Meeting Dr. Heather Sandison, author of Reversing Alzheimer’s, left an unforgettable mark on me. Her genuine warmth and kindness stood out immediately, making it clear she’s one… Read More

My favorite marketing books are ones like Hook Point: How to Stand Out In A Three-Second World by Brendan Kane. They’re filled with some very cool stories about real people, and Kane g… Read More

by Seth Godin The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin’s core message is that creative success is less about innate talent or waiting for inspiration and more about commit… Read More

 by John Randolph Price The Abundance Book: 40 Days to Prosperity by John Randolph Price is one of my little favorites. I keep it on my desk all the time. It always gives me a pick-m… Read More

In Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan, it was more than just a walk down memory lane. At its core, there were huge marketing lessons that shoo… Read More

The Creative Act is a book that I absolutely related to. It gave me an amazing boost of confidence and a dose of courage, mindset, and focus. Yet, when I shared how much this book helped and… Read More

Have you ever felt like your days have become more like a ride on a treadmill, where you’re going as fast as you can, yet you’re not going anywhere? And “Turning Pro”… Read More

If you’ve ever felt like you were losing your grip on reality, rest assured you’re simply undergoing an awakening of your heart and mind. You’re Not Going Crazy, You’… Read More

Storytelling and the Search for Meaning I remember reading this book—The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning. It was during the pandemic. And I was… Read More

The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage The study of the mind and its intricacies, from our emotions, logic, and rationality to self-discipline, has always been a fascination an… Read More

I often start my summaries on this blog with a story of how I found the book. This book is no different. It has a story, and I have a long history with this author that dates back to the 199… Read More

I remember getting Brene Brown’s first book, Daring Greatly. I was in the audience of one of the very first talk shows Brown was on back in 2012 – (The Katie Couric Show, which w… Read More

I remember finding this book – Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative In Good Times And Ba, by Austin Kleon, right at the beginning of the pandemic. Someone I was coaching at that time h… Read More

I’ve always been fascinated by groups and what attracts people to join since I was in high school. (Hence, this book summary of Seth Godin’s book Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us… Read More

I’ve always been fascinated by groups and what attracts people to join since I was in high school. (Hence, this book summary of Seth Godin’s book Tribe: We Need You To Lead Us. A… Read More

Were you ever in a situation where you had someone you worked with and ended up spending some quality time outside of work? As you got to know them, you really enjoyed their company and lear… Read More

Have you ever had your heart broken into a million pieces and didn’t think you’d ever recover from it? Well, that certainly was me back in 2013, and that’s when this book l… Read More

How To Win Friends & Influence People is a total classic in the world of sales and personal development. The reason is that Carnegie has studied this his whole life. From being a teenage… Read More

Looking back over my career span of 20-plus years, I realized that I’ve always been in some type of marketing and sales. This rang especially true when I picked up a copy of Bernadette… Read More

The Alchemist is one of those books I remember exactly when I read it and what was going on in my life that nudged me to pick it up. Right after I finally decided to come out (back in 2000)… Read More

I was working with a client who kept going on and on about The Dan Sullivan Question book. I knew of Dan Sullivan and was actually in one of his seminars. Yet, I don’t remember this bo… Read More

In this ever-growing, constantly information-overloaded world we live in, the quest to create an original idea and be creative has never been more vital. A Technique for Producing Ideas by J… Read More

Zero Limits is one of those books that go into manifesting abundance, the law of attraction, and a universal consciousness-focused category.  There are so many inspiring ideas and co… Read More

I’ve always been fascinated by the power of the mind and how to create and manifest abundance and financial freedom. T. Harv Eker’s book – Secrets of the Millionaire Mind:… Read More

This book – The 4-Hour Work Week, basically blew up and created a whole new crop of entrepreneurs when it hit the market back in 2007. The reason why I’m intimate with this is ma… Read More

I’ve always been fascinated by the power of the mind and how to create and manifest abundance and financial freedom. T. Harv Eker’s book – The Millionaire Mind is definitel… Read More

This is one of those books that’s been recommended to me so many times that I felt a huge sigh of relief when I made a decision to download and listen to it. Knowing the premise of… Read More

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl is one of those books that’s been recommended to me so many times that I felt a huge sigh of relief when I made a decision to download a… Read More

My spiritual quest began, much like The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Cambell. My life was going along swimmingly, or so I thought, until my world came crashing down with the breakdown of m… Read More

Let me ask you a question, be honest with your answer – have you ever thought about writing and publishing a book? If you said yes, this will be one of the most important books I hi… Read More

This book, The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D., was first printed in 1959 and is still in print today. I love books like this that are completely valid 64 years later! And… Read More

In my marketing career, I’ve joined several communities and memberships. In fact, I’m in so many. Sometimes I can’t remember them all or keep up. That’s why I&rs… Read More

Have you ever felt stifled in your creativity? Or felt like you just weren’t ready yet to share what you’re working on – maybe it’s something you’ve written, or… Read More

My life started falling apart in 1999. I was only 35 years old and in a marriage to a man that wasn’t working any longer, and I discovered that my whole life up until this point was a… Read More

I first met Perry Marshall many years ago when his book The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords came out in 2006, and then his Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords came out in 2007. He’s a… Read More

