Audiobooks narrated by Rebecca Lam

Discredited: Power, Privilege, and Community College Transfer

"In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Schudde and Jabbar show how the decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often confusing process undermines equity and access in higher education. They illustrate how transfer success is closely tied to how educational institutions disseminate information about credit portability, especially for vertical transfer between community colleges and destination universities, in which prospective transfer students often confront hidden curricula and unfounded biases. This work is grounded in hundreds of interviews, data from a longitudinal study, and a synthesis of five decades of research. Schudde and Jabbar use strategic action fields, a framework that considers how rules and norms are maintained in an existing power structure, to examine the political–ecological contexts in which transfer-intending students and transfer-related college personnel interact within and across organizations. They frame transfer policy as a complex public higher education issue. Schudde and Jabbar call for transfer reform and offer insight into how transfer outcomes could be improved through better transparency, centralized policy, and even government intervention."

Huriya Jabbar, Lauren Schudde (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

HBR 10 Must Reads on Leading Winning Teams

"Elevate your team's performance. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on building a high-performing team from within, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you communicate more effectively, cultivate trust, build a learning and risk-taking culture, and transform your team from one of high potentials to one of high performers. From Tom Brady's advice on motivating your teammates to Amy Edmonson's best practices for building psychological safety, this book will inspire you to communicate openly and effectively; build unwavering trust, even from afar; establish foundational norms; align your team around a shared vision; create an environment of continuous learning; manage conflict and drive change; set ambitious goals and encourage your team to achieve them; and hold each other—and yourself—to high standards. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment."

Harvard Business Review (Author), Brandon Pollock, Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression

"In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on divisions among progressives at the local level, in community organizations, and at the national level, in the Democratic Party. By distinguishing between liberal and radical approaches to racism, class oppression, capitalism, and social movement tactics, Beeman shows how progressives continue to be limited by liberal ideology and perpetuate rather than dismantle white supremacy, all while claiming to be antiracist. She conceptualizes this self-serving process as 'liberal white supremacy,' the tendency for liberal European Americans to constantly place themselves in the superior moral position in a way that reinforces inequality. Beeman advances what she calls action-oriented and racism-centered intersectional approaches as alternatives to progressive organizational strategies that either downplay racism in favor of a class-centered approach or take a talk-centered approach to racism without developing explicit actions to challenge it."

Angie Beeman (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being

"The Inclusion Equation is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide to merging DEI and employee wellbeing concepts with data analytics and AI. In this book, renowned thought leader and professional keynote speaker Dr. Serena H. Huang explains exactly how to quantify the effectiveness of new talent strategies by connecting them to a firm ROI estimate, enabling listeners to approach and win the favor of higher-ups in any organization with the same effectiveness that marketing and financial departments do. This book is written in a style that is appealing and accessible to all listeners regardless of technical background, but with enough depth to provide real insight and strategies. Dr. Huang distills her ten years of Fortune 500 people analytics leadership experience into tools and framework you can leverage to measure and improve DEI and wellbeing in your workplace. Some of the topics explored in this book include how to attract and retain top talent, including Gen Z and Millennials, with tailored DEI and wellbeing strategies; quantifying not only a talent strategy's perceived initial effect on an organization, but also its improvement and expansion over time; turning DEI and wellbeing from illusive corporate concepts to quantifiable metrics; and how to harness the power of AI to create synchronized DEI and wellbeing strategies that maximize ROI."

Dr. Serena Huang (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead

"AI has the potential to transform leadership and the human experience of work—or to lead us into an automated and uninspiring work reality. Which one will it be? Humans have always been good at inventing tools that change the way we live and work—though not always good at adapting to those changes. Consider how the internet has given us instant access to gigabytes of data and yet has made us more distracted. Or how social media has enabled us to be more connected than ever, and yet it can also alienate or isolate us. Will the power of AI create a new era of robotic, impersonal efficiency, or will it catalyze a renaissance, redefining leadership and the world of work? So far, that question has mostly prompted a wave of anxiety about the disappearance of jobs and the loss of humanness in our work lives. But as Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter show in this essential book, that's a very limited perspective on the impact of AI, leaving out a crucial point: AI has the power to transform leadership for the better—the key is in how leaders use it. With deep insight and rigorous research, More Human will help leaders navigate our AI-enabled future."

Jacqueline Carter, Rasmus Hougaard (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

What's Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society

"In What's Real About Race?, sociologist Rina Bliss illuminates the truth about one of the most misunderstood, controversial concepts in our society and reveals why we cannot confuse race with genetic difference. Blending energizing prose with the latest in genetics research, this paradigm-shifting tour unmasks what's truly real about race: namely, racism's impact on our bodies and lives. Bliss traces the history of race, revealing how unscientific categories of identity—White, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native—became the standard, and illuminates how the myth of biological races endures in science and society, warping our understanding of complex topics like intelligence, disease susceptibility, and behavior. Along the way, What's Real About Race? busts enduring myths about IQ, ancestry tests, behavioral racism, and more. In fascinating explorations of gene research, medicine, and social justice, Bliss argues for a new way forward. To create equity in science and society, we must disentangle our understanding of genetics from identity and see race for what it really is: a purely social category. At a time when misinformation about our bodies and identities is dangerously prevalent, What's Real About Race? is an indispensable resource and a powerful reminder that, biologically, our similarities vastly outweigh our differences."

