Have you labeled yourself successful or unsuccessful? Why or why not? What metric do you use to qualify or disqualify your success? What is it that women really want from a successful life?

And why are so many women trapped in a life they don’t want, feeling the need to prove themselves, causing mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual exhaustion? Why do we allow women to continue to give from an empty cup?

The answers to these questions are in this book.

Make no mistake, there is a war against our worth that is pinning women against each other. It is time for us to get to the root of this crisis. This book gives us language to identify our common enemy so that together, we can take a stand and fight for our unconditional worth.

This book is a proven blueprint to help you design the life you really want. You have an irreplaceable contribution to this world—what you offer, no one else can. You were made for such a time in history.

Regardless of the path you have chosen for yourself, we all share a universal desire for a fulfilling life. This book will not only empower you, but it will equip you with the mindset and skill set you need to pursue success that is rooted in fulfillment. $2.99 on Kindle.

This book is dedicated to the belief that everyone is meant to live life at full-throttle. That we are all meant to be “vanilla-busters”; men and women who refuse to settle for an ordinary, mundane, adventure-deleted life.

It is about abandoning the security and safety of the bleachers to enter into the dangers and glories of the playing field. It’s about giving up small dreams and bite-sized ambitions so that we can take hold of dreams and ambitions big enough to make our stay on planet earth worthwhile. It’s refusing to allow someone else to do our risk-taking, and daring to live life at full throttle. It’s about saying “no” to vanilla, and shouting “yes” to life.

Jim Collins, in his best-selling book “Good to Great”, wrote an outstanding analysis of what separates the very best companies from the myriads of good ones. In it he carefully details the central, key, non-negotiable characteristics which marked each of these very best companies.

In a very similar way, “Say ‘No’ to Vanilla” does the exact same thing – only with people instead of companies. What are those few, key, non-negotiable traits which separate great existences from good or mediocre ones? What does it take to upgrade one’s life from “good to great”? Or another way to put it, what are “the common threads of uncommon lives”?

For more than five decades, best-selling author Dwight Edwards has been studying and pondering this very issue. In this landmark book, he discusses in fascinating and compelling detail the five key components of individuals who have dared to become the best they could become and elevated their lives from good to great. The book is packed full of historical and biographical illustrations to support his five key traits. This is a book you cannot afford not to read! $5.99 on Kindle.

While writing Chrysalis, my mind would, of course, return to the hospital room where I regained my life and freedom. As I strived to explain the experience, I noticed how it had changed me and set me on a better path to the rest of my life. This unusual experience, though difficult, improved how I react, and accept many good and not so wonderful things to come.

If I were to meet you and take your hand, if at that moment I could give this learning to you, how glad it would make me! I extend this hope to you in book form. My intent is to tell you to “never give up,” never to be so overcome that you stop. We all have moments. This gift I was given is to show you any pain is worth the promise of the life that awaits you tomorrow. It’s free, it’s within you…relax and accept. Move forward! $0.99 on Kindle.