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The Invisible Mentor Weekly Newsletter: Brain Food Wednesdays Number 104: Season’s Greetings and Great Books I Read
Hello, there Reader,
This will be a short newsletter. I want to thank you for your support, and for reading this newsletter. Although I’ll still be sending out Brain Food, I’ll be taking two weeks off. During that time, I’ll be reading, and working on ways to be more useful and relevant. I read a lot of books, but not many of them I would consider great books.
Despite having said that, each book has something to offer me. What books have you read that you consider to be great books? The books I consider to be great, I’ll be converting my notes to Bookish Notes.
The membership fee for the Art of Learning is low right now as I build out the content, and as I identify more benefits to add to support your success. Give the gift of a membership to yourself. You’re worth it.
During my scheduled time off, I’ll be sending out this newsletter and a few updates for social media. I feel the need to recharge. I love reading, so I’ll be doing a lot of that. And I’ll be adding a lot of content to the membership site. I wish you all the best for 2022.
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In the News
Here are some podcasts I appeared on. They’re packed with a lot of information.
Ellevate Network: http://ow.ly/s8pR50GCBTy
Envision2BWell: https://blog.envision2bwell.io/post/1157/envisionwell-podcast-invisible-mentors
313 Challenge with Ryan Foland: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/avil-beckford-read-and-get-new-ideas/id1484382840?i=1000523572323
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Great Books I Read in 2021
These are just a few of the books I enjoyed in 2021. In 2022, I’ll make sure that I write down specific reasons for why I liked each book, so I have more information to share with you. Some books that are on the list, I have summaries of them on my website.
- Turn the Page: Read Right to Lead Right by Chris Brady
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
- Subscription Marketing: Strategies for Nurturing Customers in a World of Churn by Anne Janzer
- The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone by Fredrik Eklund
- Sell It Like Serhant by Ryan Serhant
- Self-Leadership and the One-Minute Manager
- Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World by John Hope Bryant
- How to Set Goals with Kaizen & Ikigai: Focus, Cure Procrastination, & Increase Personal Productivity by Anthony Raymond
- Way of the Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success by Jordan Belfort
- Secrets of a Master Closer: A Simpler, Easier, and Faster Way to Sell Anything to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Mike Kaplan
- The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy
- Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price by Keenan
Reading List
I’ll read some of these books in the next two weeks.
- The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave by Robbie Kellman Baxter
- The Subscription Boom: Why an Old Business Model is the Future of Commerce by Adam Levinter
- Retention Point: The Single Biggest Secret to Membership and Subscription Growth for Associations, SAAS, Publishers, Digital Access, Subscription Boxes and all Membership and Subscription Businesses by Robert Skrob
- Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days by Joey Coleman
- Membership Recruitment: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Advance Your Mission by Tony Rossell
- The Leadership Gap by Lolly Daskal
- Brave Leadership, Kimberly Davis
- How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
- Business Model Shifts by Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz
- The Invincible Company by Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur
- Love-Based Business Models by Shawn Driscoll
- Why Leadership Sucks by Miles Anthony Smith, Book 1
- Why Leadership Sucks by Miles Anthony Smith, Book 2
- Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
- The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy by Leigh Gallagher
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
- Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability into Your Business by Amos Schwartzfarb
- Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great by Carmine Gallo
- I Got There: How a Mixed-Race Kid Overcame Racism, Poverty, and Abuse to Arrive at the American Dream by JT McCormick
- One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do by Phil Howard Cooke
The Invisible Mentor Blog
Blog Posts
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, Summary
The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone by Fredrik Eklund, Summary
Sell It Like Serhant by Ryan Serhant, Summary
Self-Leadership and the One-Minute Manager, Summary
Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World by John Hope Bryant, Summary
Turn the Page by Chris Brady, Book Summary
The One Problem
I’ve published 43 podcast episodes already. How time flies. You can also find these on my YouTube channel.
- Hedieh Safiyari, Founder, Prompt Health, Healthcare Solutions
- Benita Lee, Trade Consultant, Founder, Benita Lee Professional Corporation
- Jenny Siede, Chief Design Thinker, Green Neurons
- Pamela Jeffery, Founder, The Prosperity Project & Women’s Executive Network
- Alta Odendaal, Financial Coach and Consultant
- Larissa Russell, Founder and CEO Queer Voicez and Creative U Business
- Glain Roberts-McCabe, Founder, the Roundtable, Group Coach Academy
- Dr Marsha Carr, Professor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- Gabriella O’Rourke, Business Consultant, Borden Ladner Gervais
- Stefanie Booker Atchison, Wisdom Coach & Motivational Speaker
- Michelle Griffin, Founder Brandthority, Building Your Personal Brand
- Donna Knutson, Founder of Write Journeys
- Sophie Gray, Founder of DiveThru: Being Disconnected from Yourself
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Product Alert
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Until Next Week,
Avil Beckford, Founder, The Invisible Mentor!