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Have you ever wondered what happens during a swipe of a credit card? Every major tech company will become a payments company. Yet, not many people understand how payment systems in the US work. Those that do "get it" are unlocking multi-billion dollar opportunities. If you've ever wondered what happens when you actually swipe/dip/tap your credit card or debit card then The Anatomy of the Swipe breaks down the details in the simplest manner possible. Here are some questions answered within these pages: How does money move from my credit card to my favorite coffee shop? How can I build a neo-bank? How can I build my own debit or credit card? How can I accept card based payments? The Anatomy of the Swipe speaks to software developers and entrepreneurs who are looking at implementing card-based payments for the first time, merchants who want to be able to accept payments for a website or store, or those who want to issue their own debit/credit card. This book walks beginners through modern innovations created because of card-based payments, as well as the motivations and revenue models of each party in the payments ecosystem.

Quite Ready is a chronicle of what gets left behind on the journey to the top.From rural Tennessee to the glittering lights of Tokyo and New York, Rebecca had it all. After clawing her way out of humble beginnings, she returned to Tokyo in the summer of 2019 to celebrate the hard-earned victories of her effort. But one devastating phone call from back home turned everything she thought she knew about success upside down.In this self-revelatory story, Rebecca turns an unflinching lens on the toxic culture of grit at all costs. She uses her own experiences to examine how forcing our way through pain instead of addressing it leaves even the most independent and ambitious of us lonely, depressed, and one dark day away from an unhappy ending. It's a true account of how relentless self-determination and desperation for success almost killed her. Through honest self-examination and some help from experts, real and ethereal, Rebecca demonstrates how anyone can regain control of their personal narrative and come out liberated and happier for it. But we'd better be quite ready to do the hard work and experience a little bit of suffering to get what we want.

"I'm sorry to report this, my dear, but you have invasive ductal carcinoma," the doctor said.Carcinoma, I thought. Sounds like a fun, funky dance step from the '60s.Come on, everybody, let's do the carcinoma!Ever wonder how to live your best life when you're in the middle of your worst nightmare? If so, this is the guidebook for you.The Luckiest Unlucky Person I Know is a memoir that offers practical exercises to find clarity and balance in the face of adversity. Through personal stories of living with metastatic breast cancer, surviving a near-death experience, and managing grief and loss, this book will inspire you to approach challenges and adversities with humor, grace, and gratitude.If you are living with a chronic disease, trauma, grief, or a difficult obstacle in your life, the lessons in The Luckiest Unlucky Person I Know will have you feeling lucky too.

"The story of the Nativity Phenomenon is a story of dreams."During the first half of the 20th century, early visionaries on the Lower East Side of New York City saw a huge problem: many immigrants fell into a cycle of poverty and violence due to a lack of empathy, resources, and education. What was the solution? Empathy, resources, and education. The Nativity Phenomenon was born because risk-takers dared to do the unorthodox. That passion for equity in education exists today; classrooms are filled with students who are hungry-materially, socially, and spiritually. The model flourished and spread across the USA and Canada because other risk-takers joined in. The Nativity Phenomenon: A Model that Works is the story of an educational adventure that opens pathways to a productive future and provides educational justice for students from underserved, economically challenged families. Readers can dive into the history of the program, but more importantly, into the stories of Nativity graduates, their teachers, and volunteers.Educational justice is a right for all. The Nativity Phenomenon shows how this dream became a reality.

Naomi Vladeck coaches from a central belief that the time we spend in transition after a big life life change holds the power to turn our fear into the courage to create the life and work we love. When big change blows up your life, do you have the courage to create from the empty space around you? Is change the catalyst that will challenge you to take the risks you've been longing to take? Can you grow bigger than the fear that is keeping you stuck?In her work as a life coach for artists and creative women, Naomi has helped artists answer these questions and found that creative women have a facility with change. The creative tools they use to face an empty space, blank page or canvas are the same tools they use to traverse the space between big change and a future they cannot see. Through her work, Naomi inspires artists and creatives to ignite their courage to face the unknown path ahead by taking small steps that create connection and transformational growth.Now, in her debut book, Naomi teaches you her Five Pillars of Braving Creativity to help you examine your relationship to change. Each pillar is part of the process of transition that is illuminated in real life stories, including her own, that offer insights, prompts, and touchstones to help you brave creativity after big change to flourish in your work and life.

