2025 Awards – Relationships

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Relationships.

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Winner

Prioritize Us: Unlock Lasting Love with One Simple, Proven Test

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Author:

Nick Brancato

How is your book helping others?

Prioritize Us helps people by providing a clear, actionable system to identify and resolve misaligned priorities in their relationships. Using tools like the Total Difference Score (TDS), couples can quantify where their values and goals diverge, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for growth and collaboration.

The book equips readers with practical strategies to improve communication, strengthen emotional connection, and build trust. By addressing hidden sources of tension, Prioritize Us empowers couples to make better decisions about shared goals, finances, and future plans—saving time, energy, and money in the process.

Through relatable examples and proven frameworks, the book helps readers develop healthier relationships, reduce stress, and create harmony in their lives. Whether improving a partnership or navigating major life transitions, Prioritize Us provides the tools needed to foster clarity, connection, and lasting success together.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Down to Earth: Demystify Intuition to Upgrade Your Life

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Author:

Nil Demircubuk

How is your book helping others?

Down to Earth offers a rigorous, practical framework for harnessing intuition to make better decisions, improve relationships, and enhance self-care, setting it apart from typical books that simply advise readers to trust their inner wisdom. Author and intuition teacher Nil Demircubuk delivers actionable, research-informed methods for identifying and cultivating intuition, while encouraging readers to question and critically evaluate their insights, just as they would advice from a wise friend. The book features techniques tailored to diverse learning styles and demonstrates their application in real-world business and personal scenarios. By advancing intuition from a vague concept to a repeatable, teachable process, Down to Earth makes intuitive skill a strategic advantage for professionals navigating today’s fast-paced, complex world.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Spiritual Wellness

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Spiritual Wellness.

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Winner

Jesus and Therapy: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health

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Author:

Tabitha M Yates

How is your book helping others?

The book emphasizes the importance of combining spiritual beliefs with mental health practices. By addressing mental health within a faith context, Jesus and Therapy contributes to reducing the stigma often associated with mental illness. The concept of holistic healing, which includes emotional, mental and spiritual well-being, is a central theme.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

The Power of Little Steps: Create the Life of Your Wildest Dreams

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Author:

Sheila Vijeyarasa

How is your book helping others?

This book is helping people by offering a raw, honest, and empowering roadmap through life’s darkest moments. Through personal storytelling, practical tools, and spiritual insight, it gives readers permission to fall apart—and then rise. Women navigating infertility, heartbreak, burnout, or reinvention see themselves in these pages. It reminds them they are not alone, and that little brave steps—not perfection—create lasting transformation. The book challenges shame, redefines resilience, and sparks healing by validating emotional truths often left unspoken. Readers say it feels like a conversation with a wise, fierce friend who’s walked the path before them. Whether they are processing trauma, facing uncertainty, or finding new purpose, this book helps them reclaim their worth and move forward with courage.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au

2025 Awards – Self-Help Success

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Success.

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Winner

A Groundhog Career: A tale of career traps and how to escape them

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Author:

Dr. David R Oxley

Co-Author Names

Dr Helmut Schuster

How is your book helping others?

How do we find work that fulfills and sustains us? Can we choose professional joy over suffering?

We are suffering from an epidemic. Of suffering and disillusionment. Research shows that as many as 90% of us aren't engaged in our work. 60% say they aren't fulfilled by their jobs and a staggering 20% say its a source of misery in their lives.

A Groundhog Career, through a combination of the hugely entertaining Shey Sinope fable, and the accompanying deeply insightful and thought-provoking analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises faced by anyone who wants to succeed in a world where all the power seems to be in the entrenched organizational systems. It also reveals how to be more aware of the risks, to stay aligned with your core identity and your convictions, and ultimately how to take control of your own career journey… to live professional life on your own terms.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Rethinking Resilience: Fueling Your Competitive Advantage

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Author:

Tissa Richards

How is your book helping others?

Rethinking Resilience: Fueling Your Competitive Advantage shows leaders, teams, and individuals how to stop reacting to disruption and start leading with intention. Drawing on her experience as a repeat tech founder, CEO, and executive coach, Tissa Richards redefines resilience as a trainable, daily skill — not a crisis response. She introduces the Intentional Resilience Flywheel, seven elements leaders can use to fuel confidence, sharpen decision-making, and sustain performance. With practical tools and real-world applications, Richards helps readers turn pressure points into competitive advantage, avoid burnout, and build lasting impact in both leadership and life.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Working Hell to Working Well: Making Your Company Work For You

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Author:

Lindsay K Barnett

How is your book helping others?

