghaemi, David Brooks, while at the same time attempting to connect those works back to the Bible. He wants his work to be read by people of all religions; however, and because of that, he occasionally includes lessons taught in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well.
After having newspapers in every single Southern state review his first book and after the Atlanta Journal- Constitution named it one of 12 self-help books to read in 2018, he published two more entitled He Spoke with Authority: Get, then Give the Advantage of Confidence and The Criminal: The Power of An Apology. These did not receive as much media attention as his first, and some dubbed Fellows as a “one-hit wonder.”
In April of 2021, after having moved to Houston from Atlanta the previous summer, Fellows was poised to prove his critics wrong. He did so with the release of Mrs. Dubose’s Last Wish: The Art of Embracing Suffering. He participated in a record-setting 68 TV interviews in 29 states. The book was also the most reviewed book in the state of Texas in 2021. Fellows would publish five books in 2021, all of which received considerable media attention throughout the country.
Before he published Mrs. Dubose’s Last Wish in April of 2021, he shifted part of his focus and energy to politics—specifically, education reform. Fellows stumbled upon an interesting correlation between ACT/SAT scores and worker readiness during his stint at Morehouse College as the Competition Sales Team Instructor. He coached the team in 2016 and 2017. After being in touch with a Congresswoman’s office in Texas, he thought he was going to get a grant from the federal government to continue his work. He did not get the grant, however. Undeterred, Fellows decided to take his study to the media and from December 2021 to October 2022, no individual other than Secretary Miguel Cardona received more media attention than Fellows. Fellows interviewed with 13 affiliates in 10 states.
A few months after OpenAI released ChatGPT, Fellows wrote a report on how artificial intelligence would affect the workforce and how our educational systems should adapt to it. He has interviewed with dozens of stations across the country on it. It is interesting to note even before ChatGPT was released, in an interview with Cordell Wright ABC Sioux Falls, SD on the aforementioned education reform he was working on, he told Wright that artificial intelligence is “coming and it’s already here.”
When it comes to be interviewed about politics, Fellows prefers to comment on things that only affect the American people; he’s never commented on matters like the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney situation or the Jason Aldean song, “Try That in a Small Town” even if he does have an opinion on it.
In 2022, Fellows added two more books to his grand total of 10. When he’s not writing books or working on political policy, you can find him at his “real job” in software sales or playing golf. Always one to look up to mentors, he considers Bill McDermott, former CEO of SAP, and present-day CEO of Service Now, to be his greatest inspiration, commenting that McDermott has “taught him more about life than sales.” McDermott’s rags-to-riches story is featured in each one of his books.
