The Top 6 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

Entrepreneurship is a challenging yet rewarding journey. It requires dedication, hard work, and a lot of learning. To help entrepreneurs on their journey, here are 5 books every entrepreneur should read in 2023:

The 4-Hour Workweek is a step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design that teaches readers how to escape the rat race and achieve financial freedom. The book has become a New York Times bestseller and has been published in over 30 languages. It covers topics such as how to reduce work hours, how to travel the world, and how to earn a monthly five-figure income with zero management The book also provides readers with rapidlearning techniques to help them achieve their goals.

Start with Why explores the idea of the Golden Circle, which is the idea that the most influential leaders think, act, and communicate differently than everyone else. The book explains how this approach can be used to build organizations, lead movements, and inspire people. It also looks at how great leaders make people feel safe and how they are able to inspire action https://bit.ly/yesbook1

The Lean Startup outlines a new approach to business that is being adopted around the world. It focuses on how to create and launch new products and offers strategies for cutting work time and investment. The book explains how to use the Lean Startup method to bring a new business idea to a successful and sustainable end result. It also provides innovative steps and strategies for managing a startup, as well as learning from the successes and collapses of others.

The E-Myth Revisited explains why most small businesses fail and how to avoid the same fate. It was first published in 2004 and has since become a classic in the business world. The book covers topics such as the importance of having a clear vision, the need to create systems and processes, and the importance of hiring the right people. Gerber argues that small business owners need to think like entrepreneurs, not just technicians, in order to be successful. He also provides practical advice on how to create a successful business and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Have you found the freedom you were craving when you decided to start your own business? Or do you feel chained to your company working long hours and experiencing high stress as you struggle to manage it all? If so, the time has come to break free of those restraints that keep you from living a fulfilling life. Let this book serve as the salvation for finding peace and tranquility, giving you the tools to grow your business beyond your wildest dreams.

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The Year Silence Visited Me

by Chandrika D. Phea

My name is Chandrika D. Phea and I authored the bestselling award-winning book, “Lord, I Don’t Want to Die a Christian.” Born the oldest of four girls, given to preaching and pastoring parents, preceded by generations of Christian clergy, we had our fair share of stage experience. I am a Church Girl, entertained by Beyonce’s encouraging lyrics.

We were singers, the Phea Girls From the books of the Bible to some of the most popular gospel choir songs of our time, we sang. Because the pastor of the first congregation I became active in said only boys could play drums, I taught myself, became a church drummer for a new church, then equipped others to take my place after I turned 18 Standing down on the floor right beneath the pulpit podium because women weren’t allowed “up there,” I preached my first sermon, “Because He Lives, So Shall I,” as a teenager.

To help pay for college course books, I became a worship leader, having absolutely no idea what that role entailed. But there I was, front and center, so I figured it out to be awarded that college stipend. Being a worship leader evolved into singing in a gospel group that traveled the country, singing and recording with music artists, leading a worship team, and pastoring the music and arts department of the biggest Black charismatic church in my hometown at that time.

Not long after graduating from Beacon University with my degree in Biblical Studies to become a better orator of Christian teachings, I landed in China to do mission work. I was in China for two years, living on a university campus, teaching freshmen college students Conversational English. While teaching, I also led seven college students on a two-year Bible study in my campus apartment During my time in China, I advocated for the presence of female voices leading from the pulpit of the Three-Self church for what was called Power Hour. The western men I served with did all the “preaching” while the women were encouraged to volunteer for everything else making that effort work My goal was not to, again, be out front but for our female students to see feminine representation in the pulpit we were encouraging them to listen to. However, the advocacy landed me in the China pulpit and thereafter, other western women.

After my two-year international contract was fulfilled, I found myself back in the States, bent on diversifying my circle, so I moved into an apartment complex conducive to meeting neighbors. I walked across the street to hang out with and learn about the people connected to the Jewish Synagogue. I met and hung out with Korean college students who taught me how to make kimbap, and connected with young Muslim people who invited me to experience their Eid holiday. Observing Muslim women and their children, as they prayed in their designated place was an absolute gift and just another opportunity to grow and diversify my community In continuing to expand my circle, I turned to the outdoors by becoming a cyclist, a triathlete, and a hiker, even initiating and facilitating outdoor experiences for my communities’ Black women.

