Realization Press has published these quality books:
We work with nonfiction authors to publish their books. Our focus is books for business, health and healing, and those written by athletes. We also publish other non-fiction we feel is important.
Anatomy of a Winning Culture: A Handbook to Help Directors Build a Pathway to High-Performance, Well-Structured Teams
by Tom Atensio
What does it take to build a winning club culture?
It always begins with being a good all-around person and keeping the well-being of the athlete in mind. All decisions regarding club policy and procedure are based on what is most beneficial to the individual player, now, and in the future. Building a winning culture begins with the leader’s own experiences as an athlete and translates into strong, caring leadership.
This book is a guide for Club Directors, to give them the tools they need to build a winning culture within their organization. A championship culture is so much more than winning games-it’s fostering an atmosphere of leadership, accountability, and nurturing individual growth. A great Club Director is evidenced by a constant drive to learn and grow as a leader while utilizing every available tool to make coaches and players better. Champion-caliber Club Directors influence and direct their teams to excel on every level: practices, games, and the overall confidence and motivation of every player.
Confidence. Drive. Resilience. Accountability. Those are the traits every successful Club Director must possess for a winning culture.
Trauma Ruled My Life Until
by Hannah Allegra Abadi
Hannah Abadi takes us on a challenging journey. Debilitated by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the reader experiences the multiple incidents that threatened to shut her down and then watches her rebound from each of these. Hannah exposes each of the abuses and the people who cause them, but instead of being permanently damaged by them, she responds with bravery and grace, although not necessarily immediately nor without difficulty. She succeeds as a professor at a prominent research university.
She shares how each of the many treatments and techniques helped her overcome each of the events that contributed to her PTSD.
This is indeed a story about the triumph of spirit and is a testament to human perseverance.
Simply Stated: Sole to Soul
by Baletta Hines
People are complex creatures, especially women, but from each other we learn by sharing our experiences through testimonies and accounts of our lives. Simply stated, Sole to Soul puts a bit of humor on real topics and reminds us that no matter how serious the issue is at some point, we all have to realize we can’t control that which we have no control.
Nobody’s Little Girl Anymore
by Cyndi Beardslee
Nobody’s Little Girl Anymore is a memoir centered on a life-altering event of loss and letting go, healing, and becoming thankful for everything in one’s life. This book details the journey of watching a close loved-one wither away, remembering all he did and gave, and learning how to move on with that void in my life.
My dad was everything to me. Hero, protector, teacher, disciplinarian, father, papa, jokester, and friend. We shared a very special bond, but it wasn’t until his terminal diagnosis that I realized he was ‘bigger than life’ to me, and that he molded my entire being into someone who understood so much about what’s really important. He always led by example: How to appreciate the simple things in life, how to take nothing for granted, how to die with grace and dignity.
Pathways, Puzzles, and Possibilities: A Magical Journey of Transformation
by Mindy Schrager
This book describes how our life journeys cross many landscapes, somewhere the terrain is green and lush and others where it is rocky or mountainous. I invite you to go on a series of magical explorations where lessons are learned, pathways are forged, and obstacles are overcome. While the characters include gnomes, dragons, and even a fairy princess, this is built on a true story. The book highlights the importance of being kind to yourself, aligning your inner resources, and designing your own unique life tapestry-allowing the world to see the truth of who you are. As we each take responsibility for our pathways in life and the possibilities we create, how do we solve the various life puzzles presented to us. Consider: How do you feel you fit in and belong with your family? Are you looking for your “tribe” or already found that connection? Do you see obstacles or opportunities? Do you honor yourself or allow yourself to be bullied or bully yourself?
Nightmares Can Come True: Inside the Head and Heart of Grief
by Levi Moore
Denise and Levi had a beautiful life. They had just recently found out that they were expecting boy/girl twins, had just moved into a new house, and had just purchased a new car. Their lives were about to be filled with much wanted joy. However, when Denise passed away from a brain hemorrhage, as well as losing her full-term twins, it changed every aspect of Levi’s life and everything he held dearest. Nightmares Can Come True, is a story of survival in one of the most life-altering events one could imagine. This book walks through the first year of Levi’s survival, including all his biggest hurdles: returning to work, living through the first holidays without Denise, his views on religion, his anger with the medical community, and a number of other heart-wrenching moments. There is true value in understanding the darkest parts of the world and there is great importance in educating ourselves in how we can help others. Although not a happy story, it is one that needs to be told.
