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Are you ready to live your best life and do your best work?

Then it's time to take a holistic look at your lived experiences and how they affect your thoughts, decisions and actions. We must acknowledge our patterns and habits, accept past hurts and present problems, and work to understand our dreams, fears, and limiting beliefs.

Take It All Apart is for you if you-

-Want to understand yourself better and live more effectively

-Are seeking insights, principles, tools, and a framework to help you create a specific plan for your life and reach your goals

-Are feeling uncomfortable about seeking personal and/or professional help from others and want to find a safe way to explore key issues in your life and work

-Are a leader who has achieved success and now wants to take things to the next level while staying true to yourself

After reading Take It All Apart, you will feel inspired, empowered, and acquire new levels of clarity and confidence. You will understand what you need to do to become your best self regardless of your circumstances.

Lindsay Leahy is the author of the blog Grit, Gratitude, and Grace and founder of The Restoration Project.

For additional tools, resources, and services to support you on your life and leadership journey or to order more copies of this book, please visit www.the-restorationproject.com.

It's often reported that the number one fear among American adults is public speaking. But in today's competitive business world, effective communication is a crucial skill, and the cost of being less than effective is quite high. From the White House to boardrooms worldwide, Tim Koegel has strengthened presentations, media relations and communications skills of CEOs and world leaders alike with his renowned coaching abilities. His new book, The Exceptional Presenter lays out his techniques in a format perfectly suited to today's busy world.

Award-winning speakers and faculty Ashley Budd and Dayana Kibilds reveal the secrets to email marketing success

Email is far from dead. With billions of emails sent to and from individuals around the world each day, there is more email now than ever before. Authors Ashley Budd and Dayana Kibilds long for the early You've got mail! days of email when writing and receiving messages was a joy. Today, readers describe their inbox experience as an overwhelming time suck.

Mailed It! acknowledges that most emails are hard to read, hard to understand, and hard to care about. Readers spend mere seconds glancing at each email before they decide to engage, delete, or worse! The good news is that humans are predictable, and you can use tested email strategies and writing techniques to overcome modern inbox woes.

Mailed It! changes everything by

- showing how to craft and send the most effective emails possible,

- assisting email marketers in improving results,

- demonstrating how to use emails to build trusting relationships.

Mailed It! isn't about gimmicks. It's about investing in email as a serious part of your marketing mix and setting up a solid foundation that works. Once you've done that, you won't believe the results.

Sometimes it's good to have your head in the stars.

Quinn Knight, a new sixth-grader at Hill Springs Middle School in Central Texas, has always been a little different. Not only is she an astrophotographer who battles chronic migraine headaches, she's recently discovered that the stars-the Pleiades constellation, to be exact-are trying to tell her something.

Someone is threatening Quinn's older sister, eighth-grade social butterfly Vivica, and Quinn realizes the clever constellation is revealing the clues she needs to save her sister! But she can't let anyone know she's having cosmic conversations-making it in middle school is hard enough as it is-so Quinn keeps the secret message-sending stars under wraps. Soon, Quinn and her new friends, Tiya and Xavier, are hot on the trail of Vivica's mysterious tormentor. But sometimes, there are more questions than answers written in the stars.

Will Quinn's artistic scientist powers of observation and creative thinking be enough to solve the case, or will Vivica's nemesis knock her off her social throne in epic fashion? Join Quinn and her quirky family and friends to find out if the stars will align in this exhilarating mystery of cosmic proportions.

Enjoy the Mouth Health You Deserve

Dr. Ellie challenges the traditional dental mantra that tells us to brush and floss because she believes it is dangerous advice and ineffective in light of our understanding that cavities and gum disease are bacterial infections. Oral health depends on the development of a bacterial balance in the mouth, and this cannot be achieved with a length of floss, by over-zealous cleaning, or indiscriminate killing of mouth bacteria.

