D. Austin

Your emotions are already influencing how you lead, even when you appear calm, capable, and completely in control.The Trigger Audit is a practical 30 day executive workbook designed to help leaders identify the emotional patterns shaping their decisions, communication, relationships, and...

Learning to Breathe: When Strength Is No Longer Enough is for the person everyone counts on—the one who keeps going, solves the problem, carries the weight, shows up strong, and rarely stops long enough to ask what all that strength is costing.D. Austin explores what happens when survival...

Pressure does not create your character. It reveals what still needs training. EQ Under Pressure is a practical, direct guide for leaders, professionals, high-performers, business owners, and anyone responsible for influencing people while managing stress, conflict, decisions, relationships, and...

Are you a new manager trying to build trust, handle difficult conversations, and lead your team without talking over the people you are supposed to support? Listen to Lead: The First-Time Manager’s Playbook for Building Trust Through Active Listening is a practical leadership guide for...

Managing people takes more than job knowledge, deadlines, meetings, and a well-organized calendar. It takes emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence Playbook for Managers is a practical, step-by-step workbook for leaders who want to communicate better, reduce conflict, build trust, and...

Would you talk to someone you love the way you talk to yourself?If the answer is no, it may be time to change the conversation.The voice you live with follows you everywhere. It interprets your mistakes, narrates rejection, questions your worth, predicts what could go wrong, and decides whether...

The blowup is rarely about what just happened. It is usually about everything that was never said.A forgotten promise, an unanswered text, a canceled plan, or one more request can trigger an argument that feels much larger than the moment. Beneath the reaction are often unmet needs, hidden...

Most relationship conflicts are not really about what they appear to be about. The unanswered message is rarely just about the message. The missed birthday call is not only about the birthday. Beneath the disagreement is often an invisible rule neither person discussed.In Unspoken Rules: How...

What if the conflict is not really about the dishes, the unanswered text, or the forgotten appointment? What if the real problem is the expectation nobody said out loud?In The Expectation Audit, D. Austin offers a practical 30-day challenge for anyone tired of repeating the same arguments...

A hidden girl. A dying sky. A truth powerful enough to break every star.Seventeen-year-old Mara Vale has spent her life hiding the strange gold mark burned into her palm. In Evermere, whispers have always followed her—cursed girl, witch-fire, trouble from the sky. Her aunt Elen taught her to...

Most people are not failing today. They are panicking about tomorrow before they even survive breakfast.Don’t Trip on the Future is a faith-filled, honest, and practical guide for anxious overthinkers, future planners, worst-case-scenario experts, and anyone tired of borrowing trouble from a...

Big change rarely begins with a dramatic leap. More often, it begins with one small, honest step in the right direction. In *One Inch Forward*, D. Austin offers a practical and encouraging guide for anyone who feels stuck, overwhelmed, discouraged, or tired of starting over. With warmth, humor...

Empathy is not soft. It is strategic. The Empathy Playbook is a practical workbook for managers, HR professionals, leadership teams, trainers, and workplace groups that want stronger communication, better trust, and fewer avoidable conflicts. Inside, listeners will find 40 realistic role play...

She ran from the man who promised to love her. Mara Ellis came to Haven Point with a new name, a hidden past, and one rule: never let anyone get close enough to ask the questions she cannot answer. To the quiet coastal town, she is just another woman trying to start over. But Mara knows better...

Are your emotions helping your relationships heal—or quietly damaging the connection you are trying to protect? Emotional Regulation for Relationships: Stop Reacting, Start Connecting is a practical guide for anyone who loves deeply but reacts strongly. If you have ever raised your voice and...

Shift the Rudder is a bold, honest, faith-filled guide for anyone who knows they were made for more but keeps getting pulled back into old patterns, overthinking, procrastination, fear, regret, and the exhausting pressure to have life perfectly figured out. With humor, wisdom, and a refreshing...

Shift the Rudder Journal is a companion guide designed for listeners who know something in their life needs to change, but need space, structure, honesty, and faith to begin that shift. Built to walk alongside Shift the Rudder, Book 2, this journal moves beyond surface-level reflection and...

Evelyn Cross has spent thirty years helping women disappear. Behind the doors of Crosswind Inn in Haven Point, she has hidden frightened wives, wounded mothers, stolen daughters, and women running from powerful men. To the town, Evelyn is guarded and mysterious. To the women she saved, she is...

What if the place built to hide women was not the only secret waiting in the dark? Elise Hart has survived locked rooms, false names, and people who turned rescue into a weapon. She knows how to disappear, how to lie when the truth is dangerous, and how to read fear before anyone says a word...

What if self-control was not about stuffing your emotions, pretending you are fine, or forcing yourself to “just calm down” after your nervous system has already taken over?