There will be no great-grandchildren for him. There will be no yearbook photo for some descendant to peer at, tracing their high cheekbones through flesh and photo as they flip through the pages. There will be no video tapes, no secret stash of letters. There will be no amber to pass on. It will die with him, like everyone around him will die, and all of their embarrassing high school stories, monuments, war crimes, and bullet journals. There will be no photographs of it. No one to collect the debris. It will fade, like the walls they voted, unanimously, to stop repainting because they're beginning to worry they'll be the Last.In a world governed by the Sun, Wind, Sea, and Gaia, golden boy Dante could've never predicted what the Fates have in store: humanity is infertile. Deemed "Aphrodite's Curse," this mysterious plague upends the framework of society with social upheaval, economic crises, technological advances, ecological revelations, and biological ultimatums.Drawing from mythology and science fiction, Saba Nia's Carpe Diem centers around Dante's family and that of a neighbor, an inquisitive and thoughtful girl named Rose, to explore how relationships evolve and adapt in the backdrop of a prolonged Armageddon.

Are you a CFO for a company looking for more challenge from your job? Perhaps you are a banker, CPA, or entrepreneur and have thought about becoming a CFO. Or you are between jobs and looking for the next phase of your work career. If these are your thoughts, a fractional CFO career is a very realistic and viable option. This is the book for you if you want answers to these questions. Can I make a living being a fractional CFO?Will I enjoy or be challenged being a fractional CFO?Do I have what it takes to be a successful fractional CFO?If I wanted to, how would I start down the path to becoming a fractional CFO?And... at the end of the book, if you think you have what it takes and want to give it a shot, the ultimate question will be answered:How do I get started?

亨特和王特丽莎和他们的大多数同学一样，都在努力的平衡AP(预科）课程、常春藤大学的申请、参加众多课外活动和丰富多彩的社交生活，而这一切都是在他们富裕的生活领域。亨特将要进入斯坦福大学，还能和"it女孩"塞拉-琼斯保持关系吗？特丽莎会不会找局外人雷-马丁内斯恋爱，搞清楚她最巨有影响力的朋友帕梅拉-沙阿到底怎么了？新晋亿万富翁杰克周会想办法融入其中吗？那个陌生人到底是谁？欢迎来到温彻斯特高中，这是一所著名的大学预科学校，学生们看似享受着优质的生活以及独有的特权。在《不那么富有》一书中，我们发现事情并不总是表面上平静的样子，无论你认为自己拥有多少金钱、权力或影响力，高中生活总是很复杂且难以理解的。

Arvinder's book is a compilation of stories, of and from Sikh immigrant women who have created a new life in the USA. They have undergone life¿altering events, learned a new way of life, compromised, and adjusted to make a home for themselves and their families. With a lifetime of experiences between them, these women bring to life challenges uniquely faced by women as they seek respect and equality from their peers and families. The stories are of resilience and faith, of joy and redemption. They hope to inspire the readers to bring about change in their Communities.

Oakhaven Coven never saw Cathrynne coming. A Midrisen-born Green Witch, twenty-five-year-old Cathrynne Balfour spent most of her life foraging the ancient forests on Anacortes Isle. Following her ancestral path of Witchcraft, Cathrynne honed all manner of plant Magick as taught to her by her mother. The life they shared on the dense woodland island in the realm of Vyrillia was perfect. Until it wasn't.When tragedy befalls her, Cathrynne plunges into a period of solitude, and focuses on protecting and perfecting her life's biggest secret. After five years pass, Cathrynne emerges, ready to seek revenge and issue justice to those responsible for her devastating grief.This pursuit leads her to one of Vyrillia's most prestigious Covens-Oakhaven. There, she utilizes her expertise in Herbal Magick to secure room and board with a Hearth Witch, Ms. McLeod, keeper of the Staghorn Inn. As Cathrynne carves a new life for herself in the village, unforeseen friendships bloom, challenging her reluctance to trust and to love.Except, Cathrynne can't lose sight of why she came to Oakhaven. She crafts a covert plan to infiltrate the Coven's court and investigate those in charge-the Elemental Witches.But an unexpected shift in Cathrynne's truth changes her reality, leaving her reeling. And when another Witch's life hangs in the balance, Cathrynne must make a choice: continue protecting her secret, or trust an unlikely ally that would shatter her facade.

