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I work four to six days a week, 12 hour shifts, and make between $350 and $550 per shift, but I realize that I have just enough to pay all my bills with nothing left as I look forward to the next paycheck. I love this profession! This is my passion! But can't I be better financially while still doing what I love? The answer is found in this book.

Written in John Kim’s unique “advice-in-a-shot glass” style, a month-long program that applies the tenets of his bestseller Single on Purpose, packed with daily tips for self-reflection, growth, and adventure. Whether you’ve embraced the advice in Single on Purpose or are just discovering Kim’s ideas, 31 Days of Single on Purpose can help you transform being single into a joyous, exciting period of personal growth filled with memories, deep work, play, forgiveness, and freedom.

Awaken Your Purpose is a 28-day guide to clarity, healing, and abundance. Erica Carrico—award-winning Life Purpose and Business Coach—shares the exact process that has helped thousands break free from unfulfilling careers and launch purpose-driven businesses.

Unlock the Secrets of Starting Your Career with Your First Job in the Corporate World! Fresh out of college or starting an internship, and feeling overwhelmed? Dive into "Cubicle To Corner Office" and navigate the unspoken rules of the corporate culture, ensuring your career development takes off from day one. Dive in and decipher the unwritten rules and business etiquette that will be pivotal for your career development. Remember, your first job, be it as a new hire, intern or a foreign worker, sets the tone for your career path. The unwritten rules, the corporate etiquette, and the ...

Between the constant pressures of job performance and demands on your time, it’s easy to lose sight of your values, letting them shift out of alignment. Those simple misalignments are keeping you from feeling joyful and fulfilled.

Chris Greenwood is the man behind Manafest: the globally successful rock and rap musician who’s sold millions of singles and albums world-wide. With over 20 years experience in the industry, both as a signed artist and an independent musician, Chris shares his incredible experience as a song writer and hit-maker in this audiobook.

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small achievable steps that yield measurable near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities.

In this candid and personal account, Vineet Nayar—HCLT's celebrated CEO—recounts how he defied the conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees, and not the other way around.

New York Times best-selling author Stedman Graham's Identity Leadership is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on his philosophy that a leader can't lead others until he can first lead himself - the more he works on himself, the more he can give to those around him. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel the best of who we are to achieve success for ourselves and those we lead.

Why Read This BookWhat if the key to scaling your company wasn’t an-other gimmick or one-size-fits-all blueprint but a client-first strategy that makes your business indispensable? In Consult to Conquer: The Client-First Strategy for Building a Business Empire, you’ll discover how adopting a consultative mindset—one grounded in deep listening, authentic engagement, and tailored solutions—can transform any venture from a fledgling startup into a powerhouse brand. Drawing on real-world lessons from the creator of a global fashion empire, this book demystifies the art of attracting ...

When Pastor Bruce Deel took over the Mission Church in the 30314 zip code of Atlanta, he had orders to shut it down. The church was old and decrepit, and its neighborhood - known as "Better Leave, You Effing Fool", or "the Bluff", for short - had the highest rates of crime, homelessness, and incarceration in Georgia. Expecting his time there to only last six months, Deel was not prepared for what happened next. One Sunday, he was approached by a woman he didn't know. "I've been hooking and stripping for fourteen years," she said. "Can you help me?"

This book provides actionable strategies and techniques that listeners can implement daily. It offers practical advice to help listeners navigate challenges they may encounter in their supervisory role. It also takes a holistic approach to becoming a supervisor, covering not only the technical aspects of team management but also emphasizing the importance of mindset, communication, problem-solving, and ethical leadership. It provides a well-rounded and comprehensive guide for aspiring supervisors.

In Sustainable Leadership: Lessons of Vision, Courage, and Grit from the CEOs Who Dared to Build a Better World, accomplished leadership expert Clarke Murphy shares a can't-miss toolkit for delivering remarkable sustainability results. You'll learn what it takes to become a sustainable leader and how you can turn your sustainability promises into tangible action on the ground.

Give your hard work a voice and amplify your impact by communicating in a way that makes people want to listen and respond—storytelling with you will help you do it.

A magical town, an old secret, and a killer with everything to lose. When magical pest control specialist Juniper Green is called to the Elderberry Grove Senior Center to deal with mischievous sprites, she expects a routine extraction. What she doesn't expect is to stumble into a decades-old mystery that's about to turn deadly. After the death of the talented but difficult seamstress Mabel Thornberry, Juniper quickly finds herself a person of interest in the investigation. With her reputation at stake and the evidence pointing to magic that goes far beyond wayward sprites, Juniper and her ...

My name is Julie Hoffman. I am a 44-year-old mother of two. I was an A/R supervisor for an oil company for 21 long years until the day they outsourced my job, and I suddenly found myself unemployed. I was devastated, heartbroken and felt betrayed all at the same time. I had $18,632 in my company retirement account, and they paid me two weeks of salary as a severance payment.

This new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik, coauthor of The First-Time Manager, Fifth Edition, covers the basics of team building, giving novice managers all the activities and information they need to achieve team-building success. From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become.

Joey Havens breaks through the limiting barriers of common culture theory and shows, with great transparency, the real human emotions that elevate a culture to one that is genuine, enduring, and magnetic. Joey shares insights, failures, low points, lessons learned, and growth from his experience of helping lead the successful transformation of HORNE LLP’s good culture to a magnetic, people-first culture based on the Christian principles of caring and service.

Sunnyvale is about to get a lot sweeter. Isabella: When I decided to take a risk and open a bakery with my best friend, Ava, I never imagined The Sweet Shop would become a small-town phenomenon. While we catered mostly to the small businesses around town, a unique opportunity arose that would turn my world upside down. A major racecar competition was coming to the Sunnyvale Speedway, and the organizers needed catering for the elite drivers and their crews. Convinced this would be our big break, Ava and I agreed to cater to the cocky race car drivers. To my surprise, our sweet trays won over...

Nobody should live their lives without being able to achieve their biggest dreams. 2 Corinthians 9:8 mentions: “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work." The key is feeding your mind with the word of God, and speaking out the word in order to change your perspective on life.