Wow! What a name. If you don’t get the innuendo, Google it or watch “American Pie,” because I’m not going there. But I will tell you this is a book that promises a body like no other, if you focus on the plant-based diet touted within. Author, Jessica Porter, is a macrobiotic chef, cooking instructor, […]
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Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success at 40, 50, and Beyond
Simply put, this is a must-read manual for anyone thinking about coming back into their career after stepping out for a while. But it’s not just a strategy for career gaps. It’s also a guide for those who want something new, thinking about entrepreneurship, poised to make their dream career a reality or stepping into […]
The Miracle Morning
Author Hal Elrod has built quite a following with The Miracle Morning series. He wrote the book to share with the world what he discovered had helped him achieve great success in his personal and professional life. Yet Elrod is not sharing these pearls of wisdom lightly. He’s overcome a major professional setback, a tragic […]
The Yoga Mind: 52 Essential Principles of Yoga Philosophy to Deepen Your Practice
Bilingual yoga teacher, author and motivational speaker, Rina Jakubowicz has put together a weekly plan for deepening yoga practices and further understanding yoga philosophy. This book is ideal for practitioners, students and anyone seeking to understand yoga terminology a little better. It’s not a long laborious read designed to demystify Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, but rather […]
Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success
This is a book that everyone who prioritizes success should have on their bookshelf and refer to on a regular basis. What I like best about this book, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, is that it’s all about the little nuances that we take for granted that can make powerful differences in your personal and professional […]
Assertiveness Training: Stop People Pleasing, Feeling Guilty and Caring for What Others Think, and Start Speaking Up, Saying No, and being More Confident.
I found this little gem on Amazon and decided to check it out. I was pleasantly surprised at this fifth book in the Practical Emotional Intelligence series by James W. Williams. Yes, the title is lengthy, but it does a nice job in summarizing the wisdom, advice, and tools that you’ll find inside to build […]
How to Be an Even Better Manager
How to Be an Even Better Manager provides the blueprint for managing successfully in any situation, from policy and decision making to building effective skills and an exemplary team. The forty chapters outlined in this book by Michael Armstrong cover everything a manager should have a working knowledge of. Especially if they have their sights […]
The Code, the Evaluation, the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Qualified Human
You probably know by now how much I love a book that gets you up out of bed and fired up for a day of success. Leave it to a Navy Seal to make that happen. I’ve been fortunate to have had a little interaction with Jocko Willink and the team at Echelon Front in […]
10 Make or Break Career Moments: Navigate, Negotiate, and Communicate for Success
This professional life-guide by Casey Hawley is broken down into ten chapters which reflect career-making moments that everyone will enter somewhere along their professional journey, probably more than one time. This book provides strategy and suggestions from “the first time you meet an executive” to “the moment you resign from your job” and all the […]
Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease
For those who have not yet considered adopting a plant-based diet, reading Joyful, Delicious Vegan by Sherra Aguirre will make you think again. Especially women, who tend to have a majority influence on household diets but also are facing a growing battle with heart disease. A little about the author, Sherra Aguirre who has an […]