Winning the Transition Game: Lessons from the Trenches
by Adonal Foyle
When professional athletes transition from their sport, it is usually not their choice. This book is about letting athletes know that transition is a process. What I know for sure is that we all have to go through the process and be dedicated to it if we are to succeed. I hope this book will raise awareness and help everyone think about transition well before their own transition process actually begins
Drivers of Athletic Success: What Every Athlete Needs to Know about Peak Performance
by Adonal Foyle
One of the key questions every athlete should ask themselves is: “What fuels me to perform at my best?” Another way of asking the question is, “What are the necessary DRIVERS I need as an athlete to perform at an elite level?” To experience peak performance, the mental and physical aspects of the game must come together to achieve an unshakable and unbreakable bond of unity. The DRIVERS building blocks unlock the true meaning of sports: confidence and motivation.
Red Stitches: The Inspiring True Story of Leann Sanders Shelton and Her Journey from the Dugout of Personal Tragedy to a Mound of Victories
by LeAnne Shelton
The day that changed my life forever, Jason was operating a riding lawnmowers, cutting the grass on the hilly terrain at our grandmother’s house. He was at the bottom of a hill, headed up toward the house as my brother, Bobby, and I ran and played. As I ran around the back corner of the house, Jason had already started up the hill with the motor in high gear. Bobby hollered at Jason to stop because he knew I was running around the back of the house. Too late. Before either of us knew it, my right foot caught under the mower, almost cutting off my right little toe. As I tripped, I held up my left arm to protect my head; that’s when the lawnmower splintered up my left arm at the elbow like a woodsplitter. The lawnmower finally stalled but not until the blade severed my arm up to my left shoulder blade bone. I remember waking up in the hospital asking my mom, “Where’s my arm?” I quickly learned that my injury would not and could not stop me from becoming a force to be reckoned with on the softball field as a pitcher, catcher, and outfielder. I eventually earned a spot in the Dixie Hall of Fame. People have said I do not understand the meaning of the word “can’t” and they’re absolutely right I possess positive purpose and a resolve to conquer any challenge that presents itself. A very special part of my journey has included reaching out to Bethany Hamilton, author of Soul Surfer, who lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, and Heaven Harris, an aspiring young softball player who at fourteen lost her right arm in an ATV accident. After hearing about their accidents, I reached out to both young ladies to encourage them that life was not over; indeed it was only beginning, with a new chapter title. Helping Heaven learn how to play softball with one arm was one of my most rewarding life experiences. This book is about defeat, destiny, hope and tenacity.
The Things We Know But Do Not Do: Insights into Parenting, Teaching and Coaching Today’s Youth
by Jayson Wells
The Things We Know But Do Not Do: Insights into Parenting, Teaching and Coaching Today’s Youth draws a distinctive line in the sand when it comes to educating parents, athletes, and coaches about what’s most important during your journey through sports. As a pro basketball player playing in six continents, Jayson Wells brings a wealth of hands-on knowledge and wise insight into your world so you, too, can gain a strong handle on how to conduct yourself with balance and maturity. His mission is crystal clear: Develop Extraordinary Winners.
Jayson Wells grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and never dreamed he would play professionally in twelve different countries after playing basketball at Indiana State University and earning a degree in Sport Management.
In 2011, Jayson retired from playing basketball and shifted his focus to teaching the game he loves. He teamed up with Nike to facilitate various skills academies throughout the country, and has also worked with Kevin Durant, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving at their elite basketball camps. Determined to reach more youth globally, Jayson founded the Shooting Starz Academy, a youth development organization that provides character building in addition to athletic training.
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them
by Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them is for anyone on the conveyor belt within the sports world:
- Parents of Pee Wee, Little League, AAU, or travel ball athletes.
- Athletes in high school or college with a goal to make it to the big leagues.
- Coaches who desire to better guide their players through the sports process.
- Agent-advisors or other sports professionals seeking the best information to provide their clients.
Michael McGinnis, J.D., Founder and Sports Agent-Advisor, Empowerment Sports Group LLC, and Contract Specialist lays out the complexities of the current sports model; showing practical ways on how to navigate it, while proposing a more effective, empowered model where everybody wins. You’ll want to keep this book as a handy reference guide so you can avoid roadblocks and chart your sports course with confidence!
Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur: Helping Entrepreneurs Achieve Success
by Bud Coggins
“Look before you leap.” This very old adage is extremely applicable to your intention to enter the “Real World of the Entrepreneur.” You have much looking to do before you leap.
The content of the book is focused on why become an entrepreneur. There are many resources available to address the how. However, in our high tech world, this is irrelevant until you are able to answer the why honestly and objectively.
According to “Small Business Trends,” of all small businesses that started in 2011, only 4% made it to their second year. Even if you project that trend in 2018 ten times, that would only be 40%. Not good odds. Leading cause: Incompetence, 46%.
The number one reason a “startup” small business fails in the first year is a lack of understanding what it takes mentally, emotionally, physically, and financially to survive and thrive.
