Audiobooks narrated by Keyonni James

Management 101: From Hiring and Firing to Imparting New Skills, an Essential Guide to Management Str

"A crash course in managing productive, successful, and happy employees! Effective employee management is imperative to a business's success, but all too often management books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. Management 101 cuts out the boring explanations of management policies, and instead provides hand-on lessons that keep you engaged as you learn how to manage productive, happy employees. From hiring and firing to delegating and coaching, this primer is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts that you won't be able to get anywhere else. So whether you're a business owner, a middle manager with many direct reports, or an entry-level employee learning to supervise interns, Management 101 has all the answers—even the ones you didn't know you were looking for."

Stephen Soundering (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivi

"Maintain focus on the first, critical 5% of any project and multiply your results In The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity, veteran technology leader and executive Anil Singhal delivers a transformative approach to project management and company leadership. He explains how to focus your efforts on the first, critical stages of any project or initiative to multiply your results and efficacy, delegating the rest to their capable team. The book is a blueprint for building resilient organizations, departments, teams, and projects that can withstand today's unpredictable and volatile environment. You'll learn to avoid micromanagement and maintain your focus on the big, strategic picture, while a well-managed team brings you the results you need. You'll also find: ● Strategies for determining how to properly set priorities and satisfy employees, customers, and shareholders ● Techniques for building trust amongst your workforce, your leadership, and other stakeholders ● Myth-busting advice that blows up misleading and counterproductive habits held by businesspeople and leaders around the world"

Anil Singhal (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

"A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution. For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be. This engaging history traces women's awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm's presidential campaign and Billie Jean King's 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life."

Clara Bingham (Author), Aida Reluzco, Angel Pean, Billie Fulford-Brown, Cassandra Campbell, Clara Bingham, David Sadzin, Eunice Wong, Gibson Frazier, Janina Edwards, Kamali Minter, Kevin R. Free, Keyonni James, Natalie Naudus, Sunny Lu (Narrator)

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Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America

"Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write. In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate essays from her life: her childhood in Chicago—growing up in poverty with four siblings and a single mother—and the empowering decision to leave her first marriage. She writes about being the only Black student in a prestigious and predominantly White creative writing program, about institutional racism and implicit bias in writing instruction, about the violent legacies of racism in the US housing market, about the maternal health disparities seen across the country and their implication in her own miscarriage. She explores what it means to write her story and that of her family—an act at once a responsibility and a privilege—bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of US culture, policy, and academia, Coleman's writing evinces how a Black woman in America is always on the run, always Harriet Tubman, traveling with her babies in tow, seeking safety, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom."

Taiyon J. Coleman (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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Brooklyn

"Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn’t who murdered her; the question is who wouldn’t? Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became. Brooklyn learned the art of hustling from her parents who used the church to get money. Idolizing her father and despising her mother, Brooklyn’s determined to be the type of woman who makes her own rules. When her back’s up against the wall, she sacrifices her family, takes the burnt offering that remains, and runs away. In NYC, young Brooklyn charms her way into the inner circle of hustlers and stick-up kids, learning tricks along the way. She catches the eye of a major player in the drug game, Hassan, and they have a breathless love affair. Brooklyn becomes integrated into his operation, earning the trust of Hassan and his associates. But when she gets the keys to the kingdom, driven by unfettered ambition and a ruthless desire to survive, Brooklyn snatches the pot of gold, leaving bitter retribution promises behind her. From DC to Maryland, Brooklyn burns bridges and breaks hearts. What she doesn't realize is that someone is prepared to end her reign of terror. As she faces her killer and her fate, Brooklyn’s stunned that justice comes from the least likely place. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press."

Tracy Brown (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder: Recovery for Adults with the Plate-by-Plate Appr

"A much-needed guide for adults on how to tackle an eating disorder and rebuild a healthy relationship with food For many people, thinking about food is just one small part of their day. But for those struggling with an eating disorder (ED), these thoughts take over and leave them desperately asking, 'How can I eat normally again?' Dietitians Wendy Sterling and Casey Crosbie have the answer: the Plate-by-Plate Approach®, a no-numbers, visual method that teaches readers how to restore their relationship with food using only a ten-inch plate. This approach works across all eating disorder diagnoses—in conjunction with medical and psychological treatment—and helps individuals break free from the physical and psychological traps of an eating disorder, learn how to plate meals and snacks without measuring or counting, heal their relationship with their body and repair their body image, eat flexibly, paving the way to intuitive eating and a renewed sense of joy around food."

