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Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges by Michelle D. Gladieux

"A straightforward and compassionate guide to engaging in more effective conversation."
—Kirkus Reviews

Winner of 11 awards in its first year including: the 2023 PenCraft Best Book Award for Nonfiction, 2023 Nonprofit Authors Association Silver Award, 2023 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Award for Business, the 2023 Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards Gold Award for Communications, and the 2023 PenCraft Award for Literary Excellence.

Clear communication requires the courage to confront the psychological blocks that hold you back. Learn how to become a more fearless and peerless communicator.

Raising your game as a communicator is one of the best ways to make a difference in the world, but it takes courage to open up to others and invite others to open up to you. As a lifelong communication coach, Michelle Gladieux has discovered four sneaky obstacles that can keep you from becoming the best communicator you can be:

These challenges all have something in common. They require taking risks—to reveal yourself, question your beliefs, take a leap of faith, or move out of your comfort zone. Each chapter includes a real-world practice called a Pro Move and an exercise, both carefully crafted to help you overcome hang-ups and take more joy in communicating.

Courageous communication requires self-knowledge, practice, and a desire to grow. It is a full-body, full-mind, and full-heart effort. This book is like having a caring, expert coach along with you for the journey.

Michelle Gladieux is President of Gladieux Consulting, a Midwest-based team known for the design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia. She has 18 years of collegiate teaching experience at three universities in her home state of Indiana, accepting her first faculty position at age 23. She's worked as a Human Resources and Training Director in the cold storage, robotics, and construction industries and enjoys visiting conferences as a keynote speaker and workshop presenter. She's dedicated her professional life to helping employees at all levels GROW.

https://www.amazon.com/Communicate-Courage-Taking-Overcome-Challenges/dp/152300312X

https://gladieuxconsulting.com/

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Speed of Light by Stefan Durham

Speed of Light is a sci-fi fantasy love story filled with information about the human psyche and experience. The story has three main characters: Zenthaus, Mazaya, and Allele.

Zenthaus is a heroic figure who embarks on a journey to liberate or rescue a slave girl and her daughter from captivity. Mazaya the slave girl, also a princess that comes from a rare and unique royal bloodline, gives birth to Allele, the star seed who is chosen to restore balance and prosperity to a world full of darkness.

It's an adventure that causes these characters to learn life lessons and to find fulfillment in those lessons, a documentary of parables and allegories that hold an even deeper meaning and message when you read it. It is a hero's journey that delves into the struggles that we all face throughout life, followed by justice, transformation, and the balance between light and darkness, diving headfirst into addressing the anxieties of life. Here you will find digestible facts about the author's personal life, not just the ones that preserve his image, but a really intimate and detailed description of his shadow self--the parts that are dark, mysterious, and difficult to understand. These are life lessons that we can all benefit from tremendously. These characters represent different aspects of the author's personality. This adventure is suspenseful, romantic, highly vibrational, and energetically abundant, breaking through the illusions of our reality, helping others to see the truth about themselves.

Stefan Durham was brought up in performing arts with his family in Colorado Springs, CO.  These different forms of art include, martial arts, culinary arts and songwriting.  

His first book "Speed of Light", also considered a work of art, is part of a Sc-fi series that will continue to grow and inspire for many years to come.  In this Light Speed series, we will explore the universe's answer to the negativity that forces its way through the barrier of our consciousness and into our reality.  

https://www.amazon.com/Speed-Light-Stefan-Durham/dp/B0C6B2HWL7

http://www.MainspringBooks.com   

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Can Macron offer Biden the Restoration of Women's Abortion Rights? by Kwon Sung-hee   

When will Jesus return? It is right now. If we look at the signs that Jesus gave about the last day of His return, we can see how concerned Jesus was about the prevalence of atheism and the persecution of the weak. (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17 and 21) The specific time of the Second Coming is set as 'a time when women suffer horribly because their right to abortion is violated'. Do you remember what Jesus said to the women of Jerusalem at the beginning of Chapter 1 of this book? Not only does the end times begin with 'birth pains', but it also mentioned that 'how dreadful it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers'.

Jesus also knew that there would be terrible persecution of sexual minorities. On that day, those who were on the housetop were not to go down to take anything out of the house, and those who were in the fields were not to get their cloaks. This is a declaration that they, who are not treated as members of the society and family because they are sexual minorities, are not at all lacking in the glory of the Second Coming of Christ 'as they are on the housetop' and 'as they are in the clothes they are currently wearing.'

Jesus was most concerned about the devastation of humanity as a result of the death sentence on God, and all of this is the result of that. (p110 111)

The book includes a scientific findings report (2021) and the letter sent to President Macron (2022).