Our mouth ecology develops early in life as bacteria transfer between parents and their babies. This exchange is important and continues throughout life as family and friends kiss, talk, or simply share food. Today we know that harmful mouth bacteria can impact our general health and that some are implicated in chronic inflammatory conditions. A healthy mouth will give you a brighter smile and provide special protection from cavities, gum disease, bad breath, sensitivity, and enamel erosion to ultimately limit your need for dental treatments--including cleanings, fillings, sealants, root canals, crowns, implants, and extractions.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Ellie shares her easy-to-follow strategies that put oral health under your control. She reveals how to:

- Stop and reverse cavities and gum disease

- Use diet and digestive health to influence saliva quality and promote tooth and gum healing

- Enjoy xylitol to control acidic damage and sensitivity

- End the discomfort of dry mouth and gum recession

- Avoid damage caused by flossing

- Evaluate sealants and their potential dangers

- Learn the dangers of artificial whitening and how to naturally whiten your teeth

Mouth Care Comes Clean can empower you and lead you to a new level of oral health. The strategies are simple but they can miraculously transform mouth health.

A spiritual every-human story filled with hope, the magic of love, and the healing powers of the divine feminine

Yoga teacher Ren Devlin's life is forever changed after he performs what the world proclaims to be a miracle in front of hundreds of shocked onlookers. Lauded as a spiritual healer, Ren is thrust into the limelight, along with his beloved life partner, Sean.

Amidst the chaos, Ren seeks answers through deep meditation, during which he encounters his council-the gods and goddesses of the zodiac. Led by Saturn and Venus, Ren's astrological council steers him down a path of spiritual healing to work through the kleshas-the five mental afflictions responsible for suffering. To find peace, Ren must face his childhood religion of Catholicism and its negative and repressive views toward the LGBTQ+ community and women, battle his own ego, and come to terms with his fear of death and being alone without Sean.

Awakening the Mystic is an imaginative combination of philosophies and ideologies across numerous religions and cultures, as well as an exploration of higher consciousness, the practice of yoga and meditation, and a journey to discover what love and healing really mean.

The Lessons of the American Civilization tells the American story, from its tenuous beginnings to its confident rise to become the world's most dominant civilization. Historian Thomas Del Beccaro illuminates America's past and present with fresh comparisons to history's other great civilizations, illustrating the characteristics and lessons that civilizations share as they come together, rise, and fall. He then tells of the American experience, from Plymouth Rock to the technological revolution, in light of many important lessons of the past.

Along the way, Del Beccaro provides needed perspective on such topics as:

- Whether America is exceptional compared to other civilizations

- Capitalism's most important legacy of making democracy possible

- The danger centralization of power in government presents

- What America's political and class division says about the trajectory of the civilization

- What lies ahead for the country

For the everyday reader and historian alike, this book is a thoughtful and thorough examination of where America has been and where it is going.

How Do You Plan Your Path?

Are you thinking about pursuing higher education or a career? Do you wish someone would give you a road map to help with your questions, doubts, and fears? In Camino Forward, Miguel Romano, Jr., collects the experiences of community leaders who overcame financial, educational, and cultural challenges to lead inspirational lives and careers. The life stories of diverse leaders shared in this book provide examples of how to:

--Discover who you are, what your passions are, and ways to turn that knowledge into a career

--Harness family sacrifices and expectations as motivation

--Take pride in your background and differences while utilizing them to find new avenues of possibility

--Find the courage and self-confidence to make difficult decisions

--Prepare yourself to pursue opportunities

--Give back to the families and communities that shape your journey

Anyone planning their future (or helping someone plan theirs) will find valuable insight and perspective from the journeys of role models who once struggled with the same uncertainties that come with taking the next step forward.

It's time to check in.

When's the last time you checked in? No, not at a hotel. When's the last time you checked in with your own goals, plans, and aspirations for the future?

In Checking In, Stephen J. Cloobeck-entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder and former CEO and chairman of Diamond Resorts International-invites you to check in with yourself to take stock of where you are, where you want to go, and, most importantly, how to actually get there.

Drawing from the hotel, accommodation, and travel worlds in which he built his success, Cloobeck shares one-of-a-kind business experiences and life lessons, demonstrating how a radical customer service mindset-what he calls the Meaning of Yes-can substantively change both personal and professional outcomes.

