Career Stress

Do you struggle with public speaking or communication in your workplace or personal relations? Have you tried other solutions but find yourself slipping back into old, anxiety-ridden habits? Are you tired of feeling like a wallflower, overlooked or misunderstood when you do speak up? Many individuals struggle with social anxiety, leading to missed opportunities both personally and professionally. But what if you could transform your communication skills, master small talk, and command the room while remaining authentic to who you are?

Stress is a natural response to the demands and challenges of life, rooted in our biology. When faced with perceived threats, the body activates the fight-or-flight response, releasing hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. This physiological reaction prepares us to confront danger but can become problematic when activated too frequently or for prolonged periods. Understanding this biological mechanism is crucial for adults navigating the complexities of modern work and life. By recognizing the signs of stress, individuals can take proactive steps to manage their responses effectively.

This step-by-step process helps business owners like you create a profitable alternative to selling your business via half-retirement, allowing you to shift your focus and find your balance.

Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It's all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the "apps" that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

In the book, you’ll explore ways to navigate the pressures and stressors faced by every sales professional.

Drawing on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes, as well as research by experts, the author brings together the best of both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach. The Leader You Want to Be is the indispensable guide to helping you tap into and expand your leadership capacity so that you can sustain your optimal level of performance and thrive as a leader.

The harsh truth? Nobody gets promoted for their people skills. You got promoted because you were good at the old job. But now the rules have changed—and nobody bothered to hand you the playbook. That’s why Emotional Intelligence Training for New Managers exists. It gives you what corporate training and “feel-good” leadership books never do: the exact words to say in the toughest conversations you’ll ever face.

Are you constantly juggling multiple tasks and operating at 100 per cent or more? Do you feel you are permanently on the treadmill and can't get off? If you needed extra capacity for something urgent, could you find it? In The 1 Day Refund, bestselling author and time management expert Donna McGeorge shows you how to recover an extra 15 percent of your time—10 minutes per hour, 1 hour per day, or a full day each week—to think, breathe, live, and work. By creating more space, you'll discover a new ability to focus on what's truly important to you.

Ed Beltran, the CEO of a powerhouse leadership communication company, believes the antidote to stressed-out workplaces starts with conversation. Beltran has developed a science-based model to reduce stress and help people build what he calls fierce resilience. By leveraging the power of conversations, individuals discover their unique stressors, master skills to neutralize stressors, and build unwavering resilience that elevates their emotional well-being.

This time management book contains proven steps and strategies on how to quickly and effectively organize your life and schedule. You will learn how to stop dragging your feet and get productive, regain balance in your life, develop new habits, and much more.

Authors Imran Rashid and Soren Kenner have sparked an international debate by revealing the "mind hacks" Facebook, Apple, Google, and Instagram use to get you and your children hooked on their products. In Offline, they deliver an eye-opening, research-based journey into the world of tech giants, smartphones, social engineering, and subconscious manipulation. This provocative work reveals how digital devices change individuals and communities for better and worse.

Quiet Quit & Fully Live is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet quitting phenomenon, challenging the negative connotations it often carries. The book explores how stepping back from over-engagement at work can lead to a more balanced life, enhanced personal well-being, and surprisingly, a boost in workplace productivity. It argues that by setting healthy boundaries, individuals can reignite their passion for their roles and bring a renewed sense of purpose to their teams.

Starting a business doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Zero to Launch: Small Business Edition is your clear, friendly roadmap for turning an idea—any idea—into a real, functioning business. No complicated jargon. No expensive tools. No MBA required. Written in a warm, conversational tone, this audiobook walks you step-by-step from the earliest spark of inspiration to landing your very first customer. Whether you’re dreaming of a side hustle, a service-based business, or a full-time venture, you’ll learn how to validate your idea, plan smart, build a simple brand, and launch with confidence.

We live in a society that makes you feel guilty for spending time on yourself - but self-love is an important component of being a compassionate person who is able to give and receive love. Quality time with yourself is just as important as quality time with your loved ones. This audiobook includes inspiring music set to soothing affirmations, allowing you to spend time with yourself in a positive mental atmosphere. Consider the time you spend with these affirmations as a date with yourself.

Suffering in Silence: The Epidemic of Women Who Do Too Much is for professional women in midlife who feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and stretched thin. Built around responsibility—careers, family, aging parents—many women have learned to stay strong even when their bodies are depleted. Written by Dr. Peggy Gleason, this compassionate book explores chronic stress, caregiver fatigue, and midlife burnout, and offers a gentler path forward. This is not about pushing harder, but understanding why you’re tired—and how to restore calm, balance, and well-being without guilt.

Anyone privileged with the choice of how they spend their time is cursed with a common struggle...work-life balance. Whether you’re a student, entrepreneur, or even stay at home parent, dividing your free time between productivity and personal time can be difficult. How do you maximize each hour of productivity so that you are only focused on the task at hand, leaving you free to do other more enjoyable things?

This book is ideal for somebody who wants to learn the best ways to organize life and get everything back to efficient, working order. This book offers an incredible beginning stage and will provide you with a mental diagram of the essential procedures that will prompt you towards better life organization.

Don’t just chase your goals, smash them – with this empowering, action-filled approach… Paul Mort lives the change he empowers in other people. Now, following on from his audiobook and his sold-out coaching programmes, this new book shows how to break out of your rut, build a happier...

Award-winning journalist and mom-of-three Paula Faris gives insightful and practical steps for better working, momming, and living to millions of overwhelmed working moms. Being a working mom should work. Instead, it is a thankless, incredibly difficult job, marked by impossible contradictions...

Entrepreneurs often have a burning need to succeed. But that same relentless brilliance that propels you in your career can take a toll on your teams, personal relationships, and even your health. Gino Wickman, bestselling author of Traction, teams up with mindfulness expert Rob Dube to help listeners strike a crucial balance between those inner and outer worlds while taking their success to new heights.