I’ve always had a love-loathe relationship with creativity. I never felt I was creative. In fact, I always felt like I was stuck in my left brain most of my life until I became an entr… Read More

When I first made the commitment to improve my copywriting skills, I was bombarded with ALL the copywriting books I needed to buy. Believe me. There are tons of them. Some I’ve already… Read More

Have you ever met someone and immediately had this kinship with them like you’ve known them before, or have you just felt so comfortable in their presence?   Well, that&rs… Read More

My life’s work has been pretty ironic. You know the old saying – “Never say never,” cuz when you do – what you said “never” about always ends up com… Read More

The fear that I felt as a kid growing up was almost debilitating. If it wasn’t for my mom, who was a psychiatric social worker, I don’t think I’d be where I am today. I had… Read More

One of my biggest frustrations, when I go to a website is when they make me overthink. Especially when it’s a site I want to buy something, and figuring out how to do that can be downr… Read More

From the title alone, I was drawn to reading Marilee Adam’s book – Change Your Questions, Change Your Life.That’s why I need to reveal something to you that feels a bit mor… Read More

I don’t usually pick up books about “Persuasion.” It’s not a word I like. It gives me visions of people tying my hands behind my back and trying to force me to do som… Read More

Sutherland’s book – Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life is one of my all-time favorite marketing books. I’m excited to… Read More

This was one of those books that I listened to on Audible while I’d go out hiking. What was really annoying about it is I had to stop and take notes almost every 20 steps because there… Read More

When this book found its way back into my hands, and I finally read it, the pure joy of why I love books and how they so inspire me to look at things differently and even transform my life I… Read More

The most bizarre thing happened after I started listening to Glennon Doyle’s book – Untamed. Something about listening to it with her voice, telling her story, I was just ent… Read More

Books about finding your purpose have fascinated me ever since I needed to make a decision about what to major in in college. I only changed my major three times. I’m also proud of the… Read More

I still remember what it was like in middle school when a teacher called on me. My palms would sweat, I’d get all flustered, and I was filled with such fear of speaking… It w… Read More

I remember sitting in my therapist’s office all those years ago, crying my eyes out because my long-term relationship was over. My partner had decided she was out. I was devastated. I… Read More

If you’ve read Michael Singer’s previous best-selling book – The Untethered Soul, then you will love his next book. It will take you into the further discovery of “wh… Read More

One of my quests for the past few years has been getting better at telling and writing stories. When I want to improve a skill, I scour the internet for books, courses, experts, and more. An… Read More

What fascinates me (Besides my incredibly photogenic dog pictured next to the book’s cover… is how people make decisions when it comes to buying something. I’m a marketer… Read More

This is a fascinating book, and it’s a little out of the ordinary because the author “accesses a group consciousness from the non-physical dimension” (nonphysical entity ca… Read More

If you are grieving and having a difficult time with loss, an ending of a relationship, or an illness, this book will be monumental in guiding you through it. Broken Open: How Difficult… Read More

This book by Marianne Williamson opened me up to love and relationships when I was at the deepest and darkest place of my relationship. When I read it, I had ended my marriage of 14 year… Read More

It took me a bit to find the original copy of this book. I ended up going to a used bookstore online because I wanted the physical book. (There are also PDF copies floating around the web.)… Read More

A chance meeting of a new friend led me to this book – Put Your Ass Where Your HEART Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield. He also wrote a classic for creatives – The War of Art… Read More

This book is a classic for ALL entrepreneurs. If you are an entrepreneur this is a MUST read. This opened my eyes to so much when I was first starting my business. It was the inspir… Read More

Have you ever started reading a book and all of the sudden you feel this synthesis and culmination of all you’ve read before and all you’ve experienced melting together into one… Read More

What if you could sit down in a comfy chair next to the fire with your favorite hot cup of something delicious, and directly across from you was someone you’ve longed to have a deep co… Read More

All my life, I have been in a constant battle with the two sides of my brain.  Who’s going to win out, my left-brain or my right-brain? When I was growing up,  I was incre… Read More

Sitting in the audience at a direct response marketing conference, I was engaged by the speaker’s talk on how you can market using some pretty interesting and what seemed to me like ni… Read More

We had invited a friend over for dinner, and we’re going to make hamburgers. The challenge was we didn’t have any ground meat. I suggested we get some already made. She went to… Read More

This was a REALLY hard exercise – to look at all the books I’ve read so far in my 56 years and pick out the top five of all time that truly helped change and shift my life in som… Read More

I was a middle child growing up. I remember when I and my older brother and sister were all in high school at the same time. They started having those classes about college and appointments… Read More

One of the things I love is reading books that have been published a long time ago. Especially when the topic has been written about by hundreds of authors recently, and they have been ridin… Read More

I love the title of this book – The Fortune Cookie Principle: The 20 keys to a great brand story and why your business needs one. I mean, who doesn’t love fortune cookies and get… Read More

Reading this book was almost like magic was happening every day. I think that coupled with me being on week 8 of The Artist’s Way (By Julia Cameron) morning pages, it all certainly spu… Read More

Have you ever read a book where you were so enthralled and engrossed in it that you couldn’t put it down? Or when you had to put it down, you kept thinking about it and wanting to… Read More