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The Fearless Woman's Guide to Starting a Business: What Every Woman Needs to Know to be a Courageous, Authentic and Unstoppable Entrepreneur by Ameé Quiriconi

May 16, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Book Review

The Fearless Woman’s Guide to Starting a Business: What Every Woman Needs to Know to be a Courageous, Authentic and Unstoppable Entrepreneur by Ameé Quiriconi is a book for freedom-seeking female entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who want to know how to connect with their true passions, skills, and desires. It’s a book for startup business women who get honest with themselves about their reasons for wanting to start a business.

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Dream First, Details Later: How to Quit Overthinking & Make It Happen! by Ellen Marie Bennett

May 9, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Ellen Marie Bennett

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Entrepreneur Ellen Marie Bennett, founder of professional apron company, Hedley & Bennett, knows what it takes to build a successful business, and the title of her new book, Dream First, Details Later: How to Quit Overthinking & Make It Happen!, says it all.

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Get Visible: How to have more impact, influence and income by Anna Parker-Naples

May 2, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Anna Parker-Naples

Anna Parker-Naples

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If you are wondering why you don’t have the income or influence you want in your business and industry sector, then Anna Parker-Naples, author of Get Visible, believes she has the answer. Her new book teaches you to become visible, credible and scalable in your field.

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The Bouncebackability Factor: End Burnout, Gain Resilience, and Change the World by Caitlin Donovan

April 25, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Caitlin Donovan

Caitlin Donovan

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For all those women entrepreneurs who have experienced burnout, help is at hand from author and burnout expert Caitlin Donovan, in her new book The Bouncebackability Factor: End Burnout, Gain Resilience, and Change the World. This is a deep and real examination of the true causes of burnout and how to heal them within yourself.

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Brand Storytelling: Put Customers At The Heart Of Your Brand Story by Miri Rodriguez

April 18, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Miri Rodriguez

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Written by the award-winning storyteller Miri Rodriguez at Microsoft, Brand Storytelling: Put Customers At The Heart Of Your Brand Story is an actionable guide that goes beyond content strategy. Instead, it demonstrates how to leverage brand storytelling in the marketing mix to strengthen brand engagement and achieve long-term growth, with advice from brands like Expedia, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Adobe and Google.

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Quarantine Queens: The Stories of Forward Thinking Women Entrepreneurs During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic by Doretha Howard White

April 11, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Doretha Howard White’s new book, Quarantine Queens: The Stories of Forward-Thinking Women Entrepreneurs During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, is a book of its time and records one the experiences of women entrepreneurs during one of the toughest business periods on record. It is a collection of inspiring essays written by women entrepreneurs in various stages of their entrepreneurial journeys and how they dealt with the challenges that the pandemic posed for their businesses.

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The Mystery of the Squashed Self: How to stop self-sabotaging and make your business thrive by Trisha Lewis

April 4, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Trisha Lewis

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The Mystery of the Squashed Self: How to stop self-sabotaging and make your business thrive by author Trisha Lewis, is a book for frustrated female small business owners who deserve more rewards for their efforts. If you are suffering from a sudden confidence dip; or you sense that life as an entrepreneur is resulting in you having your personality squashed; or you are losing your motivation; then this is a business book with a difference that is well worth a read.

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Risk Forward: Embrace the Unknown and Unlock Your Hidden Genius by Victoria Labalme

March 28, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Victoria Labalme

Victoria Labalme

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Every entrepreneur is in search of inspiration - an innovative idea to elevate their business. In Risk Forward: Embrace the Unknown and Unlock Your Hidden Genius by author Victoria Labalme, she helps you to discover how to embrace uncertainty, trust your intuition and achieve success.

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Ahead Of Her Time: How A One Woman Startup Became A Global Publishing Brand by Judy Piatkus 

March 21, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Judy Piatkus

Judy Piatkus

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Ahead Of Her Time: How A One Woman Startup Became A Global Publishing Brand is the inspiring memoir of female entrepreneur Judy Piatkus, who acquired the book series that inspired the global #1 Netflix hit, Bridgerton. She founded her business, Piatkus Books, in her spare bedroom back in 1979. Determined to empower women’s voices as a single-mother with a child with learning disabilities at a time when being a self-made, female entrepreneur was rare, Judy defied expectations. Through her determination, Judy influenced, shaped, and gave rise to the cultural and professional perception of personal growth and mind, body spirit publishing.

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Too Big For Your Boots: How I Built a 7-figure Brand as a Young Entrepreneur with No Startup Funds and No Experience by Liv Conlon

March 13, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Liv Conlon

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As a then 16-year-old with no start-up funds, no experience, and no track record, Liv Conlon, author of Too Big For Your Boots, built a multi-million-pound business & multi-award winning personal brand in her teens. She also won the coveted UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, has interviewed some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs on her podcast. To top it all, she was invited to dinner with the Prime Minister, all before the age of 21.

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Respond with Confidence: The Business Owner’s Blueprint for Handling Difficult Situations by Nancy Ganzekaufer

February 28, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Nancy Ganzekaufer

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Business coach Nancy Ganzekaufer, author of the new book Respond with Confidence: The Business Owner’s Blueprint for Handling Difficult Situations, believes that if your words have ever worked against you, you are not alone. She says the words you choose can make or break a situation. And the way you use your words (and your body language) can either help or hurt your business relationships. She knows this firsthand. That’s why in her new book she is on a mission to share the secrets to responding to any scenario in business effectively and with confidence.