Casey Crosbie, Wendy Sterling (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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Menopause for Black Women: A Woman's Guide to Love Yourself, Lose Weight & Remedy Your Symptoms Natu

"Are you aged 45+ and tired of feeling stressed, anxious, or low-energy? It could be menopause. But first, read this... A 2022 study from SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) showed that Black Women reach menopause almost a year earlier than white women, and often have worse symptoms. As well as the hot flashes, trouble sleeping & hair thinning - Black Women were found to be less likely to receive adequate support & treatments. Perhaps you want to mitigate these symptoms & start feeling more like your best self? Or maybe you want to lose some weight & eat the right foods? In her hotly-anticipated new audiobook, Brandy Brooks uncovers: - Why menopause affects Black Women differently? - The best natural (herbal) remedies for treating menopause - Why she doesn't like to recommend mainstream therapies like HRT? - One thing to NEVER say to your husband when discussing menopause... - The #1 morning and evening rituals for feeling your best! - 4 keys to the right mindset for mastering menopause... - And much, much more! BONUS - In chapter 6, we're also giving you 20 tasty recipes which are perfect for aiding menopause symptoms - with meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, & snacks! From the debut author of the wildly successful 'Financial Freedom for Black Women' book, Brandy Brooks now guides you through Menopause & Perimenopause - with an audiobook written just for Black Women. So, if you want to finally get a handle on your menopause symptoms, start eating right and feeling healthier... Listen to this audiobook now!"

Brandy Brooks (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World

"American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality African residents preceded the English by a century and arrived in the Americas in numbers that far exceeded European migrants up until 1820. Afro-Americans were omnipresent in the founding and advancement of the Americas, and recurrently outnumbered Europeans at many times and places, from colonial Peru to antebellum Virginia. African-descended people contributed to every facet of American history as explorers, conquistadores, settlers, soldiers, sailors, servants, slaves, rebels, leaders, lawyers, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, inventors, investors, merchants, mathematicians, scientists, scholars, and presidents. The multitude of events and mixed-race individuals included in the book underscores that black and white Americans share the same history, and in many cases, the same ancestry. American Founders is meant to celebrate this shared heritage and strengthen these bonds."

Christina Proenza-Coles (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing

"A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars in sales and profits. The problem is that most of the wealth created winds up enriching elites, while the businesses funded by venture capitalists widen economic inequality. Committed to doing things differently, tech venture capitalists Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor launched Kapor Capital to prove that investing in gap-closing startups—companies whose services or products close opportunity gaps for both communities of color and low-income communities—is good business. Over the past decade, they’ve broadened the definition of success to include profits and accountability for the impacts a business has on employees, communities, and the planet, helping to launch close to two hundred companies engaged in achieving social and economic justice while showing remarkable growth, with many valued in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. Like every VC firm, Kapor Capital has experienced high-profile blowups and total losses. But its investing principles have created a stunning new ecosystem of Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors, all devising innovative, effective solutions to address the most pernicious problems afflicting many of America’s poorest communities. In Closing the Equity Gap, Freada and Mitch share their core belief that all companies must make a positive impact and that the obstacles entrepreneurs overcome in life are a far better predictor of long-term success than the schools they attend or investment dollars they raise from friends and family. Using stories behind some of the most remarkable companies ever launched, they show that the standard investment model doesn’t work, how it can be fixed, and what the future could look like if more investors joined them."

Freada Kapor Klein, Mitchell Kapor (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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A Womanist Theology of Worship: Liturgy, Justice, and Communal Righteousness

"In this 'love letter to the Black Church,' Dr. Lisa Allen examines the history of worship in the Black Church in America (and its legacy of equating liturgy with justice), the enduring effects of white supremacy on its liturgical heritages, and finally proffers a new liturgical paradigm, using a womanist hermeneutic, for students, liturgists, liturgical musicians, and lay people."

Lisa Allen (Author), Keyonni James (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Keyonni James