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Kate says: 'It's not traditionally a self help book but it is extremely inspiring and it demonstrates what some people go through to achieve greatness in their life and to ultimately thrive.'

Recommended by Dr. Suzy Green; Clinical and Coaching Psychologist (MAPS) and CEO and Founder of The Positivity Institute

An empowering and life-affirming book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway will help you triumph over your fears and move forward with your life. 

Recommended by Karin RAE Matthee; Founder and Designer of Dear Rae Jewellery

Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. 

I recently read Michelle Obama’s Becoming. It is an insight on growth and development and the hard work it takes to be successful. To have this insight into her life and to be reminded that we all have a role to play in having a positive impact on the world was an inspiration for my own personal growth.

 For success, who we are is far more important than the knowledge, skills, and relationships we have and what we do - because with higher mind-brain development, our knowledge and skills become more useful, our relationships more enriching, and our actions more effective. As part of presenting the secrets of world-class performance, the book details the inspiring peak experiences that underlie top performance and how top performers have a more orderly, restfully alert, and economic brain than average performers. This research-based book will show you the many benefits of higher mind-brain development and how to effortlessly attain it.

Recommended by: Daniele Tanner

The Personal MBA teaches simple mental models for every subject that's key to commercial success. From the basics of products, sales & marketing and finance to the nuances of human psychology, teamwork and creating systems, this book details everything you need to know to take on the MBA graduates and win.

Recommended by Stefania Ferrario

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

Recommended by: Eva Hamilton

Surrender to the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we find our joy, are able to embrace our true selves and discover that we are already complete and perfect. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the Now we will be opening ourselves to the transforming experience of The Power of Now. Eva say's "it's a really good book in terms of getting us all to live in the present moment and not always be focusing on the past or worrying about the future."

"Since the day I bought the book it has been a go-to daily for me. At the time, I was really struggling emotionally and mentally to balance the enormity of the challenge my family was facing with my brother's disease. It’s a book you can pick up at any time, on any page, and it helps to put everything in perspective. It gave me enormous peace, motivation, and balance."

Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how anyone can learn how to do it.

While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. 

The Happiness Project describes one person’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Through cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability. 

As Adriana says; had great practical tips for real life both personally and professionally.

Life in Half a Second is the first 'fact-based' formula for achieving success in life and business. Proven through thousands of studies and decades of research, it presents the five doors you must walk through to achieve success in your career, business, or personal life.

Having come from military intelligence where you're really protective of information, to running a business, it was really helpful to apply the Google mindset of sharing intellectual property and being useful to people.

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs as well as interviews with his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an honest view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Dom says that when she read it she took notes, made summaries and still refers to it years after reading it! 

Arianna talks about her personal wake-up call that came in the form of a broken cheekbone - the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. This book shows us the way to redefine success and creating a life of well-being, wisdom, and wonder.

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This book is a wonderfully moving story that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death. As one of Rosie's all time top reads, she says that the book makes you think about the impact you have on other people.

The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness

Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow. 

Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success provides mental exercises, self-analysis techniques, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking personal and financial improvement.

Christina says if you live your life by these points – you will have a very successful life, no matter who you are.

Against the odds, Tully emerges into young womanhood, marriage and a career. At last Tully Makker has life under control. And then life strikes back in the most unexpected way of all...

Millie loves this book because Tully shows a great strength of character from a woman who went through a lot in her teenage years. By the end of it you just love her for being who she is.

It's for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, rebellious daughters and any girl with a big mouth and at least one foot in it. It's for any woman who's ever asked: 'Am I the only one who isn't quite coping?'

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A fearless, hilarious, inspiring and surprising collection of modern misadventures to read, relate to and rejoice in, then share with all the women in your life.

Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. 

It's about an adult going back to his childhood, it talks about being here for a purpose and the purpose of others. It's not the business, money, a car, glamour, it's human beings that count the most.

Ron takes you on an extremely detailed and entertaining journey not only of his life but the life that he shared with many runners. As Naomi says "he's hard as nails".

Hilarious account of Bill Bryson's adventures in Aussie-land. But the book is not only funny, it's realistic and well-documented. It's a pleasure to read--a real page-turner. The book indirectly made Carly move to Australia.