Oct 16, 2017 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money, Prescriptive Nonfiction
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Gold
Author Name: Brian H. Murray
Synopsis
Think apartments and commercial real estate are just for the big boys? Think again.
Brian Murray was not an investment pro when he bought his first commercial property. He was a teacher looking to build some side income. Armed with his passion for business and a lot of common sense, he developed a simple yet highly effective approach to investing that he still uses today at his multimillion-dollar real estate company.
Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate is a beginner’s guide to investing based on Murray’s experience bootstrapping his way from newbie investor to award-winning CEO of Washington Street Properties. Murray shares the secrets to his success through straightforward, actionable advice that will help you get started no matter what your experience level, or how much cash you have on hand. You’ll learn how to:
- Find and creatively finance commercial property
- Grow a portfolio without any help from outside investors and without taking on excessive debt
- Use your small-investor status as a competitive advantage over corporate investors
- Identify simple, practical ways to increase profits while keeping costs low
Murray also shares real-life stories that reveal exactly how he grew his business, and the hard lessons he learned along the way (so you don’t have to). Whether you already invest in real estate and want to go bigger, or you’ve never owned a property, this book gives you the tools and wisdom you need to crush it in apartments and commercial real estate.
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Author Bio:
Brian Murray is the founder and CEO of Washington Street Properties, a commercial real estate investment company that has been ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States for four years in a row. In 2015, Murray was recognized with a Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year in the Real Estate Industry.
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Oct 16, 2017 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money, Prescriptive Nonfiction
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Gold
Author Name: Bill Treasurer
Synopsis
Even the best leaders – in fact, most of the best leaders – start out as decidedly bad ones. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that leadership expert Bill Treasurer calls the leadership kick in the ass. When it happens, it feels like it’s all over. But Treasurer says that with the right attitude, the kick can be a new beginning. Based on his work with thousands of leaders, this book reveals how to turn those ego-bruising events into the kind of transformative experiences that mark the paths of great leaders. As Steve Jobs famously said, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.” This book is a survival guide, coach, and morale booster to help you use that kick to move forward instead of fall down. If you succeed, the next place you get kicked might be upstairs.
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Author Bio:
Bill Treasurer is chief encouragement officer (CEO) of Giant Leap Consulting and the author of Courage Goes to Work, an international best-seller that introduced the new management practice of courage-building.
For over two decades Treasurer has designed leadership and succession programs for clients such as NASA, Saks Fifth Avenue, UBS Bank, CNN, Hugo Boss, the CDC, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the U.S. Veterans Administration. Prior to Giant Leap, Treasurer was an executive Accenture, a $29 billion management consulting firm. He became Accenture’s first full-time executive coach.
Treasurer is a former captain of the US High Diving Team, a cancer survivor, and the father of three children. He is a champion for the rights of people with disabilities, which includes his daughter.
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Sep 26, 2017 | Book Award Winners, Creativity, Prescriptive Nonfiction
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Silver
Author Name: Cathy Wild
Synopsis
Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out takes you on an intimate journey through the seven stages of the creative process. All along the way, counselor, artist, and writer Cathy Wild interweaves her own deeply personal story as well as provocative insights gleaned from her many years in private practice. Discover your authentic voice while exploring timeless themes that compel creative expression–curiosity and imagination, mystery and mourning, chaos and clarity, suffering and gratitude and many more.
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Author Bio:
Cathy Wild has spent more than thirty years developing innovative approaches to healing that integrate powerful body-centered practices with the creative process. A pioneer in somatic counseling, the expressive arts, and the field of life coaching, Cathy was featured as a creativity expert on the PBS television series, “In the Prime”. Today, her life’s work has deepened and evolved into Body-Centered Healing–a dynamic, experiential process that supports clients on a profound personal journey of transformation. Want to know more? Visit: Cathywild.com
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Sep 26, 2017 | Book Award Winners, Parenting and Relationships, Prescriptive Nonfiction
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Gold
Author Name: Elly Taylor
Synopsis
Babies bring ‘becomings’: women becoming mothers, men becoming fathers, couples becoming families. Traditionally these transformations were honored as a rite of passage, yet guidelines to support today’s parents have largely been lost – until now.
Becoming Us weaves current research with age-old wisdom and the stories of hundreds of parents to usher a new generation of couples through the eight steps of parenthood, from pregnancy through baby’s first five years.
Whether you’re welcoming your first baby or your last, Becoming Us helps you grow from confident, connected partners into confident, connected parents, so together you can love, learn and grow a family that thrives.
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Author Bio:
Elly Taylor is becoming known worldwide as the Parenthood Pioneer. As a Relationship Counsellor and a new mother at the same time, Elly discovered a big gap in pregnancy preparation and after-baby support for the normal, but challenging, life changes that come with becoming a family.
She was on a mission. Over 15 years, combining Psychology theory, her clinical work, decades of research and some hard-earned personal wisdom, Elly created an eight stage evidence-based model of the transition into parenthood to prepare, guide and support mothers, fathers, partners and families. The result is her book Becoming Us, 8 Steps to Grow a Family that Thrives, which has been endorsed by CAPPA, the world’s leading childbirth and postpartum professional organization.
Elly is has since presented at international conferences, been a columnist for Practical Parenting Magazine, Resident Counsellor for Fairfax’s Daily Life website and served on advisory panels for Monash University, Newcastle University, the Australian Catholic University and Marce Australasia.
Elly lives in a Sydney beach house with her firefighter husband, their three children and a bunch of pets.
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Sep 14, 2017 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money, Memoir, Prescriptive Nonfiction
Nonfiction Book Award Status: Gold
Author Name: Patrick Schwerdtfeger
Synopsis
Keynote Mastery is a raw and personal account of Patrick Schwerdtfeger’s journey as a professional speaker. The book demonstrates that anyone with tenacity and determination can build a career as a keynote speaker.
If you have ever wanted an inside look at what it takes to become a professional speaker, this is the book for you. Keynote Mastery is the most transparent account ever written about that journey. Patrick Schwerdtfeger welcomes you into his life, recounting the struggles and hard-earned victories he experienced while building his career as a full-time, professional keynote speaker. You will learn how you can:
● Get paid $10,000 or more for a 60-minute keynote
● Travel to the most exotic destinations on the planet
● Validate your expertise and attract consulting clients
● Avoid the mistakes that most aspiring speakers make
Patrick originally thought he needed an indisputable victory before he could become a professional speaker. He was wrong. Over an 8-year period, he’s headlined events in Dubai, Bangkok, New Delhi, Bogota and Moscow, among many others, as well as dozens of cities across the United States and Canada. Keynote Mastery is more than a memoir or a how-to book. It’s an inspiring story of tenacity and triumph, full of lessons and insights for aspiring speakers and self-employed professionals alike. If your goal is to position yourself as an expert in your field, Keynote Mastery will accelerate your journey and energize your spirit.
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Author Bio:
Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a business futurist who specializes in technology trends including big data, artificial intelligence and blockchain. He’s a regular speaker for Bloomberg TV and has keynoted hundreds of conferences and business events around the world.
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