Mentor Creatives

New York Times bestselling author, humorist, and speaker Michael Perry delivers real-world lessons on leadership, creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurship. Entertaining and fundamentally useful no matter the form of art or business you pursue, Improbable Mentors & Happy Tangents is a masterclass in identifying unexpected opportunities and concludes with a chapter titled, “The Most Improbable Mentor Move of All.” This witty and insightful book details how unlikely encounters shape creativity, business, and life.

"A practical, compassionate, and energizing blueprint for anyone who thinks they've started too late.” Sam Dogen, Financial Samurai Did you navigate career and family demands, health crises, and divorce in midlife, and now retirement seems like an impossible dream? Or did you hit your 40s or 50s trying to catch up financially, but the jargon is confusing, the strategies assume advantages you never had, and you have no time to figure it all out? Meanwhile, that nagging voice whispers, "Is this all there is? Will I work until I die?" Tim Wells experienced that same panic at 45. Despite a ...

On one of the best days of his life as an entrepreneur, Mark Timm found himself sitting in his car at the end of his driveway. In just a minute he would go into the house and greet his wife and children. But as he basked in the success he'd just had, he also had to face a surprising realization...

Having a mentor is important for personal and career growth, but this statement sounds too ambiguous at times. How do you really put into practice what you hear from your mentors? For some, the question is more about how to get a mentor or how to be an effective mentor for others in the first place. This book is a practical guide on how to get a mentor, become a mentor, and drive an effective mentoring relationship that brings results and growth to your life. This guide is useful whether you have no concrete idea of what a mentoring relationship can do for you and others, or if you are well...

Put an amazing team of accelerator Startup Mentors in your corner with this entrepreneurial guidebook to help accelerate your Startup! Every new business founder benefits from mentors—and this book brings together the wisdom of many, all in one place. NUMBER 1 NEW RELEASE in multiple categories. “Michael Lyon has written a grounded, practical guide that distills years of accumulated wisdom from what I believe is one of the world’s most collaborative yet ambitious startup ecosystems. Whether you're a first-time founder or a seasoned mentor, an inventor or an investor, an engineer or a ...

Leadership expert and executive coach Amy Jen Su believes creating boundaries can not only be beneficial to your career but can make you a better leader. In this interview, she shows you how to find your purpose and stick to it - giving techniques to safeguard against diversions and interruptions that might take you away from your goals. Whether you’re focusing on projects you’re leading or on building your career, Su demonstrates that setting boundaries helps you prioritize, keeps you energized, and sets you up for success.

The bestselling co-author of the legendary The One Minute Manager and a former Twitter executive join forces to create the ultimate guide to creating powerful mentoring relationships. While most people agree that having a mentor is a good thing, they don’t know how to find one or use one...

From "the most exciting individual in American theater" ( Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life.

Many of our nation's men and women exit the military without a clue of what to do next. Others pursue their passions, doing everything they can to break into the life they've always dreamed of. This book provides guidance on how to follow your passions, and includes interviews with military veterans who have gone on to creative careers.

The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time. Using simple tools and proven strategies, this essential guide shows you how to leverage the relationships you already have to map out a new developmental network that grows with your career.

The successful self-published author of The Sales Leaders Playbook writes his first mainstream leadership book There are enormous differences between managing and coaching. Yet many companies and organizations encourage their leaders to coach teams without ever teaching them how and without...

Read by the author. Mining the best and brightest revelations from FranklinCovey’s global podcast, On Leadership with Scott Miller, Scott personally introduces you to 30 Master Mentors, featuring the single most transformative insight from each of them. Depending on where you are in your...

A Modern Guide to Homesteading is your audio companion for creating a more self-sufficient, sustainable life—right where you are. Whether you’re on a city balcony or a rural plot, this guide shows you how to take practical steps toward a lifestyle that feeds your family, your values, and your sense of purpose. Even with limited time, space, or budget, you’ll learn how to transform your home into a productive homestead—one manageable step at a time.

This book can change your life. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, and our creative sparks are smoldering beneath layers of fear and lack of confidence. Gail McMeekin's book blasts through that and gets you excited again about your potential. McMeekin interviews 31 of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success.

El coautor best seller del legendario El mánager al minuto y una exejecutiva de Twitter unen fuerzas para crear una guía esencial para crear poderosas relaciones de enseñanza. Mientras que la mayoría de personas concuerda que tener un mentor es algo bueno, no saben cómo encontrar o...

Hot to the touch, a seductive modern gothic about a promising young filmmaker at a famous director’s summer home In the midst of an unrelenting heat wave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the summer home of her idol. Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist director known for mentoring other...

Everyone wants to be a writer, and they want to know what they can do to make that dream come true. However, most aspiring writers do not understand how to position themselves so they are ready when presented with an opportunity. They identify themselves as writers but have no writing samples, or their websites and social media talk all about their paintings or music but say nothing of who they are as writers.

Do you find it challenging to inspire your team and foster innovation in the workplace? Are you struggling to develop effective leadership skills that drive success? Many leaders face obstacles in empowering their teams and cultivating a culture of creativity and collaboration. They often search for answers in the wrong places, focusing solely on traditional leadership methods or relying on individual efforts rather than team dynamics. But true leadership excellence comes from understanding how to empower and innovate within a team context. Do you want to unlock the secrets to effective ...

Are you trying to decide what brokerage is right for you? Are you jumping around from brokerage to brokerage hoping it will be better somewhere else only to find out you have new problems to deal with? Are you discouraged of the industry because you’re not yet living the ultimate agent lifestyle that you desired when you got into this business? This honest and easy-to-follow book will show you how to put your values and goals at the top of your agenda. The reason agents fail in real estate is usually due to a misalignment between the agent and their brokerage. When an agent is not ...

In this sequel to Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books, Stephan and Justin continue to bring you industry advice as well as interviews with screenwriters, video game writers, and authors of books and comics. These writers' credits include such amazing titles as: Big Fish; Batman; Game of Thrones; The Crow; Divergent; Brave; Yesterday's Gone; Sandman Slim; Jurassic World; and many more!