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items These are books I often recommend to my leadership and mindset coaching clients, athletes, and friends. They’ve shaped how I think about performance, leadership, healing, and community, and they’re ones I return to in different seasons of life, busin...
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I read The Garden Within by  Pastor Dr. Anita Phillips, and it’s a book that really reframes how you understand emotional and spiritual health together and separately. It connects faith, psychology, and healing in a way that feels both grounded and accessible, especially around ...
God really be creating us humans just like He created the Earth, the water is our emotions, we are all gardens, and the soil we're planted in, the environment we grow in, all matters.
God really be creating us humans just like He created the Earth, the water is our emotions, we are all gardens, and the soil we're planted in, the environment we grow in, all matters.
The Garden Within: End Your Emotional War
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I recommend Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey to anyone who feels constantly overworked, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves. But, truly, to anyone and everyone.
The book’s core message is that rest is not something we earn after productivity. It is a form of resistance in a world that conditions us to constantly produce, perform, and push past our limits.
Tricia Hersey connects rest to healing, spirituality, and liberation, especially within the context of capitalism and white supremacy as systems that normalize exhaustion and extract labor from our bodies and attention.
One of the biggest lessons I took from this book is that rest is not just physical, it’s deeply spiritual and restorative.
Even something as simple as 30 minutes of closing your eyes, being still, and “listening to God,” as Hersey's grandmother taught, can be a radical practice of returning to yourself and stepping outside of systems that constantly demand output.
This book reframed rest for me not as laziness or avoidance, but as a necessary form of reclaiming your humanity. A way of remembering that I am more than what I produce, and that my body is not something to constantly override.
Also, that the work is always related to building a system against capitalism.
The book’s core message is that rest is not something we earn after productivity. It is a form of resistance in a world that conditions us to constantly produce, perform, and push past our limits.
Tricia Hersey connects rest to healing, spirituality, and liberation, especially within the context of capitalism and white supremacy as systems that normalize exhaustion and extract labor from our bodies and attention.
One of the biggest lessons I took from this book is that rest is not just physical, it’s deeply spiritual and restorative.
Even something as simple as 30 minutes of closing your eyes, being still, and “listening to God,” as Hersey's grandmother taught, can be a radical practice of returning to yourself and stepping outside of systems that constantly demand output.
This book reframed rest for me not as laziness or avoidance, but as a necessary form of reclaiming your humanity. A way of remembering that I am more than what I produce, and that my body is not something to constantly override.
Also, that the work is always related to building a system against capitalism.
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto: Hersey, Tricia
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How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong reframed a lot of how I think about community, care, and support systems.
Instead of treating community as something abstract or aspirational (or even performative and become a popular buzzworD), this book grounds it in real life. Like how we can actually take care of each other through relationships, consistency, and ever...
Community is not separate from resistance, it is the response. In a world shaped by capitalism, white supremacy, and hustle culture, interdependence becomes a form of refusal. A refusal to do everything alone, to measure worth by productivity, or to ...
This book is a reminder that showing up for each other is not small or secondary work, it’s foundational.
This book is so fire lol
Instead of treating community as something abstract or aspirational (or even performative and become a popular buzzworD), this book grounds it in real life. Like how we can actually take care of each other through relationships, consistency, and ever...
Community is not separate from resistance, it is the response. In a world shaped by capitalism, white supremacy, and hustle culture, interdependence becomes a form of refusal. A refusal to do everything alone, to measure worth by productivity, or to ...
This book is a reminder that showing up for each other is not small or secondary work, it’s foundational.
This book is so fire lol
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family & Community
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Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown felt REALLY grounding and powerful for me, especially in how it connects change, community, and leadership in such a practical way.
Adrienne Maree Brown is a Black Queer visionary and activist whose work is deeply rooted in Black liberation, social justice, and collective care, and that perspective is woven into every part of this book.
A big idea in the book is that change doesn’t usually happen all at once. It happens through small, everyday actions that ripple outward over time. It made me think a lot about how what we do in our relationships, our communities, and our own habits ...
There’s also a strong thread in the book around how leadership doesn’t have to look top-down or hierarchical. Instead, it can be more networked, relational, and rooted in care, where small interactions and decisions matter just as much as big ones.
This book helped me further trust that how I show up in small moments actually matters more than I think, and that sustainable change is usually built quietly, over time, through people staying connected and responsive to each other. MORE INTERDEPEND...
