Career Development Women

Life really does begin at 50! A must read for anyone wondering what to do in the second half of life... Are you at a crossroad wondering what's next for you? You might be stuck in a rut or experiencing a life event that's forcing you to make a change. Age 50 - and even 60 - is a perfect time to redesign your life, but how will you know the path that's right for you? The first place to start is your passions, but passion is often not enough, unless that passion is your purpose. We seldom have certainty of what our true purpose is, but life leaves clues that we often overlook. Those clues are...

Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures - at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut, expert advice aimed at this dynamic female audience?

Are you ready for a change? Are you excited to take on a new challenge? Is this point in life the time to dust yourself off and start all over again?Gold in the Golden Years provides options for flexibility and allows you to take charge of your own life and business. This book is broken down into four sections with easy steps, which will help you stay focused, organized, and ensure your right path. Gold in the Golden Years is a blueprint for your dream lifestyle business with special features for women over 50.

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers, she traces the patterns and themes underlying women's power, choices, love, sex, money, and other vital topics.

After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and her column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out. You'll be excited and motivated to state your difference clearly to the world--and your neighborhood--while confidently selling yourself and your business.

Cuando Ana Victoria García -fundadora de la primera academia de negocios para mujeres Victoria 147 y tiburona en la primera temporada de Shark Tank México- notó la falta de representación femenina en el ecosistema emprendedor, entendió cuál era su misión.

New Rules of the Game provides insights, tips and direction to women in business, based on experiences from author and HGTV co-founder Susan Packard's own 30 year career, along with a dozen other prominent executives. Packard advocates for a revolutionary new perspective for businesswomen, which she calls "gamesmanship" - a strategic way of thinking that cultivates creativity, focus, optimism, teamwork, and competitiveness.

Dinah Lin is the living proof it’s never too late…for anyone. Now in her 70s, she has become a published author and begun a new career. Daring to Dream Once Again shares her amazing journey—spanning seven decades and six countries. What was it like growing up in a small town in Ohio as the only Asian family and living in Asia for 15 years raising two young children? How did she make the transition from housewife and social hostess to the senior executive levels in both corporate American and in Washington, DC, then leave everything behind to move to Beijing for a decade?

Part self-help manual, part inspiration, This Is Not the Career I Ordered is narrated by the author, Caroline Dowd-Higgins, and is a must-listen for those contemplating a career change. It's like having your own personal career coach to help you thrive.

Lydia Fenet, Senior Vice President of Christie's and seasoned auctioneer, shares the secrets of success and the strategies behind her revolutionary sales approach to show you how to embrace and channel your own power in any room. Who is the most powerful woman in the room? She's the one who can raise a million dollars in a minute. She's the one who can command the attention of a crowd of any size, from one person to a crowd of 5,000. She's the one who can sell anything to anyone just by asking. She can be you.

Moms often face the choice between continuing to work or staying home with their children. They believe they must separate their business and personal worlds. Either choice leaves a part of their heart behind. It doesn’t have to be this way! In Motherhood, Apple Pie, and All That Happy Horseshit, best-selling author and seven-figure entrepreneur Cyndi Thomason shows you how to use your personal values to create the business of your dreams, one that supports your family without sacrificing yourself.

Sharing your creative and entrepreneurial ventures online can feel like traversing a rough and uncharted ocean, full of setbacks and obstacles that might sink your ship. Unless you have an experienced friend to help you navigate it. Someone who will show you the ropes and share the map. Pulling from the collective wisdom of creatives and entrepreneurs of every strip, Jillian compiled this guidebook. If you ever wanted to go out to coffee and “pick the brain” of someone who has successfully navigated this creative entrepreneurial life, this is your chance.

When kindness becomes your primary goal, everything changes: how you look at life, what you get from it, and how others interact with and relate to you. The Profit of Kindness will help you master the art of building trusting, long-lasting relationships through open, nonadversarial interchanges that result in mutually beneficial outcomes.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Sandra Shpilberg will show you a new way to succeed as an entrepreneur! This provocative start-up tale of success exposes Silicon Valley’s start-up myths and sets forth a new approach for aspiring and current founders to build companies that make an impact.

Any woman can find the path to empowerment. Marta Spirk provides a five-step roadmap for success in life and business on the Empowered Woman Path. By taking the time to notice, listen, and forgive, those on the path find that empowering themselves really means embracing all that they are and reaching new levels of self-acceptance to become the most authentic versions of themselves. This is the path to happiness and fulfillment, and it is nothing short of transformation!

Meet the women who haven’t asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. Geek Girl Rising isn’t about the famous tech trailblazers you already know, like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Instead, veteran journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens introduce listeners to the fearless female entrepreneurs and technologists fighting at the grassroots level for an ownership stake in the revolution that’s changing the way we live, work and connect to each other.

For so many women, "work-life balance" is a myth. And when you're already juggling a career, personal life, and family - plus your side projects, a smidgen of self-care, and the occasional need to sleep - "mindfulness" can sound like just another thing to do. But if you take five minutes for mindfulness now and then, it may not only save your sanity - but also springboard your success. Let psychotherapist Shonda Moralis coach you through 50 "mindful breaks" ingeniously tied to your hectic schedule

In a world full of distractions and notifications, digital detox is what women need. This humorous and calming meditation audiobook is full of tips and mindful practices that will help career women be more productive.

With the majority of mompreneurs failing to make their home-based businesses work, we need a new blueprint to model. We need to know how the successful mamas are making it happen, without sacrificing their marriage or their role as mom. I have been able to “have it all”, but not by maintaining the elusive balance that is about as real as moms sleeping in on weekends.