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Every child is promised a free and public education, but they are not promised a friend to share this time with. Stand Like a Superhero sheds light on how parents and educators can create intentional opportunities for children with diverse needs to develop a sense of purpose through meaningful relationships.In Stand Like a Superhero you will discover:Strategies to unlock the hidden voice of a child and isolate the miscommunication that happens more often than we realize.How to speak a child's language and communicate in a way that makes sense to the non-traditional learner.Stories from the experts...the students themselves!Author Lorie Hanna provides educators and parents reason to pause, self-assess, and build creative paths for children to discover personal success in academics, social skills, and building friendships. Stand Like a Superhero is the playbook you need to help you better interact with the children in your life.

Growing up, we dream of going into a field that will change the world. Why don't we end up doing this? In STARTERMINDSET, author Moshe Goldstein interviews fourteen young (17-25 year old) professionals, each coming from unique and diverse backgrounds, who tell their stories and share their motivations to succeed. These stories range across all industries showing that, with the right mindset and motivation, prosperity is within reach.In this book you will discover where to go with your concept and the steps needed to create a lifelong career.Join Goldstein as he explores the idea that, while young and inexperienced, these individuals have had a tremendous amount of success. Their experiences show the power of everyday people to encourage significant and lasting change in society. In the world today, opportunities are abundant for those who have the initiative and take that first step-STARTERMINDSET proves just that.

The Chips and Guac Principle, Sanjeev Kumar's debut book, uncovers the role money has on our emotions, our happiness, and what we value in life. It explores our true passions and how to center our lives around that passion. Sanjeev realized there was so much more to life than chasing money, yet that green paper had always been the center of his goals in life. He decided to explore and understand how this played a role in how to be happy and make the right decisions toward long-term, sustainable happiness.The Chips and Guac Principle speaks to teenagers and young adults who want to grapple with money and fulfillment through reflection and fruitful dialogue, pressing into engaging questions like:What kind of life do I want to live?What do I truly value in life?Am I really happy or feeling what I think should be happiness?This book is a must read if you have no idea what you want to do in life or want to follow your dreams and have a desire to learn more about your emotions and your happiness.

Do companies have to dehumanize their employees to make a profit? Imagine a workplace where human needs are at the forefront.Digital Belonging brings the human element to workplaces, focusing on the well-being and aspirations of the employees. With an extensive background in artificial intelligence technology, Yogesh Soni carefully balances technology and real-life workplace stories to propose inherently human solutions. He invites you to:Rediscover your own fundamental needs and the needs of those around you.Take a closer look at the reasons employees are hurting at most workplaces.Believe you can do better.Systematically eliminate practices that hurt employees and replace them with life-fulfilling ones. Grow and win together with your coworkersYogesh K. Soni's Digital Belonging is a tool to help you and your colleagues thrive in your workplaces, and ensure people feel included, seen, and heard. You'll learn about the human need to belong and how today's organizations ignore this fundamental need, wreaking havoc with our mental and emotional well-being. Here you'll find practical strategies to build organizations with happier, more fulfilled employees, especially if they work remotely.

In Of Marks and Murder, Olivia Gabriel has spent the last decade as a classroom teacher. While she's comfortable teaching, she clings to a dream of working in film. Yet, the dream seems an impossible reality. When an unforeseen turn of events leaves Olivia at a crossroads, she opts for adventure over security. She joins a fellowship for women in film, working as the location manager of the newly popular TV show, Murder in Morristown. As she begins to find her place (and herself) in the chaos, the unthinkable happens - murder. Will she let her internal desire to find the truth derail her dreams, or will she be the next victim?

Think of any movement not female-centric. Now, take a pause long enough to think of the first five people who come to mind. Chances are the majority of that list is made up of men.There are simply not enough stories that champion young women and the strides they are making. The Next Advocates works to remedy this.Learn how Noor Tagouri, a 25-year-old journalist, harnesses social media to promote fair representation of cultures and minorities in media. Yara Shahidi, best known for her role on Black-ish, is taking another role as an advocate for youth voters. Meet Grace Que, a 20-year-old who, while at university, helped to build a platform for women in the computer science industry.Causes you will find in this book include: Women in STEM Immigration Reform Climate Change Minority Representation in the Media Youth Voters in the US #MeToo in China And more...Whether you are a young woman yourself or an adult wishing to empower a young person, let the stories in The Next Advocates show that age and gender don't matter. Passion and a few simple tools are all that's necessary.

