Personal Success Memoir

This audiobook will show you ways of taking full responsibility for your life and change everything that has been blocking your progress. You will find practical steps to change your life and inspiring stories and quotes to create the life you desire. It's a change your life audiobook that is based on real-life examples and stories of how one can lead a happier, richer, and fulfilled life. If you understand what conditioned you to think and act in a certain way, you can break that conditioning and start reconditioning to live a happier, healthier, and wealthier life.

Greatness has an undeniable dark side; something that many people seem to neglect. You may see celebrities AFTER they are successful and admire their "perfect" lives, philosophy, and decisions - but have you ever considered what kind of steps they REALLY took to achieve their fame? This book is a "no holds barred" look at what it REALLY takes.

Domestic violence is a real issue in our world that is not gender-specific (some men suffer as victims, too), nor is it something that is limited to a region. This is a worldwide problem. Sadly, not everyone who has become victims of domestic violence make it out alive. While many do get out, the question is, do they stay out?

Zara seemed happily married. But behind her smile at parties and gatherings was a lonely woman. She found herself neglected by her husband Jay, a successful and preoccupied businessman and was no longer needed by her entitled and wayward son Arun. This all changed when they met the award-winning coach Rita Chowdhry. Through the framework called SAVVI, the three characters, based on real-life stories, transformed their lives.

Enter into the life of an entrepreneur - starting up an unthinkably dull business, agonizing as your nightmares and dreams clash inside of your spinning head, dealing with the occasional rogue tortoise...all while watching your savings burst merrily into flames. David MacDean’s The 0.0082% Business is an inspirational real-life account of his experiences, filled with beautiful small victories and laugh-out-loud mistakes.

Sheri P. Palmer, a legal assistant for over 20 years, had no intention of publishing. However, as she started walking through her fears, some of which led to an addiction to alcohol, she noticed a release of those fears followed by the power of freedom. She exposes her life during a difficult season, and she provides a rare window into addiction.

Best-selling author Terri Levine spent over five decades holding grudges and resentment and being angry with herself and with others. At one point in her life, she felt as if she was about to break. About to Break is her real-life autobiography that shares her story and the forgiveness technique she developed for herself to fully forgive herself and others. Terri has shared this forgiveness process with clients and friends and they asked her to write this audiobook to help others live their lives with more joy, peace, ease, and love in their hearts.

Cutting Loose is not an ordinary self-help book but, rather, a refreshingly honest book that implores you to help yourself. The author Keith Tong fought and scratched his way through extraordinary hardships. His compelling journey through life has forced him to face his conflicts head-on and apply the power of positive thinking to improve his love, health, and financial well-being.

Man at 50 is an autobiography filled with crisis, revelation, and survival! Follow Robert as he walks through abuse, failed marriages, and sexual identities. Robert confronts white magic, dysfunction, judgment, and bad choices. His life of questions, fears, and uncertainty leads him to a place of strength and a deeper understanding of life.

Life is a collection of stories. Some full of wonder and magic, others simply mundane. But even the most ordinary moments hold potential for transformation. The wisdom that leads to change can come in life's quiet moments, hard moments, fun moments - it can come in all moments. When we pause to look at who we are - our points of view, beliefs, struggles and accomplishments - we can find the awareness to look within and practice self-compassion.

Master the Key is the story of Steve, a very successful adviser at Outlier Capital. He began his career with the intention of having a meaningful impact on others, but the markets were booming, and his motives were quickly overcome by the sweetness of easy money. Soon, the great recession hammered everyone, especially Steve, and he was brought to his knees. Everything was in the tank - his relationship with his wife, Lucy, and two daughters, Tina and Elle, his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, and of course, his business. He was on the verge of losing it all.

This personal memoir chronicles the first 25 years of her life living in abusive environments, how she survived and, ultimately, found her way into the supportive and caring arms of 12-step recovery programs. Along the way, she describes for the listener exactly how she survived the traumas of physical and sexual abuse, mental illness, suicidal ideas, grief and loss as well as her struggles with sexual identity, bulimia, addiction, and more.

This book is the chronological story of how I met and became a part of Mary's family. It contains life lessons and advice on how to truly live from Mary Mras, a fabulous wife, mother, sister, daughter, educator, and a teacher of all. Anyone fortunate enough to cross her path surely felt her magnetic presence. Mary lived her life with intention and by example and showed us how to live a fulfilled life, not by being famous or boisterous but by simply sharing a smile and laughing through tough times and loving her family.

Health and wellness entrepreneur Peter Darrow thought he had life all figured out. A native of the posh and privileged Upper East Side, the young millennial lived large, attending elite schools, throwing lavish birthday parties, and spending summers in the Hamptons. Then one day, his seemingly perfect, polished life came crashing down. Over the course of three hellish years, his father died, he inherited and burned through a shit-ton of money, his girlfriend dumped him, and his first business floundered.

Yvette Steele weaves an inspiring tale of survival, faith, revival, and redemption in this recollection of one woman’s life spent emerging from mental, physical, and emotional pain, heartache, and abuse, while struggling to find her identity both personally and spiritually. Building an emotional wall was her way of coping with the trauma of abuse, abandonment, and sexual assault, while fending off the enemy who, along the way, threatened her life multiple times.

Everyone's journey to their promised land starts differently. My journey started when I 15, pregnant, and living in the projects. I realized my mission in life became my ministry. The pain became my plan. God's plan took me from the projects to my promised land to use me for the kingdom to help other women.

An entertaining, thought-provoking blend of memoir, old-time storytelling, homespun philosophy, and the occasional errant thought, all delivered with Southern style and a distinctive country flavor. These treasures are the result of matriculation in The Advanced School of Hard Knocks (from which I graduated summa cum laude), and I felt it was only right to share them. Perhaps, one or two will bring a smile to your face and a lift to your spirit.

The first time Allie Brazas was sexually assaulted, she was 17. Three years later, after joining the Navy, she became the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her acting Command Master Chief. Life seemed to be turning around for Allie when she got married to an active duty K9 handler. Two months later, he was killed in action in Afghanistan. Alone, confused, and overwhelmed with grief, Allie wasn’t sure if she’d ever escape the hole that life kept pushing her into. It wasn’t until she embraced her journey that Allie was able to climb out of that hole.

Over 80 percent of people claim to be religious. Yet, every 40 seconds someone commits suicide. In the United States, one in three seek professional counseling, and 30 million dollars is spent each day on anti-depressants. The truth is that the human ego and man-made ethics can take us to a place in life where we feel our own soul cannot survive. We all aspire to belong and endeavor to make our mark while longing for the freedom to just be ourselves. Often the reality of who we are is painfully different than who we presume we should be. But how can we know who we truly are?

On an August night in San Francisco, a 22-year-old named Teal collapsed from a sudden, unexplainable cardiac arrest. Six days later, she died, but not before a spiritual unfolding began that changed the life of her mother forever. These essays - each one a personal touch into the divine - chart her mother’s path as she confronts painful events she’d been holding on to and opens herself up to more joy than she ever thought possible.