Make no mistake-this is straight-talk from one of the best. Cloobeck may be known for being tough, opinionated, and unabashedly competitive, but he's also developed a philosophy of hospitality-driven thinking relevant to anyone looking to find success on their terms. Part strategy directive, part leadership coaching, part memoir, Checking In will change how you approach people, problems, and possibilities.

Written for everyone who wants more out of life, Checking In calls you to view the world through the lens of hospitality-driven thinking, to make the most out of opportunities others miss, to take well-placed bets on yourself, and to say yes to the right risks at the right time. These are the practical business insights and all-too-real anecdotes you didn't know you needed from a source you'd never expect.

This book will disrupt how you think about creating your best work life and workplace and give you a no-B.S. road map to get you there.

What you've been taught about how to find health and happiness at work is inaccurate. Yep, it's wrong. If you are fed up with the overwhelming and conflicting noise around how to create a fulfilling professional life or be a leader people actually want to work for, this book will help you cut through the clutter once and for all.

Through years of research and truth-finding, Kelly Mackin and her company, Motives Met, have discovered a completely new mindset and approach around what well-being at work is all about, how to get there, and why it's so important that we do get there.

This book is a transformative personal guide; but it's also a call to action for a fundamental shift in our approach to work-a manifesto for a human-centered work world. The heart of humanizing work is honoring that we are human beings at work with human needs, and these needs-what Mackin refers to as motives-should be healthy and, ideally, thriving. Ill-being still drastically overshadows well-being at work, but using Mackin's proven framework and 5-step pathway we can change that.

You will become empowered to

- elevate happiness, mental health, and well-being for yourself, the people you work with, and those you lead;

- learn to be mindful of, evaluate, and communicate motives, to ultimately meet them;

- create a people-first culture where employees thrive and business thrives;

- overcome well-being obstacles by eliminating the dream killers that threaten a human way of working;

- ditch surface-level connection and friction for more meaningful work relationships with psychological safety and trust.

And so much more!

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Are your motives met?

With your book purchase, you will receive your code to take the Motives Met Human Needs Assessment to uncover your top 5 motives, the psychological, emotional, and social human needs driving your ability to thrive at work today. The assessment reveals the unique truth of well-being for yourself, your team, and organization.

This book is a breath of fresh air that isn't about chasing perfection or some unrealistic ideal; it's about embracing what is genuinely possible. It's about the attainable dream of a work life well-lived for all.

Storybranding 2.0: The ultimate how-to book about brand storytellingBrand storytelling is all the rage in marketing. But few books explain how to go about cultivating and promoting that story. This is the book that does.StoryBranding 2.0 is an updated edition of the award-winning, best-selling book that has sparked enthusiasm among marketing luminaries, CEOs, entrepreneurs, and personal branding advocates.Developing your brand's story must start with an understanding of what a story really is and how it is structured. Then, using this essential structure as scaffolding, you can begin to answer specific questions that will help you develop your brand's most authentic story-the story that will do the most to capture the hearts and minds of prospects. As your brand sets out to overcome obstacles in order to achieve its goals, you will: - Be guided every step of the way towards defining who your brand is and why it exists.

- Learn how to use a unique immersion technique to achieve greater empathy with your most likely prospects.

- Know how to overcome controllable obstacles standing in the way of your brand's success.

- Learn how to tell your brand's story so that it truly resonates with prospects.

- Find ways to galvanize support for your brand's story throughout your organization.

- See how the StoryBranding process can be applied to you personally and in everyday selling situations.Written by a 40-year veteran of marketing and advertising who has worked on major national brands, this is the ultimate how-to brand-planning book for professionals and beginners alike. Besides being instructive and full of real-life examples, it is highly entertaining, as the author recounts experiences he's had during his long career as an advertising executive.

The Lessons of the American Civilization tells the American story, from its tenuous beginnings to its confident rise to become the world's most dominant civilization. Historian Thomas Del Beccaro illuminates America's past and present with fresh comparisons to history's other great civilizations, illustrating the characteristics and lessons that civilizations share as they come together, rise, and fall. He then tells of the American experience, from Plymouth Rock to the technological revolution, in light of many important lessons of the past.

