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Happy and Strong: Create Your Dream Life while Enjoying the Journey by Jaime Villalovos

May 22, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Jaime Villalovos

Book Review

In Happy and Strong, Create Your Dream Life while Enjoying the Journey, author Jaime Villalovos provides entrepreneurs with practical and proven strategies on how to achieve success in business without neglecting or sacrificing their families and everything that is important to them. 

As a woman entrepreneur, if you struggle with the pressure of balancing business and family, with all that life demands, and you feel spread too thin, then Jaime Villalovos’s new book, Happy and Strong, Create Your Dream Life while Enjoying the Journey is just what you need. Jamie says, if you often ask yourself, Is it all worth it? Can I have it all? And if having it all means a loving, supportive relationship, a successful and impactful business, a strong and united family, and a healthy and fit body and mind, then the answer is yes! In her debut book, Jaime gives you useful tools and methods, not empty promises. Instead of constantly feeling pressured, worried, and unfulfilled, you can begin living a life you absolutely adore. 

In Happy & Strong, Jaime will teach you new ways of thinking and behaving. You will learn how to: 

- Create a strong and compelling vision for your life. 

- Transform yourself into an effective leader.

- Get past some of the traps causing you to plateau. 

- Build long-term happiness into your busy schedule. 

- Balance everything on your plate and have more fun while doing it. 

- Improve your energy levels, diet, and self-care.

- Create a business that is built to last. 

Through Jaime's journey from poverty to success by becoming a top female entrepreneur, you will discover how to win in all areas of your life, and start living the life you desire.

Author Quotes

I’m definitely not an expert at balancing: no one is. I’m still a work in progress. I’m not claiming to be the best parent or the best business guru either. But I have built a successful business as an entrepreneur whilst raising a family. I was making a 7-figure income by the time I was thirty, then continued to grow it as my family grew.

If nothing changes, nothing changes! Ask yourself, am I living the life I have always dreamed of? If not, how badly do you want to change?

Remember, if I can do it, you can as well. I want you to accept that it doesn’t matter where you came from, all that matters is where you want to go.

About the author

Jaime Villalovos grew up in rural Montana in the USA, the oldest of six kids. She became a successful entrepreneur and seven-figure earner before the age of thirty. She is an active philanthropist, serving on the board of the All for One foundation, as well as anti-bullying and children’s wellness organizations. Jaime is also very active in her community. Her passion is to help people reach their biggest goals while finding true happiness. She lives in Southern California with her husband Shawn and their four children. She loves reading, working out, and traveling the world on fun adventures with her family. 

www.happyandstrong.com


Why LoA loves it…

As women entrepreneurs, we so often feel overwhelmed on this crazy business building journey we are on. We try and juggle on a daily basis our business and family responsibilities, hopefully without causing damage to either, or ourselves from a wellness perspective. Often, it seems impossible to make it all work, to have it all in life and in business. Jaime Villalovos is proof positive that you can, and not only that, you can live the life you have ambitions for, no matter where you came from or how tough your life may have been in the past. This is an inspirational book that combines the power of personal story telling, combined with very practical advice and learnings that will give us all the courage and strength we need to achieve our own goals. A must-read book! — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa

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