Remember you are never alone. What you experience has been encountered by others. The stories here are proof. And anytime you feel as though you don't know what to do in life - remember that the ultimate key is perspective. The poetry contained in orchids&blus explores the layers of love, finding beauty in simplicity, knowing pain as a best friend, and becoming the person you want to be by realizing you are that person right now. In reading this collection of poems, you will discover a new sense of the world and a fresh perspective on life. Born of random tweets, scribbles and memories woven together - this collection asks you to explore layers of love and multifaceted identity. It challenges the reader to lean into life's intense emotions and to experience them in all their flawed splendor. Jaziyyah's orchids&blus is a must-read for those learning about the world of poetry, seasoned poets looking for a different style, or anyone seeking a new vantage point. This book is here for all readers who simply want to feel connected to words on a page as if they are living stories (because they are).

Donte Kirby's Tales from Bleak Metal Falls is an anthology of stories featuring mischievous teens Chastity, Oswald, and Robert as they stumble through adolescence and get into misadventures with Aztec, Lovecraftian, and Yoruba gods. If the trio hopes to save the town of Bleak Metal Falls from destruction, not only will they have to uncover preternatural secrets but they'll need to discover themselves and value one another as friends, or else sink in a sea of solitude and madness. Chastity, Oswald, and Robert learn:Friendships are give-and-takeFriends can be a reflection of ourselvesWho we are at our worst isn't all we are, just a part of usBy the time you reach the end of Tales from Bleak Metal Falls, you'll be surprised to find that the creepy and heartfelt can indeed go hand-in-hand.

Isabella Niño's Food For All is a cookbook that amplifies and showcases how you already possess the skills needed for cooking, but maybe just haven't had the opportunity to develop those skills. Join the Drooling Goddess in her kitchen as she provides delicious and easy-to-follow recipes that have inspired the culinary life that she leads today. Offering a variety of dishes from beginner to expert, this cookbook is filled with mouthwatering ideas to jump-start your love for cooking. Learn to create dishes like:The Drooling Goddess Cheese BoardItalian Fennel Sausage with Rigatoni PastaAdela's Guava Pie. . . and many more yummy recipes. With food for when you want to impress, eat healthy, and most of all laugh and enjoy good company, Food For All invites you to take a seat at the table with Isabella and learn how cooking can be fun, rewarding, nutritious, and delicious. With these recipes you will feel like you have your own chef guiding you, aiding as you prepare meals like never before. This cookbook is sure to be a kitchen staple.

Many individuals feel pressure in living up to others' expectations of them. Voyage of an Independent Thinker aims to strike up candid conversations about practical life, social complexities, and how to independently navigate them. Author Leila Naylor wrote this book to inspire adolescents to become more independent thinkers.Voyage of an Independent Thinker addresses:What skillsets are important for young adults to obtain to become more self-reliant?What advice would help people resolve their own problems more effectively?How do you effectively adapt yourself to change?Why is it important to do your homework first?Exploring the intersection between managing finances, interacting in the professional world, and making big life decisions, Naylor's story speaks to individuals that want to reach their highest potential so that they can live their life their way.

Conforming is neither sustainable nor forever as the nature inside of us starts bursting from our ribcages. At some point, the courage arises to forge our own pathways, emerging with its own wildflowers from the terra underneath, sprouting, twisting, and evolving in the most elaborate ways. Madeleine Rose Olson shares the journey of her tenacity and dedication needed to blaze her own trail after rigorously advocating to college administrators to create her own major. It became clear that embracing unorthodoxy was not just unique to her but part of a larger impulse. Drawing upon entrepreneurship, creativity, and mindset, she shares several stories of other thought leaders who have managed to work systematically and fruitfully in unconventional ways.Subversive Pathways: Your Life as Transformative Design speaks to visionary leaders to start seeing authority in new ways by embracing subversion in order to thrive. Design becomes our path toward leadership. We learn to get out of our assumptions, listen to the world, test things, fail early, re-prototype, and adapt intelligently. This is the story of learning how to live life by creating what has not been conceived yet and remembering that it is our creativity and agility that bring us back to our humanity.