In The Playground Leader, Dr. Autumn Swain offers a transformative approach to developing our children, from toddler to teen and beyond, as leaders for today. Too often we speak of youth development as something preparing our young people for the future, but we should be forming them into the leaders they were meant to be today. This thought-provoking, deeply inspired book will also challenge and positively impact all the adults reading this book. The Playground Leader will not only equip and transform our young people, but it will leave its mark on you too. When we show up our best, our children will be better for it.The Playground Leader is required reading for parents who want to see their children flourish now as leaders in their homes, at school, and in the world. So much of our educational spaces focus its energy into teaching academia, often overlooking the importance of foundational leadership skills and character-building principles. This book equips the the entire team, whether a family, classroom, or arena, with tools for the development of key leadership qualities and character development bringing so much hope not just for the future, but for today. Inside this guidebook you will learn: Over 20 strategies to help your children become the best version of themselves.How to naturally embed these crucial characteristics into your children's lives.Practical applications to incorporate these characteristics into your own lives as parents, coaches, and teachers.We care so deeply for our children, but life at times is overwhelming. This book will give you a clear starting point towards helping your children to grow up to be everything they were meant to be.

Spiritually Parented: A Foot in Both Worlds weaves together stories, gifts, and lessons learned from growing up in a household with a devoted sacred practice. This mother-daughter story is rooted in love, authenticity, and the intricacies of studying a shamanic path as a family. There are guided meditations, exercises, and invitations to explore your own spirituality, along with what it was like growing up as an intuitively gifted child in a world that doesn't always understand.If you like Glennon Doyle's wisdom, Nora McInerny's sass, and Aisling Bea's wit, you'll love Spiritually Parented. Capturing the sad, funny, uplifting and real parts of personal growth, grief and living a life in tune with Spirit. Ultimately inviting you back home to yourself, your body, and inner wisdom to carve your own path in the world.

It was a matter of life and death.This journey is personal.DeDee Cai knows what it's like to go from feeling miserable, unfulfilled and on the brink of ending it all to feeling energized, joyful and unstoppable.We have been taught a formula: Work hard; wealth and happiness will follow.For a while, it seems to work. To the outside world, everything looks good and you're living the American Dream. Yet, your smile masks an ugly, nagging secret.Are you waking up most days feeling burnt out, unmotivated, and depressed? Do you feel like you're drowning with persistent negative thoughts? Deep down, you know you deserve more-you're destined for something greater, but don't know how to shift.Join DeDee as she reveals her discovery process to find the real source of her unfulfillment and despair. She shares stories about other overcomers and how they transformed their problems into opportunities. Discover how small daily habits can make the difference. Learn ways to prioritize yourself, make strides in personal and business growth as you overcome fear and anxiety. DeDee Cai gives you the tools you need to overcome the challenges life throws at you in The Overcomer.

Leisl was living a fairly happy and successful life when a twist in her mental health derailed her. After months of no sleep, her behavior became increasingly aggressive and she landed up making a random, spur-of-the-moment trip to Havana, Cuba. On her return, her husband forced her into a hospital where she was diagnosed with bipolar type one.What follows is the story of how she learnt to cope with this hard and often lonely disease. Leisl goes through a series of highly distressing events in the aftermath of her first manic episode, including losing her husband and losing custody of her children.Colored Girl in a Black and White World is an honest memoir about a disease we still don't know much about. It attempts to shine a light on some of the truths about living with bipolar.

You've never been a porn actor. Why might there still be porn featuring you online?What could possibly go wrong as we give more computing devices a sense of sight? Why are Al-generated works suddenly winning visual art competitions? Can we use facial recognition to catch criminals-without penning ourselves into a surveillance state? How can nematode brains help us make algorithms less racist? How can we reduce our radiation exposure at the hospital without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy, and when do I get my own Al-powered soccer coach?In The Spring of Sight, Robert Boscacci draws from his double background in digital film production and machine learning to explore questions like these with industry experts. In the burgeoning field of computer vision, researchers and entrepreneurs build systems to extract meaning from digital images in unprecedented new ways, and even generate convincing new synthetic images. As advancements in the field carry in a tidal wave of promising use cases, it becomes increasingly clear that we'll have to implement nuanced policies to contend with their double-edged nature.