Author Kwon Sung-hee is a divorce lawyer with 35 years of legal experience.  While scientifically analyzing the phenomenon of couples combining opposite personalities even though personality differences are the biggest reason for divorce, she came to evolutionary biology and discovered the greatest long-cherished pursuit of biology.  The sexual reproduction mechanism and the new theory of evolution.  She then wrote her findings on this in her book titled "The Evolution of Sex Through The Inheritance of Life Cycle and Speciation as a Result of the Use and Disuse of Organs". Nicknamed as 'Lamarck's daughter, self-proclaimed 'Jesus' lawyer' sent by John's Gospel 14-16, she claims to have been called to consummate Western civilization by integrating religion and science.  She is living in Seoul, South Korea.

https://www.amazon.com/Macron-Restoration-Womens-Abortion-Rights/dp/1953821731/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

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Tradition To Truth: One Man's Search For Honest Answers by Jerry Mitchell

Is there a secret code in the Bible? Do you want the key to that code? Tradition To Truth is a journey through time and tradition. It will teach you how to find the answers many people have about the Bible. This is a story of how one man asked for answers and discovered those answers were not what he expected. If you are willing to challenge your traditions and strengthen your faith, this is for you.

Jerry Mitchell craves adventure, exploring the ocean and the mountains was only training for his greatest adventure; exploring the Bible. Digging through the language, culture, and history to discover the answers to the questions many people ask. With the tenacity of a hunting lion, he refuses to stop until every detail is justified, proven, and can be explained without speculation. Not afraid and unoffended by the truth he continues to reveal answers to the difficult questions.

https://www.amazon.com/Tradition-Truth-Search-Honest-Answers/dp/B0D3FKK9N7/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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God's Universe, God's Rules by Jerry Mitchell

Do you think the Bible is hard to understand? Maybe you have been told there are contradictions in the Bible that can't be explained, or you have never found an answer to your questions that really satisfy your curiosity. This may be exactly what you've been looking for. Learn how to make the Bible easy to understand, cut through the contradictions and discover the answers to your questions. 

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Inheriting Lies by Jerry Mitchell

Jerry Mitchell author of Tradition To Truth, One Man's Search For Honest Answers and Gods Universe God's Rules again brings serious, though-provoking forensic Biblical analysis to light, digging through the language, culture, and history to uncover the truth hidden by centuries of traditions, legends and man-made doctrine and shining a light on the dark lies we have inherited from our fathers.

https://www.amazon.com/Inheriting-Lies-Jerry-Mitchell/dp/B0D3FRGJ2X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Tall Tales from the Tower: The Real Hillbilly Elegy

By: Stephen G. Morris

It's true. The USAF gave a seventeen-year-old West Virginian hillbilly, a high school dropout, a battery of aptitude tests and determined he could be a Tin Man. And it wasn't easy. Only seven graduated ATC school out of twenty-two. After a year of intensive training at a high traffic control tower, Stephen G. Morris became a Tin Man, an air-traffic controller who can move heavy air traffic safely and expeditiously. After twenty-seven years as a Tin Man, Morris became the director of a Fortune 100 company and a senior vice president at the fourth largest integrated facility management company in the US; however, his biggest lifetime achievement will always be his time as a Tin Man. When he retired from the USAF in 1984, he took over a former FAA control tower on Cape Cod, one of the hundreds of facilities the FAA PATCO union walked out of and were fired by President Reagan.

Tall Tales from the Tower is a peek into the control towers and RADAR air-traffic facilities at airports around the world with true stories of recovering lost aircraft, emergencies, safely landing seventeen fighters in severe thunderstorms, and air traffic control in a war zone.

About the Author

Stephen G. Morris enjoys traveling with his wife throughout the US and Europe. He enjoys American history and is a Civil War buff. He also has interests in politics and current events.

https://www.amazon.com/Tall-Tales-Tower-Hillbilly-Elegy/dp/1637643454

https://stephengmorris.net/

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Lamassu Falling: A Novelette of Ancient Assyria in the Days of Jonah by Arturo R. Ortiz

Plagues and wars gradually engulf the mighty nation of Assyria. An ominous portent in the heavens spells doom for the great city of Nineveh as a ruthless and power-hungry pagan plots to make himself ruler of Nineveh. A prophet of the God of Israel warns the Ninevites their city will fall in just forty days, and a war of the gods begins. Caught in the midst are the beautiful daughter of Nineveh’s governor and an Assyrian war hero who is disheartened with the gods of Assyria. Violence erupts in Nineveh as cruel pagans force families to sacrifice their beloved children to the heathen gods. The governor of Nineveh is about to witness the power of the true God. Will he continue to serve the bloodthirsty war gods of Assyria, or will he turn to the benevolent God of Israel? The fate of Nineveh and the entire Assyrian nation hangs in the balance.

Ortiz is a retired physicist who earned a master's degree in physics from California State University (Northridge) and a master's degree in space studies from the University of North Dakota. Ortiz served as a US Air Force officer in the space and missiles field, and he worked as a civilian in both US Navy cruise missile testing and US Air Force space propulsion. He taught physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and space systems management at Webster University. After retiring, Ortiz dedicated himself to Bible scholarship. His main interests are Christian apologetics, the harmony between science and the Bible, ancient Israel, and the nations of the ancient Near East.

https://www.amazon.com/Lamassu-Falling-Novelette-Ancient-Assyria-ebook/dp/B0CW1GSPMH/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3E9D0HYD76WMY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wBkiS850LF3C8hb-5hGUBJxvOg7bq44Ikhl5as3nztg.EEZc9uodH5wrJ-zOnCsGbZsQCr1GvqxqLqzmAdkGi4k&dib_tag=se&keywords=Lamassu+Falling&qid=1726574917&sprefix=%2Caps%2C359&sr=8-1

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