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Here is a list of books that I have found helpful for conscious entrepreneurs who are growing their empires.

I have organized them by themes.  Click on each section to see the books related to that theme.

I encourage you to read any of these books that resonate with you, and let us know what you learned!

YOU in Your Business

Create Your Own Damn Map by Emma M. Churchman, M.Div.

Are you a conscious entrepreneur longing to experience financial abundance? Do you have amazing gifts to offer the world, yet struggle to make ends meet? This FREE eBook is the solution – packed with TONS of tips and techniques – specifically for highly conscious entrepreneurs unable to do business in traditional ways.

The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful and Practical Guide for Creating Success on Your Own Terms by Danielle LaPorte

The Fire Starter Sessions gets real, gets human, gets pragmatic, and then adds in the right amount of soul. This is for people seeking a soulful path. This isn’t just a book, it’s a game-changer–which is apparent from the beginning when she writes, “We’re going to consider the contradictions that make you so gorgeously multi-dimensional but aren’t so easy to reconcile.”

Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In flow, everyday experience becomes a moment by moment opportunity for joy and self-fulfillment. Flow is the brain-child of a fascinating psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a renowned social scientist who has devoted his life’s work to the study of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled. He focuses on the noble side of human nature, our capacity for living a life of integrity, courage, and perseverance. With his landmark research on flow, he reveals what he considers beautiful in life, ways of being and behaving that make people happy, satisfied and delighted to be alive. His insights into the “flow experience” show ways to lessen stress, fear and anxiety while increasing feelings of challenge, joy and excitement. You’ll discover how anyone can enrich his or her quality of life simply by learning how flow occurs and what it feels like. You’ll learn about the key elements of the flow experience including:

  • why it is important to know what you want to do in any given moment
  • specific activities you can do that produce flow easily and naturally
  • how to improve your experience of work so you feel in control and rewarded by it
  • keys to harnessing the power of concentration
  • the difference between pleasure and enjoyment (only one leads to personal growth)
  • how to match challenges with skills to avoid boredom and frustration and maximize enjoyment

Impact, What Every Woman Needs to Know to go from Invisible to Invincible by Nancy D. Solomon

Not your average business self-help book, Impact! is a ‘total person’ development guide that says ‘who you are impacts everything you do’. It doesn’t focus on what’s wrong with you but rather what’s right with you so that you can turn your potential into performance. The secret to success and fulfillment -both professionally and personally- is that you should stop trying to ‘fit in’ and become what others want you to be; that you can become more productive, powerful, and passionate by becoming more of who you were meant to be instead. Why? Because no longer is there any separation between who you are and what you do!

With step-by-step strategies and smart insight, you will learn how to have significant positive impact in your life and in your career; you’ll learn how to unlock your personal power; live your life with purpose; appreciate your family; identify your greatest gifts and talents; value your failures and learn from them; stand up for yourself; give yourself permission to stand out; and start to ask for what you want. Best of all, you will learn how to be seen, heard and celebrated for being authentic – for being exactly who you are.

The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of ‘Enough’ by Julia Cameron

In The Prosperous Heart, Julia Cameron presents a ten-week program for using your creative heart and soul to lead you to prosperity in all the areas of your life. With inspiring new daily tools and strategies that follow in the footsteps of Cameron’s groundbreaking The Artist’s Way, this book guides readers in developing a life that is as full and as satisfying as they ever thought possible.

Drawing on her decades of experience working with artists as an expert on the creative process, Cameron shines a clear light on the path to forging a direct relationship between the passion that ignites our creative work and the more practical aspects of living our lives (for example, how one can keep a roof over one’s head without losing track of the soul). In this wise volume, Cameron gives readers the courage and permission to live their lives as they create their art: purposely and fully.

Radical Self Love: A Guide to Loving Yourself and Living Your Dreams by Gala Darling

Let’s face it — entrepreneurship isn’t for a faint of heart. Financial challenges, late nights, constant pitching and a close tie between your venture and your sense of self can wear on your confidence and your opinion of yourself. This book is packed with the radical self love that Gala is all about, and will help turn you into your own number one fan. It functions like a hug and a pep talk from your best friend, reminding you how amazing you are and giving you actionable steps to revive the passion, confidence and–as Gala puts it–“love and sequins” inside your heart.

