51: Top Recommended Books for Biz Building (by past guests!)
Welcome back to Making Good, the podcast for small businesses who want to make a big impact.
I’m your host, Lauren Tilden, and this is episode 51.
I’m playing around with a new idea today, and that is this:
Effort =/= Value
And by that I mean… the amount of effort you put into something is not what determines how valuable it is to your audience.
How about some real talk.
I’m recording this episode on Tuesday, March 2 -- which is also the day that it will be released. Today I need to record this episode, edit it, upload it, release it and ideally do some marketing.
This is not ideal. I much prefer to schedule my podcast episodes out in advance and have everything all set to go -- I schedule uploads for the middle of the night Pacific time so they are usually all bright and bushy tailed, waiting in your podcast app for you each and every Tuesday morning.
Today I had an episode planned that would take me QUITE a bit of time to prepare content for and lay out. It’s going to be an awesome episode and will be out within a few weeks. But I don’t have time for it today.
So how does this relate to effort & value?
Just because I am not going to be able to put the same amount of EFFORT into this episode (the one you’re listening to), doesn’t mean I can’t provide as much value.
If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I believe that your ultimate approach to marketing (and largely to business in general), should be to PROVIDE VALUE for your audience.
So, today, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to put together the episode I initially planned on, but I know that I still want to provide you with as much value as I possibly can.
And because I’ve gotten to know you, my listener, pretty well over these last many months of running this podcast, I have a pretty good idea of what you will find valuable.
Which brings us to today’s episode.
I know that people who listen to this podcast LOVE a good resource or recommendation. A book recommendation, a tool that will make their lives easier, a podcast that might support them in their work.
In fact, I ask each and every guest I have had on this podcast for a book recommendation so that we can share those with you.
But, (until now), I have never collected all of the recommendations in one place so you have one handy list to choose from.
So, for this episode today, I’ve put together ALL of the book recommendations -- some of them recommended multiple times, and I’m sharing them with you here.
Some are business-specific, some are self-improvement, some are more spirituality or advocacy related -- but they are all books that the incredible guests of this podcast believe will make you a better business person.
In this episode, I’ll share every book that has been recommended thus far by a guest on this podcast, let you know who recommended it, and tell you a little bit about the book.
If you’re not interested in hearing a description of each book, I would recommend heading over to the show notes where you can see the full list of books and they will all be linked!
Of course, all of the books will be linked in the show notes for this episode at makinggoodpodcast.com/51.
Alright, without further ado! Let’s get into the books.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Chris Emmer + Nancy Shadlock + Jess Gupta)
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment” (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us. (publisher Penguin Random House)
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Jenna Starkey and Keltie Maguire)
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise. (book’s website)
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön (Jenna Starkey)
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy. (publisher Penguin Random House)
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer (Jenna Starkey)
What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. (Untethered Soul website)
Find Your F*ckyeah by Alexis Rockley (Chris Emmer)
A bold guide to finding your unique purpose and uncensored self, Find Your F*ckyeah disrupts today's warm, fuzzy brand of #selfcare and “Just be you!” personal growth trends, translating the hard science of happiness for a generation that speaks emoji. (website)
The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy (Nesha Frazier)’No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. (Vanguard Press Books)
Brand Brilliance by Fiona Humberstone (Illiah Manger)
As a modern entrepreneur, you need an incisive vision; for what your brand stands for and where it’s headed. You need to communicate in a way that consistently enchants your audience and retain your focus in an increasingly noisy world.
In Brand Brilliance, bestselling author and branding expert Fiona Humberstone takes you on a comprehensive journey to help you identify your dream clients, refine your message and up your marketing game.
