Successful Women

Until recently, history has tended to highlight male inventors—but why not women inventors as well? And where are the women inventors of color? Why have so many of these women not found their rightful places in history? Thankfully, over the last few decades—with increasing opportunities to shatter the “glass ceiling”—women have begun to achieve equal footing with men in careers and in salaries.

Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, especially for women with children and ambitious career goals. It's been the subject of countless books, articles, blog posts, and tweets in the last few years, and passions run high in all directions.

In Clever Girl Finance: The Side Hustle Guide, celebrated finance expert, influencer, CEO, and author Bola Sokunbi delivers your own personal key to unlocking more money, more freedom, and more security in your life. You'll find out how to achieve financial prosperity by leveraging a side hustle business to increase your income and build wealth. You'll discover how to:

Your road map to achieving your aspirations, How Women Lead provides hard-won wisdom from women who have reached truly impressive heights in their careers. Written by two women's leadership experts who are themselves successful leaders, How Women Lead gives women the information they need to become high-potential leaders but don't get in business school: how to build a career on their own terms, gain the critical business management skills needed to advance, and advocate successfully for themselves.

In 2016, Dr. Angela Mailis, a world-renowned expert on chronic pain management, was brought face-to-face with domestic violence, when an accomplished colleague was murdered by her equally accomplished husband. It was familiar territory for Dr. Mailis, who herself had been involved in an emotionally abusive relationship for 27 years.

If you're tired of being told emotional unavailability is a relationship death sentence, then this two-part, easy-to-listen-to audiobook will not only help you to understand and recognize emotional unavailability, it will help you find the solution.

64 percent of women don't feel prepared for their careers. Sure, colleges may teach you many skills and content you need to succeed. But college doesn't teach you everything about a career. Do you want to be part of the 36 percent of women with the knowledge and skills they need to start their careers with confidence? Then keep listening.

There are nine million women-owned businesses in the United States; they account for $1.3 trillion in revenue. American women are starting businesses at a rate twice that of men. Most of these women are also moms. What does it take to be successful as both a mom and as an entrepreneur? Moms Mean Business gives existing and potential mom business owners the encouragement, advice, and healthy dose of "how-to" they need.

Women today are working, juggling, achieving, succeeding, and beating expectations at every turn - and they are less happy than ever. Which is why they're turning to the expert who has helped millions of people find, focus on, and benefit from their strengths. From his decades of research at the Gallup Organization to years of walking business executives through the "strengths revolution," Marcus has gained an international reputation for practical, realistic, and life-changing advice.

"One day, one of Bozana's Skojo's friends told her she was 'a good poor'. Bewildered by the words at first, Bozana gradually came to realize they really did describe her - someone who was never overcome by adversity, but who fixed up her hair, put on a little lipstick and her 'game face' to work her way out of any difficulties that fate tossed her way. She realized it was a strategy for living that could apply to any situation.

At some point in their careers, many women encounter the mirrored door—the place where, when presented with opportunities, we reflect inward and hesitate, deem we’re not ready or worthy enough to move forward whether that is to raise our hands or go for the next role. But there is a way to break through, and to overcome the gendered expectations that girls and women internalize over our lifetimes that create a hidden barrier that keeps us from reaching our full potential.

Thoughts, advice, and stories from 40 successful women across a variety of careers—from authors to actresses, CEOs and professors—encouraging women to support each other in the workplace and in life—along with action plans on how all women can work together to break free from the binds of gender inequality and overcome gender bias.

Catherine Gladwyn, founder of Delegate VA - Virtual Assistant, went from a PA to a thriving business owner, and you can follow in her footsteps. Gain insights into every step of the process and practical advice on subjects from finding your niche to finding clients, what services to offer, and what to charge to how to prepare for losing clients and avoid running out of money. With honesty, directness, and a large pinch of Catherine's trademark humor, How to Be a Virtual Assistant will give you vital techniques for building your business and increase your self-belief.

The Pie Life is the ultimate self-improvement playbook for women who work. Now is the time for you to banish the guilt and start living a life you love! Having worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, best-selling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time.

Infinite abundance is feeling full and not of scarcity. Start building generational wealth. Become completely safe feeling like a millionaire. You have the means to end generational oppression. Money is a vibration, and it’s time for you to get on the wave! In this audiobook, you’ll find some of the best affirmations to destroy all your bad beliefs around money. Listen to it at least five minutes a day, and money will start coming at you from the most unexpected places. Once you’ll start having a positive mindset about money, your days will become nothing but blessings!

What separates you from the ones who grow until achieving success? Why does someone succeed while others fail? Do you feel like you are missing something in your life to become a successful person? The audiobook How to Raise Successful People is a step-by-step guide to anybody who has the determination to make good of their life and end up as one of a few successful people. It is a toolbox of important practical approaches and tips, easily applicable, that streamline the journey to success.

Do you feel like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, endlessly spinning your wheels, and getting nowhere? Would you like to put yourself on the fast track to success with high-level techniques and strategies used by successful people? If yes, then read on, as you're about to discover something that may just change your life. If you're like most people, you probably fall into one of two camps: You probably think that outstanding in life comes from talent or luck.

Learn how these author-entrepreneur moms hit a wall, pivoted, built even stronger businesses, and now each has a million-dollar story making a difference and changing their children’s lives. Best of all, they’ll share with you secrets of building wildly successful businesses while raising entrepreneurial kids; businesses like real estate investing, buying and flipping real estate, network marketing, blogging, finance, ecommerce, Fulfillment by Amazon, and more!

Chapters include, among others, “9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women,” "How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It," and “Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful?” Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of "inaction items" designed to challenge women to be less challenging.

In this life-changing and entertaining book, Ann Kaplan offers 13 witty, wry, and inspiring chapters full of personal stories, no-nonsense advice, and self-empowerment exercises that will help anyone understand how to get out of their own way. If you want to find a new life and if you want to be successful, Ann Kaplan has the answer. Straightforward, hilarious, and unapologetic she provides the tools and advice that will help you move those self-imposed roadblocks, find wealth greater than you ever imagined, and, yes, how to step on a path toward a life of true success.