Showing results for title "Naked" in Biographies & Memoirs

After a messy breakup, Fien Kestelyn unknowingly starts her single journey that would take 10 years and counting. Her obsession with finding a partner forces her into an adventure of self-discovery. She moves from Belgium over Holland to the States, goes on retreats, gets her heart broken, learns how to fix it, and slowly gets to know her authentic self—experiences she would never have had if she had stayed in a relationship. She discovers supporting women is her purpose and travel is a part of her soul. 

Short reflections about emotions, relationship goals, and emotional journey, including emotional deterioration, overburden, tiredness and exhaustion.

Ed Stafford - adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River - likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for 60 days equipped with nothing - no food, water, or even clothing - except the video cameras he would use to document his time.

Completely Naked is a look at people of color in our unnatural (broken) state, in which our brokenness affects our relationships with each other and our ability to live dignified and wealthy lives. It is a look at assisting those of us who are battling demons and traumas with finding our inner voices so we can share our darkness out loud, which can guide us on the road to recovery, finding our true self and inner peace.

From the small country town of Abbotsford to the skyscrapers of New York, this book shares the hard-learned lessons and captivating story of the start-up of Naked Boxer Briefs, a Nasdaq publicly-traded company that had A-list celebrity endorsements, raised over 17 million dollars, and sold its product in department stores around the world, including Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s.

In Naked Grace, Lucas Kitchen uses wit, humor, brutal honesty, and visual storytelling to invite you along for his life-long quest for answers. Confusion about the Christian faith plaguing every leg of the journey, clarity was always beyond arm's reach. The search seemed hopeless. He was about to give up when everything changed. This self-deprecating tale will resonate with anyone who has wrestled with unanswered questions and is dying to know the truth.

किसी भी ऐतिहासिक व्यक्ति का जीवन-चरित्र उसके सार्वजनिक और निजी जीवन के बीच का द्वंद्व है। हर व्यक्ति अपने कंट्रास्ट में जीता है। महात्मा गांधी भी इससे अछूते नहीं रहे। महात्मा गांधी के जीवन में विचित्र विरोधाभास था।

The Naked Truth is a program all about experience, and truth.Host Brigitte Barclay is a lifetime experiencer and one of the UK's most high-profile members of Alien Contact. She is a respected figure within the contact movement and with so much focus these days on UAPs, Brigitte has created this show to bring more awareness to the reality of contact, representing thousands of people that have had, and continue to have, all over the world today. Each week, Brigitte brings her friends and colleagues from across the globe to share their work, experiences, research, and breakthroughs in the study ...

Renowned pianist/composer/recording artist Robin Spielberg's brave and funny memoir Naked on the Bench: My Adventures in Pianoland offers listeners an inside look at many of the entertaining series of events and circumstances that followed Spielberg throughout her illustrious career. Whether it's performing at a private party for television news legend Peter Jennings, acting on the stages of Lincoln Center, or trekking through the Montana wilderness with a Steinway in tow, Spielberg tells of her adventures with humor, passion and great detail.

The Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The best-selling author of Spartacus and Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast lent his writing talents and celebrity to the communist cause as a steadfast advocate and public figure. However, he felt increasingly ill at ease with the superior manner Party leaders took with rank-and-file members and with rumors of Soviet anti-Semitism.

Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous is a deeply vulnerable and rebellious how-to memoir for people who are tired of feeling like they should be brave but don't know how courage could possibly unfold from their current fears and comfort zones. You'll finish Bare Naked Bravery empowered to confidently practice and build your own creative courage beyond your wildest imagination.

This compelling memoir of one woman's journey of enchantment, tragedy, and romance unfolds against the backdrop of a stunning mountaintop in rural Virginia. Purchased on a lark for weekend camping by a clueless suburban couple, the mountain brings Marcia Mabee and her husband Tim surprising wildlife encounters, dramatic botanical discoveries, and a passion for conservation that leads to its dedication by the state as the Naked Mountain Natural Area Preserve.

Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester.

A series of random sniper attacks, sexual assaults and murders continued at a relentless pace with no end in sight. The victims were both men and women, young and old, of all races and ethnicities. Most disturbingly, they had done nothing to place themselves in harm's way. They'd not visited the "bad" parts of town, frequented a gambling den, solicited prostitutes or sought out drug dealers. They were assaulted and murdered as they went about the routine activities of their lives, the kinds of things we all do without a second thought.

Everyone has a story to share. On this podcast, we explore the unexpected in each of us! 

What happens when a Canadian radio host gets together with a Nigerian actress, a bisexual Jew, a break-up coach, an American thought leader, an Indian men’s rights activist, a religious minister, an African American brand strategist, a Brazilian law professor, an African single mother of 21 orphans.... It is an anthology written by 21 brave and unstoppable women. It guarantees you laughter and tears, but more than that...it guarantees your freedom.

A gathering place for all of Menno's black sheep.

My grandmother was married at the age of only 12. Maybe that is why my mother got off to a rocky start as well? My mother was married and had a son by an older man. Later she had to give up her child to this much older man. To make it even worse, she was not allowed any contact until he turned 18. He had no idea of her existence and thought his stepmother was the birth mother. I vividly remember the day my mother decided to pick up the phone make the call to him, and it was on his 18th birthday! My mother then married my father, long story short. He was very handsome and a full-blooded ...

John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidant of cops, criminals, lawyers and judges. He knows where the cash is stashed and where the bodies are buried. Naked City is a collection of Silvester's best stories, from sophisticated heists to mindless acts of violence and deeds of pure evil - impeccably sourced, wry, wise and witty.

This show is a collection of real, honest, and sometimes messy conversations between two friends. We’ll explore racism, antiracism, interracial friendship, activism, books, films, and more through our different lived experiences. We’ll offer questions and actions to help you go deeper into your exploration of race & culture, find your own inner disruptor, and be a part of the solution. Occasionally, we’ll bring you interviews with others who are experts in this work so we can learn together and do better.