In the fugue of deep meditation, Jaya Devi tumbles outdoors into a muggy south Florida dawn. Sliding on a pair of orange flip-flops, she cuts across a dirt path skirting the ashram lawn. She glances down as a fat black snake slithers up her bare leg, wrapping itself tight. Astonished, she pauses, exemplifying the yogi's art of non-reaction, breathing and assessing. Here, we enter into the wild wisdom-experience of a modern yogi who uses each moment as fuel for personal transformation. Embodied reveals an array of relevant, effective tools for thriving in today's upside-down world. Part memoir, part thought leadership, part toolkit for modern living, Embodied is accessible, deep, darkly humorous, and inspiring.Swami tackles topics like how to change our relationship with our suffering and embody the courage to grow from it. Whether you're a new yogi, a seasoned meditator, or someone struggling with the stress of contemporary living, Embodied inspires us to keep our cup half full while teaching us techniques to live a richer, more fulfilling life.¿

These Ordinary Moments of Grief is the story of an ordinary person losing her precious mother to ovarian cancer. Author D.C. Zhang found herself lost and unsure how to sift through the grief.Empowered by the realization that we will all experience loss, Zhang began to share with the world her musings on grief, first online and now in her debut book, with a series of essays. This is not an instruction book about how to handle grief; but is a book that illustrates how the author dealt with her personal grief. Through her experiences of loss, Zhang hopes that Ordinary Moments can serve as an attempt to bridge the gap between the grievers and the not-yet grievers. These Ordinary Moments of Grief explores how the inevitability of loss connects us. Through witnessing her mother's illness, planning her funeral, and learning to move forward in a world without her, D.C. Zhang captures a pain and growth every human being will experience in small, ordinary moments. To learn more about D.C. Zhang, you can follow her on Instagram @Dearsaladdays.

What holds men in unhealthy masculinity? Why is vulnerability looked down on in the 21st century?In The Whole Man, author Christopher Veal delves into these questions.Showing how men are held in unhealthy masculinity, Veal shows how to incorporate the idea of vulnerability to create a greater connection with people around us.By incorporating interviews from his podcast, The Vulnerable Man, Veal saw a need for us to evolve a more inclusive approach to how we define masculinity. Key to this vision is the destigmatization of the word "vulnerability." Embracing this vulnerability allows men to live a healthier and more complete version of what it means to be a man.In this book, you will learn about:How masculinity has influenced men to be closed off from their emotionsThe five habits of the "Whole Man"How to build and maintain rich and deep relationships with othersThe Whole Man is a book that speaks to people who want to look at masculinity in a healthier and more inclusive way, and who are ready to move beyond the confining views of outdated masculinity.

The majority of women survivors of toxic relationships do not have histories of significant trauma, nor are they codependent. Instead, they have certain personality traits that make them vulnerable to this relationship abuse.In Insight Is 20/20: How To Trust Yourself To Protect Yourself From Narcissistic Abuse & Toxic Relationships, Chelli Pumphrey's anecdotes, clinical examples, and research teaches you about the signals of your body that can alert you to the dangers of a pathological partner. You'll learn how to prevent, identify, or leave abusive or toxic relationships.Inside, you will receive answers to:How can I tell if my partner is a narcissist or has a personality disorder?What are the signs of narcissistic abuse?Why is it so hard for me to leave my toxic relationship?Why do I keep attracting narcissists and abusive partners?What techniques or tools can help me trust my gut when choosing a partner?Insight is 20/20 is a must-read, debunking the myths associated with narcissistic and toxic partners, opening your eyes to the real reasons that impact your vulnerability, and how to prevent these relationships.

"e;For the parents whose children had cancer, I couldn't imagine their grief, their fears. I feared for my children and family."e;After discovering that children were getting sick and dying from rare cancers in her small town, Mindi Messmer led the charge to uncover environmental issues that were poisoning the drinking water and environment in her town and many others. She exposed the high rates of cancer in her town and across the state. She worked to prevent cancer and chronic disease and hold polluters accountable for environmental issues with science, science-based policy, and advocacy. Female Disruptors chronicles Messmer's somewhat surprising experiences as a scientist, concerned mother, and politician. Instead of being appreciated for her work and findings, she was often met with a different response from her male counterparts. In Female Disruptors, you will discover how gender stereotypes and policies prevent women from entering science fields and ultimately undermines their success and job retention. Women bring important perspectives and alternative problem-solving approaches to the world. Through the lens of her own journey, Messmer is hoping to inspire the next generation of female scientists.