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Book SynopsisEveryone in marketing is talking “authenticity.” So that means making a personal or professional brand should be simpler than ever, right? What could be easier than “being yourself”? Simple? Sure. But easy? Not so much. Why? Because authenticity is unfiltered, unapologetic, and honest. Authenticity owns its imperfections and takes responsibility for mistakes. It shows up on the good and bad days. In short, authenticity feels scary. No wonder we try to brand ourselves as someone else we think will be more appealing than our real selves. Jessica Zweig founded the SimplyBe. agency to revolutionize an authenticity-first approach to branding. With Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself, she shares her most powerful secrets for building authenticity, service, and real connection into your winning brand. “We are living at an inflection point,” says Jessica Zweig. “For any brand - business or personal - the game is no longer about eyeballs, but engagement. No longer about impressions, but impact. Content is no longer king, clarity is. Your best strategy? Service and generosity. Your best solution? Authenticity.” Now available in paperback, Be is a powerful guide for connecting with others, changing lives, and moving the world forward as only you can.

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Book SynopsisSmall business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than 20 employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt gives readers the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling. Pofeldt’s focus is always on staying lean financially so that you can achieve your personal goals on an average person’s budget. In this book, Pofeldt profiles nearly 60 microbusinesses that have all reached $1 million in annual revenue without losing control or selling out. Tiny Business, Big Money also includes the results of a survey with the founders of 50 seven-figure microbusinesses that got to $1 million with no payroll or very small teams, which provides deeper visibility into their shared principles of success that you can apply to your own small business.

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Book SynopsisImagine a life where your business flows, everything feels easy, and amazing opportunities appear in front of you every day.The Magical Business Method shows you how to use the energy in your chakras to move through fear and overwhelm to trust and abundance. Tamara Arnold spent most of her life being afraid to use her voice, afraid it would upset people she loved most in life who suffered from mental illness. Fear kept her from connecting to her stardust and realizing she had the gift of reading energy. When Tamara wrote her first book, My Kid is Driving Me Crazy: A Mom's Survival Guide for Living with a Child with Mental Illness, she busted open her throat and root chakras. With a clear path for receiving, she discovered she could read chakras... and went right to work doing it to help others. Tamara spent months studying what chakra energy looked like and how it affects life and business. The Magical Business Method book was born from what she learned. In The Magical Business Method, Tamara will help you learn:· How energy you’ve been carrying since childhood can affect your business.· How to clear energetic blocks to create massive shifts in how you impact the world.· That you were born to make a difference with your stardust.· How to go from scarcity to wealth.· And so much more. If you like Think and Grow Rich or The Celestine Prophecy, you’ll love what The Magical Business Method has to share.

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Book SynopsisUnderneath the challenges of our modern age, we find a common cause of disconnection - from each other, the earth, and lives of purpose and meaning. How do we turn it around? In Flying Lead Change, Kelly Wendorf offers a guide for a new approach to leading and living, grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience and inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: Original Peoples and Equus (the horse). Wendorf presents the wisdom of a 56-million-year-old system - the horse herd - that overcame threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. Here, she shares the five pillars of their success: safety, peace, connection, joy, and freedom. She reveals how true leaders in both human and equine society use these principles to benefit the whole - a model of servant leadership based on presence and care, not dominance, force, exploitation, or coercion. In horsemanship, a “flying lead change” allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. “Collectively, we need a similar physics - defying maneuver,” Wendorf writes. “This book is for the called - thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s ‘flying change’ through the way we live, love, and lead.”

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Book SynopsisA proven method to get your team unstuck and into alignment Why do so many organizations, teams, couples, families and other groups waste energy on unproductive conflict? Even when everyone has the same general goals, what’s often missing is a deeper alignment based on mutual trust, respect, and empathy. With Radical Alignment, top-level life and business coaches (and happily married couple!) Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower share their potent method for helping groups to stop clashing and start working together—to jump from “we can’t” to an enthusiastic “hell yes!” Jamieson and Gower teach practical tools to help each member of a group skillfully express their core values, concerns, and highest hopes for any undertaking—building a foundation of understanding and respect that can support even the most ambitious goals. Their All-In Method starts with making the implicit explicit so collaborators are able to develop a foundation of empathy and trust. “The world needs more people who know how to build aligned and empathic relationships—in businesses, communities, and families—through powerful, clear conversations,” write the authors. Radical Alignment brings you a “low-drama, high-joy” technique to transform the way you collaborate and communicate in every area of your life.