With her trademark inspirational, practical and easy-to-implement style, Fiona shows you how to add substance and clarity to your brand, pull into focus the things that really matter and enable you to communicate with purpose and flair. Expect to feel empowered, inspired and energised! (author’s website)
How to Style Your Brand by Fiona Humberstone (Illiah Manger)
You're on the cusp of something big. You know that the right brand identity has the power to attract, engage and compel people to do business with you. How do you make sure it'll be an accurate reflection of your aspirations? How do you pick the right designer, brief them effectively and create a brand that really does your business justice? Whether you’re a startup on a lemonade-budget or a seasoned entrepreneur working with a professional, an understanding of how brand styling works is essential.
Atomic Habits by James Clear (Mariah Tomkinson)
Atomic Habits is the most comprehensive and practical guide on how to create good habits, break bad ones, and get 1 percent better every day. I do not believe you will find a more actionable book on the subject of habits and improvement.
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system.
Bad habits repeat themselves not because you don’t want to change but because you have the wrong system for change. This is one of the core philosophies of Atomic Habits: You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. In this book, you’ll get a proven plan that can take you to new heights.
James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.
Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories about Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.
Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits—whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, and achieve success that lasts.
(author’s website)
You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero (Mariah Tomkinson)
You Are a Badass® at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass® an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results. (author’s website)
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown (Reina Pomeroy)
“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging. (Penguin RH website)
Frindle by Andrew Clements (Megan Dowd)
Children’s book: Trying to aggravate a tough language-arts teacher, a fifth-grade boy invents a new word for pen: "frindle." Soon, the whole country is using it. "Dictionary lovers will cotton to this mild classroom fantasy," said PW (Publisher’s weekly)
You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero (Nancy Shadlock)
With over 2 million copies in print, Jen Sincero's You Are a Badass® has inspired even the snarkiest of skeptics—encouraging them to embrace their awesomeness, give fear the heave-ho, and start kicking some serious ass. Now it's dressed up in a deluxe hardcover edition, with a new foreword by the author. But it's the same "classic" book that helps you create a life you love via hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. (author’s website)
The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd (Nancy Shadlock)
This book is an invitation to begin a new journey in your life. The beating heart of the Gene Keys Synthesis, this is the codebook describing all human states of consciousness, from the deepest fear-based patterns to the most awe-inspiring possibilities in our DNA. A vast work of vision and depth, this is a book to contemplate over a lifetime. It can be used in many different ways – as a companion to explain the Gene Keys in your Profile, as an oracle and daily inspiration or as a spiritual path in its own right. Many people have testified that simply reading this book brings them a profound understanding of their life, relationships and higher purpose. Written in a poetic yet practical style, the Gene Keys book points you towards the beauty that already lies inside you and invites you into a world where anything is possible.
(book website)
Start with Why by Simon Sinek (Laura Clise)
Start With Why shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way — and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. (authors website)
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Laura Clise)
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy — from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans — has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair — and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
(hachete)
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are No Matter What They Say by Elaine Welteroth ((Jen Hatzung)
Part-manifesto, part-memoir, from the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your own terms (Penguin RH)
More Myself by Alicia Keys (audiobook recommended - she narrates herself!) (Jen Hatzung)
In More Myself, Alicia shares her quest for truth—about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth. With the raw honesty that epitomizes Alicia’s artistry, More Myself is at once a riveting account and a clarion call to readers: to define themselves in a world that rarely encourages a true and unique identity. (Macmillian publishers website)
Getting (More of) What You Want by Margaret Neale and Thomas Lys (Alex Dickinson)
Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More of) What You Want, Margaret Neale and Thomas Lys draw on the latest advances in psychology and economics to provide new strategies for anyone shopping for a car, lobbying for a raise, or simply haggling over who takes out the trash. Getting (More of) What You Want shows how inexperienced negotiators regularly leave significant value on the table—and reveals how you can claim it.
