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My Favorite Business Books by Women Authors · Wealthy Woman Lawyer Podcast, Helping you create a profitable, sustainable law firm you love

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  Davina Frederick: Hi and welcome to the wealthy woman lawyer
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  Podcast. I'm Davina Frederick. And a few months ago on this
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  podcast I shared with you a list of books that had been life
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  changing. For me, there are books that I've read, that
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  really helped me to change my mindset or how I was showing up
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  in the world, how I thought about wealth and money, and
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  improving you know how I function in business. Now, of
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  course, I've read hundreds and hundreds of books, as I'm sure
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  most of you listening to this have if you're, if you're
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  readers, if you love Audible. If you love Kindle, if you are like
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  hardback books, if you know me very well, you'll know that I
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  have three huge bookcases in my office, plus all these other
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  books stacked in other places. And this is after consistently
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  cleaning out books. And I also have, you know, as many on my
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  Kindle, and in my audible, I tend to now listen more to books
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  on audible than I do read. But I still are those things that I
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  really want to be able to go back and highlight and make
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  notes. And I still buy hardback books for that purpose. But I
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  thought today, one of the issues with that episode I reflected on
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  as I was gathering the books, and putting them out there is
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  that they were all written by men. And it got me thinking
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  that, you know, this is the wealthy woman lawyer podcast.
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  And so I really wanted to just call through my collection of
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  books, and share with you some books that also helped me in
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  business that were written by women, and a diverse number of
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  women. So I collected if you if you're watching the video on
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  YouTube that I'm you'll see the book, if not, I'll read the
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  title and the author, and hopefully I'll pronounce
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  people's names correctly. But I'm going to start with coach
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  yourself to success. And this is by to lane dander. Think I'm
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  saying that correctly. And coach yourself to success. I'll put it
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  back here. So maybe you guys can see it sort of holy, it's so
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  close to the camera, this coach yourself to success. Let me just
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  tell you this book. I discovered before I even knew what coaching
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  was, this was my entree into the coaching world and I bought this
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  book. Back when I was young and single and living alone and
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  really had some life goals I wanted to achieve to Elaine is a
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  life coach, I got this book when I was in my 30s Somebody sorry,
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  let's see 3020s or 30s, late 20s, maybe early 30s. Let me
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  just say that this copy was copyrighted in 2000.
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  She has since probably done some updated editions of this. But
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  what I liked about this book coach yourself to success, it's
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  one 101 tips for personal from a personal coach for reaching your
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  goals in work and life. And there are some things in this
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  book that just stick with me even to this day, I probably
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  could go back and reread it and with a different perspective now
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  and you know, learn a whole lot more about myself. I haven't
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  read it in years, but it was a life changing book for me.
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  Another book is let go now. And this is by Karen Casey and I
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  have bought multiple copies of this book, I have sent it to
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  friends I have sent it to clients. What I love this is
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  Karen Casey let go now embracing detachment is the name of it.
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  Now this book is really written more with the it's a collection
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  of essays about the power of detaching yourself from other
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  people's business basically. And it's written from the
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  perspective of fine of addiction and overcoming that codependency
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  and that need to fix other people and be responsible for
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  other people. And there is you can read literally read an essay
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  a day and there's some pause and reflect moments that help you.
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  But this book was instrumental in helping me a, you know, board
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  fixer into learning to set boundaries around myself and my
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  business and really learn to separate other people's problems
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  from my problems and finding out where even when I'm helping
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  people solve problems either as a lawyer or as a coach. It's
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  really looking for how to establish those boundaries. And
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  it works as well with family and friends as well and really have
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  some emotional detachment from taking on other people's
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  problems as though they are your own. When you do that you do a
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  disservice not only to yourself, but also to the other person who
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  is on a journey of discovery and becoming who they are, and the
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  greatest gift you can give someone as a friend once told me
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  is the space and room to solve their own problem. So, let go
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  now I give this to people all the time. Okay? Jensen cero. A
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  lot of you probably are very familiar with Jensen Chero this
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  is you are a badass at making money. Her original book you are
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  a badass is somewhere in my office, but this was the one
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  that I grabbed from her, you are a badass, and then you are a
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  badass making money. What I like about Jensen cero is she takes a
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  lot of concepts that I have learned from other coaches and
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  other places. But her manner of delivery is so approachable and
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  so enjoyable. So I like to listen to Jen, she reads
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  herself. I like to listen to her on Audible while I'm walking. So
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  I've listened to a number of her books while I'm out walking
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  keeps me walking more miles because I keep listening to her.