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Do What You Love, Love What You Do: The Empowering Secrets to Turn Your Passion Into Profit by Holly Tucker

February 21, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Holly Tucker MBE

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Holly Tucker MBE, co-founder of notonthehighstreet and creator of Holly & Co, is on a mission to change business forever, and in her new book Do What You Love, Love What You Do, she is on her way to doing just that. Having inspired over 100,000 entrepreneurs and identified the keys to their success, Holly now wants to help anyone build a business doing what they love, leading to a happier and more fulfilled life.

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She Made It by Angelica Malin

February 14, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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For all those aspirant women entrepreneurs who want to go out and launch the business of their dreams, award-winning rising star entrepreneur and author, Angelica Malin, shows you how in her new book She Made It.

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Voguepreneurs: Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Built Million Dollar Brands Through Digital Platforms by Andrea Siracuse

February 7, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Andrea Siracuse

Andrea Siracuse

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Can everyone build a brand through digital platforms? Andrea Siracuse, author of Voguepreneurs: Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Built Million Dollar Brands Through Digital Platforms, sets out to find out why some women rise to the top and others flop at building brands through digital platforms.

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50 Mighty Words To Grow Your Business by Felicity Cowie

January 31, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Felicity Cowie

Felicity Cowie

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The biggest threat to business growth is failure to communicate, but help is at hand from Felicity Cowie, author of 50 Mighty Words to Grow Your Business. If you are a start-up or scale-up, with ambitions to be a world-class business by 2030, you can take heart from Felicity because she believes you have an enormous advantage over today’s major players. You can do something they can never do. You can eradicate the root cause of communication failure, from the early creation of your business and its culture. The root cause is guesswork. You start with just 50 mighty words.

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We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power By Rachel Rodgers

January 24, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Rachel Rodgers

Rachel Rodgers

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Rachel Rodgers, founder of Hello Seven, and the author of We Should All Be Millionaires, is on a mission to coach women to scale their businesses and their lives to seven figures, and she says it’s time for real change to happen. While ninety percent of the world’s millionaires are men, only ten percent are women, making it difficult for women to wield the economic power that will create lasting equality.

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My Piece Of The Pie: A Collection Of Stories From Black Women Entrepreneurs by Shanicia Boswell

January 17, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Shanicia Boswell

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One of the best things an entrepreneur can do is tell her story, and that is what author and mompreneur Shanicia Boswell is doing in My Piece Of The Pie: A Collection of Stories From Black Women Entrepreneurs. When a creator vocalizes how she has turned lemons into lemonade, it will in invigorate another to keep going. My Piece of the Pie delivers eight dynamic experiences and perspectives of entrepreneurship from passionately engaging African American female entrepreneurs. Each author curates a piece of her story to reveal the triumphs and sacrifices to demand her piece of the pie.

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Women Going Global: Real-Life Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Doing Business Across Borders by Tonya McNeal-Weary

January 10, 2021 Melanie Hawken
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Tonya McNeal-Weary

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In her new book, Women Going Global: Real-Life Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Doing Business Across Borders, Tonya McNeal-Weary invites you to be inspired by the stories of trailblazing women who have succeeded despite the societal biases that attempted to hold them back.

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Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur by Shelley Brander

January 3, 2021 Melanie Hawken
Shelley Brander

Shelley Brander

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People always ask Shelley Brander, author of the new book Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur, what possessed her to leave the successful advertising firm she founded with her husband to open a local yarn store. And then they wonder how that one storefront grew into an e-commerce business, and from there into a global movement to Knit the World Together. In Move the Needle, Shelley shares stories from her life to show that you can pursue your life's passions, both personal and professional, no matter how quirky or impossible they may seem to everyone around you.

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Power Your Profits by Susie Carder

December 27, 2020 Melanie Hawken
Susie Carder

Susie Carder

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Power Your Profits by Susie Carder is a comprehensive, bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark, straight from the inventor of the Predictable Success Method™.

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Dr. Phindi Cebekhulu-Msomi, an agripreneur focused on climate-smart solutions
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Retang Phaahla, a pioneer for South Africa’s indigenous teas
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Dr Margaret Kemigisha, a publishing entrepreneur passionate about childrens’ literacy

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Vibrant textile design…This striking textile design by Eva Sonaike caught our eye this morning. Like the rest of the world, we love the African aesthetic which is increasingly finding its way into global interio Image of the Day / Adèle Dejak

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Traditional craft elevated…We love the impact-driven accessories created by Márcia Nangy O’Connell, founder and artistic director of Dathonga Designs in Mozambique. Since 2010, she has establis Image of the Day / Aya K Design

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Lerato Masuku, a South African construction business builder with a passion for infrastructure development and job creation
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Olamide Alade, a Nigerian fashion brand builder with a passion for weaving cultural heritage into every garment
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Mirza Jamal, a Mozambican marcomms expert empowering businesses and brands
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Lovable Dladla, a South African entrepreneur turning a passion for baking into a growing business
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Built on Purpose: Discover Your Deep Inner Why and Manifest the Business of Your Dreams by Betsy Fore
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The Magnetic Female Entrepreneur: The Art of Empowered Presence, Rising to New Levels of Impact and Influence, and Financial Success on Your Own Terms by Mary Grant
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Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business by Liz Elting
After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup by Julia Austin
After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup by Julia Austin

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