1st Place Winner - Best Business Book --- Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2024.

John Shen is unique among American entrepreneurs. Founder of five startups, he is a parallel entrepreneur, going far beyond the usual model of being a solo or serial entrepreneur. He is a first-generation entrepreneur who came to the US at the age of 23 and achieved the American Dream of success. Along the way, he also experienced total business collapse and knows what it is like to come back from failure, to cross the swamp.

In this book, John recounts his dramatic life story and the three phases of his extraordinary entrepreneurial journey to success. Through the chapters, he details the eight personal and business qualities that entrepreneurs must develop in order to achieve their highest goals. The book also contains John's advice on the special challenges faced by first-generation immigrant entrepreneurs.

Based on decades of his research in the medical literature on weight gain, obesity, and Type 2 diabetes, Dr. John Poothullil offers common sense but scientific-based advice on 7 ways to lose weight.

Readers will learn how they begin by reconnecting with their authentic weight -- the natural weight that they intuitively know best fits their body. Next, Dr. John discusses the reasons why people tend to overeat and how one must become aware of being truly hungry.

The third step reviews how to recognize the hunger and satisfaction signals that the brain sends us. One clue Dr. John teaches is to notice when each successive bite of food begins to taste not as good as the first bite. This is a signal to stop eating.

The fourth way to beat weight gain is to change one's long developed eating behaviors by unlearning the triggers to overeating and learning new habits. Dr. John provides tips on changing how one shops for food and eats in restaurants or at dinner parties. He discusses how not to be swayed by the advertising and marketing of food.

The fifth step is about realizing that the most substantial contribution to weight gain is eating too many carbs from grains like wheat, rice, and corn, as well as grain-flour products--breads, pizza, tortillas, muffins, doughnuts, and so on. It is grains, not fat from meat or dairy, that fills your fat cells and causes one to gain weight.

The sixth step is about eating a diverse diet, learning to read food labels, moderating alcohol consumption whose calories add to weight gain, and learning to eat mindfully.

The final step is about using exercise to be healthy but not to expect it to lead to weight loss. Reading this book will be life-changing for anyone who is gaining weight or who is already overweight or obese.

A Letter to the Pope - The Keeper of the Nest is a moving account of clergy child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. It is the story about what happened to my family, who were all victims of the Church's betrayal. It explains why I left the Church after learning about my brothers having been abused by a priest. But it is also a story about the power of forgiveness and renewed faith, and my hope for the future of the Church.

International Business Expansion: A Step-by-Step Guide to Launch Your Company Into Other Countries is intended to help you capitalize on these future opportunities. With a little bit of planning, companies of all sizes, including start-up organizations, can quickly become multinationals. As long as you are already generating revenue at home, setting up operations in foreign countries has never been easier.

Whether you are proactively looking for growth or reacting to competitive pressure, it's time to do something for the long-term success of your business. International Business Expansion will help you make intelligent, well-structured, strategic decisions as you expand your business. It provides a blueprint for:
- researching which markets to enter and when,
- setting clear and realistic goals that take into account the uniqueness of each market,
- evaluating various market entry options for both immediate or long-term expansion,
- financially modeling your international business, as ways of doing business differ by country, and
- growing your global business long-term so you can achieve more than just a one-time increase in revenue growth.

Expected Outcome
By the end of this book, you will have the tools to create the vision, build determination and plan your successful international expansion. Specifically, at the conclusion of this book you will be able to
- analyze which markets to enter,
- determine the best ways to enter each market,
- forecast the impact of global expansion on your overall business, and
- plan continued international growth.

If properly planned and executed, global business expansion can be very profitable!

Importance of International Expansion
Over the last 30 years, advances in technology, communications, and transportation have brought the world closer together. Innovations such as the Internet, jet aircraft, and wireless telephony have quickly lowered or even removed former barriers that hindered the flow of goods, capital, ideas, and people from one country to another. This process has entered a new word in our daily vocabulary: globalization. Today, international trade is no longer a luxury available to only Fortune 500 corporations. Companies of all sizes can easily take advantage of globalization and quickly become multinational organizations.

The importance of international markets will continue to grow. While the United States has the largest economy in the world, today its share of global GDP is down to 22% as other nations expand trade. And while the US GDP will continue to expand, its portion of the global economy will keep on shrinking. Over the next 20 years, we can expect the US GDP to fall to only 10 to 15% of the global economy.

The message is: the future is in international trade. By not expanding internationally, you will likely severely limit your business opportunities. For a US company, ignoring international markets means overlooking between 80% and 90% of the potential economic opportunity for growth. If you are a non US-based company focused only on your domestic market, the opportunity loss is even greater! Coupled with the increasing and more predictable global demand, the time is right for you to embrace international expansion.

