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Unstoppable Women: Female Entrepreneurs' Stories to Inspire and Motivate by Griselda Togobo

March 13, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Book Review

In her book, Unstoppable Women, Griselda Togobo has set out to inspire and motivate female entrepreneurs of the future by sharing the stories of the many successful female businesswomen of today to show how you, too, can gain the strength, wisdom, determination and resilience you need to succeed in what is still largely a man's world.

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Uncommon Results: Secrets & Strategies of High Performance Entrepreneurs by Patricia Wooster

March 4, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Patricia Wooster

Book Review

If you are tired of working "in" your business instead of "on" your business, then Patricia Wooster’s new book Uncommon Results: Secrets & Strategies of High Performance Entrepreneurs is a must-read. If you are worried that maybe your business is not sustainable; or you are wondering how to make it successful; or maybe you want to create lifestyle freedom, generational wealth or monetize your life's purpose, Patricia has some great insights and advice shared by eighteen different entrepreneurs. They provide their tactical advice and talk about what they have done to grow and scale their businesses.

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Chill and Prosper: The New Way to Grow Your Business, Make Millions and Change the World 

February 27, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Denise Duffield-Thomas

by Denise Duffield-Thomas

For all those who want to make twice as much money with half the work, Chill and Prosper, the new book from money mindset coach and bestselling author Denise Duffield-Thomas, can tell you how to do it? She says it's time to shift your mindset, recognize your worth and become a successful entrepreneur on your own terms!

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Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness by Elaine Pofeldt

February 20, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Elaine Pofeldt

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In her book, Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness, small business specialist and author, Elaine Pofeldt, has written the entrepreneur’s complete guide to making it big while keeping things small. She offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness―that is, a business with no more than 20 employees, including yourself.

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Unlocked: How empowered women empower women by Jane Finette

February 13, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Jane Finette

Book Review

In her inspirational book, Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women, author Jane Finette reflects on how, according to the World Economic Forum, women lost thirty-six years of progress in 2020 alone, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That's an entire generation lost. But by empowering one another, women can help each other to realize their potential and make the biggest impact on society as a whole.

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Big Fish: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success, Impact and Legacy by Caroline G Nuttall

February 6, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Caroline G Nuttall

Book Review

In her book, Big Fish: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success, Impact and Legacy, Caroline G Nuttall believes it has never been easier to be ignored. Glazed over with the unconscious, habitual swipe of a finger. No matter the industry, we are swimming in a sea of commoditized competitors rapidly expanding every day as technology, pandemics and other external forces remove all barriers to a vast virtual world. How we are marketing is not only wasting our time and money, but it is making us more irrelevant with each passing minute. In today's tactic-overload marketing landscape, we have blinders up to the only problem we have to solve: nobody is listening. And the reason nobody is listening is because we're all saying the same thing, which means we're all saying nothing.

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LifePass: A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting by Payal Kadakia

January 30, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Payal Kadakia

Book Review

Goal-setting is something that every woman entrepreneur needs to do as part of her business building journey, but in author and entrepreneur Payal Kadakia’s new book LifePass, she introduces a whole new approach to not just setting goals but reaching them too.

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Quiet Marketing: A calm minimal approach to business and online visibility for highly sensitive solopreneurs by Danielle Gardner

January 23, 2022 Melanie Hawken

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If conventional business and marketing advice has not landed in your heart and soul very well, and keeps you chained to your screens (when you'd rather spend more time off line), then Quiet Marketing by Danielle Gardner is for you! Quiet Marketing is a book for highly sensitive solopreneurs who are seeking a calm, uncomplicated, minimal approach to business and online visibility.

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Show Up by Tolu Michaels

January 16, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Tolu Michaels

Book Review

Successful digital entrepreneur and author, Tolu Michaels, says that almost everyone believes that success starts with showing up, but many don’t know exactly how to do that in business. In her new book, Show Up, Tolu provides some great insights and advice on how to show up and stand out from the crowd.

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Scaling Up Simplified by Shannon Teague

January 9, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Shannon Teague

Book Review

Scaling Up Simplified by Shannon Teague is a book for small business owners who are serious about growing their businesses to the next level. Building a successful business is a difficult job; people put in everything to come out victorious. However, a few businesses scale up effortlessly because they practice a series of steps that makes them more proficient, productive, and profitable. In this new book, Shannon shares the roadmap to being among those incredible organizations.

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Become a Fashion Insider: A modern-day guide to launching and growing a fashion brand by Dessy Tsolova

December 24, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Dessy Tsolova

by Dessy Tsolova

Fashion business expert, mentor, coach, and the founder of Fashion Insiders & CoDo, Dessy Tsolova, says in her book Become a Fashion Insider, that every fashion entrepreneur wants to feel like they belong in the fashion industry. They have dreams of their brand becoming a worldwide success. But how do they learn from fashion industry insiders? Dessy shares what fashion insiders know and do to grow successful brands and provides a roadmap to fashion business success.

