BOOK REVIEW “I’m a firm believer that there is no work-life vs. life. There’s one life. And this is our big chance to reset.”

- taken from The Reset: Ideas to change how we work and live by Elizabeth Uviebinené

BOOK REVIEW “If you spend all day hitting the ball back, you’ll never end up serving”

- taken from The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

BOOK REVIEW “Titles like ‘Baby Mother’ are still thrown around as an insult. It’s why people are still shocked to see young black families sticking together.”

- taken from I am not your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite

BOOK REVIEW “In Old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich man named Arkad. Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth. Also he was famed for his liberality […] but nevertheless each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it.”

- taken from The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

BOOK REVIEW “All parents make mistakes, and it is putting these right that matters more than the mistakes themselves.”

“Parental guilt does not help us or own children; acknowledging our errors and making changes does.” - taken from The Book you wish your parents had read (and your children will be glad that you did) by Phillipa Perry

BOOK REVIEW “Deep machine learning, which is using algorithms to replicate human thinking, is predicated on specific values from specific kinds of people- namely, the most powerful institutions in society and those who control them.” - taken from Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble

BOOK REVIEW “Parenting courses, like parenting books, are a modern, twentieth-century phenomenon - a sign, perhaps, that the ‘correct’ way of raising children concerns us more than ever. And in particular that we believe that the correct way exists in the first place.” - taken from Second Thoughts: On having and being a Second Child by Lynn Berger.

BOOK REVIEW “Being a multi-hyphenate is about choosing and strategising a plan of attack and having the freedom to take on multiple projects, not being backed into a corner.“ - taken from The Multi-Hyphen Method by Emma Gannon

BOOK REVIEW “Invisible work consists of a person’s personal, private thoughts that relate to their work and which, for many, are the most critical part of what they do and the reason they are paid. It is the heart of creativity and innovation.” - taken from Invisible Work by John Howkins.

BOOK REVIEW “The Year of Yes promise was a commitment. A binding contract between me and my greatest competitor and judge- me.” - taken from Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

BOOK REVIEW “Marketing has changed. Businesses that invite their customers into a heroic story grow. Businesses that don’t are forgotten.” - taken from Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller

BOOK REVIEW “I subconsciously internalised the message that it was normal to work extremely hard for low pay [..] It took a long time to adjust my money mindset.” - taken from Black Girl Finance by Selina Flavius

BOOK REVIEW “All the books in my library hold a memory. When I was a child, they fulfilled promises and offered me a clear view of worlds- both real and imagined.“ - taken from Well-Read Black girl by Glory Edim

BOOK REVIEW “Feminism needs to learn to listen to the voices on the front lines, to accept that the gatekeepers don’t know everything and in fact largely lack the lived experience to relate to those they claim to represent.“ - taken from Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall,

BOOK REVIEW “Turn to your advantage the fear of failing to execute, by moving through it and doing.”- taken from Victoria Montgomery Brown’s Digital Goddess; The Unfiltered lessons of a female entrepreneur.

BOOK REVIEW “PR is more than just telling your story to journalists. It is anything you do that is in the public eye. […] Unlike advertising, where you are visible for as long as you pay to be, publicity has no shelf life.” - taken from Hype Yourself by Lucy Werner.

BOOK REVIEW “Often, the sweeter the first fruit of a habit, the more bitter are its later fruits. Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future”- taken from James Clear’s Atomic Habits

BOOK REVIEW “By comparing your relative privilege with that of others, you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world- if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering is not relative; it is absolute” - taken from Zadie Smith’s Intimations, Six Essays.

BOOK REVIEW “The cowards never started, and the weak died along the way- that leaves us”- taken from Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog.

BOOK REVIEW “Gender matters everywhere in the world [..] And this is how we start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must raise our sons differently…” - taken from We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.