Book 101 Review

From Overwhelm to Overflow: C-Suite Coaching for Women Who Lead on Purpose.

Dr. Cynthia Coy is the Founder and CEO of Uncaged Solutions, a leadership development and executive coaching firm helping high-achieving women move from overwhelm to overflow. A retired Air Force officer and certified John Maxwell Coach, she equips C-suite leaders with mindset and communication strategies to lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Through her F.R.E.S.H. framework, she empowers women to lead authentically—without losing themselves in the process.

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Mindful Art Teacher/Coach passionate about sharing creative and calming practices for self-care.

Cynthia Hauk, MFA, is the founder of Mindful Creative Muse , an online school offering Mindful Art workshops, retreats, and internationally accredited teacher training programs. Since 2007, Cynthia has helped people around the world use simple Mindfulness and Art practices to de-stress, reconnect with themselves, and express their creativity. Her courses, retreats, coaching programs, teacher trainings, and online events have reached students in more than 00 countries**. Through four internationally accredited Mindful Art and Meditation Teacher Training Certification programs**, Cynthia also trains artists, educators, therapists, wellness professionals, and creative entrepreneurs to confidently facilitate Mindful Art experiences and create meaningful offerings that support both **impact and sustainable income

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The "Stop Fixing Yourself" Expert Helping People Uncover Hidden Strengths & Build Confidence.

If you've ever felt like no amount of self-improvement is making you happier, today's conversation may completely change the way you think. Our guest says the problem isn't that you need more will power, better habits, or another productivity hack. The problem is that you've been trying to become someone you're not. Alix Hogu is the author of "From Hidden to Limitless", a book that challenges conventional self-help by arguing that real fulfillment comes from uncovering your signature strengths - not obsessing over your weaknesses. Today, we'll explore why it's time to stop fixing yourself and start discovering the life you were designed to live.

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Organizations fail when they treat culture like a construction project. They thrive when they treat it like a garden, cultivating conditions for growth rather than engineering behavior through rigid blueprints.

Award-winning consultant Abi Adamson introduces the SERN™ framework (Soil, Exposure, Roots, Nutrients) to guide sustainable cultural transformation. Drawing from her experience working with international clients, including Spotify, Sony Music, and Match Group, Abi shows how to do the following:

• Identify and detoxify the soil poisoning organizational foundations
• Expose who's hoarding the light while others wither in shadows
• Strengthen the root networks where real culture actually lives
• Distribute the nutrients people actually need to thrive (hint: it's not pizza Fridays)

Unlike traditional culture initiatives, focused on compliance and conformity, this framework reveals why expensive transformation efforts keep failing and how to spot "nutrient vampires" draining your best people.

For C-suite leaders, executives, people managers, and anyone who has ever felt invisible at work, this guide offers a sustainable alternative: treating culture as a living ecosystem requiring ongoing cultivation, not a one-time fix.

Because as Abi says, "We bloom together or we wilt alone."™

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Harry Martinez (RET) Sergeant Major A sniper team leader’s unflinching account of urban combat in Ramadi and the psychological cost of fulfilling their mission. “Leadership under fire.

Harry R. Martinez is a former Marine infantryman, police officer, and Army National Guard sniper team leader who served in Ramadi during some of the bloodiest months of the Iraq War. His writing explores combat leadership, moral injury, resilience, and the lifelong cost of war. Their sniper section was tasked with one mission: find the enemy and stop them. From rooftop hides and shattered buildings, their split-second decisions saved American lives and ended others. Every victory left behind faces burned into memory, scenes that refused to fade, and a wavering faith he had to rebuild.

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The Empowerment Pro — Success Is An Inside Job

Twenty-five years ago, author Matthew Cossolotto made a promise to his dying mother to finish writing a book she had been encouraging him to write and dedicate it to her memory. Harness Your PromisePower: Change Your Life, Transform the World is rooted in that make-or-break promise. Spoiler alert: Matthew kept that heartfelt promise. Matthew’s from-the-heart commitment propelled him on his current path as an author, speaker, and coach. His mission: to share the power of making a promise with millions of people around the world. With a foreword by Jack Canfield -- co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series -- Harness Your PromisePower (released in 2026) is the second book in Matthew's personal empowerment trilogy. The first book is the award-winning The Joy of Public Speaking (2021). The third book -- Harness Your HabitForce -- is planned for publication in late 2026.