(book’s website)
Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance by Tian Dayton, Ph.D. (Amy Deland)
Do you use substances or engage in compulsive activities to regulate your mood? Do you reach for something sweet, a couple of drinks, or a pack of cigarettes after a difficult day because you can’t unwind without them? Do you race to the stores to spend away the day’s frustrations or run around in circles taking more time to get less done? If these self-defeating habits sound familiar, Emotional Sobriety will shed light on why and how these coping mechanisms threaten your health and impact resilience.
(author’s website)
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (Natalie Wong)
Think of The War of Art as tough love... for yourself.
Since 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat "Resistance"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the naysayers within us.Resistance kicks everyone's butt, and the desire to defeat it is equally as universal. The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.Though it was written for writers, it has been embraced by business entrepreneurs, actors, dancers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, military service members and thousands of others around the world.
(Amazon)
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (Natalie Wong)
(authors’ website)
"There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours." -- Steven Pressfield Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by bestselling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it's not about better ideas, it's about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance - a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door. Picking up where The War of Art and Turning Pro left off, Do The Work takes the reader from the start to the finish of any long-form project—novel, screenplay, album, software piece, you name it. Do The Work identifies the predictable Resistance Points along the way and walks you through each of them. No, you are not crazy. No, you are not alone. No, you are not the first person to "hit the wall" in Act Two. Do The Work charts the territory. It's the stage-by-stage road map for taking your project from Page One to THE END. (Amazon)
Ask for More by Alexandra Carter (Natalie Wong)
Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your closest relationships and your everyday life, but often people shy away from it, feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking new book on negotiation, Ask for More, Alexandra Carter—Columbia law professor and mediation expert who has helped students, business professionals, the United Nations, and more—offers a straightforward, accessible approach anyone can use to ask for and get more.
We’ve been taught incorrectly that the loudest and most assertive voice prevails in any negotiation, or otherwise both sides compromise, ending up with less. Instead Carter shows that you get far more value by asking the right questions of the person you’re negotiating with than you do from arguing with them. She offers a simple yet powerful ten-question framework for successful negotiation where both sides emerge victorious. Carter’s proven method extends far beyond one “yes” and instead creates value that lasts a lifetime.
Ask for More gives you the tools to bring clarity and perspective to any important discussion, no matter the topic.(publisher Simon Schuster)
Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz (natalie wong)
Never started a company before? Struggling with little or no cash? Have no experience, no baseline to judge your progress against? Thank God! You've got a shot at making this work. The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur will show you exactly how. (authors’ website)
Profit First by Mike MIcahlowicz (Natalie Wong)
(Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. (Richland Library)
Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz (Natalie Wong)
The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don’t know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent — but there’s no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things.
Fortunately, Mike Michalowicz has a simple system to help you eradicate these frustrations and get your business moving forward, fast. Mike himself has lived through the struggles and countless distractions of entrepreneurship, and devoted years to finding a simple way to pinpoint exactly where to direct attention for rapid growth. He figured out that every business has a hierarchy of needs, and if you can understand where you are in that hierarchy, you can identify what needs immediate attention. Simply fix that one thing next, and your business will naturally and effortlessly level-up.
Over the past decade, Mike has developed an ardent following for his funny, honest, and actionable insights told through the stories of real entrepreneurs. Now, Fix This Next offers a simple, unique, and wildly powerful business compass that has already helped hundreds of companies get to the next level, and will do the same for you. Immediately.
(Penguin RH)
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA. (Nikki Innocent)
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. (Penguin RH)
Women Who Run with Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Chris Emmer)
Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In Women Who Run With the Wolves, Dr. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.
(authors)
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (Micah Larsen)
Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. (Penguin RH)
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Micah Larsen)
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). (publisher MIklweekd)
Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin (Mariah Tomkinson)
Gretchen Rubin, author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, has helped millions of readers to get happier. Now she tackles the critical question: How can we make good habits and break bad ones?
With her signature mix of rigorous research, easy humor, and personal experimentation, she investigates how we can change our habits—really. In a book that’s bursting with big, provocative ideas, Rubin shows readers how to create the habits that will transform their lives, even if they’ve failed before.
