If you're concerned about the best way to keep your body and baby healthy during pregnancy- or how you'll ever lose the excess weight afterward- you're not alone. Fitness expert Tracey Mallett faced those same challenges when she gained 55 pounds that didn't melt right off after her daughter's birth. But gone were the days where she had endless hours and energy to exercise. So she created workouts that take only a few minutes a day- after all, busy moms are short on time! Super Fit Mama shares Tracey's secrets for safely getting in shape and back to your pre-baby weight. Her medically-sound program features a blend of strength training, Pilates, yoga, and cardio. Inside you'll find: ? Expert advice on staying fit and eating right during each pregnancy trimester ? Fun, fast, and safe exercises for the first weeks and months postpartum ? Easy-to-follow meal plans and delicious recipes ? Tips for strengthening your pelvic floor, easing back pain, and losing belly fat Stay inspired along the way with Team Mallett, real moms who have successfully used Tracey's plan. Whether you start the program during pregnancy or after baby, Super Fit Mama will help you get your confidence back- along with a body that's even better than before!
A collection of hard-hitting stories from some of the most talented of today's authors, written for the Shenanigans @ The West Midlands Book Signing.Short stories that show the side of men which is all too often hidden.Based on subjects that include Survival, Depression, Suicide, Loss and Overcoming fear. Delve into a world that will open your eyes to the unspoken and forbidden lives of men.All proceeds will go to Calm. The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is an award-winning charity dedicated to preventing male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under the age of forty-five in the UK. Surprisingly on average, in 2015 76% of all UK suicides were male - let's work together to change this. https: //www.thecalmzone.net/***Disclaimer- Some of the content in this book can cause triggers for some. Also, contains profanity, erotic scenes and only suitable for readers 18+**
Ever notice how companies with the best service also have the happiest employees? That’s no accident. Do you want to build a strong, successful organization? Start by ignoring your customers. Really. Instead, focus first on creating a better employee experience, or EX. Your employees interact with customers, make them smile, and carry your brand message from the warehouse to the front lines. If your employees are having a great experience, so will your customers. In The Employee Experience, employee engagement pioneers Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride reveal the secrets not only to attracting and retaining top talent, but to building a deeply engaged workforce—the foundation of organizational success. With deep insights into the dynamics of trust and mutual expectations, this book shows that before you can deliver a transcendent customer experience (CX), you must first build a superlative EX. With real-world examples and more than 24 million employee survey responses, Maylett and Wride reveal a clear, consistent pattern among the world’s most successful organizations. By establishing a clear set of expectations and promises—collectively known as the Contract—and upholding it consistently, employers can build the trust that leads to powerful engagement. Whether in business, healthcare, education, sports, or nonprofit, these organizations are consistently more successful and more profitable, enjoy sustainable growth, and win the battle to keep today’s rarest resource: talented people. Blending rigorous research, detailed case studies, in-depth interviews and expert insights, The Employee Experience will teach you to: Make the employee experience a core part of your strategyUnderstand employee expectations and bridge the “Expectation Gap”Establish rock-solid Brand, Transactional, and Psychological Contracts that breed trust and confidenceBuild an employee-employer partnership in creating something extraordinaryTurn employee engagement into fuel for customer satisfaction, profit, and growth Attracting talent, retaining top performers, and creating an environment in which employees choose to engage drives results. The Employee Experience shows you where truly extraordinary organizations begin…and how to build one. TRACY MAYLETT, Ed.D, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the CEO of DecisionWise, where he currently advises leaders across the globe in leadership, change, and employee engagement. Maylett holds a doctorate from Pepperdine University and an MBA from BYU. He is a recognized author, and teaches in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. MATTHEW WRIDE, JD, PHR, is the COO of DecisionWise. With an extensive business background, Wride brings a fresh approach to organization development and leadership consulting. He is passionate about helping leaders create winning employee experiences. Wride holds a JD from Willamette University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington. For over two decades, DecisionWise has advised organizations and leaders in more than seventy countries on leadership, assessment, talent, organization development, and the employee experience. Visit us online at www.decision-wise.com.
