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Balancing Act: Mastering Work, Wealth and Wellbeing
Sarah Brennand
Balancing Act is a strategic guide for ambitious professionals navigating the pressures of high performance across work, wealth, and wellbeing. Drawing on years of executive coaching, leadership insight and lived experience at the highest levels, Sarah Brennand brings together tested tools, performance psychology and the latest research in neuroscience and behavioral science to offer a clear, adaptable framework for long-term success. The book offers practical strategies and real-world stories from Olympic athletes, military leaders, financial experts, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, alongside those balancing leadership with family life, transitions, or a redefined view of success. Grounded, practical and refreshingly honest, this book is for those who want to perform under pressure with clarity and control and lead with intention, not exhaustion.
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Take Breaks, Work Better: Measure Impact, Not Hours, and Transform Your Profitability
John Briggs
Transform productivity and profits by mastering focused work and intentional rest to energize teams, drive measurable results, and accomplish more with less effort. Take Breaks, Work Better is no one-size-fits-all approach. Briggs gives you insights and perspectives to tailor his system to your company and all the specific roles in it. You can multiply success while having a happy, healthy, engaged team who is in it for the long term. Forget the grind. With this book, you’ll all work less, be happier, and still be more productive!
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Time Freedom: Rethink Your Work and Money to Create a Life You Love Now
Brian Heriott
A practical road map to financial and time freedom—without upending everything you’ve built. In Time Freedom, financial advisor and entrepreneur Brian Herriot shows you how to structure your work and money so they serve you, not the other way around. You’ll learn sensible strategies for working less, making more, and investing better while building a plan that reclaims your hours, your energy, and your life.
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Space to Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life
Lisa Hurley
Space To Exhale: A Handbook for Curating a Soft, Centered, Serene Life responds to one of the defining challenges of modern life: burnout normalized as success. Lisa Hurley introduces readers to her Exhalation Point framework—Know Yourself, Love Yourself, Be Yourself—a human-centered model for restoring balance without abandoning ambition. Through this framework, readers are guided to develop self-awareness, practice self-compassion, and make aligned choices that support mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Rather than offering productivity hacks, the book emphasizes sustainable self-care habits and redefines success in ways that honor one’s capacity.
Grounded in lived experience and cultural insights, Space To Exhale supports meaningful shifts in how readers engage with work and life. Its real-world impact has been recognized with a Gold Anthem Award, underscoring the book’s relevance as a timely and actionable resource for cultivating enduring work-life balance.
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Your Job Won't Love You Back: 12 Principles to Live in Alignment with Your Heart
Allison Hill
Your Job Won’t Love You Back helps people build meaningful, ambitious careers without allowing work to define their identity, self-worth or purpose. Drawing on more than 30 years navigating corporate leadership, marriage, motherhood and entrepreneurship, Allison Hill gives readers practical tools to rethink their relationship with work and redefine success for their current season of life. Through 12 principles and her original North Heart framework, Hill helps readers identify what matters, recognize when they are asking their careers to fulfill needs better met elsewhere, set healthier boundaries, strengthen relationships and reconnect with purpose and joy beyond professional achievement.
Rather than encouraging people to abandon ambition, the book helps them pursue it more intentionally—making career and life decisions based on their values instead of titles, promotions or external validation. Ultimately, it helps readers build lives that feel more aligned, connected and fulfilling.
Finalist
Relentless: The Power of Doing Less in a Workplace that Demands More
Chris Lovett
Out of the panic caused by the pandemic, a new identity crisis emerged in the aftermath, as contagious as the virus itself: B U S Y N E S S. It overwhelms millions of knowledge working professionals every day. In a world where work is literally killing us, Relentless exposes the deadly truth of modern workplace culture. The book challenges everything we know about success and productivity, not just offering a revolutionary blueprint for survival, but giving professionals the opportunity to achieve more, by doing less. Through heart-stopping true stories and modern cutting-edge research all layered with the author’s unique charm, wit and real-world talk, Relentless unveils the silent killer lurking in our offices and home workspaces. Designed to support time-poor professionals with a word count less than the average business book, this book is a simple guide that empowers professionals to reclaim their humanity and transform their working lives.