After a glorious childhood and a mundane teenage, Avantika finds herself struggling with lost love, drug addictions and failing dreams. When she finally secures her dream job and gets over her past, she is bothered with existential crisis and needs to find meaning in her otherwise boring life. On her journey to be the Entrepreneur she always wanted to be, she must fight the society and her own family too. Being women in the country that has a fixed vision for her capabilities, she has to push beyond the ordinary and fight the whole world alone. She wants to travel the world and build an empire. Her family wants her to get married and raise a child. In the middle of all this drama that life is, Avantika finds inspiration in the darkest of corners and takes the big leap with intensions to change the world for once and forever. While she's on this expedition to the limelight without succumbing to the stereotypes; Avantika narrates her tale of enduring struggles and recurring compromises to Vishal, who looks up to this visionary lady and dreams of a world filled with women like her.

In this short excerpt from The Cure for the Common Life... It's Sunday afternoon and you're already dreading the inevitable Monday morning. You spend 50+ hours at a job you hate, only to come home too exhausted to pursue anything other than reality TV. Well, you are not alone: 87 percent of workers don't find meaning in their work and 80 percent believe their talents are not used. And there are consequences-whether or not we realize it, our resulting attitude impacts our health, our relationships, and our fundamental sense of happiness-but best-selling author Max Lucado has a cure. We are all unique individuals, created in God's image, with our own gifts, strengths and passions. In his winsome voice, Max will encourage you to explore your uniqueness, put it to work, and redefine your concept of career. Table of Contents: Your Sweet Spot (You Have One!) Unpack Your Bag Read Your Life Backward Study Your S.T.O.R.Y Conclusion Notes

In this collection, authors transgress and uphold their maternal integrity as they dance at the edge of comfort and take up the challenge of exploring the boundaries of maternal practice– their own, their mothers, and those found in literature, media, or popular culture. These mothers assume a hopeful stance; actively choose courage over comfort; push through what is fun, fast, or easy, and show how they come to mother outside the lines in all its simplicity and complexity. As they bust outdated, tired, and ambiguous boundaries, they find and (re)set new boundaries that restore dignity and self-respect for themselves, their children, their families, and for the matricentric feminist collective, particularly those whose voices may continue to be silenced and marginalized by structures and limits beyond their control. Thirteen stories are threaded together to form a compelling tale showing how and why some mothers, when faced with ambiguous and untenable boundaries, resist the urge to accept the assumed, the unpredictable, even the demanded– whether they be internal or external, visible or invisible, real or imaginary.