Margie Goldsmith

This book is written for anyone who has ever felt less than or not good enough -- it was written to let readers know they ARE good enough and can achieve anything they want. By reading "Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce" readers also learn how to challenge themselves to do things that scare them; because even if they fail at the attempt, they become a better person.

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Nancy Yuskaitis

Hi Mom, It's Me: Hope, Love, and the Afterlife helps readers navigate the devastating weight of grief and discover a path toward profound emotional healing. By sharing a deeply personal journey through the loss of two daughters, the book serves as a genuine bridge between sorrow and spiritual comfort. It empowers and provides hope to anyone facing the loneliness of bereavement complete with actionable exercises in mindfulness, meditation, journaling and creative art transforming their grief into a softer, more intuitive way to live with loss. This book blends emotional vulnerability with mystical hope, inspiring readers to recognize their own signs of connection from the other side and ultimately to feel uplifted and encouraged in ways to carry their loved one forward with them in this life. Writing this book was my lifeline meant to be shared with a community of grieving parents and others seeking confirmation of the continuation of life after loss.

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Miyoki Chan

The book is a heart-centered lifeline for families navigating the beautiful, often isolating journey of parenting a child with disabilities or someone dealing with sudden identity shifts. As a coach and a parent who has walked this exact path, I share my vulnerable story alongside the structured Break Through framework to help parents heal their own unaddressed wounds. Instead of clinical advice, this guide provides an encouraging, compassionate community space and actionable coaching tools. Learning to heal their own inner world, parents gain the emotional resilience to break generational cycles, overcome burnout, and show up fully for their children with deep joy. This book turns personal survival into shared community healing, proving that a parent's self-care is the greatest gift they can give their family.

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Tom Pullen

Innovation has the power to solve the world’s most important problems. INNOVATOR helps more people do exactly that by giving them the confidence and practical skills to innovate successfully. Its 10-step INNOVATOR Way® makes innovation accessible beyond visionaries and specialists, helping leaders and team members identify genuine customer needs, develop stronger ideas, test them quickly, reduce wasted time and resources, and turn the best solutions into reality. The book is deliberately action-oriented, equipping readers with practical tools, power questions and action steps they can apply immediately to real-life projects. The methodology at the heart of the book is already trusted by business leaders and managers in 40+ countries, including at leading companies such as Toyota, LVMH, Rexel and Danone. INNOVATOR’s ultimate aim is simple: help organizations grow by enabling more people to create products, services and solutions that truly improve people's lives.

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JW Radford

Driven by Desire: The Path to Unstoppable Success helps people turn ambition into meaningful action. It shows readers how to identify what they truly want, develop the mindset and discipline needed to pursue it, and keep moving forward despite setbacks, fear, or failure. Drawing on real-life lessons of adversity, resilience, and achievement, the book emphasizes personal accountability, intentional decision-making, and consistent action. Rather than defining success only by money or status, Driven by Desire challenges readers to create their own definition of success and build a practical path toward it. Ultimately, the book delivers a powerful message: your circumstances may influence where you start, but your desire, choices, and determination can change where you finish.

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Kenneth Carnesi, Sr

The whole book is built on one core idea. The time you have left is not a consolation prize. It's not the leftover scraps after real life was lived. It's an opportunity. A real, specific, powerful opportunity to do the things that matter most. To say what needs to be said. To heal what can still be healed. To become, even now, more fully the person you were always meant to be. That idea sounds simple. But if you let it sink all the way in, if you really let yourself believe it, it changes everything about how you wake up tomorrow morning. And the morning after that. And every morning that comes after. The unfinished business in your life is not a list of failures. It's a map.

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Miki Feldman Simon

Most leadership approaches focus on how to lead others. CORE Leadership starts from a different premise: leadership starts with leading yourself. It helps leaders create a clear vision of the person and leader they want to be and gives them practical tools to put that vision into action. Through the four-step CORE framework, readers clarify what matters to them, translate it into everyday behaviors, recognize where they have choice, and evaluate the impact they are having. Readers have shared how the framework has helped them clarify their purpose, become more aware of their impact, see choices they hadn’t previously recognized, and make intentional changes in how they lead and live. As leaders become more intentional and exercise greater agency over how they show up, the impact extends beyond them, strengthening relationships, creating healthier teams and workplaces, and positively affecting the people they lead, work with, and live with.

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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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Jess Ekstrom

A refreshingly honest guide to chasing goals without losing your sanity - rediscover joy, stay motivated, and build a life that feels as good as it looks. Through unfiltered storytelling, practical tools, and a few “yep, been there” moments, Jess helps readers rediscover what it actually feels like to enjoy their work, stay motivated without the meltdown, and build a life that feels as good as it looks on LinkedIn. Smart, funny, and with grounded strategies you can implement right now, Making It Without Losing It is a must-read for anyone who's done trading their peace for performance. If you're craving a version of success that includes joy, you’ve come to the right place.