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  And invariably everything that she says I'm like, yes, yes,
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  yes. So if you need that encouragement, and that sort of
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  resurgence of thinking of yourself as a badass and maybe
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  shifting some of your limiting beliefs and mindset blocks that
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  you want to get just one of Jensen Cheras book I recommend
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  you are a badass, or you are a badass making money. All right.
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  Rachael Rogers, if you haven't heard of Rachael Rogers, you
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  need to get familiar with who Rachael Rogers is because this
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  woman is so inspirational. This is her book, we should all be
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  millionaires. It is also the name of her force. Rachel is
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  someone who grew up in Queens, New York. She grew up in
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  poverty circumstance, and she has become a multimillionaire
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  now, and she's done that she is an attorney for you, Lady
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  lawyers out there you I know you're gonna love that. She's a
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  lawyer, and she built her own law practice. And she scaled it
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  to probably high six figures. And she realized this wasn't
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  really what she wanted to do. And so she leveraged her
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  intellectual property, and began to create courses. And so now
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  she coaches other women in how to become millionaires
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  themselves. And in particular, it's a great fit. If you are
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  somebody who is a course creator, or you want to be a
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  course creator, you want to leverage your intellectual
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  property, turn it into courses that you can sell the millions,
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  that Rachael Rogers, but this is a great book, it really is kind
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  of her story. And it's a little bit of an inspiration,
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  inspirational. And in particular, she focuses on women
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  of color, marginalized groups, and, and really is someone who
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  wants to inspire people who've been marginalized in the past or
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  currently, and encourage them and say, Yes, you can't do it, I
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  did it. If I did it, you can do it too. And so for, I recommend
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  this book, highly for you to get to know her, follow her on all
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  your socials. Because she's, I've even in the time that I
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  have been following her. And I was enrolled in one of her
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  courses. The she has grown so much, even in the amount of time
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  that I've known her the pandemic was a huge boon for her
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  business. And it really scale quickly. So, if you're a course
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  creator, that's great for you, if you're an attorney who wants
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  to be inspired, if you're a woman of color, you know, read
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  this book, if you think all women should read this book is
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  very inspiring. Okay, the Charisma Myth, how anyone can
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  master the art and science of personal magnetism. This is by
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  Olivia Fox Cobain. I hope I say I hope I'm saying that right.
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  cabanes see a B, A and E. And she is French. She wrote this
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  book and what I really liked about this is so I I was
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  somebody you know, coming up in the world, I've been told that
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  I'm charismatic and blah, blah, blah. And I was curious about
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  and I've always been fascinated by women like Jackie Yau and
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  Marilyn Monroe and how they, how they fascinate as Holly hag
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  Hogshead would say in her book, but how people become more
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  charismatic and how you attract people to you. And this is a
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  great book if you want to be a powerful attractor. A lot of you
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  may be familiar with Susan Kane's book quiet the power of
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  introverts in a world that can't stop talking. The power of
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  introverts in a world that can't stop talking. If you if you are
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  saying to yourself, Well, I'm an introvert, it's easier for an
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  extrovert to get out and network and meet people and make money.
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  You need to read Susan Kane's book quiet because quiet is For
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  those of us who are introverts and who think, on some level
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  that that is a detriment to our ability to have everything that
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  we want in the world, because we're not equal people. And this
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  book really dispels a lot of myths about introversion and
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  extraversion and what it actually means. So if you have
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  not read Susan Kane's book, quiet, this was a huge
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  bestseller. A number of years came out a number of years ago.
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  I'm sure it was probably on Oprah's book club was two but
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  Susan Cain, quiet, okay. Breaking money silence. I
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  interviewed Kathleen burns, Kingsbury, Kathleen burns,
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  Kingsbury on my podcast and another episode. If you haven't
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  listened to that, go back and listen to it. This is her book
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  breaking money silence, how to shatter money taboos talk openly
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  about finances and live a richer life. Kathleen is absolutely
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  doing just super intelligent, delightful to speak with. And I
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  really enjoyed her book breaking money silence because, you know,
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  I think that's one of the things that keeps women from growing
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  into their full potential and wealth is that there's so much
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  taboo around discussion of money, particularly in intimate
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  relationships. And so this is a great book for you. And then
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  lastly, on my list, I do have other books, but I'm gonna wrap
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  it up today with this one. And this is Angela, duck or No,
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  actually, I
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  have two more I want to share with you after the sorry about
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  that. This is Angela Duckworth and the book is grit. If you
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  have not read this book, you want to read this book. This is
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  the power of passion and perseverance. So what Angela
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  Duckworth, who's a psychologist says that really makes those
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  successful people stand out from others is that they have grit.