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Book SynopsisAuthenticity is the heart of any powerful brand. That’s not news - authenticity has become the “it word” in marketing - but why do so many people find it so hard to put it into practice? Jessica Zweig has emerged as one of the few branding gurus who really gets authenticity: how to find it in yourself, how to show it to others, and most importantly, how to live it. In Be: A No-Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself, Zweig explores the myths about branding and gets straight into the heart of what really builds and sustains a personal brand platform: your unapologetic authenticity. “In these pages, you’re going to learn why the most authentic people are also the most magnetic,” she says. “You can and will become one of those people, too. Because actually, you already are. I’m just going to teach you how to uncover it step by step.” The internet is the most powerful tool for connection in history - but if you have a business, a mission, or a dream, you have to be able to cut through the noise. “This book is about more than making money or getting your 15 minutes of fame,” Zweig says. “This is for people who want to build a legacy by connecting with others, changing lives, and moving the world forward.”

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Book SynopsisA Step-by-Step Guide for Cultivating Financial Well-Being "Money is a story, one that too often is used against us. When you're ready to engage with intention, this book can help rewrite your story." -Seth Godin, author of The Practice Does prosperity lead to happiness . or is it the other way around? As a therapist, Joyce Marter noticed an extraordinary trend: as her clients improved their mental health, they also began receiving raises, getting promotions, finding better jobs, or starting their own successful businesses. Since that epiphany, Marter has become a go-to expert on the "Psychology of Success"-establishing ways to help you improve your financial well-being by focusing on your psychological and relational issues around money. With The Financial Mindset Fix, Marter crystallizes her most powerful and effective practices for long-term prosperity. Here, she guides you through 12 essential mindsets for transforming your relationship with yourself to welcome a life of wealth. Within each are innovative exercises, self-assessment tools, and insights for shifting into a mindset of abundance. In The Financial Mindset Fix, you will discover: · What it means to cultivate a holistic view of success · Why mindsets based on scarcity and zero-sum thinking lead to suffering · Possible triggers for financially risky behavior and how to defuse their power · The simultaneously challenging and surprisingly easy task of proper budgeting · Why holding on to resentment also holds you back from your potential · How to manage the desires of the ego without becoming either a doormat or a diva · Why acknowledging your interconnection with others gives rise to stronger empathy and collaboration · Mindfulness, lovingkindness, self-inquiry, and other practices-all refocused on financial wellness "We are all works in progress," writes Marter. "No matter where you are on your journey, these tools are meant to be lifelong companions to a life of greater prosperity and joy."

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Book SynopsisCalm and confidence are qualities that everyone-not just presenters and performers-wants and needs in their everyday lives. Confidence is important. But calm and confidence together are a magical and powerful combination. After years of struggling with communication in school, business, and public, Patricia Stark achieved this state of "calmfidence" not through some single moment of revelation, but through years of small insights, "aha" moments, and constant practice. Today, after helping thousands of students and clients find their own voices and abilities, Stark makes her methods available in Calmfidence-a comprehensive guide to improving your self-talk and communication skills in any social interaction. Inspired by her coaching workshops of the same name, Calmfidence gathers a unique set of mental tools, experiential practices, and natural remedies for quelling the self-sabotaging habits of the Inner Critic. With warmth and compassion, Stark guides you in how to identify and overcome your blockages to communication, how to react skillfully to strong emotions as they arise, and how to deal with setbacks in your Calmfidence journey without self-judgment. You don't need some rare talent to communicate well. When you engage with the exercises and encouragement in Calmfidence, you'll learn how to stop surrendering to fear and become the calm and confident communicator who has always been waiting within.

