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Paul Higgins draws on his personal experience of leaving a senior role at Coca Cola due to health issues to embark on what he thought would be a walk in the park - running his own business. It turns out that nothing could be further from the truth. Paul shares his struggles and challenges. But it is not just Paul’s journey; it is the journey of hundreds of other solopreneurs who Paul has mentored.

After her own diagnosis, Taryn Claire soon discovered that people craved an understanding and awareness into the nitty gritty details that come with a cancer sojourn. Everyone was curious and interested in what was happening behind closed doors. She started a Facebook group to keep her close family and friends abreast of what was happening, and the group grew to include the support posse of others traversing the cancer countryside, seeking information for how to best support their loved ones.

In this compact, practical, and research-driven guide to marketing strategy, Hunter Leonard shares tools, information and insights gathered over the past 16 years in his marketing consultancy that has helped to grow over 50 organisations in 20 different countries. Hunter uses a cooking analogy to explain the recipe and ingredients needed to develop a successful marketing plan. Accessible and direct, Get Your Marketing Cooking is a must-listen for any business wanting to establish or expand their market.

Smart Time Investment for Business provides 128 short, sharp, and practical productivity strategies that you can start implementing today for immediate results, punctuated with tips and anecdotes from leading business people from around the world who share how they use time to their advantage. Your time is not limitless. Your time is a finite and enormously valuable resource - and, just like your money, if you want to grow your wealth and your success you must invest your time wisely.

Positive thinking coupled with positive doing is a must for anybody in today’s disrupted, distracted world where change is the new normal. It’s All Possible shows how to embrace change through insightful stories and proven possibility hacks from everyday people, business leaders, sports stars, and entertainers that will inspire and motivate you. It is backed by the latest research on mind-set and personal development.

Guerrilla Tactics for Teachers is a life-saving, career-preserving, sanity-building guide for teachers. Based on over 30 years of research, it is an essential collection of behavior management and learning enhancement strategies that will help educators at any stage of their career.

We spend our day playing whack-a-mole with distracting thoughts. When we need to concentrate we’re taken off-task by the urge to check emails, social media or other trivial things. Even if we can suppress the desire to check, we will soon be distracted by a memory of a conversation from last night, a secret fear we have, or something our inner voice wants to tell us. It’s a constant struggle to quieten the voice so we can focus and get the job done. It’s exhausting!

From Italian, English and Mexican proverbs to Arabian or Chinese parables the curse of family business is always the same. Namely, that the first generation makes it, the second generation enjoys it and the third generation destroys it! Rags to riches and back again in three generations.

On a global scale, the disruptive, competitive, and challenging way of life most of us are experiencing, has resulted in many adults rethinking what's important to them...what really matters in their life.

Growing up in Melbourne during the sixties as a baby boomer, Yvonne's dreams were to find a life partner, build a home, raise a family, start a career and travel. The trajectory her life was changed forever when her husband took his life. Now she faces the challenges of raising their two children alone. This begins a transformative journey of self-empowerment and rediscovering what defines her identity.

Are you a presenter searching for a blueprint to wow bosses and clients? Longing to convey information in a long-term and meaningful way? Do you have great ideas but struggle to move peers to action? As the world's only economist turned Bollywood-dancing business storyteller, bestselling author and speaker Yamini Naidu busts the myth that X factor is something you are born with or exclusive to a handful of lucky people. And now she's here to help you find and unleash your own X factor so you can forever change how you present, make a lasting impact, and create shifts in your world.