Entrepreneurs start businesses to be their own bosses, but if the job you made for yourself feels more like a grind than a labor of love, it’s time to abandon someone else’s vision of success so you can achieve professional and personal freedom.

Mark Rampolla thought he knew what he wanted when he started Zico Coconut Water: success and then freedom. But even after selling the company to Coca-Cola for over $200 million, he still felt bound by unconscious conditioning, limiting beliefs, outdated dreams, and the relentless hustle culture of entrepreneurship.

Through deep personal work—and by guiding hundreds of other entrepreneurs and leaders—Rampolla discovered a new path to access and sustain true freedom, even while running multiple businesses. He developed a system of seven actionable steps to build his dreams, redefine success for himself, and be present in every day of his journey. It led to more freedom than he ever imagined possible and, surprisingly, even greater success. And, now, he wants that for you. Not someday. Now.

What if freedom isn’t something you earn at the end, but something you can begin with and carry with you every step of the way? It’s time to live your best life—one that’s richer, freer, and more fulfilling than anything you’ve dared to imagine. It’s time for An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Freedom.

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The answer is yes. This playbook, developed by Eric Becker, will show you how it’s done.

As an investor, board member, CEO and founder, Becker has become a global leader in private equity and wealth management and successfully played key roles in over 100 companies in his career. He has also guided some of the world’s most powerful entrepreneurs and ultra-high-net-worth families. By leveraging his own success and lessons he’s learned in boardrooms of billion-dollar startups and iconic legacy brands, Becker has developed the key plays that he believes can fortify a business to thrive.

The Long Game highlights a curated collection of companies that have defied the odds and thrived for over a century. Through meticulous research and in-depth interviews with CEOs, historians, and key decision-makers, this book delves into the pivotal strategies and decisions that enabled them to adapt and remain competitive on a global stage.

Becker’s playbook passes forward the legacy of those who have figured it out, helping founders shape the future.

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So, you got fired, laid off, restructured, canned. Welcome to the club, baby! In today’s seismically changing job market, getting fired doesn’t automatically mean you failed; it’s a rite of passage.

With their decades of experience in high-stakes leadership roles, Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill know firsthand the challenges—and thrilling opportunities—that come with losing a job, no matter where you are in your career. They’ve been through the shock, grief, anger, and confusion, and they’re here to help you navigate the experience.

All the Cool Girls Get Fired is both a road map and a mindset shift—a pragmatic, empowering, and humorous way to make lemonade from lemons. With candor, humor, actionable advice, and exclusive “I’ve been there” interviews from inspirational women, All the Cool Girls Get Fired challenges outdated corner office perceptions of career success.

From coping mechanisms and self-care practices to networking strategies and reinvention techniques, the book is a comprehensive GPS to navigate the path of career recovery and bounce back with more professional mojo than ever.

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Standing at the nexus of health and wellness and leadership, The Purpose Pivot: How Dynamic Leaders Put Vulnerability and Intuition into Action takes a dive deep into exclusive shared stories, experiences, and learnings of successful women, helping readers navigate their own leadership journey whether it be at work, at home, or within themselves personally.

Inspired by author Melissa Gonzalez’s wake-up call of a life-threatening medical emergency that required emergency surgery in the middle of the night, this book opens a dialogue to demystify aspects of our health, both physically and mentally, from invisible illnesses like chronic fatigue to outdated beliefs one needs to shed in order to evolve into our best selves.

Some of the powerful ideas explored in this book include:

• The power of intuition and trusting your gut, the beauty in our body fighting for us, and reprioritizing our own hierarchy of needs
• Finding grace and normalizing a slower approach, addressing PTSD from events in the past, and completing the cycle of restoration
• Assessing your own love, fear, and doubts about yourself, creating “power phrases,” and becoming your own “vibe director”

With helpful worksheets included to start making magic happen as soon as today, The Purpose Pivot is an essential read for anyone seeking empowerment on their journeys to actualization.

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My prayers are my poems are my prayers. I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.

A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.

I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in humanity, you, myself, our potential.

I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.

Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a startup company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine and believe in the poetry of life.

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Ever wonder why some of our most effective leaders aren’t known for the skills we’ve been told are essential for great leadership? Would you describe Elon Musk or Steve Jobs as having empathy or humility? Of course not, and yet they’ve led teams that achieved extraordinary results. So, what leadership attributes, habits, and skills do cause teams to become more than the sum of their parts? Why does a team made of up superstars often underperform? What causes teams to work together effectively and produce high team intelligence?

For the past 15 years, behavioral scientist and New York Times bestselling author Jon Levy has gathered thousands of the most respected leaders from across industry—Nobel Laureates, Olympic team captains, astronauts who commanded the ISS, military leaders, and corporate CEOs—to find answers to these questions. In Team Intelligence, he unpacks the myths that hold leaders and their teams back and points out the paradox of success: focusing on creating teams that operate well is what makes an effective leader, but focusing purely on the leader does almost nothing for the team.