Nearly half of American employees report experiencing burnout, making it one of today’s most urgent workplace challenges. My book was written as both a response to this crisis and a roadmap out of it, helping readers navigate the realities of corporate systems in ways that allow them to move forward with greater clarity and strength. Rather than viewing burnout as an individual failing, it provides practical tools and mindset shifts that empower people to advocate for their needs, set boundaries, and build the staying power required to thrive when work won’t sit still. A key theme is the ripple effect of role modeling: when one person makes small changes visible—whether it’s leaving loudly, prioritizing recovery, or naming what they need—it inspires and legitimizes those behaviors for others, creating momentum toward healthier cultures. Ultimately, the book shows that even in difficult environments, there are often more options and possibilities than people realize.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Worthy and Wealthy: Discovering Abundance and Fulfilment Beyond Money

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Author:

Emma Lagerlow

How is your book helping others?

Worthy & Wealthy helps women redefine wealth and discover a life of abundance beyond money. Blending personal storytelling with practical tools, this transformative guide offers soulful insights, exercises and journal prompts to help readers reconnect with their self-worth, uncover their purpose and set meaningful goals. Built on five key pillars — self-worth, purpose, wellbeing, financial empowerment and time freedom — it provides a holistic framework for living with clarity, vitality and intention.

Whether navigating burnout, life change or a desire for deeper alignment, Worthy & Wealthy empowers women to break free from limiting beliefs, align with their values and create a life that feels as good as it looks. More than a book about money, it is a call to remember your inherent worth and build a rich, fulfilling life from the inside out.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au

2025 Awards – Work Life Balance

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Work Life Balance.

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Winner

Alignment

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Author:

Katie Keller Wood

How is your book helping others?

Alignment challenges the traditional idea of work-life balance, offering a new perspective of alignment rather than separation between work and personal life. It is a unique guide using key Montessori education principles and framework. Katie has worked with hundreds of middle and high school Montessori teachers from all over the world through the training program she runs called CMStep. She is recognized as a leader in Montessori programming for adolescents and adults. As the world continues through a period of intense stress and anxiety due to the international unrest and climate crisis, the book’s insights on managing burnout, focusing energy on what matters, and reclaiming purpose are both relatable and relevant.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

The 4 Jobs Club: How Smart Women Care for It All: Kids, Aging Parents, Home and Career

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Author:

Kathryn Sollmann

How is your book helping others?

Whether you're managing a multi-million-dollar division or contributing to a small team, blending work and life over the course of a career takes creativity, organization, cutting yourself slack, exploring strategies and asking for help. In The 4 Jobs Club, 50 of the world's most successful professional women show you how they too care simultaneously for kids, aging parents, households and careers. They each share simple strategies developed through every life stage and career level, whilst managing these 4 big jobs – all with sanity, good humor and grace. The 4 Jobs Club is the place where you will find the help and wisdom you need to pursue work that fits your life and be the professional, mother, daughter, and life partner you want to be.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

Beyond Busyness: How to Achieve More by Doing Less

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Author:

Peggy Sullivan

How is your book helping others?

Peggy is quickly becoming one of the most prominent and energizing new voices in the speaking world, and is on a mission to balance being productive with what matters most. Peggy's book blends her lively storytelling, heartfelt vulnerability, and laugh-out-loud humor with data-driven strategies to eliminate Time Poverty—the feeling of have too much to do and never enough time to do it. Her three-step Busy-Busting method balances peak performance, self-care, and happiness without sacrificing one for the other.

Book available for purchase:

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Finalist

Working Hell to Working Well: Making Your Company Work For You

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Author:

Lindsay K Barnett

How is your book helping others?

Nearly half of American employees report experiencing burnout, making it one of today’s most urgent workplace challenges. My book was written as both a response to this crisis and a roadmap out of it, helping readers navigate the realities of corporate systems in ways that allow them to move forward with greater clarity and strength. Rather than viewing burnout as an individual failing, it provides practical tools and mindset shifts that empower people to advocate for their needs, set boundaries, and build the staying power required to thrive when work won’t sit still. A key theme is the ripple effect of role modeling: when one person makes small changes visible—whether it’s leaving loudly, prioritizing recovery, or naming what they need—it inspires and legitimizes those behaviors for others, creating momentum toward healthier cultures. Ultimately, the book shows that even in difficult environments, there are often more options and possibilities than people realize.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Less Hustle, More Happy

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Author:

Claire Seeber

How is your book helping others?