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Max Mckeown

In a world of relentless change and complexity, it’s not enough to simply survive—you must learn to thrive. In Superadaptability, Max Mckeown introduces the transformative RUN loop: Recognise, Understand, Necessary Action to help you transcend the challenges around you, adapt to cope with uncertainty, embrace change as an opportunity for growth, and shape the future on your own terms. Through vivid storytelling and real-world examples from the world of business, leadership and innovation, Superadaptability reveals how you can strategically harness the power of change to create extraordinary outcomes. The RUN loop empowers you to recognize shifting circumstances, understand their implications, and take the necessary actions to adapt smarter and faster than ever before. This is an invaluable guide to mastering the art of adaptation and unlocking a future defined by purpose, fulfillment, and success.

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Cynthia J Young

I wrote this book because I understand what it’s like to work hard, follow the rules, and help others shine, only to feel invisible when it comes time for recognition and promotion. It's for every woman who is tired of being overlooked despite her contributions. It’s for every introvert who is told to speak up more, network harder, or go out for drinks to fit in. I provide my six-step Career G.R.O.W.T.H. StrategyTM framework, with actions readers can take to be seen and heard, and to get promoted without playing office politics.

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Phil Buckley

In When People Throw Wrenches, award-winning author Phil Buckley draws on more than thirty-five years of experience managing thirty-two large-scale change programs to show you the ways people inevitably react to changes, and how you can anticipate and respond to these behaviors to ensure your initiative will succeed. When People Throw Wrenches is an essential resource for leaders, change practitioners, and project managers working on high-stakes change initiatives, including operating model redesigns, organizational restructures, mergers and acquisitions, culture resets, and systems implementations. This book will help you spot self-interested behavior early (before it takes hold), decode the emotional drivers that motivate self-protection or gain, and respond in ways that protect credibility, relationships, and results.

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Jack Myers

Readers of Creativity Unleashed discover how AI can provide a creative advantage in their careers and daily lives. Through 130 practical tips, tools, and ideas, everyone can overcome their fear and make AI work for them without the jargon or fluff. They learn to tap into their creative competence by collaborating with machine intelligence to generate original ideas, overcome creative blocks, solve problems, strengthen their individual voice, and transform imagination into meaningful action. The book honors and amplifies the importance of what technology cannot replace: human intuition, emotion, originality, judgment, and purpose. It helps elevate and unlock human potential, showing that creativity is not a rare gift reserved for artists, innovators, or technology experts. Through practical exercises and accessible guidance, readers build confidence, break down creative barriers, and learn to use AI responsibly without sacrificing authenticity.

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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.

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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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Kevin Surace

The Joy–Success Cycle helps readers rethink one of the most common assumptions about achievement: that success leads to joy. Drawing on neuroscience, positive psychology, leadership experience, and decades of innovation, Kevin Surace argues the opposite—that joy is the catalyst for greater creativity, resilience, productivity, and long-term success. Through practical exercises and a repeatable framework, readers learn how to cultivate daily habits that strengthen purpose, overcome negative thinking, and create an upward cycle of personal and professional growth. Rather than offering motivation alone, the book provides actionable strategies that can be applied immediately in the workplace and everyday life. Whether readers are leaders, entrepreneurs, or professionals navigating constant change, The Joy–Success Cycle equips them with science-backed tools to improve performance, build stronger relationships, and find greater fulfillment by making joy the foundation—not the reward—of succe

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Hayley D Quinn

This book helps people understand themselves better, cultivate a compassionate mind and change the relationship they have with themselves so they make choices that allow them to live a thriving life and avoid burnout. It is a gentle, powerful book for anyone who has spent too long putting their own needs last. With evidence-based advice and practical steps it offers a roadmap to recognise the habits, unhelpful stories and cyclical beliefs that hold you back and keep you stuck in exhaustion, burnout, guilt and self-criticism, while guiding you to cultivate self-compassion and a new way of relating to yourself. Through four parts, this book invites you to:

Start Where You Are: get to know all parts of who you are
Explore the Possibilities: reconnect with your dreams, values and future self
Learn to Do It Differently: practise courage, self-compassion and boundaries
Find Your New Way of Being: create a values-aligned life that supports your wellbeing

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Patricia Faison Hewlin

Called “one of the world’s foremost experts on authenticity” by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Adam Grant, Dr. Hewlin is recognized internationally for developing the concept of “facades of conformity.” Her research shows 30% of employees feel pressured to create facades (not only at work!)— something Dr. Hewlin can also personally speak to as a black woman who started in the traditionally white male dominated field of banking. Drawing from more than 25 years of research and consulting experience, she introduces the concept of your “middle self:” a way to navigate the world with confidence and integrity, while balancing personal authenticity with the realities of community, workplace culture, and social expectations. Dr. Hewlin's findings arrive at a presently crucial and confusing time for many at work, in personal relationships and friendships, parents of teens, and beyond.

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Larry Robertson

The capacity to question is our greatest and yet least understood human asset. Questions give life to our curiosity. They fuel our personal growth. We problem solve and innovate through them. They’re how we find meaning and come to grasp why we matter. This is a book about your vital capacity to question. Great Question is your yield guide. It shows you how to master the art of the ask and empowers you to define, shape, and realize what you seek. It reveals the secrets of great questioning, no matter where it’s applied. Its groundbreaking research and intimate storytelling teach a kid-simple framework and show how to use it. The lessons at the core of Great Question are nothing short of the key to thriving in a deeply uncertain world – for leaders, and for every one of us.

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