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Glenn Hopper uses a unique blend of financial leadership and technical expertise to help businesses of all sizes optimize and modernize. Not a software engineer? Neither is Glenn Hopper, but his story shows how any finance leader can embrace the tech innovations shaping our world to revolutionize finance operations.

Have you felt helpless watching your daughter go from a happy-go-lucky child to a moody and miserable teen? Has your once-strong relationship deteriorated as your child entered adolescence? As a parent, it’s tough helping kids navigate their teenage years. It’s even harder if they won’t let us in. The good news is, you don’t have to stand by, feeling helpless or stuck. It is possible to strengthen your relationship with your teen and help her work through her negative emotions so she can get back to her normal self and start enjoying her teenage years.

The story begins when Susan Simmons returns to school from spring vacation. Susan has been looking forward to the big class play her teacher has been planning. But to her dismay Ms. Schwartz is gone... replaced by tall, handsome Mr. Smith, a strictly "by the book" teacher with some very strange habits. Investigating her new teacher, Susan makes a shocking discovery: "Mr. Smith" is actually an alien named Broxholm who is planning to abduct five students.

In this guide, you will come to know about the personality of narcissistic people. These individuals behave entirely differently as compared to those who do not tend towards this trait. Here, we will talk about the roots of narcissistic people, what makes them such people, and what experiences have shaped them. Later we will talk about why to ask for divorce from a narcissist; How to manage conflicts and stop justifying abuse; How to start respecting yourself and get rid of the spell of a narcissist.

Do you want to lose weight quickly? Do you want to lose weight while still enjoying your favorite foods? I know you can't burn fat because very often the diets you make are not very effective and are very hard to do...You can finally lose the pounds you want to lose and be happier even if you have done many diets but you have never lost the pounds you want to lose, and even if you think the diet is not for you or you think it's the usual diet.

Getting It is about finding what one loves most and then prioritizing all the things that matter. It's about managing fear, doubt, and indecision in a way that overrides the impulses to pass up what matters most in favor of what one desires in the moment. Getting It is what often happens too late in life, if it happens at all. Perhaps ignorance is bliss, but failure is not. And after six decades of people-watching, author Pat O'Connor began to notice similar traits among those who seem to have it together. He also noticed common traits among those who do not.

Planning a trip to Japan? Ditch the boring guidebooks and download the only Tokyo travel book that tells you what REALLY happens when you step into the neon chaos of Japan’s capital.

I made this simple audiobook with 50 questions from each of the games in the title because when I was younger, games like this were the only ones that stopped the entire family from spending a few hours looking at their phones on long car journeys. The games are easily customisable with pauses after each sequence that can be used as they are, paused for more time, or skipped completely! The audiobook is best for groups and can be used anywhere, but I prefer the car where you can have a bit of fun while talking to each other! Each of the games is explained before beginning.

This book was written for ambitious, driven, and intentional therapists who are ready to outgrow the office, leave behind the outdated model of mental health, and make a bigger impact serving others as they ethically add group coaching. Cheers to getting paid for your knowledge, around the clock, and serving your ideal clients around the globe with your online group coaching program. All while earning back the success, freedom, and security you deserve.

So many of us go through life following scripts we didn’t write for ourselves - scripts designed by our family, shaped by our friends, and influenced by the expectations of the people we meet. Using practical self-help skills rooted in improv principles and depth psychology, we can live more authentic, fulfilled, and empowered lives.

Audible editor Katie O’Connor explores the craft of writing for the audio format with Audible Originals authors Samantha Allen, Lauren Blakely, Dennis Mahoney, and Ben H. Winters. Listen in as the authors discuss how they changed their approach to their work with audio in mind. You’ll also hear from two Audible Originals editors - Lara Blackman and Steve Feldberg - about how they collaborate with their authors and where they think the future of audio is going.

In this book, The Ultimate Money Moves For Women Over 50, Suzanne takes the time to educate women in areas related to investing, insurance, credit, and estate planning. This is an intentional part of her financial planning process too, as she knows that comprehending and acting on important wealth concepts is a significant part of a client's long-term success.

Leadership is not something people are necessarily born with - it can be learned. The most effective way to learn leadership is through the techniques of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). NLP is a set of skills for psychologically influencing people (using body language, verbal techniques and a host of other practical methods).

If you lead, manage or influence a B2B sales organization of any kind, let this be a long overdue wake-up call: the time to grow and develop women and underrepresented sales professionals is now. The question is, will your organization be ahead of the curve or get left behind? For well over three decades, Lori Richardson has been selling, running a sales strategy firm, speaking, watching sales trends, and now helping to influence them.

In 1781, the new United States was nearly bankrupt. As the American and French armies under Generals Washington and Rochambeau surrounded General Cornwallis and the British at Yorktown, James Lovell, Congressman, examined a captured, soiled letter. The numbers in General Cornwallis’s ciphered message might hold the key to the defeat of the British. Expert in encryption, James Lovell knew the answer to British loss could lie in his hands.

Pete loves the pizza shop, where he lives with his dad, and is terrified of the outside world. But when a new restaurant steals their customers, Pete and his friend Anna have to come up with an INGENIOUS plan to sell more pizzas, otherwise he’ll be forced to move. When they find a mysterious briefcase in the attic, they create the most extraordinary magical pizzas, and soon a queue of customers snakes down the road. But can they make enough money in four days to save Pete’s home?

When great stars (like Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner) took their talents to the radio microphones, it was always a treat. But when these accomplished actors worked under the masterful direction of William Spier, it was radio's outstanding theater of thrills. You'll hear Angela Lansbury, Donald O'Connor, Gloria Swanson, José Ferrer, and more in well-crafted tales of doubt, double cross, and death. Steady your nerves for 20 classic tension-packed thrillers from 1947!

In this audiobook, we are going to introduce you to the concept of 16:8 intermittent fasting. You’re going to be surprised to find out that there is nothing crazy about intermittent fasting, and that the 16:8 method provides a smooth and easy way to get started with this program. We’ll also teach you about the ketogenic diet, which is probably something you’ve been hearing about as well. You’ll learn how the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting fit together like a hand and glove. And we’ll give you step-by-step instructions that will help you get started.

On Halloween day 1990, Sterling Krysler—husband, father, pilot, newly arrived in Hawai'i—suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury while body surfing at a local beach. Ever the optimist, Sterling accepted the life-changing injury becoming advocate and inspiration to many in the "disability community." This is a family-centered story brimming with love, joy, and humor. This is his story—before and after.

They got through The Infernal Palisades, but not without a heavy cost. Half of their team is broken, soul-weary and mentally unhinged. Trust is shattered on the crumbling road behind them but not enough to stop the Brothers from tackling the quest that if they succeed, will give them a sliver of a chance to save their Momma and keep her from being a plaything to torture for eternity. It will also give them the opportunity for some payback and to punch the Spider Bitch in the jaw.