“Earnestly recounting how 45 successful women achieved their dreams, McMeekin aims to provide ‘mentors’ who can help readers transcend creative blocks.”—Publishers Weekly From the popular creative coach Gail McMeekin—author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women—comes advice about the specific challenges in life that creative women face today. Identified in a survey of 1,500 CEOs to be the key leadership skill of the 21st century, creativity can help women entrepreneurs and business leaders realize their dreams. The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women explores the profiles of 45 of today’s most successful women, combining their insights with Gail’s own proven strategies. Each chapter offers the 12 secrets, keys, and challenges to help women work through their creative process. Together they offer an inspirational roadmap, providing all the tools women need to uncover their own authenticity and realize their creative dreams, including how to: · Dismantle limiting beliefs · Take positive and calculated risks · Make career changes fueled by passion and purpose · “Filter and Focus” to give creative ideas time and space to evolve · Prioritize · Overcome procrastination · Declutter and create workable workspaces · Find resources and support “Such a wonderful reading experience. I couldn't wait to hear each story and glean all the wit, humor, and wisdom from each woman’s own experience.”—Carol Adrienne, coauthor of The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide “An empowering book for those ready to confront self-defeating patterns related to creativity, and a great booster shot for those of us who have already faced and conquered some of the dragons.”—Caroll Michels, author of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist

The author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women shares life-changing strategies for success based on inspiring true stories. The founder of Creative Success LLC, Gail McMeekin has helped clients all over the world reach their goals and transform their lives. Following her popular book, The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, McMeekin now reveals how creative women entrepreneurs and business leaders have used proven strategies to succeed. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, leaving our creative sparks smoldering beneath layers of fear and self-doubt. McMeekin helps you blast through those layers to reconnect with your creative potential. McMeekin interviews thirty-one of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success.

The popular creativity coach and author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women combines interviews with successful women and her own proven strategies to help readers to overcome personal obstacles, providing advice in the areas of risk taking, career changes and applying creative solutions to personal goals. Original.

The perfect companion to Gail McMeekin's popular The12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, this journal offers readers a place to track and record their progress with their creative work. It follows the format of the original book, highlighting the 12 Secrets, Keys, and Challenges of each chapter with prompts and inspirational quotes to motivate women to write about their creative lives. The journal features original material organized into an advanced creativity program to deepen your creativity and get you into action on your goals with new insights and success strategies.

A well-known figure in the world of savvy women entrepreneurs and as the founder of the Smart Women's Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning, McConnell has crafted this business handbook for professional, creative, and innovative females ready for a business and a life that works! Here's what readers will learn from Sheri McConnell in SMART WOMEN KNOW THEIR WHY: How to Unearth Your Purpose About My Trip Down Awareness Road Why Authenticity Is The New Black How to Tap the Brilliance Gene What Makes You CEO Worthy How to Become A Triple Threat Why It s All Good My Money-Magnet Mindsets How To Create Power Positioning Why You Should Man Up, Ladies! My Favorite Entrepreneurial Tool My Secret Business Sauce The Five Types of Smart Women How to Redirect Your Ego Plan for Dream-Launching How to Savor the Journey! The Story My Hand Revealed Ten Laws of Smart Entrepreneurship This Oprah-spirited book takes the reader on an inspirational journey through the author's life and provides an inside look at her most important business decisions along the way. Her book helps women of all ages and races unearth their purpose, find their passion, and begin to take the necessary steps to creating a business that is not only profitable, but it is in line with their "big WHY." McConnell grew up the only child of a bipolar mother who struggled with many demons. Through her childhood, McConnell was able to take her heartbreaking experiences and turn them into powerful lessons for life and business. McConnell opened her first company in 2001, and ever since then has perfected the art growing a company that focuses on teaching others powerful business models and mindsets. McConnell lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband and four children. ADVANCE PRAISE: provides us with all the ingredients to cook up a stew of positive and purposeful change in the world. It feels like you are discovering the secret recipe to success. Suzanne Falter-Barns, GetKnownNow.com offers an abundance of authentic wisdom and practical advice. In simple and lyrical prose, she manages to convey a wellspring of inspiration. Michele Weldon, Author of I CLOSED MY EYES and WRITING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE A must for any business library! Smart, fun and practical guide to mastering our lives, as well as our businesses. Loral Langemeier, CEO and Founder of LiveOutLoud.com, Money Expert, International Speaker, NY Times Bestselling Author of THE MILLIONAIRE MAKER 3 book series personal, poignant, and powerful. There are dozens of nuggets of wisdom in this book. Taking just one to heart and putting it into practice will empower you to completely transform your business and life. Dr. Larina Kase, Marketing Psychologist and Author of THE CONFIDENT LEADER a jolt of feminine fuel for the life and business of every smart woman. McConnell s unique delivery of savvy business guidance along with her refreshing wisdom makes this a must-read. I recommend it as a staple of every business woman s library. Ali Brown, Millionaire Entrepreneur Business Coach, AliBrown.com

The author polls a wide range of designers whose years of experience have helped them find not only the most creative solutions for their clients’ design needs, but also the most successful solutions. The insights of top publication designers will help guide other designers in both approach and execution of designs that succeed for their clients. It covers a variety of topics, so the reader is able to walk away with a variety of insight to all aspects of his or her career.

Make the most of your creative and intellectual gifts by overcoming the unique challenges they bring with this guide by the author of Natural Psychology. Many smart and creative people experience unique challenges as a result of their valuable gifts. These can range from anxiety and over-thinking to mania, depression, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel pinpoints these often-devastating challenges and offers solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find: · Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles · Strategies for coping with a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat · Questions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life