By 2025, it seems likely that we will see more than 70% of successful companies with sales greater than $10 million to be multinationals with a dedicated presence in at least one other country outside their home nation. Over 50% of multinationals will have offices in at least three continents. Without a global presence, your company may end up being squeezed out of the market.

Achieve Beyond Expectations is an American Book Fest Finalist for Self-Help Motivational

Achieve Beyond Expectations is a no-nonsense call to action designed to inspire and inform you. Extraordinary achievement is dependent upon your mastery of 5 intangibles: self-awareness, emotional control, habits, expectations and self-efficacy. Discover how the achievers in this book conquered crushing obstacles by igniting their power within.

You will find the answers to these questions in this book:

- How do you eliminate self-imposed barriers to your success?

- What separates the extraordinary performer from the ordinary performer?

Bill Blokker, Ed.D. has decades of experience as a highly successful entrepreneur, leadership and performance consultant. Blokker provides research-based, detailed, practical and proven effective strategies to describe how you can control situations and your reaction to situations.

This book is not for the faint of heart. Blokker challenges you with many assessment and awareness activities so you better understand how you hinder your success with self-imposed barriers. He emphasizes that to succeed takes both time and effort. This how to book will direct your transformation to make the impossible, possible!

Looking for a spiritual adventure?

If you've never been on a true Vision Quest-or even if you have-you'll want to join Darrell Yardley on a spiritual journey in the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas. In this book, he shares his experiences, starting with Native American medicine man Strong Eagle's sweat lodge and then alone for four days amidst the cactus, encountering crazy itchy chiggers, chatting with his inquisitive visitor Lajitas Lizard, and suffering through hours of blasting heat. You might ask yourself, why would someone do something like this? Was he crazy? You will find those answers in Darrell's tale too.

Each day brings Darrell new insights. Guided by the Native American 4-direction medicine wheel, Darrell meets his personal Jungian archetypes: Turquoise Woman, Cougar, Wind Eagle, Bandido, and the dragon Chaos. Each offers a profound message about human consciousness and our existential quest for meaning.

Be at Darrell's side as he imagines a guru, by the name of Charles, sitting on his high spiritual mountaintop watching over Darrell during his Quest. The guru sparks us to ask: how can we too arrive at this higher level of spirituality? To this question, Darrell brings his background as an evolutionary biologist and explores the underlying science of the human drive for spirituality and an end to suffering. He poses questions, and draws some provocative conclusions, about what is real and what is not.

The Guru on the Mountain is a stimulating panorama of science and philosophy, full of wit, pathos, and inspiring visions. A spiritual adventure, funny and transformative, this is a journey you do not want to miss.

How You Lead Depends On You Putting the humanity back into leading: If you're seeking to take your leadership abilities to new heights that are effective and respected, this is the book for you This book was written with the reader in mind. The author wanted to put out a clear and concise book on leadership that was a easy ready where the reader could comprehend the information in a relatively short time. Drake Taylor has failed time and time again as a leader; yet never gave up and is now sharing his lessons with you. In this book he brings in his 15 years of experience in the United States Air Force and the difficulties he faced along the way and how he was able to remedy each situation through the use of one of his Four Hats. In the Four Hats You will learn: - How setting the right environment for your subordinates/ team is crucial. - How to draw out the best from your people. - That tough love is a must, but how it is applied is more important - How you connect with your subordinates makes all the difference. - Ensure you remember to take care of yourself.

The Other Side of Bipolar offers hope and a new perspective of mental illness that can help millions of people. A unique combination of memoir and self-help book, it invites us to reexamine our definitions of mental illness as a debilitating disease, and consider another possibility: what if instead of a wrongness, these symptoms point to capacities that are not yet fully understood? What if being bipolar or mentally ill is a sign that you have intelligences that others do not understand?
Through this new perspective, you can be empowered to go beyond any diagnosis or label you have been given and start to explore the uniqueness and beauty of who you truly are. Embedded throughout this poetic story are examples of tools and techniques you can apply immediately to begin to create a sense of peace and possibility in your life.
Lauren's story will captivate you and show you a path to finding peace and joy with being different, and ultimately how to utilize your difference to shift from surviving in this world to thriving and creating a satisfying life for yourself. You don't need to live a small, safe existence; you can go after your dreams, challenge yourself, and create a life far beyond what you may have thought is possible.
The Other Side of Bipolar sits apart from other autobiographical surveys of psychological struggles, offering readers the rare opportunity to explore and utilize many of the gifts formerly identified as disabilities. Any who have faced such a diagnosis will find this an inspiring, engrossing saga which offers hope, revelation, and much food for thought as it follows a journey that takes the identification of 'bipolar' and turns it upside down. -- Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

Surviving Cancer offers hope and a strategy for anyone who has been diagnosed with a solitary tumor.

In reading these pages, you will learn that the body can continue living while accommodating a solitary cancer. There are actions you can take that may prevent it from spreading, even if there are complications.

