Author: Erika Obando Publisher: ISBN: 9780578791807 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 174
Book Description
Brought to the United States illegally by Colombian parents seeking a better life for their family, Erika Obando allows her readers a candid view of the horrors and hardships she endured and how she used them to transform her life. This powerful, coming of age story traces Erika's growth into a resolute young woman who struggled to overcome incredible odds and build a solid and successful life for her son, herself and those who follow in her footsteps. Erika Obando is a relentless advocate for defining a life with purpose that ultimately leaves impacting ripples for generations to come. With successful careers in legal, commercial interior design, TV, and visual artist under her belt, she has used all those experiences to help others along their paths. A Mom, Partner, Author and active community leader, her vision is to leave a legacy that changes people's lives instead of working to build a resume. She is an influential speaker that focuses her efforts on women empowerment, youth enrichment and advocating entrepreneurship using the art of reinvention. She took the renowned TEDx Stage in which she shared her story of "When Breaking Points Lead To Empowerment" - a look into her life's journey of resiliency and perseverance. From broken child to empowered Woman, Erika's mission is to help others through their journeys of finding inner peace, forgiveness, ultimate strength and purpose in the most difficult of experiences. Using her own story's success as the platform, she shares the tools of changing your narrative from Victim to Victorious!
Author: Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304538753 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 461
Book Description
A work of fiction based on the human trafficking scourge ravaging the world today told from the perspectives of two sixteen year old girls who are forced to leave their home in Iseluku which is a small settlement on the eastern part of Nigeria to serve in the towns and cities to earn a living Ginika and Ifeanyi are forced to leave their homes to serve as domestic helps in the more affluent homes in the towns and cities. The book chronicles a two year service period. Things go al-right the first year. Its the second year that things start to go very wrong when through a queer quirk of fate they find themselves in the hands of several unscrupulous men who force them to sell their bodies for months. Eventually the chance for escape comes and they set out across a land they do not know pursued by men who are now determined to kill them.
Author: Georgia Webber Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1683961161 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething copes with the everyday challenges that come with voicelessness. Webber adroitly uses the comics medium to convey the practical hurdles she faced as well as the fear and dread that accompanied her increasingly lonely journey to regain her life. Her raw cartooning style, occasionally devolving into chaotic scribbles, splotches of ink, and overlapping montages, perfectly captures her frustration and anxiety. But her ordeal ultimately becomes a hopeful story. Throughout, she learns to lean on the support of her close friends, finds self-expression in creating comics, and comes to understand and appreciate how deeply her voice and identity are intertwined.
Author: Shea Ramsdell Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1982272384 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
Trauma comes in many forms, and the affects it has on one's life can be devastating. Some recover from the events, yet many cannot overcome the years of devastation. The man depicted here spent half of his life feeling alone, misunderstood by everyone he contacted. Unable to convey his thoughts or feelings to anyone. The events that occurred during his childhood profoundly impacted his life and others. This is his story, the decline, and the rise of how he overcame the odds of living everyday life. It was his undying love of one person in his life that motivated him to do so. This is for her.
Author: Casey Watson Publisher: HarperElement ISBN: 9780007510696 Category : Child abuse Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
When Imogen - a young girl with selective mutism - joins the school, her teacher Casey Watson is determined to discover the truth behind her silence, revealing a shocking and devastating past.
Author: Sarah Chana Radcliffe Publisher: BPS Books ISBN: 0978440250 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
Radcliffe shows parents how to eliminate yelling, criticism, and other unpleasant communications and foster a family-wide atmosphere of cooperation, closeness, love, and respect.
Author: Mandy Harvey Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501172255 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
The inspiring true story of a young woman who became deaf at age 19 while pursuing a degree in music--and how she overcame adversity and found the courage to live out her dreams.
Author: Austen Ivereigh Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor ISBN: 1612788858 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
Since it was first released, How to Defend the Faith has given Catholics worldwide a new way of talking about their faith around the dinner table or at the office, getting across the Church's positions on contentious issues without losing their cool. It's about learning the principles that allow you to step outside the negative frames imposed by the news media and being well briefed on what the Church actually thinks about politics, gay people, marriage, women, sex abuse, and other key topics. Now revised and updated, How to Defend the Faith includes new sections on what we can learn from Pope Francis's communication, advice on how to give a talk and be active on Twitter, and many other invaluable tips and principles gleaned from the author's years of putting the Church's case in the media. Find your voice. Embody the new evangelization. Enjoy a new and better way to defend the Faith -- without ever having to raise your voice.
Author: Michelle Nicholson Publisher: ISBN: 9781999703806 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
Young, vulnerable, naIve. Twenty two year old Michelle Nicholson had no idea how to deal with the strange and menacing stranger who seemed to be taking over her life. He had sucked friends and family into believing his fantasy that he was a good, kind man, trying to offer Michelle a better life. But beneath the faCade lurked a dangerous and deadly psychopath, hell bent on revenge for Michelle's rejection of him. Twenty four years later, still fighting to clear her name, Michelle tells, with raw honesty, the true and horrifying story of the murder of her beloved father and how she was framed for that murder, losing her youth, her young daughter, her freedom and almost her sanity.
Author: Jack Angel Publisher: Abbott Press ISBN: 1458203204 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
Voice-over work is a microcosm of the acting process as a whole. Theres the audition, the callback, the job itself, and the payoffsexcept that it all happens in a matter of days, and there are no costumes or make-up to contend with and no memorization. Author Jack Angel has been a voice-over expert for more than fifty years, working with the likes of Lucas Arts, Disney, Pixar, Warner Brothers, Marvel, Steven Spielberg and many others. Now, he shares some of his secrets. This guidebook to success offers strategies to build a career in voice-over acting. Discover how to build valuable relationships with key people, share your credits in a way that gets you more work, maintain a good relationship with your agent, and reinvent yourself when the time is right. All Angels advice is applicable to acting, voice-oversand, in fact, most other professions as well. Just change the labels, and youll have proven advice to succeed where others fail. Take charge of your career and create a context for winning, no matter what happens. It all starts with learning How to Succeed in Voice-Overs.
Author: Erika Obando
Author: Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide
Author: Georgia Webber
Author: Shea Ramsdell
Author: Casey Watson
Author: Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Author: Mandy Harvey
Author: Austen Ivereigh
Author: Michelle Nicholson
Author: Jack Angel