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Dr. Katie Eastman: Finding peace in the midst of change. Finding peace in the midst of change—supporting you through loss, transition, and transformation with compassionate insight, practical tools.

Dr. Katie Eastman, helps people answer one powerful question: Where’s the peace in this? Through her work in grief, change, and leadership, she. guides others to find clarity, purpose, and peace, even in life’s hardest moments.

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Jobert E. Abueva Author, The Janus Plan (Sept 2026) | TEDx Speaker | Driving Global Impact: Philanthropy, Marketing, Nonprofit Board Service

Jobert E. Abueva grew up between worlds. Born in the Philippines and raised across Nepal, Thailand, and Japan through his father's academic work, he has spent his career learning that the hardest threshold to cross is the one inside yourself. The Janus Plan is what he found on the other side. A global marketing and philanthropy executive at ETS (Princeton, NJ) whose career spans Fortune 500 leadership and international brand building, Jobert burned out running one of the world's most recognizable beauty brands, Clairol Herbal Essences, and turned that reckoning into a framework for beginning again. He is the author of Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir (Rattling Good Yarns Press) and earned the Lambda Literary J. Michael Samuel Prize. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fortune, and Entrepreneur, among other publications. In April 2026, Jobert delivered a TEDx Talk, “Beyond Resolutions: The Art of Beginning with Intention,” at the University of Texas at Dallas, his first public presentation of The Janus Plan framework. He also publishes the newsletter Past • Future • Present, a growing community exploring intentional living and purposeful transitions. Jobert holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He serves on nonprofit boards including the WHYY Community Advisory Board, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and the ACME Screening Room. He shares his time between New Hope, Pennsylvania, and New York City.

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Jobert E. Abueva Author, The Janus Plan (Sept 2026) | TEDx Speaker | Driving Global Impact: Philanthropy, Marketing, Nonprofit Board Service

Jobert E. Abueva grew up between worlds. Born in the Philippines and raised across Nepal, Thailand, and Japan through his father's academic work, he has spent his career learning that the hardest threshold to cross is the one inside yourself. The Janus Plan is what he found on the other side. A global marketing and philanthropy executive at ETS (Princeton, NJ) whose career spans Fortune 500 leadership and international brand building, Jobert burned out running one of the world's most recognizable beauty brands, Clairol Herbal Essences, and turned that reckoning into a framework for beginning again. He is the author of Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir (Rattling Good Yarns Press) and earned the Lambda Literary J. Michael Samuel Prize. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fortune, and Entrepreneur, among other publications. In April 2026, Jobert delivered a TEDx Talk, “Beyond Resolutions: The Art of Beginning with Intention,” at the University of Texas at Dallas, his first public presentation of The Janus Plan framework. He also publishes the newsletter Past • Future • Present, a growing community exploring intentional living and purposeful transitions. Jobert holds a BA in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He serves on nonprofit boards including the WHYY Community Advisory Board, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and the ACME Screening Room. He shares his time between New Hope, Pennsylvania, and New York City.

Brandon Leibowitz

I have been involved with digital marketing since 2007 and want to share my knowledge about SEO, Social Media Marketing, and Google Ads.

My name is Brandon Leibowitz and I run and operate SEO Optimizers. We are a digital marketing company that focuses on helping small and medium-sized businesses get more online traffic, which in turn converts into clients, sales, leads, etc. I got my start in digital marketing in 2007 after graduating from college with my degree in Business Marketing. In my first job, I handled the marketing aspects of an e-commerce website. The company that I worked for was a national e-commerce brand that had recently built their website and was looking to bring more traffic to it. I had no idea what I was doing and neither did they. I spent a lot of my time reading books and joining digital marketing forums to learn as much as possible about this new type of marketing.

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