Along the way, Del Beccaro provides needed perspective on such topics as:

- Whether America is exceptional compared to other civilizations

- Capitalism's most important legacy of making democracy possible

- The danger centralization of power in government presents

- What America's political and class division says about the trajectory of the civilization

- What lies ahead for the country

For the everyday reader and historian alike, this book is a thoughtful and thorough examination of where America has been and where it is going.

When greed, the law, and secrets collide someone is going to get hurt.

Two lonely people meet in the workplace and become close. Jason Erickson is a state judge hearing environmental cases who's getting unwelcome political pressure. Tara Highsmith is an environmental journalist covering some of Jason's cases, though she's soon to be exiled to the Science and Health beat. As their relationship develops, Jason and Tara discover shared passions for the Wisconsin wilderness, their book club, and each other. But Tara is married.

Meanwhile, Jason grows increasingly concerned about a strange conversation with an attorney. Was it an attempt at a bribe? Jason finds himself embroiled in several high-stakes ethical dilemmas involving powerful political figures, groundwater polluters, a corrupt developer, and his feelings for Tara. As he fights to stay true to his personal and professional principles, the list of Jason's enemies swells. Before long, shots are fired.

Full of intrigue, passion, and suspense, Blue Lake sets the stage for a thrilling mystery set against the rich beauty of black spruces, white pines, and austere Upper Midwest lakes. This is a compelling and richly layered story about nature and our place within it that lands with rare emotional depth.

Create and maintain a high performance family office and build a legacy

Family offices are business entities built to primarily support a family's wealth. Several trillions of dollars of wealth are concentrated in a small number of these offices globally. Yet often, family offices are not successfully passed on from one generation to another, creating disruption for family members, the ecosystem of providers, and broader society.

Scott Saslow is a family office principal who has experienced the building-and rebuilding-of his family office many times. Unlike many family office books written by non-family advisors, this book is written by an insider who knows what worked and what didn't. Along with the expertise of dozens of family office principals and top service professionals, Saslow shows how to

- identify a unique and compelling purpose for the family office, which engages the next generation;

- manage some of the interpersonal challenges inherent when working with family members;

- create high performance family offices that make a difference for family and the broader society.

Written for both the new and experienced family office principal, Building a Sustainable Family Office will inform and inspire with an insider's view of the opportunities and challenges of building a family office that lasts.

Reframing Our Impact on Humanity

Are you finding it difficult to positively engage with people who view the world differently than you do?

Do you feel the heaviness of our societal and political divides?

Have you seen evidence of the erosion of humanity?

The important work of human and cultural understanding has been nested in thorny political agendas that often don't invite healthy exchange. Rather than feed into the political divide, Dr. Kyle Reyes presents an approach to understanding differences that prioritizes humanity.

The framework and structure of this book are born from the belief in lens development-the deliberate effort to see things anew-because when we see things anew, a change in our behavior follows. Humanity requires work unique to the individual and the collective, and Dr. Reyes introduces a new framework that invites us to improve how we show up in the world and engage with others.

Personal growth and transformation come from honest reflection and self-analysis. In Lenses of Humanity, Dr. Reyes illustrates how we can improve and develop more human understanding, embrace humane practices, and find deeper connections across differences so we can be more deliberate in living our lives with greater humanity.

When there are rumors that your lady parts will crush a man's package, finding love can be difficult.

Superspeed, incredible strength, a foul mouth-these are thirty-one-year-old superhero Birdie Bowden's powers. Although Birdie boasts a perfect save record as Chicago's municipal super, her bad attitude and latest, now viral, run-in with a local menace lead the mayor to place her on suspension.

Forced into therapy in a small beachside suburb, the solitary Birdie meets eccentric, bubbly housekeeper Evie. Adrift without her job, Birdie leaves her superhero identity behind and accepts Evie's invitation to stay with her for the summer cleaning beach cabins while working the therapy program as a means to get her job back. The only snag in her plan is Aiden, Evie's ill-tempered, unfairly handsome brother and cabin owner. Focused on helping his sister wage her own battle of healing, Aiden finds Birdie to be an irksome, unwelcome influence and doesn't hesitate to tell her so. But that's fine with Birdie-her natural ability to constantly get a rise out of grumpy Aiden may be her greatest superpower yet.