Rina Bliss (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor

"Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the 'corporate poverty complex,' a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor. Their business models depend on exploiting low-income Americans, and their political influence ensures a thriving set of industries where everyone profits except the poor, while United States taxpayers foot the bill. In Poverty for Profit, veteran journalist Anne Kim investigates the multiple industries that infiltrate almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition. She explains how these businesses are aided by public policies such as the wholesale privatization of government services and the political influence these industries wield over lawmakers and regulators. Supported by original investigative reporting on the lesser-known players profiting from the antipoverty industry, Poverty for Profit adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of how structural inequality and structural racism function today."

Anne Kim (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Walking with God Through the Valley: Recovering the Purpose of Biblical Lament

"Recovering the Practice of Lament The church desperately needs to recover the practice of lament. But what exactly are we asking for? The call for lament echoes throughout the pages of Scripture. This ever-present genre shaped the lives of ancient communities, and it should shape the practices of churches today. And yet contemporary Christian communities often don't know how to engage texts of lament in their contexts. In a world experiencing so much pain, a recovery of biblical lament is more necessary than ever. In Walking with God Through the Valley, Old Testament scholar May Young offers a guide for listeners to engage lament texts both in their church communities and in their personal lives. Drawing deeply from key passages in Scripture, including the Psalms, Habakkuk, and Lamentations, Young posits that true lament must come out of a deep understanding of the biblical text. Through practicing lament in our own lives, we can move through pain and suffering and experience God's renewed hope."

May Young (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Raise Your Frequency and Manifest Abundance: A Guide for Empaths, Intuitives, and Sensitives

"Discover Your Secret, Extrasensory Gift for Bountiful Living Learn how your intuitive, empathic, and sensitive nature can be a valuable ally in manifesting your highest good. This book teaches you how to allow abundance to effortlessly flow into all areas of your life. Sharing dozens of exercises and meditations, professional psychic and spiritual teacher Sherrie Dillard helps you to go beyond the conventional approach to extrasensory awareness. As you unlock your soul's full potential, ease replaces stress and your desires, wants, and needs appear. Empaths, intuitives, and the sensitive walk a sacred path. The pure light of your destiny is calling. With Sherrie's guidance, you can ascend to a higher state of consciousness and access divine creative forces. Along the way, you'll heal old wounds, release repressed emotions, and control what energy you absorb and feel. This practical, uplifting book shows you, step-by-step, how to live fearlessly and free."

Sherrie Dillard (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Frontier

"New Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award Frontier opens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisaical garden. Exploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life—barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures. A layered, multifaceted masterpiece from the 2015 winner of the Best Translated Book Award, Frontier exemplifies John Darnielle's statement that Can Xue's books are 'as if dreams had invaded the physical world.'"

Can Xue (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

What Lights You Up?: Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career

"What Lights You Up? takes listeners on a journey to find their next meaningful and fulfilling job—no matter where they are right now. Whether you're an industry veteran pivoting between fields, a stay-at-home parent just rejoining the workforce, or a college student trying to find their footing, this heartfelt, actionable, and authentic book covers everything you need to know about getting results in the modern world of work and is full of insightful, real-life stories of success that inspire the listener to take action in their own life. Inspired by renowned executive coach, business advisor, and speaker Mary Olson-Menzel's highly effective MVP 360 Coaching program, this book delivers insight on topics like: ● Developing and telling your own highly individualistic story to get noticed and hired ● Getting results from LinkedIn, social media, and personal branding ● Rocking the interview, negotiating the offer, and landing the job ● Staying on a path to vibrant success in your first three months at a new job—and the rest of your life What Lights You Up? is an essential guide and roadmap for everyone and anyone seeking direction in their career journey."

Mary Olson-Menzel (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Fuel Your Brain, Not Your Anxiety: Stop the Cycle of Worry, Fatigue, and Sugar Cravings with Simple

"Do you struggle with anxiety, sugar cravings, weight gain, and fatigue? You aren't alone. In our busy, overscheduled lives, many of us turn to fast food to relieve stress and meet the challenges of our jobs, families, and relationships. But these 'on-the-go' meals—which are typically low in protein and high in sugar—can actually contribute to our anxiety, add to our waistlines, and increase our risk of developing devastating medical problems. So, what can you do to break free from this vicious cycle? In this practical, feel-better-now workbook, you'll learn how to make healthier food choices, and discover how protein and sugar affect your emotions and energy on any given day. You'll also find convenient meal planning and tracking tools to help you monitor your progress, and a wealth of easy tips and doable ways to improve your diet, overcome fatigue, and restore your vitality and mental clarity. Everyone's heard the adage, 'You are what you eat.' When it comes to anxiety, research now shows that nutritional factors often underlie the anxious thoughts and feelings we have every day. With this life-changing workbook, you'll learn to use brain-boosting foods to stay one step ahead of anxiety."

Kristen Allott ND MS, Natasha Duarte MS (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

Audiobook

Audiobooks Narrated by Rebecca Lam