Ask trusted sources, people who have “been there and done that,” to share their experiences. Keep in mind that you will be putting your future, family, and finances at risk.
I encourage you to read this entire book before taking the “Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur Self-Assessment.” To have value, your responses must be honest and objective to help you decide if becoming an entrepreneur is the journey you know is meant for you.
The Joyful Brand: Personal Branding for Authors, Speakers and the Rest of Us
by Drew Becker
Whether playing with a certain toy or climbing trees, most children begin with an innate sense of passion for an activity. Parents may have a hard time interrupting this obsession. Many of us have our passions thwarted as children. Uncovering these is the first step towards finding your personal brand.
Rediscover that childhood joy to architect your personal brand.
Unearth your brand by investigating your passions, mining your purpose and creating a legacy.
Build your brand by answering these three questions:
- Are you unique?
- How are you unique?
- Can you describe it in 25 words or less?
Pick up this book and begin your journey to discover your hidden self and your unique talents.
Dear Passenger: Welcome to My Wacky World as a Flight Attendant
by Elizabeth Calwell
Dear Passenger is packed with three decades of amusing anecdotes and episodes that have happened on and off the airplane. A small town upbringing gives Elizabeth a unique Southern perspective on the antics of passengers and unusual happenings while traveling. She has discovered she is a magnet for bizarre incidents, on the ground as well as in mid-air. Here are some tales of the strange, the unexplained, and the downright hilarious from her world as a flight attendant.
On every trip a unique experience just falls out of the blue. These stories include dead bodies in garment bags, a stowaway rooster, and the hilarious antics of passengers and crewmembers on the airplane. All these things have really happened—to her, or to her flying buddies during her twenty-seven years working with a major airline. Have you ever wondered about the life of a flight attendant? Or if you’ve had a hard day at work and need to escape your on the ground job, put on your seat belt and join the author at 35,000 feet. She can tell you all about it. Welcome aboard!
Business Road Warriors
by Eddie Morgan
Print edition now available at Amazon.com
The Business Road Warriors is a photo essay of the people, places and stories of the individuals encountered during business travel in the late 1980’s. It includes images of the crew and fellow travelers (many with their personal stories), as well as the terminals, the equipment, and the support personal required to make it all work.
The Athlete CEO
by Adonal Foyle
Athletes will need to prepare themselves for the reality of life after their careers end. Their character is not forged in the limelight; it is shaped in private moments unknown to the world. As Athlete CEOs, they are the authority over everything that happens within that world. That means he or she cannot be a passive bystander. Athlete CEOs must play an active role in managing and overseeing all aspects of day-to-day business affairs. This book offers profound insights from a former professional basketball player who has lived this role. The Athlete CEO offers a plan to prepare for the steps in the journey through one’s athletic career and beyond.
Expressions of the Divine
by Ingeborg Martinez
Available on Amazon
In Expressions from the Divine, Ingeborg Martinez, takes her work a step beyond the canvas. She was guided to give voice to the messages behind the images and to share the heart song of the universe through poetry as well. Spirit speaks through her words and paintings to reveal a greater canvas.
Did You Know: Fascinating Facts and the Civil War in North Carolina
by J.C. Knowles
Obscure and not so obscure facts about the Old North State and its involvement in the Civil War by the town ambassador for Apex, North Carolina.
You Can Keep Your Parents at Home
by Margo Arrowsmith
Learn from Margo how she faced the joys and challenges of care-taking for her parents as they aged. Much great advice and a heart-warming story fills this book.
Legendary Business: From Rats to Riche$
By Sharon Galluzzo
Is your business thriving or just surviving? Do you want to be more successful but can’t figure out what is missing? Does your dream match your reality?
In Legendary Business: From Rats to Riche$, Award-winning Business Owner Sharon Galluzzo uses powerful and engaging stories to illustrate the pitfalls that too often entrap business owners and provides sound principles to set them free.
Discovering Execution: The Key to High Performance Organizations
by Miles Kierson & Gary Tomlinson
This is the definitive book on discovering execution. It can be said that every individual and every organization executes, and whether it is done well or not so well makes all the difference in terms of the outcome.
Everything you do that is purposeful takes execution. It takes execution to create a strategy. It takes execution to implement a strategy. It takes execution to do all of the day-to-day activities one does in their organization. Execution includes planning, engaging the organization, and implementing. It’s all execution.
Bathroom Prayers: Inspiring Thoughts While You’re on the Pot
by Anita Flushing
Bathroom Prayers is for those who:
1. Desire a fun and whimsical break from everyday routines.
2. Like to celebrate the small things in life as well as the big ones.
3. Have ever experienced pain, trauma, or seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
4. Have tried to break free from a toxic person or bad habit.
5. Want their lives to serve as an influence for others but don’t know where to start.
Your College Survival Guide
by Arielle Stratton
Ebook Edition and Ringbound available at Amazon.
