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Life in the Driver's Seat: Women With Drive & Beyond by Molly Cantrell-Kraig

October 29, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Molly Cantrell-Kraig

Molly Cantrell-Kraig

The road of the entrepreneur is a bumpy one. Full of zigs and zags, detours and dead ends, building something from scratch takes someone with drive. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a friend along the way? ...Someone who had been where you are? Life in the Driver’s Seat: Women With Drive and Beyond is a slim volume filled with bite-sized wisdom you can fit in your pocket, and read whenever you need a bit of encouragement.

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Essential Read: Dare to Be - 14 Fearless Women Who Gave Wings to Their Dreams by Rinku Paul and Puja Singhal

October 16, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Authors Rinku Paul (L) and Puja Singhal (R)

Authors Rinku Paul (L) and Puja Singhal (R)

Have you ever considered quitting your high-paying corporate job to strike out on your own, only to be told by your inner voice-and a host of naysayers that it’s a silly dream? If yes, then this book is for you.

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Essential Read: The Disruptors - Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society by Kerryn Krige and Gus Silber

October 9, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Kerryn Krige

Kerryn Krige

Can business change the world? Can the world change business? These are questions asked by author Kerryn Krige and her co-author Gus Silber in the new book The Disruptors: Social entrepreneurs reinventing business and society.

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Essential Read: Simple Success Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs, curated by Suzanne Doyle-Ingram

October 2, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Suzanne Doyle-Ingram

Suzanne Doyle-Ingram

Simple Success Strategies For Women Entrepreneurs, curated by publisher Suzanne Doyle-Ingram and co-authored with 11 exceptional and inspiring women in business who know what success looks like, has become an instant bestseller. Today, women are starting and growing businesses more now than ever. Their businesses are bolstering the economy, providing jobs and supporting their families. Successful women realize that they have the ability to help other women grow and prosper as well – there is more than enough opportunity for everyone. 

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Essential Read: The Next Wave - Financing Women's Growth-Oriented Firms by Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb

September 25, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb

Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb

You may be familiar with the success stories of Spanx, GoldieBlox, and other women-owned businesses that have taken their markets by storm. But, today, only two percent of women-owned firms generate more than one million dollars annually. The Next Wave, a new book by Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb is here to help women drive up that number.

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Essential Read: Dear Female Founder: 66 Letters of Advice from Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Made $1 Billion in Revenue by Lu Li

September 18, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Lu Li, author and entrepreneur

Lu Li, author and entrepreneur

“Dear Female Founder” by author and entrepreneur Lu Li is a unique book based on one simple question: If successful female entrepreneurs and investors wrote a letter of advice to the next generation of female entrepreneurs – what would they write about? The book provides some invaluable insights from 66 inspirational women sharing the business advice they wished someone had told them when they started out. 

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Essential Read: A Woman With No Country by Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri

September 11, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri, author and entrepreneur

Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri, author and entrepreneur

A Woman With No Country is a quirky, innovative, storytelling Coffee Table Book that explores historical, cultural and social themes using fashion as a medium. The book is adorned with engaging thought provoking imagery in which the author becomes the subject of concepts. As a multi award-winning handbag designer, Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri who is originally from Zimbabwe, but now living and working around the world, writes about her life experiences in conversational essays and commentary.

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Essential Read: The Great Escape - The Successful Woman's Guide to Escaping the 9 to 5 by Amy Mewborn

September 4, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Amy Mewborn, author and serial entrepreneur

Amy Mewborn, author and serial entrepreneur

This new book by author Amy Mewborn is written for the woman who either wants to start a business or is new to business and wants to be successful! She gives great advice on building the essential foundations of a new business including how to hire the best staff, how to build the best team of professionals, how to read a Profit and Loss Statement, and importantly, how to create balance between your business and your life. 

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Essential Read: Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers by Margot Machol Bisnow

August 28, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Margot Machol Bisnow

Margot Machol Bisnow

In her book, Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers, Margot Machol Bisnow a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of some of today’s most successful innovators and—based on her findings—provides ten rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals whose ideas and drive will change the world.

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Essential Read: Networking: Success For Women Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners by Jenn August

August 21, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Jenn August, author, certified business success coach, success mindset expert & international speaker

Jenn August, author, certified business success coach, success mindset expert & international speaker

Networking should be fun and profitable! But for many women entrepreneurs, networking is tough and doesn’t come naturally. If networking is not working for you, it's not your fault - it's just not the right kind of networking. Jenn August, the founder of Women's Success Tribe an international women's networking organization, shares the secrets to creating successful and profitable business connections in her new book, Networking: Success For Women Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners.

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Essential Read: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Mompreneurs by Stepfanie Cuevas

August 14, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Stepfanie Cuevas

Stepfanie Cuevas

The Ultimate Survival Guide for Mompreneurs is a must read for all mothers who are balancing building a business and the demands of motherhood. Learn how to manage your time, create schedules, and take care of your children all while discovering way to still grow your own dreams. A short read jam packed with info from fellow mompreneur coach, Stepfanie Cuevas.

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Essential Read: Entrepreneurship is a Mindset not a Storefront by Yolanda Conley Shields

August 7, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Yolanda Conley Shields

Yolanda Conley Shields

In her new book, "Entrepreneurship is a Mindset not a Store Front”, Yolanda Conley Shields, shows just how to create the type of mindset that shapes your understanding of how to stay focused in business. She gives practical advice and information on what it takes to keep you moving on your business journey, and how to stayinnovative in order to create great ideas, seize new opportunities and facilitate change that makes breakthroughs. 

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Essential Read: Time Miracles: A Sanity-Saving Plan for Women Juggling Family and Business by Joanne Ernst

July 31, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Joanne Ernst

Joanne Ernst

Most women entrepreneurs experience the stress of trying to manage running a successful business, whilst at the same time juggling the demands of family life and personal relationships. Author Joanne Ernst’s new book, Time Miracles, is written for the busy woman entrepreneur who is trying to manage the stress of balancing all facets of life that can leave you feeling you are being pulled in multiple directions at the same time. 

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Essential Read: Stress Gone! How to Identify and Reduce Stress Easily by Bridget Edwards

July 24, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Bridget Edwards, author, catalyst, speaker 

Bridget Edwards, author, catalyst, speaker 

There is not a single entrepreneur out there that doesn’t experience stress along the journey to building a successful business and brand. The challenge is in understanding and managing that stress. In her new book Stress Gone!, emotional change catalyst and author, Bridget Edwards, provides a really practical guide for all those entrepreneurs who need to deal with stress on a day to day basis. 

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Essential Read: Enterprising Women: A Practical Guide to Starting Your First Business by Melina Druga

July 17, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Melina Druga

Melina Druga

Starting your own business is one of the most empowering things you’ll ever do, especially if you’re a woman. It’s also one of the most challenging. This is something that author and entrepreneur Melina Druga knows only too well. Her new book, Enterprising Women: A Practical Guide to Starting Your First Business aims to help aspirant women entrepreneurs to overcome some of the initial hurdles and challenges that can prove the hardest in the early months and years.

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Essential Read: Secrets of A Socialprenista: The Pink Print - The Top 8 Mistakes Women Entrepreneurs Make That Keep Them Broke, Stuck, and Struggling in Their Business by Andrieka J. Austin

July 9, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Andrieka J. Austin, author and entrepreneur

Andrieka J. Austin, author and entrepreneur

If you ever wondered why so many women entrepreneurs encounter the same challenges and keep making the same mistakes that ultimately hold them back, then author, entrepreneur and self-styled ‘socialprenista, Andrieka J. Austin may have the answer. Her new book Secrets of A Socialprenista: The Pink Print - Top 8 Mistakes Women Entrepreneurs Make That Keep Them Broke, Stuck, and Struggling in Their Business, is the woman entrepreneur’s guide to the most important key for getting things done.

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Essential Read: Shut Up and Do the Work - The entrepreneur's guide to creating massive success by Stephanie Synclair

July 3, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Stephanie Synclair

Stephanie Synclair

Shut Up and Do the Work is the ultimate guide for experienced entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs and those with dreams and ambitions of entrepreneurship, who know without a doubt that they were born to do more, be more and have more, yet they can't seem to grab it. In this book, entrepreneur, business coach and speaker, Stephanie Synclair shares her recipe for creating massive success, by making a fundamental shift in mindset first.

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Essential Read: Nothing is Impossible - Valuable lessons learned from an award-winning entrepreneur by Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley

June 26, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley

Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley

Nothing is Impossible - Valuable lessons learned from an award-winning entrepreneur, is the story of one woman’s journey to building successful business ventures in a new era in South Africa. Author and entrepreneur, Anthea Thyssen-Ambursley cares deeply about her country and the people in it, and this comes across powerfully as she shares the ups and downs of embarking on any entrepreneurial venture for the first time in Africa.

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Essential Read: Own Your Space by Nadia Bilchik and Lori Milner

May 15, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Lori Milner (L) and Nadia Bilchik (R)

Lori Milner (L) and Nadia Bilchik (R)

Own Your Space by authors and entrepreneurs, Nadia Bilchik and Lori Milner, is a great read for any working woman, whether in the corporate environment or for the entrepreneur. It provides practical tools and insights gleaned from workshops held around the world and from interviews with some of South Africa’s most accomplished women to provide you with tried-and-tested techniques, tips and advice to help you boost your career, enhance your confidence and truly own your space on every level. By exploring your head space, your physical space, personal grooming, virtual and networking skills as well as overcoming the negative effects of past conditioning, you will learn how to develop the unshakeable confidence to achieve absolutely anything.

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Essential Read: The Introvert Entrepreneur by Beth Buelow

May 1, 2016 Melanie Hawken
Beth Buelow, author of The Introvert Entrepreneur

Beth Buelow, author of The Introvert Entrepreneur

What do entrepreneurial titans Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos all have in common, apart from being grouped together as some of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time? Well, they are all introverts, which may seem astonishing at first glance. In her book, The Introvert Entrepreneur, author Beth Buelow, looks at the steps that introverts can take to harness the power of their natural abilities and talents, such as listening, and channel them to help overcome the challenges they face in their day to day entrepreneurial journeys. 

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Luxury statement accessories…We are big fans of luxury jewellery and accessories made with love and passion on the African continent, and Adèle Dejak in Kenya is the epitome of handmade luxury. The Image of the Day / Lunar

Stylish sustainable clothing…We have always been big fans of Lunar in South Africa, the sustainable clothing brand created by owner Nicola Luther and her talented team. Lunar has firmly established itself as one of th Image of the Day / Dathonga Designs

Traditional craft elevated…We love the impact-driven accessories created by Márcia Nangy O’Connell, founder and artistic director of Dathonga Designs in Mozambique. Since 2010, she has establis Image of the Day / Dounia Home

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