Laura Holloway has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is A Ghost of a Chance.
Take Control of Your Life
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We all have dreams of things that we'd love to accomplish in our lives. But as you know, a goal without a plan is just a wish. Take Control of Your Life will help you take your big dreams and turn them into concrete action plans, full of bite-sized action steps that you actually believe you can achieve. In this book, you'll learn: How to take your larger-than-life dreams and whittle them down into bite-sized daily action steps that don't overwhelm you (anyone with big dreams needs this) An incredibly effective way to make sure that you feel great the entire time you're working on your goals - not just after you achieve them Why traditional "I'm going to lose 10 pounds in a month" type goals often set you up for failure How to set the perfect goals for yourself A practical exercise you can do as different fears about reaching your goals come up How to create to-do lists that constantly navigate you to your dreams and don't overwhelm you How you can improve anything in your life with this plan - whether it be improving your relationships, making more money, achieving better health, or quitting something This is a short, to-the-point book with all kinds of practical exercises and case studies so you can see exactly how you can start to create your dream life. Download your copy right now!
©2014 Rachel Rofe (P)2016 Rachel Rofe
A Ghost of a Chance
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Nobody knows that Laurel Bay can see and talk to ghosts. When she inherits a funeral home, she is forced to return from the city to the small town of Witch Woods to breathe life into the business. It is a grave responsibility, but Laurel is determined that this will be no dead-end job. There she has to contend with her manipulative and overly religious mother, more than one ghost, and a secretive but handsome accountant. When the murder of a local woman in the funeral home strangles the finances, can Laurel solve the murder? Or will this be the death of her business?
©2015 Morgana Best (P)2016 Morgana Best
Summary of Kate Anderson Brower's First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
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One of the most underestimated - and challenging - positions in the world, the first lady of the United States must be many things: an inspiring leader with a forward-thinking agenda of her own; a savvy politician, skilled at navigating the treacherous rapids of Washington; a wife and mother operating under constant scrutiny; and an able CEO responsible for the smooth operation of countless services and special events at the White House. Now, former White House correspondent Kate Andersen Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources - from residence staff and social secretaries to friends and political advisers - to tell the stories of the 10 remarkable women who have defined that role since 1960. Brower offers new insights into this privileged group of remarkable women, including Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Patricia Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. The stories she shares range from the heartwarming to the shocking and tragic, exploring everything from the first ladies' political crusades to their rivalries with Washington figures; from their friendships with other first ladies to their public and private relationships with their husbands. She also offers a detailed and insightful new portrait of one of the most-watched first ladies of all time, Hillary Clinton, asking what her tumultuous years in the White House may tell us about her own historic presidential run, and what life could be like with the nation's first first husband. Candid and illuminating, this first group biography of the modern first ladies provides a revealing look at life upstairs and downstairs at the world's most powerful address. Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour it all. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book.
©2016 Ant Hive Media (P)2016 Ant Hive Media
Summary of Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace's Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award - winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about creativity in business and leadership - sure to appeal to listeners of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Fast Company raves that Creativity, Inc. "just might be the most thoughtful management book ever". Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation - into the meetings, postmortems, and "Braintrust" sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture - but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, "an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible". For nearly 20 years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, WALL-E, and Inside Out, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner 30 Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired - and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a PhD student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie's success - and in the 13 movies that followed - was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on leadership and management philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better If you don't strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead It's not the manager's job to prevent risks. It's the manager's job to make it safe for others to take them The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them A company's communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all of it. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is not intended to be used without reference to the original book.
©2016 Ant Hive Media (P)2016 Ant Hive Media