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  And grit is kind of this not only passion, but it's it is
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  also about being tenacious and persevering and sort of that not
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  giving up thing and that's what really is the standout. So if
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  you're an entrepreneur, this is a must read for you, Angela
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  Duckworth, it's RIT Okay, and the other two books are just
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  kind of inspirational books. One is the way women are. And this
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  is the transformative opinions and dissents of Justice Ruth
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  Bader Ginsburg, the transport to the transformative opinions and
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  dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg the way women are, and
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  if you have any doubt, why we need feminism in this country
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  why women need a special place to gather and to to come
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  together as a force to exercise our power and why we need more
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  economic power in the world, then you want to read this
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  because she any book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg is worth reading,
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  because she was such a key figure in helping women get the
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  rights that women have today. If you're not familiar with the
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  women's movement of the 70s, you need to get familiar because I
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  have a feeling we're going to need to be stepping it up more
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  and more in in our current state with the way things are going.
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  And then lastly, this one is self made. This is inspired by
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  the life of madam CJ Walker, it was written by her I want to say
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  a niece or grandchild I don't remember now. But Alia, bundles,
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  and I don't particularly like the one with this cover because
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  there was a TV program or a movie of this saying that they
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  took this book and they made it into a movie. And I didn't care
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  much for the movie because I thought it was a little
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  farcical. And you know, the way that they did it, I think they
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  were trying to cram the life of this woman is very inspirational
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  woman into a couple of hours. And I just didn't think that it
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  came off very well. But I do recommend reading the book,
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  Madam CJ Walker, for those of you do not know is the first
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  woman millionaire in the United States. And she also was black
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  woman, and she created hair products for women of color. And
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  so it is truly truly remarkable that the first woman oftentimes
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  people think that that black woman had, you know, would not
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  have been able to create a billion dollar business back
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  during the 1800s which is when she did at 1900s. But this story
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  will open your eyes to what life was like in certain areas or
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  people of color at that time. And of course there's a lot of
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  things that came after that. That change that dynamic for for
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  black people. In and white people in this country as well.
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  But this is a truly inspirational story. If you are
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  a woman in business, I highly recommend you read this book as
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  well. So there you go, those are books by women, books by women,
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  for women, there are actually four other for everybody. But I
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  really thought it was important to do that. And also, one thing
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  I noticed as I was going through my bookcases, and I was sort of
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  pulling out some favorite books by women, I realized how so many
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  of the books in my bookcase, the vast majority of books that I
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  have, that are business books, or marketing books, or
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  inspirational books, or, you know, whatever related to
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  develop, you know, self help and development are written by men.
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  And that could be because there's discrimination in the
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  publication industry, probably, that we certainly know it exist
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  in the movie making industry and entertainment industry and every
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  other industry out there. It exists in the legal industry.
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  And so I was really disappointed and how difficult it was to pull
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  out sort of some, not just books written by women, but really
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  famous books, you know, books that are bestsellers, and known
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  throughout the world. And so these, these are some, I invite
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  you to share with me and to others, any other books that are
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  written by women, particularly women of color, just a different
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  Asian American women, Native American women, Hispanic women,
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  people have different experiences. If you will share
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  those books, I would so appreciate it, share them in the
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  comments of this video, share them if you're listening to it
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  on YouTube, or on Instagram, do or in Facebook or LinkedIn,
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  share those comments, share those book recommendations in
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  the comments, or you can send them to me through direct
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  messaging me on Instagram. And as I begin to collect more, I'll
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  do another one of these and share some other books that are
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  reader recommendations about that. So if you're listening to
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  the podcast, you can connect with me on Instagram and comment
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  there or send me a DM it's at wealthy woman lawyer at wealthy
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  woman lawyer. So I hope you've enjoyed this episode, I will
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  have links to these books in the show notes of this podcast
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  episode as well. So you can go and check them out for yourself.
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  And I welcome your feedback and find out what what what you
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  experienced when you read some of these books or when you went
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  looking for women who have written life changing books.
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  Also, lastly, I would just say to you if if you have not
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  written a book, then that's something that I encourage you
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  to do. Write a book because writing a book not only changes
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  other people's lives by giving them information that you have
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  that they may not have, but it also changes your life. And
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  because there's nothing about learning a subject on a deep
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  love deep level that will do it for you other than teaching
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  others right, which is what the book writing process is about.
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  If you would like some help with the book writing process, reach
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  out to me. I'm going to share a link on this podcast. You can I
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  have a colleague who I've introduced you to before who has
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  a writing program. So either DM me DM me and I will send you
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  that information if that's something you're interested in
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  doing. And I hope you enjoy this episode. Thanks so much for
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  being here and listening, going through my library with me and
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  hearing some of my favorite books