RingBound Standard and Customized available through Etsy.
Your College Survival Guide is an interactive workbook designed to help graduating high school seniors transition into the college environment successfully.
Author Arielle Stratton graduated from High Point University in 2015 with a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Entrepreneurial Business. During all four of her collegiate years, she volunteered as a peer mentor assisting new college freshmen to get acclimated to college. When she went through the experience herself of going to school over 1,100 miles from home, she made the transition pretty easily. However, she quickly saw that this was not the case for some of her peers. Knowing that her younger sister would be moving away to college two years after her, she came up with this book as a graduation present. Before she knew it, she was handing out copies to friends, neighbors, and parents of college seniors as well. Many parents loved the idea and wanted to provide their child with something that would support their soon-to-be-freshmen with mental and emotional encouragement, instead of just financial.
After reading and using this guide, Arielle hopes that future college freshmen feel more at ease when making the transition from high school to college. It will get easier, and she hopes that college truly is the best four years of your life!
Interviewing Quick Guide: The Art and the Craft
by Drew Becker
Find out about the essentials of interviewing whether for a magazine article, blog, video, or other media by following this step-by-step concise guide. A must for those who interview as part of their research. The art and craft of the interview is useful in video, podcasts, magazine writing, and other areas. Learn tips about some of the author’s experiences doing interviews. Drew Becker brings his experience as a writer and interviewer to readers to help them improve their interviewing techniques and gives practical advice about preparing for and conducting interviews.
Interviewing Quick Guide is the first book in the Writers Block series.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks
By Drew Becker
A surprising number of writers begin books only to get stuck during the first draft. Sources suggest that 81% of us want to write a book, but only 3% finish.
Successful writers need a method to get it done. Otherwise, an unfinished manuscript languishes in a drawer.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks provides a process to help you write quickly and know you will have an audience. In this book you will discover how.
Pick up this book to help you become a published author, part of the successful 3%. Follow this simple day-by-day plan, and you too can finish in less than a month.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks is the second book in the Writers Block series.
Write a Fiction Book in Four Weeks
By Drew Becker
Write a Fiction Book in 4 Weeks is designed to help writers, especially those who are embarking on their first fiction book, to get into the flow of the writing process. I also wrote this book with the intention of helping those authors who started their books and left them incomplete.
Additionally, the author hopes a few ideas will aid writers who have already completed one or more short stories, novellas or novels. Sometimes even seasoned authors face writer’s block or bumps in the road on the way to completing a manuscript.
Writing a book can be daunting. What if you could start with just one minute a day for the first week to get started? This is a guide about how to start by planning and then how to keep going by completing exercises ranging from that one minute for the first week and building to 55+ minutes the final week.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks is the third book in the Writers Block series.
We also helped other authors publish their books:
Do Like Grandma Did: A Guide to Clean Healthy Eating
by Alice W. Munyua, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Paperback Edition available at Amazon.
This book will help improve your health, lose weight, improve your cholesterol, improve your AIC, feel better and become more energized. You will receive insight into how to incorporate physical activities into your daily routine and never miss a day of exercise without needing to go to the gym. Physical activity not only helps you lose weight but also stops type 2 diabetes in its tracks. Learn regular things in your house that you can use to enhance your physical activities. Find out how Alice followed her grandma’s routines and diet and rediscovered health.
The American Voter’s Election Guide: Scapegoat to Strategist (How to Outwit the Sneaky Politicians and Finally Get What You Want)
by Marie-Anne Lutchmaya
E-book Available on Amazon.
I Gotta P: 44 Pathwords to Higher Sales
by Matt Yablunosky
Paperback available on Amazon.
Launch Your EPIC Career Adventure: The EPIC Method for Accelerating Your Job Search
by Kristin Hiemstra
Out of Print
A long time ago, in an ancient language no one remembers, the words career and carriage shared the same parents. Today their relationship is clear: our careers are the carriage we give the Queen’s wave from as we journey through the marketplace. In this book you will learn how to:
- decide on your career direction
- break into the community that can get you hired
- take small, practical steps every day that get results
- use optimal resume styles to showcase your talents
- give brilliant answers to interviewers’ questions
- negotiate the best compensation package for your lifestyle
The marketplace is packed with opportunities that are beyond your wildest dreams. Let this book provide you with a roadmap to success as well as the magic EPIC formula that will catapult you into the good fortune that awaits you. You know you are ready, so what are you waiting for?
