Personal Success Memoir

Finally, a self-help book for the millennial party girl who hates bullshit advice from "experts" who know nothing about the trauma of drinking and sex, the acute pressure of keeping up with the rest of the Adderall poppin' world, and the insecurity that comes along with feeling like you have to be thin and gorgeous and sparkly in order to be seen.

Hello and welcome to the Top 25 Mistakes in Route to the Good Life. In this audiobook, you will hear from and about the life of 28-year law enforcement veteran Lt. Sal Blue who, after his career, ended with no one else to mentor. He wanted to continue to give. So after realizing all that he learned in his route to a good life, he wanted to give you some of his greatest secrets and mistakes to avoid, so that you can navigate your career and live the life of your dreams on your terms.

Wie werde ich erfolgreich und finanziell unabhängig? Wie nutze ich Hindernisse, um an ihnen zu wachsen? Wie treffe ich die richtigen Entscheidungen? Als Kind nach Deutschland eingewandert, aufgewachsen in einem »sozialen Brennpunkt«, schon im Studium die erste eigene Firma gegründet und heute Millionär: Unterhaltsam und temporeich erzählt Dawid Przybylski seine persönliche Lebens- und Erfolgsgeschichte.

Take undersized five-year-old farm girl Elinor, give her the polio that not only cripples her but also nearly kills her, then give her an impossible dream. In her childhood and again as a college student she rebels against the plan. Finally, she embraces the dream, and it leads Elinor to one of the most primitive, rugged places on earth and to a life that brawny international explorers would envy.

New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship. Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, “The Most Improbable Mentor Move of All.” This witty and insightful book details how unlikely encounters shape creativity, business, and life.

As a woman and mom myself, I get it! Life is busy and fun and fulfilling and stressful and joyful and so very much more. I’m also a therapist, so I get the background behind a lot of the patterns many of us fall into in our everyday lives as well. In the following chapters, I'll share some of my own stories, as well as helpful pointers and tips you can use to help you in your daily life. I’ve also included themes I hear a lot in my private practice therapy sessions, as I feel like these are often very relevant outside of the therapy room too.

In Welcome to the Jungle, proven corporate leader, senior executive, author and entrepreneur, Teena Hostovich, shares her journey from reception desk to the C-Suite in this entertaining and thorough guide to navigating a thriving career in corporate America. This book is the perfect place to learn from someone who has seen it all and come out on top. You'll walk away from this book feeling empowered and ready to take on the jungle and the adventure of a corporate career!

In 1950 Gerald Frank, a determined Black man, arrived in Seattle at the age of eighteen. Fleeing the violence of Detroit and the suffocating grip of Jim Crow Laws, Gerald carried nothing but dreams and drumsticks in his heart. His unwavering belief that he could carve out a better life set the stage for an incredible journey. Today, over seventy years later, the real estate empire forged by Gerald and his wife, Theresa, continues to flourish under the guidance of the third generation of the Frank family. But theirs was not a journey paved with silver spoons.

Finding Your Leadership Soul is a series of reflections, framed around letters Carlos writes to three young men whom he had the opportunity to teach and mentor. All three of these young men - Josue, Angel and Shawn - have passed; too young and too common for young men of color these days. Thus, Carlos' letters take the form of lessons he wishes he could have shared, impacts he wishes he could have made.

여성의 권리와 삶에 대해 말하기와 글쓰기를 멈추지 않는 작가, 이다혜. 『출근길의 주문』은 일하는 여성들을 위해 집필한 이다혜 작가의 신작으로, 그간 책과 방송에서 보여준 사회를 향한 통찰력 있는 발언과 공감을 일으키는 문장들이 가득하다. 작가는 20여 년 동안 사회생활하며 경험한 이야기들과 그간 일터에서 만난 수많은 여성들의 고민에 귀 기울여 이 책을 준비했다. (여성에게 불리한 방향으로) 기울어진 사회에 대해 논하는 것을 넘어 실생활(일터)에서 활용할 수 있는 말하기, 글쓰기, 네트워킹 방법들이 가득하다.

