Career Direction

The best career is not one where you only do what you love, but one where you honor who you are. In You Turn, counterterrorism-professional-turned-career-coach Ashley Stahl shares the strategies she’s used to help thousands ditch their Monday blues, get clarity on what work lights them up, and devise an action plan to create a career they love. This book gives listeners access to Stahl’s coveted 11-step road map that has guided thousands of coaching clients in 31 countries to self-discovery and success.

Every Sunday night, a familiar dread arrives, and it has nothing to do with your workload. It's the quiet question you keep pushing away: is this still the right path for me? If a colleague's role was recently automated, if you've started wondering whether your specific skills will still matter in five years, or if you've simply outgrown a career that once fit you well, this workbook was written for you. Direction in the Age of Uncertainty is a structured, practical guide for professionals navigating career reinvention in an era of rapid industry disruption and AI-driven change. This is not...

More and more makers, designers, writers, and artists are in demand as we enter the Age of Creatives. By understanding the new strategies and mindset required to succeed, you can manage other creatives successfully. For creators, getting that promotion to management is exciting but can also be...

Animation is a multibillion-dollar industry. Here’s an insider’s guide to getting into that industry, staying there, and getting ahead. Author David B. Levy has interviewed the top pros in animation, including Steven Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants; Al Brodax, producer of Yellow Submarine; Teddy Newton, character designer on The Incredibles; Linda Simensky, senior director of PBS Kids; John R. Dilworth, creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog; and dozens of others to get their insights....

Pray for direction, opportunity, and growth in your career and finances. 140 Life-Changing Prayers for Career and Financial Growth is a powerful collection of guided Christian prayers created to help you seek God's wisdom, favor, and provision in your professional life. Work and financial responsibilities can often bring pressure, uncertainty, and difficult decisions. Prayer becomes the place where faith replaces fear and hope replaces doubt. This book will help you bring your career goals, financial concerns, and future plans before God with confidence. Inside this book you will find ...

New York Times bestselling author and pastor of Lakewood Church Joel Osteen shares how the power of our words can help create a better reality. Your words are like seeds. Every time you say them, they're taking root and growing. Are you planting good seeds? Are you seeing the increase, the...

AI is making dumb people dangerous and smart people even cooler. Which one you become depends on one skill. Not prompting. Not "prompt engineering." Direction. THE BRUTAL REALITY Most people use AI like an intern. They type vague requests and get vague results. Then they blame the tool. The people getting rich treat AI like a team of specialists. They give it a role. A goal. A standard. And they push back until the output is something they'd actually bet money on. This gap—between people who USE AI and people who DIRECT AI—will be the biggest wealth divide of the next decade. Using AI ...

A guide for creating a life of maximum fulfillment and purpose, by the career coach whose approach has helped hundreds re-orient their careers and lives The traditional approach to career is failing us. Determine what you want to do with your life, it says, and methodically make your way...

This audiobook reveals the glorious weaknesses of today's new breed of leader, as well as the Bible's most famous ones. It supplies practical direction to anyone who aspires to be a more effective leader, showing that a "limping" leader can be the person God uses to accomplish amazing things.

This program is read by the author, inspirational business leader Russ Laraway. From the legendary Silicon Valley manager who inspired Radical Candor, the three simple rules for creating happy, engaged teams. Businesses everywhere are plagued by managers who seem to think that keeping their...

Essential guidance for navigating the modern workplace and mastering the communication styles needed to advance at each stage of your career. In our current AI-disrupted, hybrid/remote vascillating, generational-styles conflicted work environments, it has never been more difficult to understand...

Crafted with busy schedules in mind, “Kickstart Your Teen’s Career Exploration” offers short, easily digestible chapters. It is the tool you need to help your teen get started. This book intentionally does not cover every aspect of the career planning process. The goal is to help your teen narrow in on promising pathways and confidently declare, "I have a direction!"

We all need to pay bills and keep a roof over our head, but real satisfaction comes when we pursue careers filled with meaning and purpose according to God's plan for our lives. No matter where you're at now, you can find that kind of fulfillment in a career. This audiobook will show you how. Here's a hint: It's less about the kind of work you do, but how you do it and for whom you're doing it.

It’s harder today than ever before for independent filmmakers to make money with their films. From predatory film distributors ripping them off to huckster film aggregators who prey upon them, the odds are stacked against the indie filmmaker. The old distribution model for making money with your film is broken, and there needs to be a change.

In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories.

The calls stop. The structure disappears. But the mission isn’t over. For years, your life ran on purpose, responsibility, and a clear role. The job demanded your focus, your judgment, and your commitment. Then one day, the radio goes quiet. Retirement from law enforcement or emergency service isn’t just a career change. It’s a shift in identity, routine, and direction. Many first responders discover the hardest part isn’t leaving the job. It’s figuring out who you are without it. Still on Duty is a straight-talk guide written by a career law enforcement leader for those facing ...

If you're stuck in a quarter life crisis and can't explain why nothing feels settled, you're not broken. Every scroll shows someone your age with the job, the relationship, the life you don't have yet. The self-doubt gets louder every time you compare your unfinished story to their highlight reel. The Identity Crisis of Your 20s is a clear, research-backed guide through the career anxiety, comparison, and identity confusion defining this decade. No hollow affirmations. Just an honest explanation of what's actually happening, and what to do about it. Understand why a quarter life crisis is ...

Too many people fail to take control of their lives, allowing themselves to fall victim and accept whatever happens. When you choose to dream and defy the naysayers all around you can change direction and accomplish nearly anything you set out to achieve. In Changing Direction, Mary Miller lays out 10 choices anyone can make to impact his or her dreams. By concentrating on improving the future, you become a new, happier and more energized person.

Carl Lenocker is one of the world’s top Customer Success Executives—a self-made multimillionaire who built wealth, freedom, and purpose through discipline and design. But it didn’t start that way. Carl came from less than nothing. Raised in the back room of a motel, with a dive bar across the street serving as daycare, his childhood was defined by instability, grit, and survival. There were no trust funds, no safety nets—just love, resilience, and the determination to break the cycle. He did. Because life’s highway doesn’t care where you came from—it only cares where you’re going.

You’re a good leader, but leadership is challenging and can rattle your confidence. Setbacks, challenges, and problems can cause you to second-guess yourself, doubt, or pull back. Your confidence may be stretched thin, but there is a way to strengthen it. In Confident Leader!, Dan Reiland...