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Book SynopsisAre you tired of being pumped with constant messages of fear and anxiety-that the future is bleak, and that we lack the grit our ancestors had to make it through? "Neuroscience has good news about our capacity to adapt-and thrive," says Kristen Lee. "We are wired to overcome. Trusting in ourselves, even in a hostile world, is worth the risk." With Worth the Risk, Lee shares a powerful guide to help you access your inner resources of courage, resilience, and creativity. Our current culture has left many of us unwilling to step outside of our "safe spaces"-whether that means sheltering from the pandemic in our homes or feeling afraid to speak up when any discussion might explode into an argument; yet our search for safety can go too far, diminishing our self-worth and participation in life. Fortunately, the latest research shows us that by "microdosing" small acts of bravery and connection, we can regain our confidence in our own adaptability, ingenuity, and sense of value to ourselves and one another. In each chapter of Worth the Risk, Lee provides a solid dose of brain science combined with practical actions to activate strengths and sustain yourself through challenges. "You are not at the mercy of life," she teaches. "You can learn to be the architect of your experience and know without doubt that you have what it takes to shine as an inexplicable, untamable force of nature."

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Book SynopsisWe've all heard of the "glass ceiling" for women. Yet even for women who break through the societal barriers to success, there's another danger: the glass ledge. "When the very qualities that help us achieve greatness turn into self-defeating behaviors, that's when we trip over the glass ledge," teaches Iman Oubou. "Yet we don't need to lose ourselves to become the ideal image of a hardworking, camera-ready woman. There is a better way to fulfill our dreams-one that allows us to be ourselves, on our own terms." With The Glass Ledge, Oubou offers a disruptive guide that explores the 10 most common themes around which women tend to derail themselves. Each chapter focuses on one of these self-sabotaging themes, incorporating counterintuitive and eye-opening information, as well as anecdotes from the author's personal journey, stories from other high-profile, successful women, and scientific research about why we act the way we do-and how to reclaim the story of our lives. While societal norms around gender dynamics have shifted, there's still a long way to go. "We don't have to wait for the culture to change for us," Oubou says. "Each of us has the power to change the beliefs and behaviors we don't want." The Glass Ledge is a practical and inspired call for any woman who wants to rewrite the narrative of success-and pay her efforts forward into the world.

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Book SynopsisHow much of your time and attention gets focused on what truly matters to you? Most people's honest answer is: not enough. For anyone who feels buried by busywork, responsibility, distraction, and fatigue, productivity expert Charlie Gilkey presents Start Finishing-a systematic, root-cause approach for overcoming the pitfalls to productivity and turning your ideas and dreams into finished projects. The critically acclaimed, award-winning Start Finishing presents a nine-step method for converting an idea into a doable project by addressing the challenges you'll face and helping you create a reality-based plan for seeing it through. Learn how to identify your genius, build a success pack of supporters, break down projects into workable parts, navigate multiple priorities, overcome logjams that can stall momentum, and more. "You are not incapable, wired to struggle, or fated to be unable to get your act together," Gilkey teaches. "With a few key steps, you can change the way you show up, how you plan, and how you respond when things get tough." Featuring deep insight and clarity-and contributions from Seth Godin, Susan Piver, and James Clear-this book provides an invaluable set of tools to keep you from being bogged down with task lists and Start Finishing your best work.

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author Napoleon Hill—Lessons on Success has helped millions of readers make the impossible, POSSIBLE!Napoleon Hill's 17 Essential Principles of Personal Achievement have served as an encouraging and illuminating guide for those seeking to improve all areas of their lives for more than half a century.Lessons on Success is the book that keys readers into Hill's distinct thought process—this is THE complete and unabridged mind-power method for achieving your goals.After interviewing dozens of industrialists, diplomats, thought leaders, and people who are at the top of their game, Hill distilled what he learned and converted his study into seventeen core lessons that will set you up for success in every facet of your life!

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Book SynopsisIf you start pursuing your goals TODAY, what's the BEST that can happen?Since Michelle Poler challenged herself to spend 100 days feeling her fears and doing new things anyway, she's been inspiring people of all ages (and around the world!) to embrace the parts of their journey that terrify them, from new jobs to body waxes to falling in love. Now it's your turn!Use this daily journal to break free of fear without needing to be "fearless," with 100 Challenges that will crush your comfort zone and shine a motivational light on who you're meant to be.Work your way through 10 inspiring themes, including:Hello, Life: From Autopilot to Living FullyHello, You: Becoming Your Authentic SelfHello, Ego: Unlearning FailureHello, Success: How Not to Self-SabotageHello, Future: Grow Through Dirt—Rewrite Your StoryWritten in Michelle's hilarious, sparkling voice and inviting ambitious self-reflection, The Hello, Fears Challenge, will help you identify your fears, practice saying yes to opportunities, and grow into the brave, authentic person you're meant to be!