Real You Incorporated by Kaira Sturdivant Rouda

What’s in a name? Rather, what’s in a brand? Pick up Real You Incorporated if you’re struggling to define your brand. What makes you valuable and an asset to your audience? Rouda has created a step-by-step process to help you discover what exactly it is that you bring to the table, why others may find it appealing, and how to attract that attention. Your sense of self and brand will remain intact long after you turn the last page—Rouda even includes a handy chart for you to refer to, in case you forget just how valuable you are.

Why read this? You want to further define your identity, not only as a business owner, but as your authentic self.

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Sinek starts with a fundamental question: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with why. They realized that people won’t truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the why behind it.

Start with Why shows that the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way – and it’s the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.

Vibe: Unlock the Energetic Frequencies of Limitless Health, Love & Success by Robyn Openshaw

In Vibe, best-selling author Robyn Openshaw reveals the difference between low vibration emotions (fear, anger, inertia) and high vibration emotions (love, inner peace, gratitude) and helps listeners dramatically impact their physical and mental well-being by raising their vibrational frequencies. Everything in health and wellness should revolve around the basic concept that what we choose to eat and what we choose to do lowers or raises our vibration. And that makes all the difference.

Vibe explores the foods, natural substances, and lifestyle practices that can raise our vibrations. Robyn Openshaw reveals evidence that shows how drinking green juice, using certain essential oils, and engaging in yoga and meditation raises the frequency of the human brain and other organs. Living in a “high vibe” state can make us resilient to illness, fatigue, burnout, and depression. Listeners will learn all about the low vibration emotions (fear, anger, inertia) and the high vibration emotions (love, peace, gratitude) and how to achieve higher vibrations in everyday living. Openshaw explores how the smallest changes in our life – from what we eat to how we think – can radically improve our mood, overall health, and quality of life.

Sacred Sisterhood

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Dr. Brene Brown

“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.

Feminine Genius: The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On; The Wisdom of Being a Woman by Liyana Silver

There is a particular kind of insanity running rampant in the world that compels most women to stuff down, ignore, or hide parts of ourselves in order to be acceptable, attractive, or taken seriously. Which doesn’t work. It actually ensures we remain unfulfilled, miserable, and at war with ourselves—and that is a war no woman can win. So now comes the good news: There is a path to help you become the woman you are aching to become.

This path is unruly, messy, a wee bit naughty, and audaciously asks you trust the very parts of you that you previously warred against. While this path has no script, map, or blueprint, you’ll learn to use your sensuous, desirous, wildly feeling female body as a steadfast and trustworthy compass. This is the path of Feminine Genius.

Partly an irreverently reverent feminist treatise and partly a non-denominational devotional hymnal to the Sacred Feminine, Feminine Genius just might change forever what you know about your body, soul, sexuality, intuition, and power. Feminine Genius is a provocative wake-up call, nudging you to uncork that fabulous flask and find out just how much magic you’ve been hiding. Because you do have a genie in your bottle—and genius in your body.

Girl Code: Unlocking Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur by Cara Alwill Leyva

We know that female entrepreneurs and leaders are powerful and can drive incredible success for the businesses they lead, and Leyba argues that we’re more powerful together when we connect with and support one another. This book is intended to motivate and inspire–Leyba is a life coach, after all–and the stories throughout aim to show the amazing things that can happen when female entrepreneurs combine their powers to make things happen.

 The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage by Brene Brown

Is vulnerability the same as weakness? “In our culture,” teaches Dr. Brené Brown, “we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love.” Dr. Brown offers an invitation and a promise – that when we dare to drop the armor that protects us from feeling vulnerable, we open ourselves to the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Here she dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and reveals that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.

“The research shows that we try to ward disappointment with a shield of cynicism, disarm shame by numbing ourselves against joy, and circumvent grief by shutting off our willingness to love,” explains Dr. Brown. When we become aware of these patterns, she teaches, we begin to become conscious of how much we sacrifice in the name of self-defense -and how much richer our lives become when we open ourselves to vulnerability.

Your Next Level  Mindset

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the New York Times bestselling author of Five Wishes, demonstrates how to eliminate the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs. This book is about how to eliminate your upper limit and break through resistance. Hendricks also explores four zones we operate from: incompetence, competence, excellence and genius.