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Realization Press has published these quality books:
We work with nonfiction authors to publish their books. Our focus is books for business, health and healing, and those written by athletes. We also publish other non-fiction we feel is important.
Anatomy of a Winning Culture: A Handbook to Help Directors Build a Pathway to High-Performance, Well-Structured Teams
by Tom Atensio
What does it take to build a winning club culture?
It always begins with being a good all-around person and keeping the well-being of the athlete in mind. All decisions regarding club policy and procedure are based on what is most beneficial to the individual player, now, and in the future. Building a winning culture begins with the leader’s own experiences as an athlete and translates into strong, caring leadership.
This book is a guide for Club Directors, to give them the tools they need to build a winning culture within their organization. A championship culture is so much more than winning games-it’s fostering an atmosphere of leadership, accountability, and nurturing individual growth. A great Club Director is evidenced by a constant drive to learn and grow as a leader while utilizing every available tool to make coaches and players better. Champion-caliber Club Directors influence and direct their teams to excel on every level: practices, games, and the overall confidence and motivation of every player.
Confidence. Drive. Resilience. Accountability. Those are the traits every successful Club Director must possess for a winning culture.
Trauma Ruled My Life Until
by Hannah Allegra Abadi
Hannah Abadi takes us on a challenging journey. Debilitated by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the reader experiences the multiple incidents that threatened to shut her down and then watches her rebound from each of these. Hannah exposes each of the abuses and the people who cause them, but instead of being permanently damaged by them, she responds with bravery and grace, although not necessarily immediately nor without difficulty. She succeeds as a professor at a prominent research university.
She shares how each of the many treatments and techniques helped her overcome each of the events that contributed to her PTSD.
This is indeed a story about the triumph of spirit and is a testament to human perseverance.
Simply Stated: Sole to Soul
by Baletta Hines
People are complex creatures, especially women, but from each other we learn by sharing our experiences through testimonies and accounts of our lives. Simply stated, Sole to Soul puts a bit of humor on real topics and reminds us that no matter how serious the issue is at some point, we all have to realize we can’t control that which we have no control.
Nobody’s Little Girl Anymore
by Cyndi Beardslee
Nobody’s Little Girl Anymore is a memoir centered on a life-altering event of loss and letting go, healing, and becoming thankful for everything in one’s life. This book details the journey of watching a close loved-one wither away, remembering all he did and gave, and learning how to move on with that void in my life.
My dad was everything to me. Hero, protector, teacher, disciplinarian, father, papa, jokester, and friend. We shared a very special bond, but it wasn’t until his terminal diagnosis that I realized he was ‘bigger than life’ to me, and that he molded my entire being into someone who understood so much about what’s really important. He always led by example: How to appreciate the simple things in life, how to take nothing for granted, how to die with grace and dignity.
Pathways, Puzzles, and Possibilities: A Magical Journey of Transformation
by Mindy Schrager
This book describes how our life journeys cross many landscapes, somewhere the terrain is green and lush and others where it is rocky or mountainous. I invite you to go on a series of magical explorations where lessons are learned, pathways are forged, and obstacles are overcome. While the characters include gnomes, dragons, and even a fairy princess, this is built on a true story. The book highlights the importance of being kind to yourself, aligning your inner resources, and designing your own unique life tapestry-allowing the world to see the truth of who you are. As we each take responsibility for our pathways in life and the possibilities we create, how do we solve the various life puzzles presented to us. Consider: How do you feel you fit in and belong with your family? Are you looking for your “tribe” or already found that connection? Do you see obstacles or opportunities? Do you honor yourself or allow yourself to be bullied or bully yourself?
Nightmares Can Come True: Inside the Head and Heart of Grief
by Levi Moore
Denise and Levi had a beautiful life. They had just recently found out that they were expecting boy/girl twins, had just moved into a new house, and had just purchased a new car. Their lives were about to be filled with much wanted joy. However, when Denise passed away from a brain hemorrhage, as well as losing her full-term twins, it changed every aspect of Levi’s life and everything he held dearest. Nightmares Can Come True, is a story of survival in one of the most life-altering events one could imagine. This book walks through the first year of Levi’s survival, including all his biggest hurdles: returning to work, living through the first holidays without Denise, his views on religion, his anger with the medical community, and a number of other heart-wrenching moments. There is true value in understanding the darkest parts of the world and there is great importance in educating ourselves in how we can help others. Although not a happy story, it is one that needs to be told.
