Book Review
Author and social media influencer, Carly A Riordan, who has just launched her new book, ‘Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success’ believes that it’s possible to turn your creative passion into a successful company. With clarity and approachability, Carly’s book is a complete guide that will teach you how to monetize your creativity with a sustainable operation, helping you to become a happy, healthy, successful, business-minded boss.
Business Minded: A Guide to Setting Up Your Mind, Body and Business for Success by Carly A Riordan is part self-help wisdom, part business school teaching, and part interactive workbook pages, plus real-life advice from 18 amazing, thriving entrepreneurs. This book is everything you need to know to turn your creative passion into a successful company. It teaches you how to monetize your creativity with a sustainable operation: ideation and business plans, branding, bookkeeping, accounting, marketing, management, social media, and more. Maybe you want to become a social media influencer like Carly. Maybe you want to sell cakes on the side. Maybe you want to design beautiful branding for small business owners, or maybe you want to run a coffee mobile business in your local office parks and university campuses! Whatever your idea, the same responsible business principles apply. With dedicated space for you to write down your own ideas, Carly will walk you through the process, step-by-step.
Through it all, Carly will remind you of your true goal: you started your business to make you happy. That's not a bad thing! You can't field calls, answer emails, manage your accounts, and so on, if you're not taking care of yourself first. With firsthand wisdom, she'll encourage you to live a happy entrepreneur's lifestyle because YOU are your business's greatest asset. With insight from other women entrepreneurs who have turned their creative ideas into businesses, this book will become your most-trusted resource.
Author Quotes
I love helping people flesh out ideas for their businesses and work through problems, no matter where they are in their journey.
My hope is that this book helps you hone your ideas and feel more confident making decisions, without forgetting to take care of yourself along the way.
Business Minded is divided into two parts. The first helps you set up your business for success, and the second helps you ensure that, as an entrepreneur, you’re able to run your business in a healthy, mindful way.
Best of all, there is a healthy dose of inspiration and insights from other entrepreneurs.
About the author
A lifestyle blogger, Carly Riordan is the founder of Carly's Book Club, Carly's Stitch Club, and, of course, her eponymous blog Carly (est. 2008). Carly is a numbers person--a business school graduate of Georgetown University where she balanced being a high-achieving student, an athlete, and an emerging blogger. She turned her blog into a legitimate, successful business using the concepts she learned in school. She wholeheartedly believes any young woman should be empowered to flex her entrepreneurial muscle to merge great business sense with creativity and passion.
Why LoA loves it…
What we particularly liked about Carly Riordan’s new book is that she understands the journey to turning a creative passion into a viable business can be a tough and even perilous one. It requires a shift of the Mind, Body and Business, as she so correctly writes about in this highly practical new read. For any creative business venture to work, it’s essential to look at how to successfully monetize your offering. Carly takes readers through a step by step approach to getting the basics right, putting the right mindset in place, and then bringing in great insights from women entrepreneurs who are doing just that. — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa