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The Mind of an Entrepreneur: Mental Strategies for Navigating the World of Business by Wendy Muhammad

October 2, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Book Review

Wendy Muhammad, entrepreneur and author of the book The Mind of an Entrepreneur: Mental Strategies for Navigating the World of Business, climbed the ladder from struggling real estate agent to self-made millionaire. She achieved this all while overcoming the marginalization she faced as an African-American woman. In this powerful book, Wendy shares her experiences and the things she learned that have helped her on her successful entrepreneurial journey.

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The Path to Profits: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Having It All…And Still Having a Life! by Michelle Jacobik

September 25, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Book Review

In her groundbreaking book, The Path to Profits: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Having It All…And Still Having a Life!, business profitability strategist Michelle Jacobik reveals why a powerful vision for your life is the most important tool for shaping and growing your business. In this fascinating new book, you’ll learn her signature Vision + Flow + Grow method for creating a profitable business structure while actually supporting and enjoying your one precious life.

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Developing an Entrepreneur Mindset for Success: Essential Habits for Building Motivation and Financial Freedom by Lisa Corbitt

September 18, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Lisa Corbitt

Book Review

If you have ever wondered what it takes to build a successful business, it’s all about Developing an Entrepreneur Mindset for Success, so says author Lisa Corbitt in her new book of the same title. She believes you need to find your Inner Gem, and uncover success from within by designing your ideal life, no matter your age, resources, or experience.

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Launch the Legacy: Creating a business brand that builds generational wealth by Dr. Ali Griffith

September 11, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Dr. Alisha “Ali” Griffith

Book Review

As women entrepreneurs, we all have experienced unexpected set-backs and challenges, and in her new book, Launch the Legacy, author, Dr. Alisha “Ali” Griffith believes the best way to deal with such unpredictable times is to launch your own legacy.

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Nailed It!: How one woman turned a dream business into a huge success by Jeanette Sklivanou

September 4, 2022 Melanie Hawken

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Building your own business and brand in a competitive market can be intimidating and scary, but entrepreneur and author, Jeanette Sklivanou, has written Nailed It! to give you some solutions. This inspiring book is packed with practical, step-by-step strategies for breaking the cycle of fear and creating a dynamic brand that can compete with the best.

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The Founder's Survival Guide: Lead your business from start-up to scale-up to grown-up by Rachel E Turner

August 26, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Book Review

Rachel E Turner, serial entrepreneur and author of the new book, The Founder's Survival Guide: Lead your business from start-up to scale-up to grown-up, understands all too well that start-up leadership skills and experience will only get you so far. The founder path is isolating, stressful and overwhelming, and few founders survive the scale-up journey unscathed. If you don’t scale your leadership as you scale your company, you’re unlikely to survive.

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Rise Into Your Own Power by Lynette Beer

August 21, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Lynette Beer

Book Review

Business coach and author, Lynette Beer, believes we are all born for greatness and success, and in her book Rise Into Your Own Power, she provides her wealth of expertise and insights to show you how to be the person you are meant to be. Importantly, it is a guide that helps you to build great relationships in life and in business by starting with knowing yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, and learning how to be the best version of yourself.

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How to Be a Founder: How Entrepreneurs can Identify, Fund and Launch their Best Ideas by Alice Bentinck and Max Clifford

August 14, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Alice Bentinck and Max Clifford

Book Review

How to Be a Founder, by Alice Bentinck and Max Clifford, is an essential guide to equip the next generation of business founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs.

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Inside Success: An Entrepreneurs Guide To Thriving From The Inside Out by Hope Celeste Howland

August 7, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Hope Celeste Howland

Book Review

When embarking on the entrepreneurial life, we all want to be believe that success is possible, but it can be a scary journey for many of us, and that’s where Hope Celeste Howland’s book, Inside Success: An Entrepreneurs Guide To Thriving From The Inside Out, can help. If we want to find fulfillment and joy as we build our businesses and our lives as successful entrepreneurs, we have to start with how we build our strength and resilience reserves on the inside.

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She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life by Jadah Sellner

July 31, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Jadah Sellner

Book Review

In her new book, She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life, best-selling author and business coach, Jadah Sellner, creates a new entrepreneurial model for women. The model is centered around sustainable leadership - a practical framework women entrepreneurs can use to create a business on their own terms, prioritize their well-being, and break free from the toxic culture that leads to burnout and overwhelm.

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Shift on Purpose: From teen mom making minimum wage to founder and CEO of a multi-million dollar business by Tracy Taylor Smith

July 22, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Tracy Taylor Smith

Book Review

In her book, Shift on Purpose: From Teen Mom Making Minimum Wage to Founder and CEO of a Multi-Million Dollar Business, entrepreneur Tracy Taylor Smith shares her powerful story to business and personal success. She provides readers with actionable advice and encouragement on how to fearlessly move your life and aspirations forward, despite your personal circumstances. She shares her thought process and the outlook that helped her to overcome teen pregnancy, divorce, and single-motherhood to achieve success and fulfillment in both her business and personal life.

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Becoming Self-Made: The Journey of Building a Soul-Led Multimillion-Dollar Business by Elaina Ray

July 10, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Elaina Ray

Book Review

In her new book, Becoming Self-Made, Elaina Ray walks you through her journey of finding her soul’s purpose and building a multimillion-dollar business in under two years and across multiple continents. In this travel memoir/powerful business guide, you will discover, as Elaina did, what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, create and scale your business, and use your innate gifts to chase your wildest dreams so that you, too, can do what you love without sacrificing your most valuable resource: your time.

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Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney

July 3, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Kathryn Finney

Book Review

Build the Damn Thing, is an indispensable guide to building a startup business and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs, written by the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. This riveting book is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out.

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Get What You Want: How to Go from Unseen to Unstoppable by Julie Solomon

June 26, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Julie Solomon

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In Julie Solomon’s new book, Get What You Want: How to Go from Unseen to Unstoppable, this empowering guide is for women who are tired of being told "just be yourself” in life and in business. Julie is the host of the chart-topping The Influencer Podcast and in her new book, she teaches you how to shake off outdated ideas of what is possible. She encourages you to use your newfound confidence to make anything you want happen, and start getting seen and known for getting things done.

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Unfiltered: Proven Strategies to Start and Grow Your Business by Not Following the Rules by Rachel Pedersen

June 18, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Rachel Pedersen

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If you have ever wondered how to move the needle quickly to build your business, then Rachel Pedersen, author of Unfiltered, has just the advice and experience you are looking for. In 2013, Rachel was a single mum, freshly off of food stamps and struggling to get her life on track. Three years later, she was leaving her 9-to-5 job to launch a consulting business with her husband. Today, she is the founder and CEO of two multimillion-dollar companies and an expert in every aspect of social media, helping businesses with massive, needle-moving growth.

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Dream, Build, Grow: A Female’s Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business by Francie Hinrichsen

June 12, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Francie Hinrichsen, MBA

Book review

Dream, Build, Grow: A Female’s Step-by-Step Guide for How to Start a Business, written by Francie Hinrichsen, MBA, is your go-to guide to launch, plan, and grow your business so you can create a future you feel giddy to wake up to. This book will sashay you along each step to begin your own dream business and help you fashion your new lifestyle of freedom like a breath of fresh air.

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InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top by Barbara Kurshan and Kathy Hurley

May 29, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Barbara Kurshan and Kathleen Hurley

Book Review

If you want to know how you can foster an entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in business, then authors Barbara Kurshan and Kathleen Hurley will tell you how in their new book InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top.

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Happy and Strong: Create Your Dream Life while Enjoying the Journey by Jaime Villalovos

May 22, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Jaime Villalovos

Book Review

In Happy and Strong, Create Your Dream Life while Enjoying the Journey, author Jaime Villalovos provides entrepreneurs with practical and proven strategies on how to achieve success in business without neglecting or sacrificing their families and everything that is important to them.

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You Need PR: An Approachable Guide to Public Relations for Early-Stage Companies by Jenna Guarneri

May 14, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Jenna Guarneri

Book Review

Did you know that about 90 percent of startups fail within the first five years of operation and one of the major reasons for their failure is poor brand awareness? Entrepreneur Jenna Guarneri, author of the book You Need PR: An Approachable Guide to Public Relations for Early-Stage Companies, believes that having the right exposure is vital to gaining new clients, growing the company, and securing future funding—in general, company success. But startups and small businesses don’t always have the kind of skills or resources they need to increase their visibility in an already oversaturated media landscape. Her new book is on a mission to help change that.

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Poised for Exit: A Woman Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Transition by Julie Keyes

May 7, 2022 Melanie Hawken

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Are you Poised for Exit in your business? That’s the important question asked by author and business exit expert Julie Keyes. In her new book, Poised for Exit: A Woman Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Transition, Julie says that one of the hard facts in business you need to come to terms with is that, regardless of your age, gender, industry, or company size, you will eventually need to exit from your business. How well you exit is largely dependent upon how well and early you plan.

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Vibrant Ghanaian craftsmanship,…We just have to share one of our favourite accessories of the year, this beautiful hand-woven bag created by award-winning designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi and her AAKS brand in Ghana. We lo
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Contemporary South African Chic…Knowing exactly how to spot a gap in the marketplace is key to the success of any fashion brand, and Mapholo Ratau, founder of Ledikana in South Africa, has achieved that goal. For h
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African print accessories…We love the celebration of African printed cloth in these handmade fashion accessories created by South African brand Marabou Essentials, founded by Fentse Mokale. This passion-f Image of the Day / Oryx Desert Salt

Sustainable salt and pepper…At Lionesses of Africa, we are passionate about supporting  sustainable brands, and a great example is Oryx Desert Salt, founded by Samantha Skyring in South Africa. This growing Image of the Day / Reform Studio

Sustainable fashion accessories…We love showcasing women business innovators, so this morning we are featuring the work of sustainable lifestyle brand, Reform Studio, an inspirational eco-focused manufacturing Image of the Day /Femi Handbags

Full Bloom Style…Add a touch of summer florals to your wardrobe with one of the beautiful new Bloom handbags from Femi Handbags in Nigeria, founded by Femi Olayebi. With their eclectic pops of colour, there&rsq Image of the Day / Melvins Teas

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Vibrant Ghanaian craftsmanship,…We just have to share one of our favourite accessories of the year, this beautiful hand-woven bag created by award-winning designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi and her AAKS brand in Ghana. We lo Image of the Day / Ledikana

Contemporary South African Chic…Knowing exactly how to spot a gap in the marketplace is key to the success of any fashion brand, and Mapholo Ratau, founder of Ledikana in South Africa, has achieved that goal. For h Image of the Day / The 1964 Brand

Modern relaxed fashion…Olakunmi Oni is the founder of The 1964 Brand in Nigeria, a fashion business that proudly promotes self-care through minimalist clothing for the modern woman. Loyal patrons of The 1964 Image of the Day / Adèle Dejak

Big bold 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 brand c

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Gladys Kgorane, an entrepreneur creating special events and wellness retreats for those looking for rest and relaxation
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Drienie Botes, an entrepreneur empowering women to achieve economic independence through beekeeping
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