Winning the Transition Game: Lessons from the Trenches
by Adonal Foyle
When professional athletes transition from their sport, it is usually not their choice. This book is about letting athletes know that transition is a process. What I know for sure is that we all have to go through the process and be dedicated to it if we are to succeed. I hope this book will raise awareness and help everyone think about transition well before their own transition process actually begins
Drivers of Athletic Success: What Every Athlete Needs to Know about Peak Performance
by Adonal Foyle
One of the key questions every athlete should ask themselves is: “What fuels me to perform at my best?” Another way of asking the question is, “What are the necessary DRIVERS I need as an athlete to perform at an elite level?” To experience peak performance, the mental and physical aspects of the game must come together to achieve an unshakable and unbreakable bond of unity. The DRIVERS building blocks unlock the true meaning of sports: confidence and motivation.
Red Stitches: The Inspiring True Story of Leann Sanders Shelton and Her Journey from the Dugout of Personal Tragedy to a Mound of Victories
by LeAnne Shelton
The day that changed my life forever, Jason was operating a riding lawnmowers, cutting the grass on the hilly terrain at our grandmother’s house. He was at the bottom of a hill, headed up toward the house as my brother, Bobby, and I ran and played. As I ran around the back corner of the house, Jason had already started up the hill with the motor in high gear. Bobby hollered at Jason to stop because he knew I was running around the back of the house. Too late. Before either of us knew it, my right foot caught under the mower, almost cutting off my right little toe. As I tripped, I held up my left arm to protect my head; that’s when the lawnmower splintered up my left arm at the elbow like a woodsplitter. The lawnmower finally stalled but not until the blade severed my arm up to my left shoulder blade bone. I remember waking up in the hospital asking my mom, “Where’s my arm?” I quickly learned that my injury would not and could not stop me from becoming a force to be reckoned with on the softball field as a pitcher, catcher, and outfielder. I eventually earned a spot in the Dixie Hall of Fame. People have said I do not understand the meaning of the word “can’t” and they’re absolutely right I possess positive purpose and a resolve to conquer any challenge that presents itself. A very special part of my journey has included reaching out to Bethany Hamilton, author of Soul Surfer, who lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, and Heaven Harris, an aspiring young softball player who at fourteen lost her right arm in an ATV accident. After hearing about their accidents, I reached out to both young ladies to encourage them that life was not over; indeed it was only beginning, with a new chapter title. Helping Heaven learn how to play softball with one arm was one of my most rewarding life experiences. This book is about defeat, destiny, hope and tenacity.
The Things We Know But Do Not Do: Insights into Parenting, Teaching and Coaching Today’s Youth
by Jayson Wells
The Things We Know But Do Not Do: Insights into Parenting, Teaching and Coaching Today’s Youth draws a distinctive line in the sand when it comes to educating parents, athletes, and coaches about what’s most important during your journey through sports. As a pro basketball player playing in six continents, Jayson Wells brings a wealth of hands-on knowledge and wise insight into your world so you, too, can gain a strong handle on how to conduct yourself with balance and maturity. His mission is crystal clear: Develop Extraordinary Winners.
Jayson Wells grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and never dreamed he would play professionally in twelve different countries after playing basketball at Indiana State University and earning a degree in Sport Management.
In 2011, Jayson retired from playing basketball and shifted his focus to teaching the game he loves. He teamed up with Nike to facilitate various skills academies throughout the country, and has also worked with Kevin Durant, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving at their elite basketball camps. Determined to reach more youth globally, Jayson founded the Shooting Starz Academy, a youth development organization that provides character building in addition to athletic training.
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them
by Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them is for anyone on the conveyor belt within the sports world:
- Parents of Pee Wee, Little League, AAU, or travel ball athletes.
- Athletes in high school or college with a goal to make it to the big leagues.
- Coaches who desire to better guide their players through the sports process.
- Agent-advisors or other sports professionals seeking the best information to provide their clients.
Michael McGinnis, J.D., Founder and Sports Agent-Advisor, Empowerment Sports Group LLC, and Contract Specialist lays out the complexities of the current sports model; showing practical ways on how to navigate it, while proposing a more effective, empowered model where everybody wins. You’ll want to keep this book as a handy reference guide so you can avoid roadblocks and chart your sports course with confidence!
Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur: Helping Entrepreneurs Achieve Success
by Bud Coggins
“Look before you leap.” This very old adage is extremely applicable to your intention to enter the “Real World of the Entrepreneur.” You have much looking to do before you leap.
The content of the book is focused on why become an entrepreneur. There are many resources available to address the how. However, in our high tech world, this is irrelevant until you are able to answer the why honestly and objectively.
According to “Small Business Trends,” of all small businesses that started in 2011, only 4% made it to their second year. Even if you project that trend in 2018 ten times, that would only be 40%. Not good odds. Leading cause: Incompetence, 46%.
The number one reason a “startup” small business fails in the first year is a lack of understanding what it takes mentally, emotionally, physically, and financially to survive and thrive.
