Category: Empowerment

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When the Shoe Fits…: Essays of Love, Life and Second Chances

Inspiring. Empowering. A resounding memoir of reinvention.

When a hard fall from a tall horse landed Mary T. Wagner—then a freelance writer and a soccer mom with four young children—in a body cast for three months with a broken back, she didn’t take it as a sign to ease back on the throttle. Instead, she changed careers, went to law school, took a job as a criminal prosecutor, and bought her first pair of spike heels. And THEN she started writing again.

More than a dozen national and regional writing awards later, Wagner has compiled this “best of” collection of her inspiring and empowering essays from her first three books, and added a few more for good measure. Wagner’s earlier books, “Running with Stilettos,” “Heck on Heels” and “Fabulous in Flats,” earned recognition for humor, inspiration and memoir, and their kudos included both an Indie Excellence Award and a silver IPPY. Two were finalists in ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Awards. Her legal experience has been similarly eclectic, ranging from handling speeding tickets to arguing cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court…sometimes in the same week!

In essays ranging widely from “Turbo Dating—the Year in Review” to “Riding Pillion,” “The Limoncello Diaries” and “Angels in the Snow,” Wagner’s signature writing style combines humor, insight, and grace under pressure. Whether reflecting on subjects as diverse as motherhood, the view from the back of a Harley, the impending loss of a parent or the therapeutic effects of a post-divorce bonfire, Wagner’s inspiring and empowering essays resonate with universal experiences of love, life and reinvention. A must-read for any woman who’s asked herself “is there at least one more dream I can reach for?”… and then answered “YES!!”

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I Got This!

During the drama of the campaign of 2016, I made a conscious choice to focus on Love, the many faces of love instead of the negative voices. I used the tools of words and art in a healing practice that I have developed over twenty-five years as an expressive arts therapist. I explored: romantic love, fears about love, feeling lit up within, what I call “heart fire” and much more. I drew on universal themes such as: loneliness, what is unconditional love?, self-love, self-empowerment, feelings, identity, home, choices and more. As I reached one-hundred and fifty blog posts, I decided to put together a book on self-love and self-empowerment called I Got This! I include writing from the blog but also writing from twenty-five years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, two years ago… I decided not to wait for an agent or publisher, but to publish myself with the help of an editor friend. I Got This! is something I have always wanted to write and to share part of my journey. I made a conscious choice to show up for myself. I created the keys to my own life by writing this book. This process makes me feel like I can do even more. I Got This!

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The Journalist

When a young, naive woman, Zoey Hubbard, fresh out of college with a degree in Journalism, lands her only job offer at a small newspaper in Hampshire County, she reluctantly takes it. The daughter of a famed journalist, she feels above reporting the obituaries and happenings of the small towns in the county, and dreams of moving on to a large, prestigious paper in a major city as soon as possible. But shortly after she is hired, a man comes into the newspaper office with a shocking story that would rattle the small burg of Chester to its core and immerse Zoey in the community in ways she could not have predicted. With the guidance of her wise boss, Bailey Bothwell, and the assorted characters she meets through the newspaper and the investigative team she helps create, Zoey grows in ways she never imagined, and begins to feel a sense of belonging that complicates her dream of big city reporting.

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Self Empowerment for Leadership (Personal and Business)

This is the third book in a series by Wendy Mackay, a massively personal coach who specialises in overcoming mind and habitual behavioural conditioning that holds people back from achieving success in any area of life: financial, health, business, happiness, weight management and more. She has overcome so many challenges herself, has intricate personal experience of all forms of control conditioning and recognition that makes her an expert in her field and her extremely finely-tuned listening and translation skills are a gift that helps many of her personal and group clients to create major changes. She is also an accomplished Law of Attraction expert and successfully operates all of the spiritual laws in her daily life and willingly makes sense of them for others to follow in their daily lives too. It’s life changing.

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Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their own lives and careers.
 
You don’t need dozens or hundreds of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell, you don’t even need one. You just need to be confident, savvy, and ready to get out there and make your success happen. You need to find your inner Boss Bitch — your most confident, savvy, ambitious self—and own it.
 
A Boss Bitch is the she-ro of her own story. She is someone who takes charge of herself and her future and embraces being a “boss” in all senses of the word: whether as the boss of her own life, a boss at work, or the literal boss of her own company (or all three). Whichever she chooses, being a Boss Bitch isn’t something to apologize for—it’s something to be proud of!
 
We all have what it takes to be a boss bitch, says Lapin. The problem is: we don’t learn how to do it in school. Even if we study business, we’re not getting enough real-deal business education. Until now. Here, Lapin draws on raw and often hilariously real stories from her own career and experiences starting businesses—the good, the bad, and the ugly—to show what it means to be a “boss” in twelve easy steps. In her refreshingly honest and relatable style, she first shows how to embrace the boss-of-you mentality by seizing the power that comes from believing in yourself and expanding your personal skillset. Then she offers candid no-nonsense advice on how to kill it as the boss at work whether you have a high-up role or not. And finally, for those who want to take the plunge as an entrepreneur, she lays out the nuts and bolts of how to be the boss of your own business—from raising money and getting it off the ground to hiring a kickass staff and dealing office drama to turning a profit.
 
Being a rock star in your career is something that should be worn as a badge of honor.  Here Lapin shows how to crush it in our careers like like a Boss Bitch!

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UNlearning UNworthiness: The Journey to Becoming Intentional About Self-Love and Personal Development.

Throughout our lives we’ve been taught things designed to show us who we are, how we should evolve, and what we should aspire to be. Family, educational systems and culture all contribute to the instruction by teaching us the value of our being and individual worth. The key questions is have they been the best teachers for each lesson? In this book, this question and others, will be answered and lifelong perceptions about yourself will be challenged as you begin the detoxing of the soul while UNlearning UNworthiness™.

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The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis

A life crisis can be a divorce, disease, the death of a loved one or a devastation of some kind that can completely unravel us. It can also be a mid-life crisis where suddenly we start questioning what we’ve been doing, and how we’ve been living as we feel the undeniable urge calling us to live more deeply and fully. It can cause us to question everything we’ve known and everything that’s been familiar as we struggle to make sense of what happened. It can also cause us to face that fork in the road as we consider next steps and a path different from the one we were on and one that can take us to find our greatest passion and purpose. How can you use this crisis as an opportunity to rebuild your body, mind and life and create something even better than before? The Unshakable Woman will show you how.

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Personal Empowerment For Your Inner Self

“Personal Empowerment for Your Inner Self” displays willingness to overcome circumstances by believing in “yourself” and moving forward through life’s journey to develop the freedom to soar to your highest level in life. Be open and receptive to people who have faith in your talents and skills; they will mentor and enhance your abilities throughout life.