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Imposter Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It by Valerie Young

It’s only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don’t deserve this. It’s just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must have made a terrible mistake. If you are a working woman, chances are this internal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you’re not alone. From the high-achieving PhD candidate convinced she’s been admitted to the program only because of a clerical error to the senior executive who worries others will find out she’s in way over her head, a shocking number of accomplished women in all career paths and at every level feel as though they are faking it – impostors in their own lives and careers.

This book explains what the impostor syndrome is, why fraud fears are more common in women, and how you can recognize the way it manifests in your life. With Young’s empowering step-by-step plan, you will learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel – and act – as bright and capable as others already know you are.

Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

The megatalented creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life – and how it can change yours, too.

With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. And there was the side benefit of saying no for an introvert like Shonda: nothing new to fear.

Then Shonda’s sister laid down a challenge: Just for one year, try to say yes to the unexpected invitations that come your way. Shonda reluctantly agreed – and the result was nothing short of transformative. In Year of Yes, Shonda Rhimes chronicles the powerful impact saying yes had on every aspect of her life – and how we can all change our lives with one little word. Yes.

You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. Via chapters such as “Your Brain Is Your Bitch”, “Fear Is for Suckers”, and “My Subconscious Made Me Do It”, Sincero takes you on a wild joy ride to your own transformation, helping you create the money, relationships, career, and general all-around awesomeness you so desire. And should you be one of those people who dreads getting busted with a self-help book in your hands, fear not.

Sincero, a former skeptic herself, delivers the goods minus the New Age cheese, giving even the snarkiest of poo-pooers exactly what they need to get out of their ruts and start kicking some ass. You will understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can’t change, how to change what you don’t love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.

All Things Money and Money Mindset

The Black Woman Millionaire: A Revolutionary Act that Defies Impossible by Dr. Venus Opal Reese

From the streets of Baltimore, to Stanford Ph.D. to (multiple) Black Woman Millionaire, Dr. Venus takes you by the hand and walks you through the spiritual landmine of our “cultural consciousness” that show up in your money so you can defy your impossible to become a 7-Figure sister.

This daring and ruthlessly compassionate book sheds an unapologetic light on the impact Slavery has had on Black Women’s sense of self in terms of money. Mixing intimate personal stories, searing truth, and emotionally healing action items to start immediately healing money wounds, this book is a must-have for sisters who know they have a destiny to fulfill.

Part memoir, part personal-transformation, and part business development, The Black Woman Millionaire serves as a street-smart salve for Black Women to heal their brokenness, so they don’t have to spend their lives broke—regardless of income level. Edgy, instructional, and inspirational, this book will teach you how to emancipate yourself—emotionally, spiritually, and financially—so that you alter the financial future of your bloodline.

Creating Money: Attracting Abundance by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

Since this book was first published, hundreds of people have written letters and testimonials telling us how using the processes, exercises, and affirmations in this book have brought them prosperity and changed their lives.

The processes taught in this book have been used by people from all walks of life to improve their financial condition, move out of lack and limitation, overcome obstacles, and become magnetic to abundance. It has been recommended by businesses to their employees, by marketing departments to their sales forces, and by people all over the world to their families, friends, students, and clients. This powerful book shows you the way not only to abundance but to something far more important: a life well lived, full of joy and satisfaction.

Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness by Esther and Jerry Hicks

This Leading Edge work by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical consciousness Abraham, explains that the two subjects most chronically affected by the powerful Law of Attraction are financial and physical well-being. This book will shine a spotlight on each of the most significant aspects of your life experience and then guide you to the conscious creative control of every aspect of your life, and also goes right to the heart of what most of you are probably troubled by: money and physical health. Not having enough money or not having good health puts you in the perfect position for creating more of that which you do not have. This book has been written to deliberately align you with the most powerful law in the universe—the Law of Attraction—so that you can make it work specifically for you.

Sacred Success: A Course in Financial Miracles by Barbara Stanny

In her work with countless powerful, successful women over the last 20 years, best-selling author and financial educator Barbara Stanny found that most women’s problems with money have little to do with money itself, but rather their fear of or ambivalence toward power. Instead of pushing women to pursue financial success in the traditional fashion, Sacred Success seeks to redefine power from a feminine perspective. You can be financially successful without sacrificing your soul or compromising your values. You can have more money, not as an end itself but as a tool for making a difference and helping others. You can create wealth and exercise power by staying true to your feminine traits, authentic truths, and personal mission. Sacred Success is a tutorial for taking charge of your life by taking charge of your finances, and not only growing your money but creating a deeper, richer, and more meaningful life.

