Career Development Women

Do you long to quit that boring nine-to-five job and start working for yourself? Or, do you already have a business, but money is nowhere to be seen? Then, this is the book for you. Camilla will give you her real and honest approach on what it takes to build a successful online business on your own terms that you will love.

Have you ever engaged in mental dialogue with yourself about why you aren't achieving the things you really desire in life? Do you see others living a life full of prosperity and getting results? The answer to their visible results lies in their mind-set. The right mind-set will propel you into the life you've always wanted to live. I will show you how to take your life to the next level emotionally, financially, physically, and mentally.

Stand Up addresses the growing need for women to enter the narrative of how American culture is presently being shaped and leave their mark on a world screaming for relevance, excellence, and truth. Stand Up is a battle cry for women to take a posture of readiness and action, determine their purpose, plan for successes, and overcome the loneliness that threatens this silent majority.

It’s exhausting being a woman, don’t you think? Trying to be everything to everyone, juggling a million things at once. And that’s not to mention all the worry… Am I making the right decisions? Will I be successful? Will I have enough money? What if I get sick? What if my family gets sick? Unfaked is all about making life easier, while having a good time in the process. It cuts through the surface level crap, and gets right to the heart of the one thing that will give you ultimate control over your body and life - to be you, the real you and nothing but the real you.

Cheekys' founder Jessi Roberts reveals how she grew one small store hurdle-by-hurdle into a national clothing and accessories brand with a one-and-a-half-million-strong community. Best of all, she did it by standing tall for her values: Always be kind, lift up the next gal, and treat employees and customers like family. More than a business book, Backroads Boss Lady is about embracing your passion even when others don't see value in it - or you - and about putting food on the table and believing in yourself.

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010, when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Now, in their first book, Cerulo and Mazur bring to light the unique power of female friendship to fuel successful businesses. Drawing on their own experiences, as well as the stories of other thriving “work wives,” they highlight the ways in which vulnerability, openness, and compassion - qualities central to so many women’s relationships - lend themselves to professional accomplishment and innovation.

Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women - lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others - give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?

Achieve success. Create balance. Experience fulfillment. It’s the elusive trifecta every working woman desperately seeks. Do you find yourself trying to be everything to everyone? Do you run yourself ragged but still feel something is missing? The struggle is real and all too common. Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes are two award-winning, c-suite executives who together have accumulated 60 plus years of work experience at the highest levels, 60 years of marriage, and raised four successful children.

Confidence is a significant life skill necessary to achieving any level of personal or professional success. Yet confidence is often an elusive characteristic. Most people believe that you are born with confidence - either you have it, or you don't. Lack of confidence holds many people back from even trying to reach their goals or achieve their dreams. What if there was a way for you to build your confidence? What if you could learn how to believe in yourself so you could leverage all your skills and talents? What if you could make a difference in your community or become a leader within your organization?

Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. Gina successfully challenged the UK government's authority to trigger Article 50 - the formal notification to leave the European Union - without parliamentary approval. For standing up for what she believed was right, Miller became the target of not just racist and sexist verbal abuse but physical threats to her and her family.

How will you balance the roles of business owner and mother? Would you like wisdom from women who've been there? Here's something you already know. When you become a mother, you want flexibility. You want to be there for your baby, and you want results in your business. You want to make good money, and to make a difference. All over the globe, women are taking control by starting their own businesses - businesses that (they hope) will grow around the needs of their babies.

In Mission Entrepreneur Jen Griswold, veteran, CEO, and mentor, shares the journey that led her from 20 years in the military to over $20 million in annual sales. As a wife and mother with a full-time career, Jen watched her peers as they experienced the struggles of keeping their careers afloat while managing family, relocations, and the demands of a busy life. The lessons she learned from her time in the military can be applied to start-ups, to help you launch your business, build wealth, and find happiness.

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.

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.

What is Reach!? As opposed to reach, Reach!, with an exclamation point, portrays emotion. This book is about magic. It is about creating something out of nothing. It is about bravely closing your eyes, pushing through your fear, and reaching for something that is not yet within your grasp. Once armed with the lessons and stories in this book, you will have the essential skills needed to achieve all of your dreams.

Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her listeners to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals.

Two of America's leading corporate trainers and voice coaches show women how to use a very powerful tool - language. In this audio primer, the authors discuss everything from leveling the office playing field and mastering effective negotiation and confrontation skills to avoiding negative self-talk and self-sabotage and delivering presentations and speeches. The invaluable advice in WomanSpeak can help anyone become a self-confident, savvy conversationalist.

The art of persuasion entails a number of things, not just the ability to speak fluently and courageously in front of people. Just like a professional motivational speaker, you will need to learn how to engage the minds of those you are speaking to. This audiobook equips you with great techniques that will help you connect with your audience emotionally. Therefore, you will need to understand your audience's motivations, behaviors, beliefs, and their attitudes towards various subjects.

Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success. Forty years ago Joan Barnes founded a play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to achieve personal and entrepreneurial success, Barnes led Gymboree to become an innovative leader in a new industry: activity-based early childhood development.

From the co founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential at any age.