Can you believe we’re already half-way through 2019? This year is flying by! We’ve already worked our way through 5 amazing books that have encouraged, inspired and motivated us – both in our businesses and in our personal lives – as well as generated some really wonderful conversations within the BAM community.

We are so excited to dig into some more great books with you in our Online BAM Biz Book Club!

Here’s a look at what’s on deck to finish out the year:

JULY

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women and the Way Forward

By Gemma Hartley

Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. In relationships, we initiate the hard conversations. At home, we shoulder the mental load required to keep our households running. At work, we moderate our tone, explaining patiently and speaking softly. In the world, we step gingerly to keep ourselves safe. We do this largely invisible, draining work whether we want to or not—and we never clock out. No wonder women everywhere are overtaxed, exhausted, and simply fed up.

In Fed Up, Hartley expands outward from the everyday frustrations of performing thankless emotional labor to illuminate how the expectation to do this work in all arenas—private and public—fuels gender inequality, limits our opportunities, steals our time, and adversely affects the quality of our lives.

AUGUST – Break

SEPTEMBER

Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy

By Mallika Chopra and Deepak Chopra M.D.

Living with Intent is a chronicle of Mallika Chopra’s search to find more meaning, joy, and balance in life. She hopes that by telling her story, she can inspire others with her own successes (and failures) as well as share some of the wisdom she has gathered from friends, experts, and family along the way—people like her dad, Deepak, as well as Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Weil, and Dan Siegel. She also provides a practical road map for how we can all move from thought to action to outcome. Each chapter is devoted to one step on her journey and another piece of her INTENT action plan: Incubate, Notice, Trust, Express, Nurture, and Take Action. Chopra’s insights and advice will help us all come closer to fully living the lives we truly intend.

OCTOBER

Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing – Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth

By W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

BLUE OCEAN SHIFT is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people’s confidence so that they own and drive the process.

With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, BLUE OCEAN SHIFT is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You’ll learn what works, what doesn’t, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. BLUE OCEAN SHIFT is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.

NOVEMBER

Becoming

By Michelle Obama

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.

DECEMBER – Break

Join the Conversation!

Our next virtual BAM Biz Book Club discussion will be on June 19th at 12PM PST (3PM EST) where we’ll be discussing The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. There’s still plenty of time to pick up a copy and join the conversation!

Please note: Reading the entire book is not necessary, but to effectively participate in the discussion, reading the first three chapters is requested.

FREE to all!

Check the events calendar to register for the Online Biz Book Club: 

https://members.businessamongmoms.com/events

And don’t forget to join our BAM community, found here: 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bammastermind/