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

This is the classic guide to creating wealth through the Law of Attraction. First published in 1910, a hundred years later it inspired Rhonda Byrne’s best-selling book and movie, The Secret. According to Wallace D. Wattles, “There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches; once these laws are learned and obeyed by any man, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.”

This book will guide you in developing a vision, strengthening willpower, cultivating gratitude, and receiving life’s abundant gifts.

Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life by Barbara Stanny

Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success.

In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker, and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female high earners: Profit Motive, Audacity, Resilience, Encouragement, Self-Awareness, Non-Attachment, and Financial Know-How.

Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including more than 150 women whose annual earnings range from $100,000 to $7 million, Stanny turns each of the six-figure traits into a specific strategy for upping earnings.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill, published during the Great Depression. The book was inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American business magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. While its title implies that the book deals with how to attain monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want.

Worth It: Your Life, Your Money, Your Terms by Amanda Sternberg

Worth It shows women how to view money as a source of personal power and freedom – and live life on their terms. Millions of women want to create financial stability and abundance in their lives, but they don’t know how. They are stuck in overwhelming confusion and guilt, driven by internalized “money stories” that have nothing to do with what is really possible. As the founder of DailyWorth.com, a financial media and education platform, Amanda Steinberg encounters these smart, ambitious women every day. With this book she helps them face their money stories head on and wake up to the prosperity that awaits them.

Worth It outlines the essential financial information women need – and everything the institutions and advisors don’t spell out. Steinberg gets to the bottom of why women are stressed and anxious when it comes to their finances and teaches them to stay away from strict budgeting and other harsh austerity practices. Instead she makes money relatable while sharing strategies she uses herself to build confidence and ease in her own financial life. Through her firsthand experiences and the stories from other women who’ve woken up, Steinberg’s powerful and encouraging advice can help women of any age and income view money as a source of freedom and independence – and create bright financial futures.

You are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth by Jen Sincero

This book is a refreshingly frank and entertaining step-by-step guide to overcoming the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success out of reach and to giving yourself the permission to make the kind of money you’ve never made before. Drawing on her own experience of transforming herself – over just a few years – from a woman with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account, subsisting solely on Taco Bell, to a woman who travels the world and stays in five-star luxury hotels, Jen knows all too well the layers of BS one can get wrapped up in when it comes to money as well as what it takes to dig your way out. The book goes in depth on how powerful thoughts shape our income potential and the ways in which our bank accounts are mirrors for our bugaboos about money.

Manifesting

Ask and It is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther and Jerry Hicks

This book presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you’re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you’ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality – and you’ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life. It’s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good-and this book will show you how to make it so in every way!

The Millions Within: How to Manifest Exactly What You Want and Have an EPIC Life! by David Neagle

Following his near-death experience, one simple shift in awareness tripled David Neagle’s wages – his annual income then became his monthly income….

The Millions Within documents David’s journey from high-school dropout to multi-millionaire entrepreneur. And, while David’s rise to financial freedom began as a dockworker, his dedication to learning and applying the universal laws were at work behind his unlikely success.

In this guide to the laws of the Universe – how life works, and how you, your beliefs, and your intentions function to produce the results and circumstances (positive & negative) you experience daily – learn how to employ conscious, intentional use of these rules to produce the results (financial and personal) that you dream of…now!

Be the Heroine

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want by Martha Beck

Many people feel called to help others and change the world, but they just don’t know how to fulfill their potential. They have the creativity and passion, but often get lost, not knowing how to direct their energies. Now, popular life coach Martha Beck shows how readers can find their calling in service and healing – while realizing their destiny.

With a sparkling, compassionate, and often irreverent style, Beck draws from a combination of ancient wisdom and modern science to help readers consciously embrace vital skills that may be embedded in our DNA and are now made accessible again. Beck shows how to put together an “inner team” and an external “tribe” of people with the same aims and outlines four simple Steps for Transformation: Wordlessness, Oneness, Imagination, and Creation. With step-by-step instructions and guided reflections, Martha shows readers how to drop into the wordless state of communion with nature and self, how to connect with the oneness between self and the universe, how to be empowered by the spark of inspiration, and finally, how to take action and realize their creative potential to make a lasting impact in their own lives and the world around them. Heartfelt, inspirational, and filled with “a-ha” moments, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World provides the map for the unconventional life path that leads to miraculous change.