Surviving Cancer explains how you can change your diet and lifestyle habits to survive cancer -- to keep it from metastasizing and spreading to other organs in your body. Most of all, it will explain how you can literally starve cancer cells... forcing them to disappear or die.

The main focus of this book will teach you that diet is perhaps the key factor in defeating cancer, especially avoiding grains. Grains create enormous amounts of glucose in your bloodstream--and cancer cells thrive on glucose to survive and multiply. High blood sugar levels also encourage the body to release insulin, and again, this is a great danger to your cancer. Insulin promotes cell growth, including cancer cells.

The book provides insightful information on the causes of cancer, how it forms, how it may spread, and what you can do to control the cancer and return to a healthy life. The chapters also contain specific advice on avoiding exposure to environmental toxins; the value of sleep, exercise, and stress reduction; the use of spices in cooking; building good bacteria in your gut; and many other factors you con control that may help prevent a cancer from spreading to other parts of the body.

This book is for anyone who has cancer localized to a single site and not yet colonized in another part of the body. It is also for anyone who believes they are at risk of cancer due to heredity, lifestyle, working conditions, or for any other reason.

Surviving Cancer is also especially important for anyone with Type 2 diabetes, with or without cancer, to learn about the link between the two.If you have diabetes, this is an important cautionary book to read to prevent yourself from developing cancer.

La Diabetes Tipo 2 est increment ndose en las comunidades Hispanas y Latinas alrededor del mundo.
Aprenda c mo usted puede revertir la diabetes en forma f cil y mantenerse saludable. Usted o alg n ser querido en su familia tiene Diabetes Tipo 2? Si es as , deber a leer este libro.

Basado en veinte a os de estudios e investigaci n cient fica, el doctor Poothullil le brinda una nueva visi n sobre la causa REAL y la cura CORRECTA de la diabetes. Los endocrin logos sostienen que el cuerpo se vuelve resistente a la insulina, conllevando a un nivel alto del az car en la sangre. De acuerdo con estos doctores, el tratamiento del problema se resuelve con medicamentos o inyectando insulina.

El Dr. Poothullil revela la raz n por la que la teor a a la resistencia a la insulina no puede ser v lida. El problema REAL es la dieta moderna. La cura REAL de la diabetes es modificando lo que usted come, especialmente evitando el consumo de granos y productos elaborados con harinas de granos.

No se arriesgue a tener diabetes tipo 2 por el resto de su vida, sin importar su edad o por cu nto tiempo la ha tenido. Aprenda c mo puede usted revertir la diabetes usando 8 pasos simples en s lo 8 semanas y, de esta forma, mejorar la calidad de su vida y restablecer su salud.

THE WINNER OF FOUR NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS and a #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER, this book vividly brings to life 50 years of leadership and life lessons, told in a compelling and sometimes very personal way. A master storyteller, the author does this in 24 easily digestible chapters, starting with character, the basic building block for all great leaders. From there, he addresses the importance of trust, four different methods of mentoring, delivering under pressure, setting organizational expectations, breaking down cultural barriers, effective communications, leaving a legacy, risk management, and many more topics that have everyday application for all of us.

Widely acclaimed by dozens of corporate leaders and senior military leaders, he has the unique ability to connect to readers through storytelling and takeaways that anyone can then apply: in the corporate world, the non-profit community, or simply in your everyday life. Two bonus appendices are included that are tools he personally used as a senior leader in the military: his Philosophy of Command -- time tested over 30 years -- and a self-reflection on himself as a leader titled Whelden on Whelden.

You will not be disappointed!

FROM THE BACK COVER:

Craig Whelden is a true servant leader, with this book representing the latest chapter in his life of service. -- Pete Geren, Former Secretary of the Army

If you have even the slightest interest in the art of inspiring people, this is a must read. -- GENERAL Gordon Sullivan, 32d Army Chief of Staff

Filled with inspirational leadership nuggets for everyone. -- GENERAL Ann Dunwoody, America's first female four-star general

Leadership does not exist in a vacuum, it is as effective as one's ability to communicate, motivate, and activate. That's Craig!' -- Jennifer Sabas, Chief of Staff for Daniel K. Inouye, former U.S. Senator and Medal of Honor recipient

Time spent with this book will be time well spent.-- ADMIRAL Tim Keating, U.S. Navy (retired)

This book will become a ready reference for leadership challenges throughout your life. -- Lieutenant General Terry Guts Robling, USMC (retired)

The three people I most enjoy listening to and learning from: Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, and Craig Whelden. -- Roger Cross, Birmingham, England

Wild and Still is a sensitive and engaging collection of poems exploring the intersection of ordinary life and spiritual discovery. Maryann's work speaks softly yet deeply about both human nature and the natural world. Her poems invite readers to return to the place that has always been within, often using the natural world as a bridge. Wild and Still is approachable, reflective, and uplifting.