A new edition, based on new research and double the survey data, Engagement MAGIC provides an expert approach to increasing organizational success using five key elements of engagement. Readers discover how to engage employees effectively. Most leaders understand that engaged employees are passionate about their jobs and deliver better results. Yet, many don't understand how engagement works or the components that contribute to employee engagement. Maylett introduces the five MAGIC keys of employee engagement-Meaning, Autonomy, Growth, Impact, and Connection-and discusses how leaders can help their employees achieve higher levels of engagement. Readers learn tactics for increasing engagement at all organizational levels. Based on the most extensive employee engagement survey database of its kind, Engagement MAGIC incorporates organizational research with updated case studies, stories, and examples to present practical business solutions for increasing engagement. In addition, Engagement MAGIC provides a self-assessment, thought-provoking questions, and specific applications for the individual, manager, and organization. Readers benefit from a psychological approach to fundamental business concepts. Based on data from over 32 million employee survey responses across 70 countries, Maylett combines principles of psychology and human motivation with solid business concepts, providing actionable advice for reducing attrition, encouraging initiative, and driving profitable growth.
The key to escaping the cycle of failure, disengagement, and regret. Every day we wake up determined to engage with life--to overcome work challenges, finish that novel, reach fitness goals, or repair a strained relationship. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Why is it so hard to finish what we start? Are we doomed to a lifetime of regret? Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture. Based on a massive research database, and drawing on disciplines from neurobiology to business, Tracy Maylett and Tim Vandehey reveal a powerful psychological process that makes us disengage from what (or who) we care about most--often when we're heartbreakingly close to real breakthroughs. In Swipe, readers will learn how this mechanism works and recognize when they're caught on the "Hamster Wheel." They'll discover how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what they start.
A fresh take on one of contemporary art’s most renowned figures Tracey Emin (b. 1963) is widely known for dynamic and autobiographical works that reflect grief, hope, loss, and love. For more than three decades, her art has challenged stereotypes about female experience and sexuality. Rising up with a cohort dubbed the Young British Artists (YBAs), Emin made her mark in London with sculptural installations that became icons of the 1990s. She went on to explore an exceptional range of media, becoming famous for her neon and textile works. Yet Emin has long thought of painting as central to her artistic practice and since the early 2000s has intensified her focus on the medium in large-scale figurative works rooted in emotion and bodily experience. Published to accompany Emin’s first major exhibition in North America, this generously illustrated volume features an exclusive interview with the artist, places her work in its art-historical context, and opens new avenues for approaching her painting and closely related drawing practice. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (March 29–August 10, 2025)
Sixteen successful black women collaborate to create a powerful anthology book filled with their individual journey and experiences with sisterhood. In this adventure called living, we are often met with the detours of challenge, adversity, and doubt. Within these pages, their words will nourish, renew, satisfy, and enlighten you on the intricacies of how black women are required to navigate through relationships with other women to maintain accountability, support, and trustworthiness. It is through this diverse collection, one will find that the power of sisters not only connects us, but celebrates us in all that we strive to be as women. Enter their stories. Let the enchantment of their words resonate within your mind. Be inspired.
Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope, this definitive book collects ten years of Tracey Emin s drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliques and embroideries, neons, video stills, and installations. A multimedia artist whose intensely personal work blurs the boundaries between art and life, Emin remains one of the most highly publicised contemporary British artists and continues to stir as much controversy as she has acclaim. Moving chronologically through a prolific decade of work from major public installations to recent reflective paintings and sculptures this book shows a coherent vision that defies the idiosyncrasies of Emin s evolution as an artist. The same mixture of anger, hope, curiosity, and vulnerability that informs her delicate drawings and handwritten neon works can be felt in the darker tones of recent monoprints and the weight of later bronze pieces. Written by Jonathan Jones, whose text places Emin s work in a broad art-historical context and sees this recent decade of her artwork as an entry point to examining her full career, this is a beautiful monograph on one of the world s most influential living artists.
Tracy Returns is the second book of author Yvonne Cruz' Rachel & Eden trilogy. In this publication, Rachel & Eden are confronted by an old flame attempting to woo Eden back with tragic results. Richard ignores Eden's wishes and helps Ro seek revenge on the man responsible for Stevie's death.