How can ambitious professionals stand out as future executives?In The Day One Executive, strategic leadership advisor April Armstrong explains how long-term success requires getting results, building mutually beneficial relationships, and cultivating reserves of resilience. It empowers you to hit the ground running in all three of these areas starting on Day One.Early in her career, Armstrong discovered a huge gap between what is taught in school and what it takes to be a successful executive. This book aims to close that gap through insight, research, and stories from more than a dozen top executives who share secrets from the C-suite to help you know: Why it pays to move up early;How to spot-and seize-a potential "catapult moment," which can rapidly accelerate your career; andWhy you must go beyond the job description to custom create your role starting on Day One. Choosing to be an executive is a very specific form of leadership: the stakes, standards, and levels of success are higher. The Day One Executive shares the distinguishing attitudes and behaviors to get noticed and, once recognized, start enjoying better choices, increased financial autonomy and freedom, and greater influence and impact in your career.

Discover how to be a high-impact leader and make a positive change with The Natural Strategist. This book offers a unique and holistic perspective on how to cultivate a mindset of care and connection to create sustainable models that will foster flourishing. Through this book, readers will learn how to connect values, purpose, and vision to develop a strategy that goes beyond action plans and fulfills the promise of their future impact. Benefit from reading this book and gain insights on how to strategically apply mindfulness, build on strengths, and navigate ambiguity with a commitment to the long term. With The Natural Strategist, readers will discover: ¿ A unique perspective on how to create positive change and foster flourishing ¿ Strategies to develop a mindset of care and connection ¿ How to connect values, purpose, and vision to create an inspired future ¿ How to apply mindfulness, build on strengths, and navigate ambiguity In addition, The Natural Strategist includes lessons from business and nature to show how we can lead with intention and offers essential reading for anyone who wants to forge a culture of growth and well-being. www.thenaturalstrategist.co

Even though men as a group have power, individual men often feel powerless. These contradictory experiences contribute to men's hurting-hurting others and being hurt.Based on more than fifteen years of research, Keith E. Edwards, PhD, illuminates men's masking, unmasking, and becoming to help men develop their own authentic masculinity. He also shares strategies to help us all better engage the men in our lives with empathy, reach them with compassion, effectively hold them accountable, and help them to become the men they aspire to be.The men in his study thought they had a unique secret, but they all shared the same secret. They each wore masks to hide their insecurities and portray an image that would be seen as "man enough" according to the external expectations of them as men. These external expectations oppress women and transgender people, place some men above other men, and limit all men.Men struggle with their unmasking. Too often, as soon as their insecurities reemerge, the mask snaps back into place as though attached with an elastic cord. With mask consciousness, men can engage in their own process of becoming by exploring their identity and practicing aligning their actions with integrity.

You're ready to encourage others to chase their dreams. But what about yours? Is it because you don't feel ready to turn that hobby into a career? Or that you didn't go to business school? Or maybe it's because you're worried your business will take over your life? These fears are real, but they don't have to stop you from taking action, and that's exactly what this book will help you do. Because on the other side of action is you uncovering your confidence and building a business that integrates into your life instead of taking over it. While you might feel like you're stumbling into entrepreneurship now (hey there, Accidental Entrepreneur!), you can take steps to move through entrepreneurship with intention, and that's by declaring your Y.O.U. Promise. Your Y.O.U. Promise is the roadmap to uncovering your deep-down-honest WHY; defining your version of success; identifying boundaries, strengths, and the people who will support you; and developing confidence in your finances and goals. This book is the step-by-step guide to unapologetically creating the business and life of your dreams.

Have you ever considered that the key to your future success is a great story?In this book, stage director, acting coach, and storytelling expert Carrie Klewin Lawrence will break it all down for you. Discover the necessary elements that will help you write your own story. She will teach you how to dig deep into your origins, gather evidence from your own life, and spin your story into a secret weapon for success.Origin Story will make you reconsider everything you know about stories you have been told, the path you are currently on, and your future objectives. By investigating the stories you have held for decades, you will gain a new perspective, overcome imposter syndrome, conquer limiting beliefs, and gain control of your(self) narrative.In Origin Story, you will learn:CRAFTING: Explore the essential elements of an origin story and how to craft your own.DISCOVERING: Exercises to help you uncover the evidence of who you really are.CONNECTING: Whether preparing for an interview, a keynote, or creating social media content, you will have greater control over your(self) narrative.Whether you are a business executive, an entrepreneur, a personal branding coach, or a creative, Origin Story will teach you how to craft, discover, and connect with the ultimate narrative.Carrie Klewin Lawrence (she/her) is a quirky, collaborative stage director focused on social change. Carrie is also an acting coach, professor, personal branding coach, and mother of three, who loves traveling, photography, and dancing lindy hop. As the author of Origin Story, Carrie weaves personal discovery storytelling into a journey of action and evolution, encouraging readers to control their(self) narrative. Once, when she was ten years old, Carrie wrote a play called "Little Red Riding Hood Says NO to Smoking". Rediscovering that play, and subsequently reframing her own personal narrative, was the inciting incident for Origin Story.