White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping it Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another by Danielle LaPorte

Has your self-help become self-criticism? A wise and often hilarious exploration of the conflicts between spiritual aspiration and the compulsion to improve.

Like a wise girlfriend you can totally relate to, Danielle cheerleads you to own your wisdom and self-worth by having a good laugh (and maybe a good cry) at the ways you’ve been trying to improve on your self-improvement. Rooted in compassion, feminism, and spiritual activism, White Hot Truth is an intimate and (hilariously) relatable account of self-help tales gone wrong – and very right.

If you love Brene Brown’s and Liz Gilbert’s authenticity and Marianne Williamson’s strong spirit, you’ll adore how Danielle lays bare “boundaries for spiritual people”; the “discipleshit” that happens when we give our power away; a “soul-perspective” on suffering; “overtolerance” and “foolish compassion” in relationships; sneaky self-loathing; and spiritual glamour. And in her poetic and brazen way, she brings it home with the hottest truth of all: You are your own guru.

Sacred Embodiment - Your Faith Walk

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

In this book, Elizabeth Gilbert asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives, as well as learning to be in wonder and joy. The book offers a frank discussion of some of the less glamorous realities of living a creative life– such as the struggle to produce quality work and fears of inadequacy.

Divine Rebels: Saints, Mystics, Holy Change Agents – and You by Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey

They rose up to challenge the status quo and shake the foundations of our world. Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Mother Mary, and divine rebels throughout the ages – their true legacy is not what they did in their time on earth, but the eternal beacon that they held up for each of us to follow.

In Divine Rebels, Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey offer you an opportunity and a challenge-to listen for the same divine voice that called to history’s greatest spiritual trailblazers, and to answer it in your own life.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is known for her perceptive and funny writings about spirituality. Readers and listeners of all ages have followed her faith journey through decades of trial and error (sometimes more error than Annie wanted), and in her new book, she has coalesced all she knows about prayer to three essentials: Help, Thanks, and Wow. It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating all that we have and all that is good, and feeling awe at the beauty of the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward.

In Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. Insightful, funny and honest, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will cherish.

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one another – and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they’ve been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, commit to living true-true to themselves and to each other.

Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.

The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark by Sera Beak

For smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren’t reflected in most spirituality books, The Red Book is an open invitation to find your true self and start sharing that delicious truth with the world. Focus: Claiming a femme fatale spirituality that unites you with the Universe and offers a strong foundation for your business.

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course of Miracles by Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.

Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.

Thriving in Success

The 10 Laws of Enduring Success by Maria Bartiromo

Everyone wants to be close to success, and to have success. But what is success? How do you get it, and how do you keep it? As Maria interviewed some of the most successful people in the world, she felt the need to answer these questions: what makes these success stories tick? How did they achieve such leadership and power and how can one hold onto it, once you get it. What are the barriers to success and what is the bedrock to enduring success?

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington

This book redefines what it means to be successful in today’s world. In a commencement address she gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, Arianna Huffington likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. It may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we’re going to topple over. We need a third leg – a Third Metric for defining success. In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and two daughters – of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse – and to her “aha moment.” Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplaces, and our lives.

Women Rocking Business: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guidebook to Create a Thriving Life Doing Work You Love by Sage Lavine

Sage Lavine is the CEO of Women Rocking Business, a consulting and coaching organization that has helped nearly 100,000 aspiring women entrepreneurs around the globe to build businesses that change the world. Her revolutionary approach is based on honoring innate feminine values: We become thriving entrepreneurs by empowering others rather than having power over them, working in a spirit of collaboration rather than competition, and prioritizing contribution rather than gain.

In this book Sage gives you the road map that has guided thousands of her clients – professional women in fields from health care to manufacturing to consulting, from therapists and artists to yoga teachers and real estate agents – to build their own successful and sustainable businesses on their own terms. You’ll learn how to: Identify your gift to the world; Heal your relationship with money; Build a support network of entrepreneurial sister; Plan winning strategies for marketing, sales, and service; and Achieve success by working just 12 days a month (yes, it’s true!)