Book Club

From Mike Michalowicz, bestselling author of Profit First, Clockwork, and Fix This Next, a practical and proven guide to standing out in a crowded market.

Many business owners are frustrated because they feel invisible in a crowded marketplace. They know they are better than their competitors, but when they focus on that fact, they get little in return. That’s because, to customers, better is not actually better. Different is better. And those who market differently, win.

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From the bestselling author of The Private Equity Playbook comes Adam Coffey’s second offering, The Exit-Strategy Playbook.

Explore the universe of potential buyers. Learn how to assemble a team of expert advisors to prepare your business for sale. Walk step by step through a typical investment-banker-led midmarket sale process from start to finish.

Adam Coffey has spent the last twenty years as CEO of three private-equity-backed national service companies. Through his experience executing a buy-and-build strategy, he has bought and sold more than 100 companies ranging in size from $1 million to $1 billion. Selling your business is an art. Learn from an experienced artist how to successfully navigate the sale process.

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CEO and founder of Moves the Needle and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur Brant Cooper teaches leaders how to ensure their organizations are resilient, aware, and dynamic enough to endure long-term, weathering the storms of disruption and uncertainty.

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Financial Freedom is a step-by-step path to make more money in less time, so you have more time for the things you love. It challenges the accepted narrative of spending decades working a traditional 9 to 5 job, pinching pennies, and finally earning the right to retirement at age 65, and instead offers readers an alternative: forget everything you’ve ever learned about money so that you can actually live the life you want.

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In this moving memoir, Joy Clausen Soto vividly brings us into her world. We see her go from her dream job to fighting for her life and how she is able to come back from it all. You can’t avoid falling in love with her quirks, indomitable spirit, and wry sense of humor.

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Marter has become a go-to expert on the “Psychology of Success”―establishing ways to help you improve your financial well-being by focusing on your psychological and relational issues around money. With The Financial Mindset Fix, Marter crystallizes her most powerful and effective practices for long-term prosperity. Here, she guides you through 12 essential mindsets for transforming your relationship with yourself to welcome a life of wealth.

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Buying a house is more than just trading money for a deed. Between choosing your real estate agent and lender, picking the right neighborhood, and finally, choosing the house itself, you’re suddenly making more decisions than you ever thought possible. All this while trying to keep a level head for what may be the biggest purchase of your life!

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In Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green draws on interviews that he’s conducted over twenty-five years with many of the world’s greatest investors. As he discovered, their talents extend well beyond the financial realm. The most successful investors are mavericks and iconoclasts who question conventional wisdom and profit vastly from their ability to think more rationally, rigorously, and objectively. They are master game players who consciously maximize their odds of long-term success in markets and life, while also minimizing any risk of catastrophe.

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Most people have beautiful dreams deep inside—the things they would like to have, the relationships they’d love to enjoy, and the wellness and well-being that would help them express their best, in every way. But often those dreams lie buried inside us. Hidden by fear or unworthiness or a lack of awareness of what could be. Asking is the only language to which the Universe can deliver a solution, understanding, illumination, or plan.

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Tatiana Tsoir gives “almost-preneurs” the skills, tools, and confidence to successfully pursue their dreams of starting a business. In plain language Tatiana shows you how to bulletproof your idea, and arms you with a framework that will enable you to run a sustainable and profitable business. You’ll learn where to start, how to build your team, what to charge, how and when to ask people for help, and more. With specific checkpoints and milestones laid out, you’ll address any potential stumbling blocks before they arise, and set yourself up for success right out of the gate.

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When it comes to setting and meeting goals, we may see—quite literally—our plans, our progress, and our potential in the wrong ways. We perceive ourselves as being closer to or further from the end than we may actually be depending on our frame of reference. We handicap ourselves by looking too often at the big picture and at other times too long at the fine detail. But as award-winning social psychologist Emily Balcetis explains, there is great power in these misperceptions. We can learn to leverage perceptual illusions if we know when and how to use them to our advantage.

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Sarah-Catherine Gutierrez (aka Ladysplaining Money) is the founder of Aptus Financial, national speaker, and co-founder of SAVE10—a campaign to empower women to save for life and retirement. She holds a BA from Salem College, an MPP from Harvard University, and the CFP® and CRPS® designations. But First, Save 10 is her first book.

