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In a small Texas town, Brent comes out to his parents, and on that night his place in the world cracks wide open. Unmoored from his family but unwilling to give up on his dream, Brent enters the Peace Corps with the incredible task of navigating an unfamiliar land, a new language, and a new identity as a gay man in post-Soviet Armenia. As he grapples with a religious past and a queer future, Brent finds himself immersed in a culture he’d never imagined.

Are you ready to stop watching your dreams slip away and start shaping your destiny? What if happiness and success aren't found in following the well-trodden road, but in blazing your own trail, no matter how unconventional it may seem? Imagine having a roadmap to not only overcome obstacles but to also unlock your personal growth. In "Chart Your Path," you will embark on a transformative journey through nine practical steps that will change the way you navigate life's challenges. Uncover the answers to questions such as:-What are the root causes of dissatisfaction in your life?

Whether you're a self-help enthusiast, skeptic, or outspoken activist, this book is essential listening. Through captivating stories and insightful research, Podobnik reorients us to our power, provides radical strategies for growth and change, and brings conscious awareness to what we already know: the future is a collaborative effort.

So many of us encounter obstacles in life, work, and our day to day. These obstacles throw us off, cause frustration and make us feel as if we aren’t in control. The Reinvention Mindset illustrates that we have more control than we realize, that we are empowered to live the life we desire. With insightful guidance and emotional storytelling, garnered from her life and those she has met, Lori McDowell encourages readers to face their fears and confront life's uncertainties with resilience, humor, and grit, unveiling the possibilities within themselves.

Just as dancers strengthen their physical core to dance at peak performance, small business owners need to strengthen their financial core to be at peak financial performance. Dancing With Numbers: Grow a Financially Healthy Business and Choreograph the Life You Want lays out the dance moves established small business leaders can take to engage in a harmonious relationship with their numbers, step confidently in their CEO shoes empowered with actionable financial advice, and grow a profitable enterprise.

The potential to drive positive triple bottom-line impact—people, planet, and prosperity—in organizations lies in the untapped passion of informal champions. Whether a business just starting its sustainability journey or a global corporation in need of activating its sustainability in a meaningful way, Exponential Impact, reminds us the key is ultimately the people who carry out the work.

Have you ever been so impressed by someone that you thought they possessed gifts that were out of reach? If you’re tired of dimming your own light in the face of others’ perceived brilliance, discover an approach to illuminate your unique gifts and talents. It’s called getting out of your own way. Fans of books that keep topics simple but effective, versus sophisticated and complex, will find themselves hooked by the engaging stories and lessons shared.

In The Day One Executive, strategic leadership advisor April Armstrong explains how long-term success requires getting results, building mutually beneficial relationships, and cultivating reserves of resilience. It empowers you to hit the ground running in all three of these areas starting on Day One. Early in her career, Armstrong discovered a huge gap between what is taught in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. This book aims to close that gap through insight, research, and stories from more than a dozen top executives who share secrets from the C-suite to help you know:

A powerful guide to authentic leadership and making an impact. More than a leadership book, a playbook for life. What if your most amazing success isn’t beyond your reach, but residing within you? Unleash Your Amazing! is a study on what happens when an individual, partnership, or team knows their unique talents, lives their core values and mission, on purpose. Amazing results happen for individuals and teams who unleash their amazing not by accident, but on purpose. Unleash Your Amazing! is meant for formal and informal leaders who know they can do and be more.

This book allows listeners to dive into a captivating exploration of resilience and personal growth. Through compelling stories and personal insights, you’ll join the author’s parents on a journey through the trials of WWII, the Great Leap Forward, and China’s Reopening to the World. You’ll also join the author on her path from childhood in China to adulthood in the US. These intriguing stories span three generations, two countries, and more than eighty years.

"Seizing Today" is an account of what happens when an ordinary life is interrupted by extraordinary change. Vulnerable and honest, it is a remarkable story of resilience and self-discovery. Jon’s inspirational odyssey with a life-changing disease, and his ability to ultimately see it as a gift, will invite you to reflect on your life and purpose.

In my final week of treatment for substance abuse, doctors discovered a rare cancer eating my shoulder blade. Now I share the stories, science, and systems I used to stay sane, sober, and resilient while rebuilding my body and my life. I used a system called HALT. It works because nobody makes good decisions when they are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. Here's what you'll learn: H (Hungry): How it impacts your mood, health, and resilience. A (Angry): Learn practical ways to manage your emotions. All of them. L (Lonely): Strengthen your relationships.

People are the backbone of this business. If you only invest in property and write off the people, your return on invested capital will be taxed at the highest rate. Tired of the hype and highlight reels of real estate investing? People Over Property empowers the listener to heal a wounded industry that is plagued with greed. After selfishly chasing properties but leaving people behind in his own business, Ian Lemke explains how we don't have to leave our core values and beliefs at the door as we sit at the closing table.

Designing Success offers a fresh perspective on achieving true fulfillment and balance in a world where burnout has become the norm. This book is your blueprint for creating an environment that fosters growth and empowers you to succeed on your terms. Catherine’s journey began at fifteen when she cofounded an early social network, which evolved into a thriving portfolio of dating apps serving millions. Despite fierce competition and rapid technological shifts, her team’s intentional approach to growth and strategy led to two sales: $100 million in 2011 and $500 million in 2020.

As modern humans, the notion of freedom reigns supreme. Personal freedom, financial freedom, creative freedom, freedom of thought, or spiritual freedom. The list goes on and on. Some are easier to achieve than others. But what if we could achieve professional freedom? While the rules of geometry would disagree, the optimal path between two points isn’t always a straight line. We’ve been led to believe through years of conditioning that we must follow the predefined path straight up the career ladder and into the corner office. The faster, the better.

In Take Another Shot, LPGA Hall of Fame Teacher Cindy Miller guides listeners through eighteen lessons learned through the game of golf and life. For those who yearn to improve and wonder what might be possible to achieve in their lives, listeners are challenged to think outside the box.

There are three major healing traditions in the world: Western biomedicine, supernatural healing, and holistic healing. In a world of increasingly blended cultures, languages, and traditions, what happens when these contrasting healing practices clash? In "A Case of Culture", author Snigdha Nandipati delves into the unspoken challenges that immigrant patients face when seeking healthcare in the West, exploring how we can bridge these cultural divides in our healthcare system. The solution? Cultural brokers.

Yin Yang focuses on the yin-yang symbol’s prominence in cultures worldwide and its immersive history. Religious leaders, meditation guides, award-winning authors, psychedelic therapists, and business executives provide in-depth conversations about the vital importance of healthy duality within our lives and how to bring mindfulness, spirituality, and harmony into effective leadership.

An assumption nearly everyone makes is that the best a teacher can hope for is to get most of their students to learn the concept they are teaching. In fact, in the segment of education that prepares people specifically for work (CTE, apprenticeships, and corporate training), many instructors believe that a 70-80 percent success rate is satisfactory. But based on his nearly forty years of experience preparing thousands of workplace instructors, Dr. Johnson believes we can obtain a 100 percent success rate.

Imagine your life serving you, not the other way around. Imagine a journey whose destination is confidence. Imagine taking this journey with a group of other professional women and discussing the impact of your voices, time, choices, jobs, internal narratives, and external narratives on your satisfaction and quality of life.