March 2017
Book of the Month:
Self-Made: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant and Rich in Every Way by Nely Galan Published by Spiegel & Grau
ISBN: 978-0812989755
Website: http://www.becomingselfmade.com
FB: Nely.Galan.3
Twitter: @NelyGalan @BeSelfMadeNow
What does it mean to be self-made? It’s not just about having money, but financial empowerment is where it begins. It means getting out of survival mode, where you are one problem away from catastrophe. It means changing your mindset from instant gratification to goal orientation. It means being able to sleep at night without worry. It means being rich in every way: rich in money, rich in family, rich in love, rich in time—abundant! For Nely Galán—entrepreneur, TV producer, and real estate mogul—helping women to become self-made is a movement and a mission. Galán pulls no punches. She is the straight-talking friend and mentor you’ve always wanted, and here she shares valuable, candid, no-nonsense lessons learned on her own path to becoming self-made (“There is no Prince Charming”; “Think like an immigrant”; “In your pain is your brand”; “Don’t buy shoes, buy buildings!”). You’ll read inspiring stories of women who started and grew businesses out of ingenuity, opportunity, and need. You’ll find exercises to help you identify your goals and your strengths. You’ll learn tips and tricks for saving money, making money, and finding “hidden money” that can help jump-start your self-made dreams. When you become self-made, the change in you inspires change in those around you, because one of the greatest rewards of a self-made life is seeing how the sparks from your personal revolution can light a fire in others. So come, join the Self-Made movement. The revolution starts inside of you!
Nely Galan Bio
Latina media dynamo and women’s empowerment advocate Nely Galán, dubbed the “Tropical Tycoon” by The New York Times Magazine, is one of the entertainment industry’s savviest firebrand talents. An immigrant and self-made media mogul, Galán was the first Latina President of Entertainment for a U.S. television network (Telemundo). She is an Emmy Award-winning producer of over 600 episodes of television in Spanish and English, including the FOX hit reality series “The Swan”.
After becoming self-made on her own terms, Galán has made it her mission to teach women—regardless of age or background—how they too can become entrepreneurs. Her New York Times best-selling book, SELF MADE: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant, and Rich in Every Way, was published by Spiegel & Grau/Random House in 2016. Inspired by the new revolution in women’s entrepreneurship led by multicultural women, Galán wrote the book as a manifesto to ignite the SELF MADE movement, uniting all women on a quest for an economic future they control.
SELF MADE is a blueprint, a mindset, and a movement, but most of all it is a call to rise up and take ownership in ways big and small. You do not have to look up the ladder to find the self-made woman—you simply have to look around. She is everywhere. From the part-time Lyft driver, to the Etsy store owner, to the unrelenting startup CEO, the one thing all of these women have in common is that they are becoming self-made. SELF MADE is for every woman with untapped greatness in her, who just needs the tools to get started.
Galán is also the founder of the nonprofit The Adelante Movement (“Move it forward!” in Spanish), which seeks to train and empower Latinas to become entrepreneurs. Soon, not just Latinas, but women of all backgrounds began showing up to her events, a clear signal to Galán that all women, and particularly multi-cultural women, were leading a new economic women’s movement. The revolution around financial self-reliance had already begun. The SELF MADE book is the culmination of nearly four years on the road meeting and training women, who have collectively become the largest growth engine in the country.
March 2017 Additional Conversations with ….
The Mother God Made Me to Be by Karen Valentin
ISBN-13: 978-1455539864
Published by Faith Words (an imprint of Hachette Book Group)
Book Page on publisher website: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/karen-valentin/the-mother-god-made-me-to-be/9781455539857/
A contributor to Guideposts annuals for ten years, Karen Valentin’s narrative pieces about her journey to marriage and motherhood and then to single motherhood have resonated with readers. Here she collects the longer versions of her pieces and adds many new ones. Like so many girls raised in Christian homes, who embraced the tenets of the faith for themselves, Karen had a vision of what her future would be as a wife and a mother. Here she writes about that journey, which took an unexpected turn to divorce and single mothering that has deepened her faith and revealed the joy of motherhood, despite its challenges. Her short narratives about her experience as a new mom, to a mother of two, then a single mom trying to heal and become the mother God made her to be, is honest and heart wrenching but also laugh out loud funny. This resonates with all moms, gives single mom’s hope for healing, and shows women who wish to have a family, that despite the trails, and unexpected turns, God will be there every step of the way.
Bio: KAREN VALENTIN is an American born writer who is proud of her Puerto Rican heritage. Her books–ranging from narrative, to YA fiction and children’s–have been published by Doubleday Religious, Judson, Harlequin and JustUs/Kensington. She is a graduate of Fordham University and taught English as a second language in France. An avid traveler who speaks English, Spanish and French, she resides in New York City with her two sons.
Twitter: @kvalentinauthor
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