Then came a disruption Quarantine. 2020, the year silence visited me.

I live 882 miles from my hometown where my family resides, making for a very quiet quarantine at my home here in Georgia. 2020 introduced me to who I really am, an introvert. Yes. ME. Behind the aforementioned experience shared, hid an introvert. Go figure! But I could not have arrived at such a resolve without investigating the reason I never knew it. I was raised and reared to be in front, to lead. It’s what I knew most, engaging an audience, big or small, until, one day, silence knocked on my door and made its acquaintance.

Because I was immediately comfortable with the isolation of quarantine, it was so clear that this was who I had always been, an introvert, never having the chance to be it. I thought I had to always have something to say, an opinion to share, and a conversation to lead But the year 2020 introduced me to another side of myself and with open arms, I welcomed the opportunity to disengage from as much external engagement as was allowable I felt more empowered accepting myself as an introvert than I ever have in any role I’ve played prior to such a discovery. As an introvert, one of the most empowering discoveries is the expansion of time to observe that which is external while also turning inward. After said discovery, I found that as much as being observant is a gift, it intimidates those who do not possess the same skill but I am, nonetheless, empowered. Another aspect of introversion I discovered is the revelation of wisdom. There is something about turning inward and staying for a while that, at the perfect time, produces some kind of foresight. This experience is the reason I lean into opportunities of silence. I want to hear and see that which is beyond life’s surface

I shared, at the top of this article, all of what made me show up in the world as an extrovert, being a church girl encouraged to take the stage. The kind of church I grew up in is known for offering themes for the New Year, i.e., the most common, “The Year of Manifestation ” This year, as an interruption to the holiday busyness, my encouraging New Year social media post read, “Be still. This year’s wisdom just may be birthed out of today’s silence ” Introversion is 3 years old in my life and it will only be maturing from this moment on.

Chandrika D. Phea, an ordained reverend, is an outdoor enthusiast, a Georgia Public School Instructional Assistant by profession, and a partner with W Brand Publishing for the release of her debut, bestselling, award winning (two-time Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist, Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention) book, "Lord, I Don't Want to Die a Christian " In 2005, she graduated from Beacon University with a Bachelor's of Arts in Biblical Studies then went on to complete a two-year teaching and mission assignment in China that ultimately revolutionized her life. For fun, Chandrika initiates local outdoor events (e.g. Bikes, Breakfast & Black Girls) providing her community's Black women safe and trustworthy outdoor experiences. She offers of herself, “Water, contained, creates resistance. I am, 60% of it.”

Riahannon, what does your dream life look like?

Are you currently living in it?

I believe I am living my dream life because I am still learning.

I follow my passions and have been doing what I love all along.

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Building Her Dream Life

With Riahannon Legoff

Riahannon Legoff is a Nutritionist, a Fitness Pro, and the founder of Weight Answers. She is from Canada and has been in business for 22 years.

Tell us about what you do.

I help people by showing them that they are never alone, and that they can always reach out to me.

That can be for health reasons, weight loss, or weight gain issues.

Or if they just need support and to be heard.

What inspired you to start this business?

What inspired me to start my business was graduating college, growing up, and learning both the hard and easy ways of life and thinking.

How has being an introvert affected your business?

Being an introvert helped my business because I never would have found out how to survive as an entrepreneur or have the time to learn more skills.

How do you balance your need for solitude and alone time with the demands of running a business?

I have balanced my alone time and the need for solitude while running a business because I section off what is most important to me and what isn't. And I do it while l am alone in my office

You’ve been in business for a long time 22 years. What’s a challenge you've faced along your entrepreneurial journey?

What has been the most rewarding experience for you as an entrepreneur?

The most rewarding experience I had while being an entrepreneur was making my career a success and learning that I could do it.

With creating comes responsibility and evolutionary wisdom

Thank you for sharing your story. Where can we find you online?

My website www weightanswers ca and Instagram @rveal3