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Book SynopsisTrying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. By collecting all of your tasks in one place, you can reserve your mental energy for work that drives significant results, both in your professional life and your personal life.To start, productivity expert Maura Thomas takes us through an exercise called "brain dumping," which will clear your mind of all the things you're trying to remember you have to do—all the things that are distracting you or keeping you up at night. She then shows us the right way to use a calendar, the tools you'll need to succeed, and a better way of categorizing your tasks in order to identify the best use of your time and inspire you to take action.This is not another book on time management; this is a book on how to take back control of your busy life. Not only will you be focusing on the things that truly matter, but you'll also experience boosts in your mood and mindset—you'll feel more in control and less overwhelmed; you'll feel a greater sense of accomplishment now that you're focusing on what's truly important to you.

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty comes an inspirational guide that helps professionals spark creativity day in and day out. Avoid burnout and inspire your creativity with this daily reader that pushes you to feel energized and ready for innovation!The Daily Creative is a daily reader for professionals no matter their creativity level. Each reading is designed to improve focus and achieve their goals. Every reading:- Centers around a specific theme- Takes under 5 minutes to complete - Includes an inspirational quote from great thinkers and creatives throughout history- Includes a challenge that inspires personal reflection and guides you to apply a principle- Wraps up with a daily action step to help achieve goals and see results

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Book SynopsisReady to scale your business profitably without sacrificing your personal life? This book provides practical strategies for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses while maintaining a balanced lifestyle. You''ll learn how to set boundaries, identify the right clients, and create compelling offers. The book also covers establishing authority and leveraging social media for lead generation. Discover how to set boundaries to protect your personal time. Learn techniques to identify and attract your ideal clients. Master the art of creating compelling offers that convert. Gain insights into leveraging social media for effective lead generation. You''ll gain a clear roadmap to scale your business profitably while maintaining a balanced life. This balance is crucial for long-term success and personal fulfillment.Kim Walsh Phillips is an accomplished business strategist and author known for her expertise in direct-response social media marketing. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners scale their businesses profitably while maintaining a balanced lifestyle. Kim shares several personal anecdotes throughout her book, illustrating her journey from overworking in her first business to finding a balanced and profitable business model.

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Book SynopsisGot a job interview next week? Congratulations!Interviews are the deal-breaker that can win or lose you the job, so now's the time to brush up on those interview skills. Have you prepared answers for all the tricky questions that interviewers can throw at you, like Why would you like to work here?', What are your weaknesses?', or those thorny scenario questions where you have to think on your feet?Interview Skills that Win the Job will give you the confidence you need to stay calm and in control to impress even the most hardened of interviewers. No more long-winded answers, debilitating nerves or being stumped by difficult questions here are all the tips you need for interview success.More than a guide to answering questions, Interview Skills that Win the Job covers everything you need to know, from what to do when faced with a panel of interviewers, to selecting an appropriate outfit and ensuring your body language gives the right message. Don't let this potentially nerve-wracking experience undo your chances; do your homework before the interview, and win the job of your dreams.Table of ContentsIntroduction The path to interview success1 Interview myths2 Convincing an interviewer you're right for the job3 Can you do the job?4 Same skills, different job5 Your potential to tackle new tasks6 Are you the sort of person we can work with?7 Employers love motivated employees8 The big five' questions9 Building rapport and trust10 Effective answers to common questionsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe surest path to success is to fail. What if you could build a workplace culture that was less like a classroom, and more like a playground: a place filled with opportunities to take risks and test boundaries, with soft ground on which to fall? A place where you and your team are free to make mistakes, and get things wrong--a place where it's okay to fail? In Be More Wrong, noted leadership coach Colin Hunter shows you why, in the age of disruption, it's never been more important to fail early, fail often, and fail forward. Through his Pi2 Leadership Impact Model, he shows you how to create systems and build habits that will help you lead with greater confidence, conviction, and connection. You'll learn how to recognize different leadership styles, and what transforms a good leader into an outstanding one. As you leave your ego and expertise at the door and embark on a journey to observe human behaviour, ideate new ideas, and experiment, you'll begin to build a playground for yourself and your team. However unlikely a leader you feel yourself to be, you can get it right--by being more wrong.

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