I wrote Less Hustle, More Happy after years of watching brilliant professionals exhaust themselves trying to prove their worth, saying yes to everything, working harder than ever, yet still feeling overlooked or off-track.
This book helps people stop spinning and start steering by teaching them how to define success on their terms, speak up for what they want, set boundaries that stick, and build self-trust in their decisions.
Through relatable stories (including my own face-palm moments), reflection prompts, and practical tools, readers learn how to shift unhelpful career mindsets and create momentum that actually feels good, AND still get results in their organisations.

They finish the book with more clarity, confidence and control over their career, and permission to pursue impact without sacrificing their soul and wellbeing.

Not just less hustle. More intention. More influence. More ease. And most importantly, more happy, at work and beyond.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au

Finalist

Digital Wellbeing: Recharge Your Focus and Reboot Your Life

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Author:

Petra Velzeboer

How is your book helping others?

Digital detoxes don't work. Our wellbeing relies on finding a balance. Improve your focus and create healthy habits that will enrich your life with Digital Wellbeing.

So much of our lives are now spent looking at screens, whether we're working on our laptop or checking social media on our phones. It's too easy to become overwhelmed by constant notifications and endless emails, leading to frustration, stress and burnout.

Book available for purchase:

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2025 Awards – Memoir

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Memoir.

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Winner

Beautifully Broken And Wonderfully Put Back Together

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Author:

Adrianna Kathleen Granlund

How is your book helping others?

My book helps people by showing that no matter how broken life may feel, healing and transformation are possible. It offers a raw, honest look into addiction, trauma, and recovery, while providing hope that change can happen with faith, perseverance, and the right support. Readers who may feel stuck in cycles of shame, guilt, or fear see that they are not alone—and that they too can rebuild their lives. Beyond sharing my story, the book invites reflection with questions at the end of each chapter, encouraging readers to process their own experiences and take steps toward growth. Whether someone is in recovery, supporting a loved one, or simply searching for inspiration, this book helps people find strength, reclaim purpose, and believe in a brighter future. Ultimately, it empowers readers to rise above adversity and live with courage, resilience, and renewed hope.

Book available for purchase:

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Winner

Unpacking the Attic: A path to healing your inner child

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Author:

Ann Michelle Mracek

How is your book helping others?

A unique blend of memoir and healing practices, author Ann Mracek takes you along in real time through the process of emptying her parents’ home as they transitioned into assisted living. Told with humor, honesty, and empathetic insight, she expertly weaves the vivid stories of her childhood with compassion and the intent to heal and forgive.
This book will guide you to gain adult perspective and show you how to send love and acceptance back in time to the child still living within.
Looking back has a way of clearing your vision for looking forward.
You will cry. You will cheer. You will learn how to:
• Stop fighting old battles
• Let go of past pain
• Use retrospection as a powerful healing elixir
• Embrace self-acceptance and forgiveness.
• Rewrite the recordings others imposed upon you of self-doubt and fear, with new ones of empowered compassion and understanding.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Unlikely to Unstoppable: Stories from Everyday Entrepreneurs

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Author:

Jennifer Collins

Co-Author Names

Elizabeth Clark

How is your book helping others?

Unlikely to Unstoppable is a compilation of stories from thirteen everyday entrepreneurs who found their way to rewarding paths through determination and steadfast commitment. Readers describe it as a celebration of unconventional journeys told with humor, insight, and heart. Enlightening tidbits from these first-person stories have helped fledgling entrepreneurs at critical turning points believe that, like those featured in the book, success is within their reach.

Each mini-memoir profiles learning experiences that are accessible, motivating, and uplifting. Whether the tale involves failure, disappointment, triumph, or success, the men and women interviewed are relatable and inspiring. The authors eloquently analyze the themes that emerged from dozens of experiences to weave together a collection of perspectives that champion people who continue to work toward their dreams despite the inevitable rough roads along any journey. Readers find themselves feeling unstoppable!

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

The Power of Little Steps: Create the Life of Your Wildest Dreams

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Author:

Sheila Vijeyarasa

How is your book helping others?

This book is helping people by offering a raw, honest, and empowering roadmap through life’s darkest moments. Through personal storytelling, practical tools, and spiritual insight, it gives readers permission to fall apart—and then rise. Women navigating infertility, heartbreak, burnout, or reinvention see themselves in these pages. It reminds them they are not alone, and that little brave steps—not perfection—create lasting transformation. The book challenges shame, redefines resilience, and sparks healing by validating emotional truths often left unspoken. Readers say it feels like a conversation with a wise, fierce friend who’s walked the path before them. Whether they are processing trauma, facing uncertainty, or finding new purpose, this book helps them reclaim their worth and move forward with courage.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com.au