Ask trusted sources, people who have “been there and done that,” to share their experiences. Keep in mind that you will be putting your future, family, and finances at risk.
I encourage you to read this entire book before taking the “Profile of a Successful Entrepreneur Self-Assessment.” To have value, your responses must be honest and objective to help you decide if becoming an entrepreneur is the journey you know is meant for you.
The Joyful Brand: Personal Branding for Authors, Speakers and the Rest of Us
by Drew Becker
Whether playing with a certain toy or climbing trees, most children begin with an innate sense of passion for an activity. Parents may have a hard time interrupting this obsession. Many of us have our passions thwarted as children. Uncovering these is the first step towards finding your personal brand.
Rediscover that childhood joy to architect your personal brand.
Unearth your brand by investigating your passions, mining your purpose and creating a legacy.
Build your brand by answering these three questions:
- Are you unique?
- How are you unique?
- Can you describe it in 25 words or less?
Pick up this book and begin your journey to discover your hidden self and your unique talents.
Dear Passenger: Welcome to My Wacky World as a Flight Attendant
by Elizabeth Calwell
Dear Passenger is packed with three decades of amusing anecdotes and episodes that have happened on and off the airplane. A small town upbringing gives Elizabeth a unique Southern perspective on the antics of passengers and unusual happenings while traveling. She has discovered she is a magnet for bizarre incidents, on the ground as well as in mid-air. Here are some tales of the strange, the unexplained, and the downright hilarious from her world as a flight attendant.
On every trip a unique experience just falls out of the blue. These stories include dead bodies in garment bags, a stowaway rooster, and the hilarious antics of passengers and crewmembers on the airplane. All these things have really happened—to her, or to her flying buddies during her twenty-seven years working with a major airline. Have you ever wondered about the life of a flight attendant? Or if you’ve had a hard day at work and need to escape your on the ground job, put on your seat belt and join the author at 35,000 feet. She can tell you all about it. Welcome aboard!
Business Road Warriors
by Eddie Morgan
Print edition now available at Amazon.com
The Business Road Warriors is a photo essay of the people, places and stories of the individuals encountered during business travel in the late 1980’s. It includes images of the crew and fellow travelers (many with their personal stories), as well as the terminals, the equipment, and the support personal required to make it all work.
The Athlete CEO
by Adonal Foyle
Athletes will need to prepare themselves for the reality of life after their careers end. Their character is not forged in the limelight; it is shaped in private moments unknown to the world. As Athlete CEOs, they are the authority over everything that happens within that world. That means he or she cannot be a passive bystander. Athlete CEOs must play an active role in managing and overseeing all aspects of day-to-day business affairs. This book offers profound insights from a former professional basketball player who has lived this role. The Athlete CEO offers a plan to prepare for the steps in the journey through one’s athletic career and beyond.
Expressions of the Divine
by Ingeborg Martinez
Available on Amazon
In Expressions from the Divine, Ingeborg Martinez, takes her work a step beyond the canvas. She was guided to give voice to the messages behind the images and to share the heart song of the universe through poetry as well. Spirit speaks through her words and paintings to reveal a greater canvas.
Did You Know: Fascinating Facts and the Civil War in North Carolina
by J.C. Knowles
Obscure and not so obscure facts about the Old North State and its involvement in the Civil War by the town ambassador for Apex, North Carolina.
You Can Keep Your Parents at Home
by Margo Arrowsmith
Learn from Margo how she faced the joys and challenges of care-taking for her parents as they aged. Much great advice and a heart-warming story fills this book.
Legendary Business: From Rats to Riche$
By Sharon Galluzzo
Is your business thriving or just surviving? Do you want to be more successful but can’t figure out what is missing? Does your dream match your reality?
In Legendary Business: From Rats to Riche$, Award-winning Business Owner Sharon Galluzzo uses powerful and engaging stories to illustrate the pitfalls that too often entrap business owners and provides sound principles to set them free.
Discovering Execution: The Key to High Performance Organizations
by Miles Kierson & Gary Tomlinson
This is the definitive book on discovering execution. It can be said that every individual and every organization executes, and whether it is done well or not so well makes all the difference in terms of the outcome.
Everything you do that is purposeful takes execution. It takes execution to create a strategy. It takes execution to implement a strategy. It takes execution to do all of the day-to-day activities one does in their organization. Execution includes planning, engaging the organization, and implementing. It’s all execution.
Bathroom Prayers: Inspiring Thoughts While You’re on the Pot
by Anita Flushing
Bathroom Prayers is for those who:
1. Desire a fun and whimsical break from everyday routines.
2. Like to celebrate the small things in life as well as the big ones.
3. Have ever experienced pain, trauma, or seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
4. Have tried to break free from a toxic person or bad habit.
5. Want their lives to serve as an influence for others but don’t know where to start.
Your College Survival Guide
by Arielle Stratton
Ebook Edition and Ringbound available at Amazon.