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Pittner and Nordman show you how to motivate your kids to manage their money. They’ll make lots of mistakes.  When you start teaching them at a young age, though, their mistakes are a lot smaller (and cheaper) than years later when they’re in the workforce. Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next-Generation Financial Independence will help you learn to validate their feelings about money, talk through their mistakes, and think of better ways to manage their money the next time. Later you’ll help them find their own motivations to earn, save, and invest.

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Filled with stories of modern women who made changes to live more in sync with their purpose and passions, The Resiliency Effect will teach you to:

• Embrace and overcome adversity so you too can live your biggest dreams.
• Determine what habits and coping strategies are blocking you from success.
• Take tangible steps to make lasting changes in your life.

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Are you tired of feeling stressed out and overwhelmed when you think about your finances?

Have you gotten frustrated with personal finance advice from “experts” that doesn’t feel like it speaks to your unique financial situation?

No matter where you are in your financial journey Personal Finance QuickStart Guide covers everything you need to know to make a positive financial change in your life.

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Are you in sales but struggling to make quota? Did you just take a sales job out of desperation
but don’t think it’s the right career for you? Do you worry people will perceive you as pushy or
dishonest?

Selling With Authentic Persuasion will remove all the stress and anxiety you feel about selling so
you can focus on what’s really important—your customers and their needs. Jason Cutter will
reveal how being honest with customers, overcoming our misconceptions about sales, and
winning customers’ trust will not only lead to happy and repeat customers but transform you
from order taker to quota breaker.

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The decisions you make about your 401(k) or 403(b) plan today will have a huge impact on your life tomorrow. Your future isn’t going to pay for itself. Common Financial Sense will give you the knowledge you need to fund the retirement you deserve. Common Financial Sense helps you to better understand your 401(k) or 403(b) plan and how to save smarter for your retirement. Common Financial Sense lays out the basics of 401(k) and 403(b) planning in simple, easy to understand language.

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Early in her more than twenty-five-year career, Ande Frazier rejected traditional planning methods that didn’t account for how emotions factor into women’s financial decision-making. Developing an expertise in behavioral finance, she saw again and again that conventional wisdom about women and money was flawed: it’s not women’s finances that determine their self-worth. It’s women’s sense of self-worth that determines their finances. And like that, a new philosophy was born.

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Workers want and need to know their work is appreciated. Showing gratitude to employees is the easiest, fastest, most inexpensive way to boost performance. New research shows that gratitude boosts employee engagement, reduces turnover, and leads team members to express more gratitude to one another—strengthening team bonds. Studies have also shown that gratitude is beneficial for those expressing it and is one of the most powerful variables in predicting a person’s overall well-being—above money, health, and optimism.

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Studies show that if you’re like the majority of young professionals, you feel dissatisfied with your job, your finances, or your overall station in life. It can seem impossible to disentangle the work stuff, the money stuff, and the personal stuff, because they’re all inextricably linked. But the good news is, you don’t have to go at it alone: Work Your Money, Not Your Life is your all-in-one guide to achieving both your career and financial goals so that you can get where you want to be.

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Time Smart is your playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores. Author and Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans will give you proven strategies for improving your “time affluence.” The techniques Whillans provides will free up seconds, minutes, and hours that, over the long term, become weeks and months that you can reinvest in positive, healthy activities.

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Investing is an exercise based upon constant failure and disappointment, drenched with mental distractions, obsessions, worries, manias, and even superstitions. It’s an exercise that should have positive results, but far too often doesn’t. Or as author Ron DeLegge II says, “The best built investment portfolio accompanied by poor habits will achieve superior results with great difficulty.”

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Whether you are saving, investing, or spending… the fact is, we all need cash flow. It represents our financial lifeblood. Which is why you need Cash Flow Is King! This book will help you maximize your cash flow on a reliable, tax advantaged, and even guaranteed basis.

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In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite a meaningful life, however one chooses to define that. Truly viewed, wealth is funded contentment.

