[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Below is a list of books that I personally recommend. They are focused around leadership, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. I prefer Audible because it’s easier to listen while driving or working.
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Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
Bob Goff is the founder of Love Does, a nonprofit organization that operates schools and pursues justice for children in conflict areas such as Uganda, Somalia, and Iraq. Bob is a lawyer and serves as the honorary consul for the Republic of Uganda to the United States. He is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine Law School and Point Loma Nazarene University and lives in San Diego with Sweet Maria, their kids, and extended family.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2Qyzb68||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10433″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Love Does shares powerful stories coupled with eye-opening truths and empowers anyone who longs for a better world and a richer faith. You don’t need another Christian message or a self-help book. You need to have your paradigms about the world shifted into truth. That’s exactly what you get in Love Does.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2QwxXrP||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10436″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Rise and Grind
The New York Times best-selling author of The Power of Broke and “Shark” on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank explores how grit, persistence, and good old-fashioned hard work are the backbone of every successful business and individual, and inspires listeners to Rise and Grind their way the top.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2Z2iHGr||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10440″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Building a StoryBrand
Donald Miller’s StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching listeners the seven universal story points all humans respond to, the real reason customers make purchases, how to simplify a brand message so people understand it, and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2MgMrxt||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10444″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
How to Win Friends & Influence People
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you! For over 60 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2YQR0jq||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10450″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Crushing It!
Four-time New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary personal brands.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0062674676%2Fref%3Das_li_qf_asin_il_tl%3Fie%3DUTF8%26tag%3Dryonwithano04-20%26creative%3D9325%26linkCode%3Das2%26creativeASIN%3D0062674676%26linkId%3D2819123a59613c6e9c8d839237e1d9bc||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10452″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Start with Why
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.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2MitlqZ||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10454″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Own the Day, Own Your Life
The founder and CEO of Onnit, the mega lifestyle brand and one of the fastest growing companies in the country, teaches us how one single day of positive choices leads to a lifetime of concrete strategies for better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body, and spirit.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2YYyA0p||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10456″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Handcrafted: A Woodworker’s Story
Spanning Clint’s remarkable journey—from a childhood learning carpentry and hard work at his grandfather’s knee, through his struggles to balance pursuing his dreams with supporting his family, to his partnership with Chip and Joanna Gaines and the many adventures and misadventures of filming Fixer Upper—Handcrafted is part memoir and part manual for dreamers. Clint provides unvarnished, thoughtful reflections on a path that is possible for anyone bold enough to pursue it.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2YW8X0g||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10459″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
The 4-Hour Workweek
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2Z0SQP7||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10461″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you’ll love this new expanded and updated one.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2MgXYgx||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10463″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook
After interviewing fifty of the world’s greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Timesbestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom. No matter your salary, your stage of life, or when you started, this book will provide the tools to help you achieve your financial goals more rapidly than you ever thought possible.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2MhZcbb||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10465″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Blue Ocean Strategy
Written by the business world’s new gurus, Blue Ocean Strategy continues to challenge everything you thought you knew about competing in today’s crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes from creating ‘blue oceans’: untapped new market spaces ripe from growth. And the business world has caught on – companies around the world are skipping the bloody red oceans of rivals and creating their very own blue oceans. With over one million copies sold world wide, Blue Ocean Strategy is quickly reaching “must read” status among smart business readers. Have you caught the wave?[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2KaVbmd||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10467″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Good to Great
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2YOQtPc||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10469″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
Rich Dad Poor Dad
In Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, Robert Kiyosaki shares the story of his two dad: his real father, whom he calls his ‘poor dad,’ and the father of his best friend, the man who became his mentor and his ‘rich dad.’ One man was well educated and an employee all his life, the other’s education was “street smarts” over traditional classroom education and he took the path of entrepreneurship…a road that led him to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii. Robert’s poor dad struggled financially all his life, and these two dads—these very different points of view of money, investing, and employment—shaped Robert’s thinking about money.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2EHAKdb||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”10471″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]
The Magnolia Story
These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticipation, their legions of fans continue to multiply and ask a different series of questions, like—Who are these people?What’s the secret to their success? And is Chip actually that funny in real life? By renovating homes in Waco, Texas, and changing lives in such a winsome and engaging way, Chip and Joanna have become more than just the stars of Fixer Upper, they have become America’s new best friends.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Buy Now” style=”custom” custom_background=”#0142c6″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2YW41Zm||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDZGl2JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJhbXpuLWFzc29jLWFkLTEyNThmMDU5LTZjMzgtNDMwNS04ZGU3LTg4ZmY0ZmI0NzU3ZiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRmRpdiUzRSUzQ3NjcmlwdCUyMGFzeW5jJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyJTJGJTJGei1uYS5hbWF6b24tYWRzeXN0ZW0uY29tJTJGd2lkZ2V0cyUyRm9uZWpzJTNGTWFya2V0UGxhY2UlM0RVUyUyNmFkSW5zdGFuY2VJZCUzRDEyNThmMDU5LTZjMzgtNDMwNS04ZGU3LTg4ZmY0ZmI0NzU3ZiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRnNjcmlwdCUzRQ==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row]