RingBound Standard and Customized available through Etsy.
Your College Survival Guide is an interactive workbook designed to help graduating high school seniors transition into the college environment successfully.
Author Arielle Stratton graduated from High Point University in 2015 with a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Entrepreneurial Business. During all four of her collegiate years, she volunteered as a peer mentor assisting new college freshmen to get acclimated to college. When she went through the experience herself of going to school over 1,100 miles from home, she made the transition pretty easily. However, she quickly saw that this was not the case for some of her peers. Knowing that her younger sister would be moving away to college two years after her, she came up with this book as a graduation present. Before she knew it, she was handing out copies to friends, neighbors, and parents of college seniors as well. Many parents loved the idea and wanted to provide their child with something that would support their soon-to-be-freshmen with mental and emotional encouragement, instead of just financial.
After reading and using this guide, Arielle hopes that future college freshmen feel more at ease when making the transition from high school to college. It will get easier, and she hopes that college truly is the best four years of your life!
Interviewing Quick Guide: The Art and the Craft
by Drew Becker
Find out about the essentials of interviewing whether for a magazine article, blog, video, or other media by following this step-by-step concise guide. A must for those who interview as part of their research. The art and craft of the interview is useful in video, podcasts, magazine writing, and other areas. Learn tips about some of the author’s experiences doing interviews. Drew Becker brings his experience as a writer and interviewer to readers to help them improve their interviewing techniques and gives practical advice about preparing for and conducting interviews.
Interviewing Quick Guide is the first book in the Writers Block series.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks
By Drew Becker
A surprising number of writers begin books only to get stuck during the first draft. Sources suggest that 81% of us want to write a book, but only 3% finish.
Successful writers need a method to get it done. Otherwise, an unfinished manuscript languishes in a drawer.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks provides a process to help you write quickly and know you will have an audience. In this book you will discover how.
Pick up this book to help you become a published author, part of the successful 3%. Follow this simple day-by-day plan, and you too can finish in less than a month.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks is the second book in the Writers Block series.
Write a Fiction Book in Four Weeks
By Drew Becker
Write a Fiction Book in 4 Weeks is designed to help writers, especially those who are embarking on their first fiction book, to get into the flow of the writing process. I also wrote this book with the intention of helping those authors who started their books and left them incomplete.
Additionally, the author hopes a few ideas will aid writers who have already completed one or more short stories, novellas or novels. Sometimes even seasoned authors face writer’s block or bumps in the road on the way to completing a manuscript.
Writing a book can be daunting. What if you could start with just one minute a day for the first week to get started? This is a guide about how to start by planning and then how to keep going by completing exercises ranging from that one minute for the first week and building to 55+ minutes the final week.
Write a Non-fiction Book in Four Weeks is the third book in the Writers Block series.
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Do Like Grandma Did: A Guide to Clean Healthy Eating
by Alice W. Munyua, Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Paperback Edition available at Amazon.
This book will help improve your health, lose weight, improve your cholesterol, improve your AIC, feel better and become more energized. You will receive insight into how to incorporate physical activities into your daily routine and never miss a day of exercise without needing to go to the gym. Physical activity not only helps you lose weight but also stops type 2 diabetes in its tracks. Learn regular things in your house that you can use to enhance your physical activities. Find out how Alice followed her grandma’s routines and diet and rediscovered health.
The American Voter’s Election Guide: Scapegoat to Strategist (How to Outwit the Sneaky Politicians and Finally Get What You Want)
by Marie-Anne Lutchmaya
E-book Available on Amazon.
I Gotta P: 44 Pathwords to Higher Sales
by Matt Yablunosky
Paperback available on Amazon.
Launch Your EPIC Career Adventure: The EPIC Method for Accelerating Your Job Search
by Kristin Hiemstra
Out of Print
A long time ago, in an ancient language no one remembers, the words career and carriage shared the same parents. Today their relationship is clear: our careers are the carriage we give the Queen’s wave from as we journey through the marketplace. In this book you will learn how to:
- decide on your career direction
- break into the community that can get you hired
- take small, practical steps every day that get results
- use optimal resume styles to showcase your talents
- give brilliant answers to interviewers’ questions
- negotiate the best compensation package for your lifestyle
The marketplace is packed with opportunities that are beyond your wildest dreams. Let this book provide you with a roadmap to success as well as the magic EPIC formula that will catapult you into the good fortune that awaits you. You know you are ready, so what are you waiting for?
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