Recommended Reading
These are books that have inspired me, including some standout recommendations from our podcast guests, each offering valuable insights and perspectives.
Inspirational Books
Diving into new books is one of my favorite ways to expand knowledge and gain fresh perspectives. Whether it’s exploring the latest in business strategy, personal growth, or industry insights, each book offers a unique lens to deepen my understanding and spark new ideas. Here are a few of the standout titles I’m currently reading and would recommend.
What I Am Reading
Die With Zero:
Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It’s intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one’s so-called Golden Years.
The Psychology of
Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
NeuroSelling: Mastering the
Customer Conversation Using the Surprising Science of Decision Making
In his latest book, NeuroSelling, B2B sales expert Jeff Bloomfield uses a unique blend of science and story to show you how to master those conversations. Drawing on the latest in biology, psychology, and physiology research, Bloomfield teaches you how to successfully engage your customer's "buying brain." His NeuroSelling® methodology has added millions of dollars in top-line revenue for industries as diverse as biotech, heavy manufacturing, engineering, pharmaceuticals, and banking/financial services.
The Seed Tree:
Money Management and Wealth Building Lessons for Teens
“The Seed Tree: A Financial Fable” is a teen/young adult financial self-help book that blends the beauty of a fictional story, with the hard facts and advice of a non-fiction workbook. Young people will be drawn in by Andrew’s gripping story and will learn about managing their money without even realizing it. This easy-to-read story is chock full of useful advice to help young people get a grip on their finances, now and forever. The book is ideal for teens, young people, parents, and teachers.
Decade by Decade
Life is surprisingly predictable! How old are you today? How old are your parents, your siblings, your children, your grandchildren, your team members? This series gives you a Decade by Decade understanding of what is “normal” for each decade of life, based on observing over 5,000 people during the last 40 years. This understanding helps bring perspective to what you are experiencing at this point in your life. It also brings perspective to what your family, friends, and team members are experiencing in this phase of their lives! This perspective helps each of us understand who we are as individuals and helps us relax with what we are experiencing today!
The Blue Zones
Secrets for Living Longer: Lessons From the Healthiest Places on Earth
In The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer, Buettner returns to Sardinia, Italy; Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; and Loma Linda, California to check in on the super-agers living in the blue zones and interprets the not-so-secret sauce of purpose, faith, community, down-time, natural movement, and plant-based eating that has powered as many as 10 additional years of healthy living in these regions. And Buettner reveals an all-new blue zone—the first man-made blue zone yet explored. Throughout his two decades of research, Buettner has worked with some of National Geographic's top photographers—including David McLain and Gianluca Cola—to document the healthy habits of the world's longest living communities. In this informative collection, their work punctuates Buettner's lively text, offering a beautiful tour of the blue zones.
The Aggressive Life
We live in a world where “aggressive” is one of the few dirty words left. Our culture celebrates the crass and profane, while risk and difficulty are a sign that something is wrong. Host Brian Tome believes that passivity is killing us and there is a better way—by embracing the power of healthy aggression.
Your Retirement Quest:
10 Secrets for Creating and Living a Fulfilling Retirement
Your Retirement Quest brings all the essential elements to living a fulfilling retirement together in one place. The book empowers both prospective and current retirees to envision their future, to develop a personal plan that is unique to their life circumstances, to stimulate provocative “crucial conversations” that ensure alignment of their vision and plan with those closest to them, to “practice retirement” for those still working, and to implement their plan and keep it fresh throughout their retirement years.
Living A Rich
Life
Author James Lenhoff draws on his deep experience in the world of financial planning and his life as a husband, father, and neighbor to create Living a Rich Life: The No-Regrets Guide to Building and Spending Wealth. Lenhoff offers real-life examples of people who have faced the same financial challenges that arise in almost every family.
Reckless Faith: Let
Go and Be Led
Beth and Todd established a ministry that helps orphans---the poorest, most defenseless members of a needy populace. And while the stories here are drawn from those experiences, this book isn't a memoir. It's about living with faith, with the certainty that God will show up, exactly where and exactly when He's needed. Beth calls it a reckless faith---a willingness to trust even when you don't understand. And her book---an inspiring collection of true stories about real people who, when faced with real challenges, chose to trust God---is a call to live with Reckless Faith.
The Art of
Encouragement: How to Lead Teams, Spread Love, and Serve from the Heart
In The Art of Encouragement, renowned performance coach and keynote speaker Jordan Montgomery delivers a captivating story designed to walk the reader through a dramatic journey of heartfelt, easy-to-understand lessons about encouragement and its many facets. The author compels you to take action by showing you that you're fully equipped and ready to implement encouragement within your own organization, team, family, and community.
The Spare Room:
Define Your Social Legacy to Live a More Intentional Life and Lead with Authentic Purpose
Emily Chang is a seasoned executive who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned companies like Procter & Gamble, Apple, and Starbucks. Over the last twenty-one years, her job has brought her and her family to eight different homes across the U.S and China. And everywhere she’s lived, Emily has found herself at the unique intersection of her Offer and Offense. Life has served up young people who have been abused, neglected or marginalized, to find sanctuary in her spare room. Among her deeply personal accounts, Emily shares heart-wrenching stories of an emotionally abused child bride, a dying eighteen-month old boy born with hydrocephalus, and the abused daughter of a local prostitute.