“This book is a gentle wake-up call—an invitation to have the conversations we’ll one day wish we’d started sooner. Insightful, heartfelt, and wild, it shows that interviewing your parents isn’t just about recording their stories—it’s about discovering your own.” 

—Rich Roll, podcast host and bestselling author of Finding Ultra.

“I have never read anything like this. One Last Question Before You Go reminds us that our most profound inheritance isn’t in our genes; it’s in our stories. Funny, surprising, and very wise.”

—Christopher Ryan, PhD, bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn.

"The best book about how and why to interview your parents? Yes. But I was not expecting his own stories to be so fascinating, too. Couldn't stop reading, start-to-finish."

—Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want.

“Over the years, my kids would occasionally ask me what superpower I would choose if I could pick one. Knowing what people secretly thought was often at the top of the list. When Kyle chose our family as the backdrop for this book, I inadvertently got my wish. I had no idea how hard, funny, and valuable it would be.”

 —Kimberly, Kyle’s mom.

“Thiermann made his name charging Northern California’s cold, rugged waters, but it’s his prowess as a storyteller that separates him from the pack.” 

—SURFER magazine.

“While talking with adults in therapy or everyday life, you can feel the weight of what’s been unsaid to their parents: the questions they wish they’d asked, the words they wish they’d said. And often now it’s too late. So I am delighted by One Last Question Before You Go, full of deep insights, good humor, and practical suggestions. I wish I’d had it myself with my own parents.”

—Rick Hanson, PhD, bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Resilient, and Making Great Relationships.

“With wit, intelligence, and optimism, Thiermann reveals that by asking the questions we’d rather avoid and by zooming in on the events we’d rather forget, we can heal what’s broken and learn to listen, forgive, and love in a much deeper way.”

—Adam Skolnick, author of American Tiger.

"I never knew my mom was once a go-go dancer in Harlem." 

—Matt, Reader