For more than thirty years in corporate America, Donna Star was unsuccessfully successful.She climbed the proverbial ladder moving from entry-level to executive leadership positions. All this as a single mother, who had minimal financial support from an ex who had challenges, while she struggled with self-worth. Despite giving her notice five times and leaving and returning twice over the course of her career-at the same company-she finally decided to leave corporate for good when her youngest child graduated from college. Donna had no plan but then found coaching.It was everything she'd been looking for and more. Donna hadn't realized how many of her corporate struggles were avoidable, including her workaholism. Her body was so completely out of whack that she could no longer tolerate eating salads. She ignored the signals in her and all around her.There are way too many unsatisfied people in the workforce. More than 60 percent of people say they are unhappy with their jobs. Are you one of them? This has to change. Now, Donna's mission is to help other professionals feel more fulfilled and connected to themselves. It doesn't have to be so hard; she promises you that.

On the cusp of the new millennium, Atlantic City is sliding backward. The once-booming seaside escape is now mired in a death spiral of crime, addiction, and failing industry - and it's the last place in the world seventeen-year-old Monica Dunne wants to be. When she is forced to return to the place that haunts her for her senior year, all she can think about is getting through the next nine months and getting out. But when Monica, while on a class trip, discovers a dead woman by the bay, she is unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit, neglect, and violence. Monica sets out to discover what happened to her Jane Doe, but with every new lead, she sinks deeper into the underbelly of the city she hoped to leave behind. If she is to uncover the truth, Monica will have to stop fleeing from the past and face the darkness head-on when life - and death - are on the line. The Hidden Tide, by Birnam Fox, is a thrilling crime drama that will take readers into the shadows of Atlantic City, chasing a mystery that grows more dangerous with every page.

Are we born with our behaviors, or do we learn them? Do our stories start at birth, or are theycrafted throughout our life experiences? Can we actually change our beliefs as an adult or is theadage "people don't change" true?"If people get to know the real me, they leave.""If I want to create change, I must create chaos and crisis first.""I am not worthy, and therefore things will always end up falling apart."Sound familiar?AnnMarie Santamarina, a connection coach with clients all over the world, carried these storiesof abandonment and not belonging well into her forties. These beliefs kept her tethered to acertain course in life and reinforced the patterns she learned and perpetuated. After living witha victim mentality for years-blaming others and existing only in survival mode-AnnMarieknew something needed to change. But it didn't take a big life disruption for AnnMarie tochange her course; she began to implement small, subtle adjustments to reclaim her power.Adoption, betrayal, rejection, and denial are all critical themes in AnnMarie's story. By replacingnegative thoughts with affirmative beliefs, today she has fully awakened to her own dreamsand life purpose. Throughout her personal and powerful memoir, AnnMarie shares hervulnerability and how she found the courage to flip the script of her life, and how readers cando the same.

63 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck - including nearly half of six-figure earners and one-third of those making over $250,000. Behavioral economics illustrates that although we believe we're in control of all of our decisions, we oftentimes are not. We make sub-optimal decisions because the human subconscious makes the initial selection and subsequently justifies those inauspicious intentions. By comprehending why we make the decisions we do, we can be deliberate with our choices and make the best investments for the future we want. In this book, you will:Discover how to take charge of your personal finances from the basics of managing your money, saving and investing, to deciding whether to rent or buy a home.Conquer subconscious beliefs, change your mindset and tackle relationship woes.Learn to increase your confidence, discover how to design your career for happiness and how to lead from wherever you are.Think like an Economist will enable you to use the pragmatic lens of economics in a fresh and fascinating matter of analyzing and thinking about the big and small decisions of your life. Author Sania Khan brings together unconventional points of comparison at first glance to cohesively and seamlessly click together.