As Birdie fumbles through her therapist's ridiculous get-to-know-the-real-Birdie assignments, she feels a growing connection to her new life, including the increasingly alluring Aiden, and a yearning for more than being a super. But she can't have both lives, and she'll never reveal her true identity-because the only thing faster than her own speed is how quickly people, particularly men, leave when they realize Birdie is not your typical heroine.

Do you want to be able to constructively manage change, transform challenges into opportunities, and achieve professional success and personal fulfillment?

The key is resilience!

Authors Beth Benatti Kennedy, Karthik Venkatakrishnan, and Songmao (Ben) Zheng, with a shared passion for helping others succeed, have focused for years on discovering what builds resilience. In this pivotal guidebook, they share their resilience-boosting best practices, curated from the breadth of their professional experiences across diverse sectors of practice and unique life journeys.

ReThink Resilience provides 99 actionable and practical suggestions for boosting resilience that can be readily integrated into your work and life. These boosters focus on the five strategies of the Benatti Resiliency Model(R)-Well-being, Self-awareness, Brand, Connection, and Innovation. Developed by Beth Benatti Kennedy over her 25 years of leadership coaching, this model has helped thousands of people develop the resilience to adapt to changing circumstances, remain productive and engaged, and find greater life and career satisfaction. ReThink Resilience also includes inspiring perspectives and stories from 16 Resilience Champions, people known to the authors who model resilience.

Start boosting your resilience today with ReThink Resilience!

ReThink Resilience offers a transformative approach to building resilience in both personal and professional life. This book is a valuable resource for fostering growth and fulfillment.

-Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times best-selling author of The Earned Life

Beth and her co-authors share hard-won wisdom in very relatable, short chunks filled with practical suggestions that even the most experienced professionals can benefit from implementing!

-Dr. Deborah Dunsire, Chairperson, Neurvati Neurosciences; Former CEO, H. Lundbeck A/S

Can we ever rediscover the lost pieces of ourselves that time and tragedy have stolen?

Midcoast Maine, 1992. A fragile veil separates a seemingly idyllic small town from dark secrets lying just beneath. After his sister's untimely death, life holds little meaning for teenaged CJ Slater. Numb, withdrawn, and plagued with self-doubt, CJ finds himself drawn into a dangerous mystery when he meets the enigmatic Izzy.

Izzy believes the birthmark over her heart is a scar from when she was killed in a previous life. After a cataclysmically traumatic childhood, she ran away from home and dedicated herself to finding the person she believes to have brutally murdered her previous incarnation. While CJ does not believe in reincarnation, he believes in Izzy. Convinced she has tracked the killer to CJ's town, the two slowly start to unravel the mystery and unwittingly unearth insidious and perilous secrets.

At once a gripping mystery, a moving coming-of-age tale, and a philosophical examination of the human condition, Even After Always explores how we can recover what time takes away. It is an affirmation of the redemptive power of love and the belief in ourselves and each other.

A Death in Durango is an epic novel telling the story of the Vanderhorns and Stricklands, two family dynasties whose battles helped shape the history of southwest Colorado. The investigation into a mysterious death leads to a rich journey through the truth, legends, and lies of the Old West. This fast-paced romp through the events that shaped the West after the Civil War and up to the present day includes shoot outs, train robberies, archaeological discoveries, range wars, captive rescues, runaways, and gold.

Along the way, the story encounters real people out of the pages of history like Charles Goodnight, Chief Ouray, Butch Cassidy, and Teddy Roosevelt. A Death in Durango is a love letter to the people and spirit of the Animas Valley, where the history is still being made and the Wild West remains.

All author profits from book sales will be donated to the Community Foundation of Southwest Colorado.

A must-read for all middle market company leaders

In Completing the Deal, investment banker, founder, and author Matt Andersen brings us a must-read for all middle market company leaders. The wisdom found in this book comes from decades of experience, accomplishments, and the lessons Matt has learned along the way, and it is built on foundational principles of capital raising and M&A transactions. In this valuable book, Mr. Andersen shares the wealth of knowledge he's gleaned from operating with middle market businesses and their unique challenges and opportunities in the capital markets.