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Did you know that there is more than one way for retirees to meet their financial goals? Not everyone is comfortable relying on stock market returns from their investments. This book explains a different approach that first builds safety through a floor of reliable lifetime income.

This is the meaning of safety-first retirement planning.

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“Read and learn from this book or become a Walmart greeter. Your choice.”–Richard Fields, Retirement Expert. Wall Street warns you to withdraw only 4% a year when retired. But Main Street retirees have an advantage. You can obtain 6%, 7% and even 8% annual dividend yields–triple or even quadruple the S&P 500’s yield–without reducing principal or taking on unnecessary risk. Skip Wall Street’s low-yielding, blue-chip, “dividend aristocrat” BS and learn how from Brett and Tom!

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Over half of Millennials are freaked out by their finances. Luckily, with Millennial Money Makeover readers now have a guide to help them navigate the financial issues of their time. Certified public accountant Conor Richardson offers a refreshingly helpful and elegantly designed program to tackle essential money matters.

Millennial Money Makeover takes readers on a six-step journey to transform their financial life and set them up for lifelong success. From learning how to pay off student loans insanely fast to optimizing a financial ecosystem, Millennial Money Makeover teaches readers how to reclaim their financial future and jump-start the path to the rich life.

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You manage your own money. You understand the basics of investing and diversifying your portfolio. Now it’s time to invest like a pro for greater profits—with investment expert David Stein, host of the popular weekly podcast, “Money for the Rest of Us.” He’s created a unique ten-question template that makes it easy for individual investors like you.

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Bobbi Rebell, award-winning TV anchor and personal finance columnist at Thomson Reuters, taps into her exclusive network of business leaders to share with you stories of the financial lessons they learned early in their lives that helped them become successful. She then uses these stories as jumping off points to offer specific, actionable advice on how you can become a financial grownup just like them.

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This isn’t just another bucket list book filled with other people’s ideas about things to do before you die or a blank, generic journal. There are many books out there like that, but they don’t tell you how to complete your own bucket list adventures, follow a process and then reflect on what you did.

Skip the books that give you ideas based on other people’s interests, values and travel bucket lists and come up with your own. A bucket list thing to do should be personal and unique to the individual. This book will guide you to brainstorm the ideas.

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As your parents age, you may find that you want or need to broach the often-difficult subject of finances. In Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances, you’ll learn the best ways to approach this issue, along with a wealth of financial and legal information that will help you help your parents into and through their golden years.

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From Here to Financial Happiness is the day-by-day guide for anyone dreaming of a better life. Whether you’re dealing with debt, uncertain about retirement or simply want to get a grip on your finances, this book can put you on the road to happiness with a simple 11-week journey. Just 5-10 minutes a day to think about money, your habits, your goals, and your dreams. What steps can you take today to get your finances on track? What bad habits, bad investments, and misconceptions should you let go of? This book is packed with 77 days’ worth of real, actionable guidance for getting your money right―for good. It’s not an investment scheme, not extreme couponing, not something else to add to your daily to-do list. Instead, it’s about changing you―and the way you handle and think about money―so you can start building the life of your dreams.

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Simplify your financial life and ensure financial success into the future

Feeling paralyzed by the overwhelming number of complex decisions you need to make with your money?

You don’t need to be an expert to achieve financial freedom. You just need a framework that makes the right choices simple and easy to make. Making Money Simple provides that much-needed process so you can get on the right track to long-term financial security.

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Feeling rich is the difference between just existing and being gloriously, deeply, passionately alive, living the very best life you were born to lead.

What does feeling rich have to do with actually being rich? Plenty, it turns out. Your beliefs and feelings about money drive how you see yourself and how you define “rich.”

The Feel Rich Project starts by analyzing your specific history with and feelings about money, then uses that information to help you redirect your life where you want it to go. It’s a uniquely personal experience.

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The most powerful word in wealth building is choice.
Too often, we limit our financial future based on conventional wisdom – on what we’ve heard from the media, or the tropes that we have trained ourselves to believe based on our situation or past. Financial freedom starts with understanding your personal financial drivers. It starts with taking control of your money and leveraging it to create your ideal future – not somebody else’s version of success.

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