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Step Aside and Rise by Andrea Callanan

December 19, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Andrea Callanan

Book Review

Step Aside and Rise by author and business coach, Andrea Callanan, is a book for all those who find themselves feeling lost and stuck in their own businesses. Andrea believes that if women entrepreneurs allow themselves the freedom to step aside and rise, they will create a new emotional and financial legacy for themselves, their families, and those who came before and after them.

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The Passion Entrepreneur: Business Mindset and Branding fundamental for creative souls by Adela Alonso Alonso

December 12, 2021 Melanie Hawken

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In her book, The Passion Entrepreneur: Business Mindset and Branding fundamental for creative souls by Adela Alonso Alonso, she starts by busting the myth surrounding entrepreneurship. If you have been told: "Find a job you love, and you won´t have to work a day in your life,” Adela says this is a big fat LIE. She believes that the truth is, most passion-driven entrepreneurs end up working 24/7, and still struggle to get results. Adela provides some insights into how to do things differently.

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The Invisible Entrepreneur: From Mental Health to Mindset by Tabatha Barron

December 5, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Tabatha Barron

Book Review

For Tabatha Barron, author of The Invisible Entrepreneur, she found it amazing how many women have various experiences of feeling invisible, that challenge their individual circumstances from childcare to employment to just being heard during medical visits, let alone becoming entrepreneurs. Her book gives voice to the stories of strong, courageous, impactful, resilient women and the skill sets they used to move through their entrepreneurial journeys, whilst taking care of their mental health and improving their mindsets.

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The Bliss Point of Entrepreneurship by Anna Pugačova

November 28, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Anna Pugačova

Book Review

For all those who feel they have been struggling in their businesses for a long time and cannot see results, help could be at hand in the book, The Bliss Point of Entrepreneurship, from business and neuroscience coach and educator, Anna Pugačova. If you are looking to reclaim your entrepreneurial spark and start living the life you really want to live, this could be the book for you.

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The Expecting Entrepreneur by Arianna Taboada

November 20, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Arianna Taboada

Book Review

In her book, The Expecting Entrepreneur, parental leave consultant Arianna Taboada asks women entrepreneurs a key question - your life is baby-ready, but did you baby-proof your business? She knows that when you’re the boss, planning for much-needed parental leave, making money, and the survival of your business can feel overwhelming. You deserve to recover from childbirth and transition into this new chapter without the stress of work. The Expecting Entrepreneur shows you how to design a parental leave that works for you, your family, and your business, without having to sacrifice your entrepreneurial success.

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Harnessing Stress by Kathy Mann

November 14, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Kathy Mann

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Stress expert Kathy Mann believes that stress is not something that can be dominated, suppressed or avoided, and in her book Harnessing Stress, she shows us how it’s possible to learn to live with it and harness it for good. Kathy says that by understanding the way our brains and bodies react in supporting us through stressful situations, we can learn to embrace stress and to use it to our advantage, in life and in business.

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Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success by Carly A Riordan

November 7, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Carly A Riordan

Book Review

Author and social media influencer, Carly A Riordan, who has just launched her new book, ‘Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success’ believes that it’s possible to turn your creative passion into a successful company. With clarity and approachability, Carly’s book is a complete guide that will teach you how to monetize your creativity with a sustainable operation, helping you to become a happy, healthy, successful, business-minded boss.

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Business Growth Do's and Absolute Don'ts: Applied Wisdom from My Work with Dell, Costco, Amazon, and Multiple Start-ups by Carolyn Byron Lowe

October 31, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Carolyn Byron Lowe

Book Review

Digital marketing expert and author of the new book Business Growth Do's and Absolute Don'ts, Carolyn Byron Lowe, says it’s the question emerging entrepreneurs and burgeoning business leaders ask themselves every day: Am I doing this right? Markets fluctuate and trends come and go, but some principles of the business world are here to stay. Founders and leaders need to know—and cannot ignore—the vital differences between success and failure.

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Make the Pitch…Get the Results: For Women Entrepreneurs Serious about Success by Kimberly C. Menchion

October 24, 2021 Melanie Hawken

Kimberley C. Menchion

Book Review

Make the Pitch…Get the Results by Kimberley C. Menchion, is a high impact fast read book designed to help women entrepreneurs who are serious about success to harness the power of persuasion to grow their business through pitching their ideas, products, and services. Make the Pitch is a must read for women determined to accomplish their dreams. Find out how to win contracts, gain strategic business partners, and obtain financial support and spotlight opportunities to grow your business and propel your big idea.

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Dr. Phindi Cebekhulu-Msomi, an agripreneur focused on climate-smart solutions
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Luxury statement accessories…We are big fans of luxury jewellery and accessories made with love and passion on the African continent, and Adèle Dejak in Kenya is the epitome of handmade luxury. The Image of the Day / Dathonga Designs

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

Sophisticated sandal style…If you love design that combines traditional with modern style, then these sandals from Aya K Design, founded by Aya Keita in Cote d’Ivoire, are a must-buy. Aya is an entreprene Image of the Day / Ruahh

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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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