How can someone get the best seats to the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Kentucky Derby, and all the greatest concerts and sporting events in the world? By owning TicketCity, one of America’s fastest-growing ticket brokers. In this motivational and inspirational book, you will learn how author Randy Cohen started a business with just $1,200 and a few University of Texas basketball tickets and built it into a ticket-selling empire that today serves 250,000 clients in 17 countries.

Callanan takes the listener through his painful roller-coaster journey of generational alcoholism, bullying, and drug addiction as a youth. The book also includes him finding his faith in God. This faith helped him to deal with a baseball bat accident that took the life of a classmate, a family suicide, and more than one business market crash.

On February 22, 2013, Kathy Izard’s world was shattered when her healthy husband, Charlie, suffered a catastrophic heart attack. Although he was miraculously still alive, there could be no return to normal living after doctors diagnosed the cause to be an incurable disease: spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). Living with an exceedingly rare condition and facing the unfathomable prospect of life as a young widow, Kathy had to learn to accept the radical uncertainty that life often brings completely without warning.

Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die beeindruckende Geschichte des erfolgreichen Unternehmers Mario Cortesi - vorgelesen von Autor und zugleich Hauptfigur höchstpersönlich. Ein Schulabbrecher, der in ein Heim für schwer erziehbare Kinder kommt, Drogen konsumiert und verkauft, kleinkriminell ist und im Gefängnis landet - anfangs sieht es nicht danach aus, als ob aus ihm viel werden wird. Doch von ganz unten schafft er eine 180-Grad-Drehung. Er entdeckt, was eigentlich in ihm steckt. Nach wenigen Jahren wird er zum Millionär in der Immobilienbranche.

Wir müssen uns selbst ausreichend lieben, um uns in unserem tiefsten Kern zu akzeptieren, um unsere Fehler zu akzeptieren - aber nicht zuzulassen, dass sie uns bestimmen. Um unsere Emotionen zu erleben - aber nicht zuzulassen, dass sie uns zerstören. Die Wahrheit ist, unsere Fehler schränken uns nicht ein. Lediglich unsere Ängste tun es. Sofia musste diese wertvolle Lektion auf die harte Tour lernen, und nun führt sie uns auf eine Reise zu unserer eigenen Wiederentdeckung.

Shattered Together is the remarkable tale of how Elle chose to become whole by learning to heal through the pain of her son’s death. From finding meaning in life to finding forgiveness, Elle opens up about the hard-won lessons she’s learned on her more-than-10-year odyssey and reveals the practices and tools she’s used to release her pain and experience love and joy once more.

To an outsider, Anthony Hanna lives a charmed life. He’s a firefighter - every boy’s dream job. Even better, he regularly features in the Australian Firefighters Calendar. He’s a former police negotiator who worked on the frontline of critical operations. And as a teenager, he was a champion pole vaulter with Olympic potential. In this frank, honest memoir Anthony talks about the reality of living with mental illness.

Johnnie Calloway is a gifted story teller, and has written a superb personal account of his harrowing childhood, and adult life. Although he retells his experiences of emotional and physical abuse, neglect, heartache, and betrayal, and later his own addictions and struggles with mental illness, he manages to keep the listener thoroughly engaged and inspired by his strength and wisdom throughout this pause resister.

Rhonda Hayes promised to give her 35-year-old dying daughter, Sherry, anything she wanted. When Sherry requested that her mother sign up for a dating site, Rhonda was panic-struck. What would people think? Only nine months earlier, Rhonda’s devoted husband, Greg, had died from cancer. Keeping her promise, Rhonda acquiesced to Sherry’s wish. Together they completed a dating profile; moments before hitting "Submit", Rhonda added these words: My daughter has terminal cancer and she is my life right now. Why would I be on a dating site?

Sarah Nuse is an entrepreneur, wife, and mother of three. As someone who struggled with school her whole life, she turned lemons into lemonade by pushing through her college course load while also building a business from scratch. More than 20 years later, Tippi Toes boasts successful, thriving franchises around the world. Sarah's mission has come to fruition, tenfold.