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Andre Norman’s early life put him on a path to prison. Raised in poverty and surrounded by dysfunction, Andre gravitated to his neighborhood gang. His choices there led to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, with sentences totaling over 100 years. During that time, Andre became one of the most dangerous gang leaders in the Massachusetts prison system. Then came the epiphany. Just before Andre was to be crowned “King of the Prison,” he had a realization—that he was about to become the “King of Nowhere.”

Have you noticed that no matter how much time you spend in talk therapy, you still feel anxious and triggered? That is because talk therapy can keep you stuck in a pattern of reliving your stories, rather than moving beyond them. But, most of all, it’s because trauma doesn’t just reside inside your mind. Much more importantly, it locks itself in other parts of your body. When left unresolved, that trauma continues to live there, impacting your life, your relationships, your sense of safety, and your ability to experience joy in very real ways.

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious there’s an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it’s a Blamephant—whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about ourselves. In Don’t Feed the Elephants!, Sarah explores how you can address the true elephant in the room: avoidance.

Have we forgotten about being happy in our pursuit of happiness? We have been well trained to go after what we want, but are we missing out on life by always focusing on some future event? In The Mystery of You, Emilio Diez Barroso invites you to uncover a peace that is untouched by the happenings of life and encourages you to discover who you are beyond your familiar identities and roles. He grounds the awakening that was once reserved for monasteries into the nitty-gritty of everyday parenting and business.

Serial entrepreneur Matt Shoup shows how to establish real and deep connections, build true rapport, and create long-lasting trust with clients and others you serve. He invites you on an empowering journey to explore your imperfections and grow comfortable with your guard down, allowing the rawest, most compelling version of yourself to shine through. You’ll learn the tenets of great storytelling, why crafting your message counts, and how to communicate with conviction, even when you’re vulnerable.

Life on Earth can be a beautiful experience, but it also comes with heartache, loneliness, and discouragement. Recurring problems cycle through every generation: discrimination, civil unrest, political hatred, and conflicts among nations. One People One Planet lays out a clear path to help us all increase our happiness and live peacefully on this planet. Discover the inspiring stories of remarkable individuals who have transformed their lives from dark despair to authentic joy, and learn how to apply the same principles in your own life.

Within Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, the wisdom of nine Nobel Laureates has been distilled and compressed into concentrated, actionable data you can use. While each mind is unique, they are united in their emphasis that no one wins alone - and that science, and success itself, belongs to us all.

What would you do if you had nothing holding you back? Many of us spend our lives on autopilot: work, bills, chores, sleep, repeat, in a never-ending cycle. We live the life that others expect us to, and not the life we desire.

You are on a journey toward the dreams and goals you’ve set for yourself. But a steady stream of useless information bombards your brain every day. To satisfy your appetite for success, you must fill your mind with the right balance of “nutrients” to support your discipline, productivity, and positive habits. In Your Brain Weighs 500 Pounds, Derrick Pledger provides an interactive and thought-provoking menu of one hundred lessons that will help you reach or acquire whatever it is you want, be it wealth, better relationships, career progression, or a healthier lifestyle.

In Replace Retirement, entrepreneur and advisor John Anderson teaches listeners of all ages to look at their future through an exponential lens and create a purposeful, rewarding, and inspired plan.

When Jonathan Keyser entered the cutthroat, dog-eat-dog world of commercial real estate brokerage, he became the worst version of himself and hated himself because of it. Then one day, Jonathan decided he’d had enough. He realized he was sacrificing his values in pursuit of success and that he needed to stop. But this book isn’t really about him - it’s about you. In this audiobook, you’ll learn how you can activate selflessness in your life and find out how and why this seemingly counterintuitive strategy can create extraordinary, long-term success in your own business.

What happens when you wake up and realize the good fortune, status, and accolades for which you’ve worked so hard have left you overburdened and burned out? As a founding member of the launch team for HGTV, media executive Traci Barrett had enjoyed the exciting ride of taking a promising idea and turning it into a billion-dollar media empire. But nearly two decades later, success was no longer the beacon it once was.

Tammy Pack evolved from being a lawyer, to owning a boutique, to opening a luxury vacation rental service, to becoming a real estate broker. She didn't have everything worked out right away, and you don't have to either. In this groundbreaking work about reinventing your life, Pack dares to admit what so few authors do—that she charged headfirst into each new version of her life without a perfect plan, and figured things out along the way.

Failure can ruin lives and families. There’s no denying it. It can destroy your health and obliterate your self-esteem. But it also holds a lot of value on the road to success. Failure Rules! walks you through five essential rules to help you pull value from any failure—as proven by Andrew Thorp King’s personal stories of dramatic, cascading failures in business, relationships, art, and life. Journey through key failure lessons from a wildly diverse set of successful entrepreneurs, creatives, and authentics.

Suffering is a part of life, and trauma is all too common. Although no one talks about it, leaving many feeling alone, ashamed, and disqualified from living a good life, some cultures believe suffering is actually a right of passage - a way to rise. In Resolve to Rise, Lilli Correll investigates the fundamental reasons why it feels so hard to recover after deep suffering - especially suffering caused by abuse - offering compelling solutions to equip you in your efforts to move forward.

Two voices in your head compete for attention. One says, "I am worthy. I am capable. I will succeed." The other says, "I can't. It's too hard. The game is rigged against me." Everything the first voice tells you is true - if you have the courage to believe it. Super Bowl Champion Ryan Harris, who endured nine surgeries over a 10-year career, knows how it feels to doubt yourself in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

In 2012, Craig Stanland made a choice that would cost him everything. After he had exploited the warranty policy of one of the largest tech companies in the world for almost a year, the FBI finally knocked on his door. Blank Canvas is a meditation on our remarkable capacity to rebuild and reinvent our lives. Through powerful storytelling, Craig proves that our greatest adversities do not have to be the end. Sometimes, they can be our greatest beginning.

To be successful and enjoy a happy life, it’s important to do all the right things: become well educated and wise, develop a strong work ethic, always act with integrity, and treat others well. But what’s equally important - yet widely overlooked - is avoiding the calamities that cause you to suffer, go back to square one, or worst of all, die a premature death. Famed investor Whitney Tilson has made a living managing risks with investments. Now, he turns his attention to the risks in our everyday lives.

High-achieving women today are living in a gilded cage we helped build. We’ve lost sight of our true purpose in the conditioning of a society ruled by material obsession. Success in this environment doesn’t bring fulfillment—we need spiritual alignment. Without it, fear, doubt, and obligation to the lives we’ve created continue to trap us. Elizabeth Pearson can help you break out of that cage. Through easy-to-follow, actionable steps for both your professional and your spiritual development, Elizabeth guides you to living the life your soul is begging you to live.

You got into your dream school, earned the degree, and landed the job you always wanted. You have a beautiful apartment, found the right guy, and hit your goal weight. You’ve checked all the boxes that should guarantee you are living your dream life. But then one day it hits you - the life you are living has nothing to do with your dream. You want to live out your purpose and unlock the dream that’s been in your heart, but you don’t know how to move forward.