(author’s website)
Essentialism by Greg McKeown (Keltie Maguire)
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s not about getting less done. It’s about getting only the right things done. It’s about challenging the core assumption of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’. It’s about regaining control of our own choices about where to spend our time and energies instead of giving others implicit permission to choose for us.
In Essentialism, Greg McKeown draws on experience and insight from working with the leaders of the most innovative companies in the world to show how to achieve the disciplined pursuit of less.
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz (Wendy O’Beirne)
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. (author’s website)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (Jess Gupta)
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
(GoodReads)
Clockwork by Mike Michalowicz (Michele Caruana)
Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friendships, and freedom to keep your business alive? What if instead your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?
It’s possible. And it’s easier than you think.
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you started your business so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you’re bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.
Now, Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First and other small-business bestsellers, offers a straightforward step-by-step path out of this dilemma. In Clockwork, he draws on more than six years of research and real life examples to explain his simple approach to making your business ultra-efficient.
Among other powerful strategies, you will discover how to:
• Make your employees act like owners: Free yourself from micromanaging by using a simple technique to empower your people to make smart decisions without you.
• Pinpoint your business’s most important function: Unleash incredible efficiency by identifying and focusing everyone on the one function that is most crucial to your business.
• Know what to fix next: Most entrepreneurs try to fix every inefficiency at once and end up fixing nothing. Use the “weakest link in the chain” method to find the one fix that will add the most value now.
Whether you have a staff of one, one hundred, or somewhere in between, whether you’re a new entrepreneur or have been overworked and overstressed for years, Clockwork is your path to finally making your business work for you.
(Penguin RH)
Superfans by Pat Flynn (Michele Caruana)
Followers, subscribers, customers..
It’s easy to just look at the numbers. How many likes? How many email subscribers? How many purchases?
But as entrepreneurs, we have to remember that there are people behind all that data. People who are looking to us to be a leader, to give advice, and to care. They are looking for trustworthy tools and resources, and for someone to help them to achieve their goals. In this dog-eat-dog world, these are the people who are looking for someone who they can trust, and who they know have their best interests in mind.
These are the people, if you connect with them in the right way, who will become Superfans.
(author’s website)
Pumpkin Plan by Mike Michalowicz (Cachet Prescott)
Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try.
This is the exact situation Mike Michalowicz found himself in when he was trying to grow his first company. Although it was making steady money, there was never very much left over and he was chasing customers left and right, putting in twenty-eight-hour days, eight days a week. The punishing grind never let up. His company was alive but stunted, and he was barely breathing. That’s when he discovered an unlikely source of inspiration—pumpkin farmers.
After reading an article about a local farmer who had dedicated his life to growing giant pumpkins, Michalowicz realized the same process could apply to growing a business. He tested the Pumpkin Plan on his own company and transformed it into a remarkable, multimillion-dollar industry leader. First he did it for himself. Then for others. And now you. So what is the Pumpkin Plan?
Plant the right seeds: Don’t waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it.
Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same is true of customers. Figure out which customers add the most value and provide the best opportunities for sustained growth. Then ditch the worst of the worst.
Nurture the winners: Once you figure out who your best customers are, blow their minds with care. Discover their unfulfilled needs, innovate to make their wishes come true, and overdeliver on every single promise.
Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconventional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.
(Penguin RH)
In sum
Oh my gosh! What a list! I loved this roundup and I can’t wait to dig into some of the books I’ve not read here.
You all KNOW I love a good quote, so here’s my favorite quote about books.
Stephen King said:
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
I completely agree. The words in many of these books have the power to completely change your business and life if you read them, absorb them, and (most importantly) put what you’ve learned into practice.
I hope you will.
That’s what I have for you today!
I would LOVE to hear from you. What book is missing from this list? DM me and let me know on Instagram @laurentilden.
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Talk to you next time.