In Team Intelligence, discover cutting-edge research, surprising stories, and the essential habits that unlock collective genius.

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Over the past six years, Brené Brown, along with a global community of coaches and facilitators, has taken more than 150,000 leaders in 45 countries through her Dare to Lead courage-building work. In Strong Ground, Brown shares the lessons from these experiences along with wisdom from other thinkers. This is a vital playbook for everyone from senior leaders developing and executing complex strategies to Gen Zers entering and navigating turbulent work environments. It is also an unflinching assessment of what happens when we continue to perpetuate the falsehood that performance and wholeheartedness are mutually exclusive.

With equal amounts of optimism and caution about AI, Brown writes, “I hear a lot of experts trying to soothe people’s anxiety about the pace of technological change by offering platitudes like, ‘What makes us human will ensure our relevance.’ This is dangerous simply because, right now, we’re not especially good at what makes us human. We’re not hardwired for this level of uncertainty, and many of us feel as if the constant need to self-protect is driving the humanity right out of us. This is why organizational transformation today must foster deep connection, deep thinking, and deep collaboration. We need the courage to lead people in a way that honors and protects the wisdom of the human spirit.”

Brown offers a broad assessment of the skill sets and mindsets we need moving forward, including the capacity for respectful and difficult conversations, increased productive urgency and smart prioritization rather than reactivity, and strategic risk-taking, paradoxical thinking, and situational and anticipatory awareness skills. She identifies the toughest skill set as the discipline, humility, and confidence to unlearn and relearn.

Brown writes, “Individuals and organizations are building new muscles. Finding our strong ground—that athletic stance—is the only thing that can provide both unwavering stability in a maelstrom of uncertainty and a platform for the fast, explosive change that the world is demanding.”

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At age 19, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever to climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America. She went on to reach the summits of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. Yet it was during her experience serving as one of the Army’s first female attack helicopter pilots, and eventually leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, that she learned the lessons of leadership that forever changed her life.

Where did these insights come from? From her own crucibles of experience—and from other women.

In writing The Grit Factor, Polson made it her mission to connect with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared with her their candid stories of combat and career. This slate of decorated leaders includes Heather Penney, one of the first female F-16 pilots, who was put on a suicide mission for 9/11; General Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general in the Army; Amy McGrath, the first female Marine to fly the F/A-18 in combat and a 2020 candidate for the US Senate; and dozens of other unstoppable women who got there first, including Polson herself.

These women led at the highest levels in the most complicated, challenging and male-dominated organization in the world. Now, in the post-#MeToo era, when positive role models of women leading are needed as never before, Polson brings these voices together, sharing her own life lessons and theirs with storytelling flair, keen insight and incisive analysis of current research.

With its gripping narrative and relatable takeaways, The Grit Factor is both inspiring and pragmatic, a book that will energize and enlighten current and aspiring leaders everywhere—whether male or female.

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“The competence-likeability bias is an absurd catch-22, but never fear In this compelling, compassionate, and funny read, Kate Mason shows you how to break free.” —Kim Scott, author of the New York Times bestseller Radical Candor

Women all over the world struggle to communicate with authority yet still be liked by a crowd. We strategize before meetings, second-guess in bathroom stalls, text outfit options to our best friends and try to anticipate every possible variable. This tricky business is what world-champion debater and executive coach Kate Mason calls “communicating while female,” and frankly, it seems like it’s impossible to get it right. Until now.

In Powerfully Likeable, Mason explains that being influential and well-liked is not an either/or proposition. Furthermore, she shows that women don’t have to imitate what men do; gaining respect doesn’t mean having the loudest voice or the firmest handshake. Instead, the key is to choose communication tools that amplify what makes you unique—whether that be warmth, humor, competitiveness or a love of data—and wield your power from a place of authenticity.

From personal presentation style and negotiation to handling adversarial conversations and becoming your own best advocate, Mason offers a game-changing toolkit of strategies, including

• Scripts for owning your accomplishments instead of downplaying them and defending your ideas without being defensive
• Methods for using clear logic, evidence and debate strategies to ask and answer clear questions without appearing “difficult”
• Tips for overcoming “imposing syndrome”—the disease of playing small and not taking up space—and channeling warmth as an alternative to deference in conversation
• Techniques to regulate your body language, voice and words to find your true communicative power

A paradigm-shifting guide to dismantling and thinking beyond stereotypes, Powerfully Likeable will help you unleash your creative power and energy and embark on a journey of success on your terms.

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Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: “The Long Game” (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success and what kind of impact you’re looking to have in your own life and the world) and “The Short Game” (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they’ve gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).

Its lessons include:

• The difference between what you want to be and who you want to be
• The most powerful secret Hayes’ knows: helping others helps us more
• How to get comfortable making decisions
• The path to finding enough in the ways you spend your time

Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey o, at any stage looking for more, Mission Driven is a road map for discovering what drives you and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities. It is a book to help satisfy ambitions and souls, filled with smart, empathetic guidance.

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