Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Why I love it: This book is teaching me to stand tall and soft at the same time. It’s helping me balance being fierce with myself and gentle with myself, too.
Fierce Self-Compassion: Women Harness Kindness
Why I love it: This one’s helping me lead and live with purpose. It’s giving me clarity on how to build things that actually last.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire
Why I love it: This book is the blueprint for passion-driven leadership. It’s inspiring me to keep growing Empowered Mosaic with impact at the center.
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: Educator's Odyssey
Why I love it: This book is the permission slip I didn’t know I needed. Rest is my birthright, and this reminded me that grind culture isn’t the only way.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Why I love it: This book is the poly bible—real talk. It’s not just about open relationships, it’s about loving freely, owning your desires, and doing it all with communication and care. It’s messy, honest, and liberating. If you’re curious, practici...
The Ethical Slut, 3rd Ed: Guide to Polyamory & Open Relationships
It’s messy, it’s grown, and the secrets run deep. Perfect if you love relationship drama with lessons underneath.
Kimberla Lawson Roby | Author & Speaker
Classic. Sexy, funny, and full of the kind of twists that make you keep turning pages at 2 AM.
Friends and Lovers - Dickey, Eric Jerome: Books
A raw, beautifully written coming-of-age story about Black, queer identity, family, and survival. Reads like it’s written with you in mind.
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
For the grown, soft life reset when life, marriage, and motherhood start to feel a little too tight. Funny, real, and deeply Black.
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
Love, incarceration, loyalty, and heartbreak. If you like complex, real-world tension in relationships, this will pull you in.
