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Barbara Bray wrote Define Your Why from the process she went through to figure out her why and through coaching others who did not feel valued, appreciated, or why they needed to live on purpose. Barbara tells her story with stories from 26 inspirational thought leaders along with quotes, resources, questions, and activities to help you on your journey to define your why so you own your story.

Your life is a story, and it’s yours to write, all the way through to the end. There are numerous decisions to be made regarding aging, illness, and end-of-life issues, but many people put off those decisions until it’s too late. We may be purposeful in planning for our lives, but we often leave the last piece, the final chapter, undefined.

You have the right to enjoy a prosperous life. But how can you attract the abundance you know you deserve? Through their own tales, beliefs, values, experiences, and obstacles, the authors of Pardon Me, I'm Prospering examine the true meaning of abundance and prosperity. There is no one-size-fits-all formula for prosperity. Our team of experts want to share their life experience, history, upbringing, jobs, careers, values, and beliefs—to enable you to experience your own abundance, success, happiness, and wealth.

The Joy Guide: Finding Your Joy in a World of Crap is the self-help book for people who truly want to stop living each day in stress, overwhelm, and frustration and bring more happiness and joy into their daily lives. Jennifer Dawn delivers 18 powerful lessons and exercises to help you identify and change the limiting beliefs holding you back, tap into your natural ability to work each day with clarity, and create and define your dream life. By the end, you'll have a deep understanding of the crap that's been holding you back and powerful, effective tools on how to overcome it.

Sephi Shapira spent 20 years as a tech entrepreneur, founding multiple start-ups. Since 2010, Sephi has mentored over 100 tech CEOs through their fundraising process, helping them raise funds across all levels of financing.

Inside Million Dollar Method, we highlight Chris Baden, a best-selling author, dad, and former American Ninja Warrior competitor who grew three businesses to the million-dollar mark and just launched a highly profitable software company! Dr. Grace Lee was orphaned at an early age, left to grow up on the streets and fend for herself. Today she is a best-selling author and has more than 2.4 million views on her YouTube channel while adding 10,000+ new subscribers each month with a system in place for monetizing her audience.

Have you ever found yourself working toward an important goal only to fail? Maybe you feel stressed and anxious while seeking your life's meaning? You can beat self-sabotage by developing your behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs about yourself and challenging them when they stand between you and your goals. Adapt and Overcome shares real-life stories, lessons, insights, and strategies to get you to develop awesome success habits. This is a book that guides you to defeat self-sabotage and helps you to achieve focus, dedication, and success...as explained by the experts.

Meet Yaya. She is a brown-haired, brown-eyed girl who chose to land on Earth in the spandex-and-boy-band-infused-'80s with her chosen perfectly f--ked up family, so she may learn, heal, and embrace it all. Are you ready to join her on a wild ride from the nargile cafes in Istanbul, to art cars in Burning Man, to knee-deep in quicksand in the jungles of Ecuador? The most heroic journey is the one she takes within, with the help of plant medicine, hot yoga, and other tantric tools, peeking behind the curtain of her own codependency, trauma, and BPD and unleashing her sexual desires.

Constantly battling life-altering trauma, PTSD, a traumatic brain injury, and the cutthroat fashion world, Just Bones Boardwear founder Jennifer Berk Weisman refused to let the accident define her and steal her identity. She had to do more than reinvent the boardshort. She had to reinvent herself. More than fluff, fabric, and fashion, Sink or Swimwear shares the powerful true story of recovery, hope, and resilience that will inspire you to channel your own inner strength to overcome trauma or chase your entrepreneur dreams.

Rita’s downsizing journey was inspired by a trip to a third world country when she traveled to Senegal, West Africa, to visit her son who was serving in the Peace Corps. She was profoundly moved by the people who were truly happy even though they had so little. This experience ignited a new passion for living a simpler life with less, which then led her to downsizing from a 5,000 sq. ft. home to an 867 sq. ft. apartment. She fearlessly gave away 95 percent of her belongings to people who needed or wanted them.

Laura Ballerini, a designer who started much of her creative journey at a big city newspaper and now owns her own digital design boutique, seamlessly weaves together an unlikely array of stories about her inspiring mother, museum visits, online shopping, designing in the dirt, and many other adventures (including a visit to Graceland). Some of these essays are funny, some poignant—all are memorable snippets of universal experiences meant to spark our awareness and awaken us to the rich fields of design all around us.

While it is well known that women earn less than men, there are also many extremely successful and highly paid women in nearly every industry. How did they manage to earn significantly more than other women and even have higher salaries than their male counterparts? Some may say: “They must be working hard.” Hard work is important, but everybody knows hard work alone is not enough.

From Sidelines to Start Lines is for former runners who are feeling frustrated and like frauds for sitting on the couch or behind the computer for far too many days (or years). If you want to get back into running to improve your health, your social life, and your sanity, this book is for you. When you clarify what has really been holding you back and keeping you from logging your miles, you will be free to train effectively for any race and victoriously cross any finish line.

Breakthrough Leadership with Jacalyn Price is a book for listeners who feel their problems are a constant source of their pain. Having dealt with her own physical and emotional pains, our author shares her experiences and advice on how to overcome your adversities and become stronger by doing so. She shares valuable lessons with her listeners, teaching them that giving is never the answer. Price’s story will encourage you to think positively and bring that same positivity to those around you.

Have you ever dreamed of going on an African safari; riding in the jeep with the wind in your hair, the gazelle gracefully running and leaping alongside the car, giraffe walking along in the trees, and nighttime sounds of lions roaring in the distance? What an amazing adventure...but how does one actually book a safari? Do I need a travel agent or can I book it myself? Where is the best place to go? What time of year should I go? What tour operators are reliable and honest? What should I bring, and how do I pack? Trying to keep costs low? I can help.

Success or failure as human beings is not a matter of luck or fate; not a matter of who you know, or any of those tiresome old myths, and/or clichés, by which the ignorant tend to excuse themselves. It is a paradigm of common sense rules, and guidelines that anyone can follow. Changing the mindset has changed more lives, brought about more success, saved more marriages, and created more millionaires than any other approach in existence.

Caregiving can be a positive experience if families better understand aging, understand the disease their loved one has, learn how to improve family communication, and have an aging plan. The Invisible Patient provides inspiration, encouragement, and step-by-step guidance to ease the caregiving journey. The author leaves no stone unturned, providing personal anecdotes and scenarios about the caregiving process, and includes numerous references and resources in this guide to caring for the caregiver.

William Shakespeare, long hailed as the history's greatest dramatic writer, has been lauded for his mastery of poetic expression, his insight into the human condition and his deep exploration into the psyche and motivations of his characters. These skills are perhaps best encapsulated in the monologues he gives his various protagonists, villains, and bit players.

Imagine a generation of children who are empowered, confident, and victorious - children who know God for themselves, who live differently than the world, and who move in the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit. Bethel Church’s children’s minister, Amy Gagnon, has a passion to help children make authentic, supernatural connections with Jesus. In Raising Powerful Children, she elevates the standard for what it means to train kids up in the “way they should go” by empowering parents and teachers to establish a kingdom culture among children of all ages.

Why do we sabotage our own success so frequently? Trauma is the culprit in a nutshell. Trauma is an important part of our lives that is sometimes ignored. Trauma may be caused by a variety of factors, including alcohol and past hurts. The difference between recovery and emerging from the ashes as a more confident and strong individual and remaining trapped in the same old rut is how we deal with those issues.