This book was absolutely brilliant for me. I know there are a lot of mixed reviews, but, for me, it was amazing.
Adrienne Maree Brown is a Black Queer visionary and activist whose work is deeply rooted in Black liberation, social justice, and collective care, and that perspective is woven into every part of this book.
A big idea in the book is that change doesn’t usually happen all at once. It happens through small, everyday actions that ripple outward over time. It made me think a lot about how what we do in our relationships, our communities, and our own habits ...
There’s also a strong thread in the book around how leadership doesn’t have to look top-down or hierarchical. Instead, it can be more networked, relational, and rooted in care, where small interactions and decisions matter just as much as big ones.
This book helped me further trust that how I show up in small moments actually matters more than I think, and that sustainable change is usually built quietly, over time, through people staying connected and responsive to each other. MORE INTERDEPEND...
This book was absolutely brilliant for me. I know there are a lot of mixed reviews, but, for me, it was amazing.
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent)
Performance, Mindset, Athlete Life
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I recommend The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford to all of my coaching clients and speaking audiences, especially if they’re athletes or high performers.
George Mumford is known for teaching Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan how to meditate and develop the ability to stay “the eye of the storm”. Calm, centered, and focused under pressure.
This book breaks down how mindfulness directly translates into performance, clarity, and emotional regulation in high-stress environments. It connects the mental game with real-world execution in a really practical ways, especially for anyone trying ...
George Mumford is known for teaching Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan how to meditate and develop the ability to stay “the eye of the storm”. Calm, centered, and focused under pressure.
This book breaks down how mindfulness directly translates into performance, clarity, and emotional regulation in high-stress environments. It connects the mental game with real-world execution in a really practical ways, especially for anyone trying ...
The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance
Leadership, Business
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I recommend The Long Game by Dorie Clark, especially if you struggle with urgency, scarcity thinking, or feeling like you’re always behind.
This book helped me shift into thinking more long-term about my life, my business, and my development as an entrepreneur. As someone who’s had to work through trauma and a scarcity mindset around time and opportunity, it really challenged me to slow ...
It’s a grounding read for anyone trying to move from survival-mode thinking into a more intentional, strategic approach to growing a business over time. A long, long time.
This book helped me shift into thinking more long-term about my life, my business, and my development as an entrepreneur. As someone who’s had to work through trauma and a scarcity mindset around time and opportunity, it really challenged me to slow ...
It’s a grounding read for anyone trying to move from survival-mode thinking into a more intentional, strategic approach to growing a business over time. A long, long time.
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker
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Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown felt REALLY grounding and powerful for me, especially in how it connects change, community, and leadership in such a practical way.
Adrienne Maree Brown is a Black Queer visionary and activist whose work is deeply rooted in Black liberation, social justice, and collective care, and that perspective is woven into every part of this book.
A big idea in the book is that change doesn’t usually happen all at once. It happens through small, everyday actions that ripple outward over time. It made me think a lot about how what we do in our relationships, our communities, and our own habits ...
There’s also a strong thread in the book around how leadership doesn’t have to look top-down or hierarchical. Instead, it can be more networked, relational, and rooted in care, where small interactions and decisions matter just as much as big ones.
This book helped me further trust that how I show up in small moments actually matters more than I think, and that sustainable change is usually built quietly, over time, through people staying connected and responsive to each other. MORE INTERDEPEND...
This book was absolutely brilliant for me. I know there are a lot of mixed reviews, but, for me, it was amazing.
Adrienne Maree Brown is a Black Queer visionary and activist whose work is deeply rooted in Black liberation, social justice, and collective care, and that perspective is woven into every part of this book.
A big idea in the book is that change doesn’t usually happen all at once. It happens through small, everyday actions that ripple outward over time. It made me think a lot about how what we do in our relationships, our communities, and our own habits ...
There’s also a strong thread in the book around how leadership doesn’t have to look top-down or hierarchical. Instead, it can be more networked, relational, and rooted in care, where small interactions and decisions matter just as much as big ones.
This book helped me further trust that how I show up in small moments actually matters more than I think, and that sustainable change is usually built quietly, over time, through people staying connected and responsive to each other. MORE INTERDEPEND...
This book was absolutely brilliant for me. I know there are a lot of mixed reviews, but, for me, it was amazing.
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent)