Audiobooks narrated by Sanya Simmons

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, Updated and Expanded (featuring 'What Makes a Leader'

"Develop the most important skill for leadership success If you read (or listen to) nothing else on emotional intelligence, listen to this book. We've chosen this selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review  articles to help you build the people skills you need to thrive, strengthen your resilience and self-awareness, and adapt your leadership style for any situation. This book will inspire you to discover your authentic sense of self; become more mindful and present at work; help your team become more emotionally intelligent; build optimism and openness to change; learn from tough criticism; and foster a culture of empathy and belonging. HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This updated and expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success."

Harvard Business Review (Author), Mike Lenz, Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Claire's Forever Love

"Claire Everson is working at her dream job, vet tech for Hawkins Ridge Animal Sanctuary. Growing up in Sunny View Trailer Park, she didn't think she'd achieve her goal of taking care of animals. Especially after her accident. When she took the job, she didn't factor in Jace Beckett; the youngest of the town's golden Beckett Family. A teddy bear wrapped in a handsome, charming package. His reputation as a man who couldn't commit made it easy to say no when he asked her out. Claire didn't want a repeat of her cheating ex-fiancé. Jace Beckett knew he had a reputation. He developed it for over a decade. Between his ex-girlfriend and seeing his brothers' heartbreaks, it justified his decision to never open his heart again. However, he never thought he'd find someone like Claire—a kind, beautiful survivor with a heart a gold. He wanted forever. He would do whatever it took to show her he was the man for her. That meant fully taking on his role in the family business. He and his brothers had goals for the business that relied on him. No pressure. Can Claire and Jace erase their personal fears and find love and belonging? Welcome back to Hawkins Ridge and Oak Mountain. Love and forever isn't just for the animals."

Ruby James (Author), Mike Lenz, Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Enneagram Every Day: A Modern Guide to Life, Love, and Career

"Discover your Ennegram type and how you can thrive in life, love, and career through the knowledge of writer and visionary creator, Dayo Ajanaku, aka @theblackenneagram. Enneagram writer and creator Dayo Ajanaku, aka @theblackenneagram, unfurls her Enneagram knowledge with this inviting book. Touching upon each of the nine Enneagram types in life, love, and career, this book is ideal for anyone looking to begin or further their journey into this popular personality typing system. Inside you will find: - Tips and advice from a writer with authority in the field - In-depth profiles on each of the 9 Enneagram types in life, love, and career - Information on each of the type wings - Examples of each of the types from popular TV shows, movies, and other media - Colorful, beautiful packaging ideal for gift giving"

Dayo Ajanaku (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Sheltering Naomi

"Can love flourish amid expectations, dishonesty, and duty? Naomi Hendrix is seeking a fresh start in the small rural town of Oak Mountain, Maryland. As the town's new veterinarian, she is rebuilding her life after a painful divorce and betrayal by her former neighbors. However, her mentor, Walter, warns her about the Beckett family, sowing fear they could destroy her growing business. Logan Beckett, a single dad, is eager to break free from his father's shadow, and is determined to pave his own way. Juggling to balance managing his family's rescue operation and raising his eleven-year-old daughter, romance is the last thing on his mind. When Logan crosses paths with Naomi, sparks ignite, but Walter's poisoned words marred their connection. While assisting with a rescue during a violent storm, Naomi finds herself stranded at Hawkins Ridge. Her time with the Becketts, she experiences the family's genuine compassion and uncovers the truth behind Walter's dislike. Can Naomi and Logan discover true love and conquer even the most sinister betrayal? In a setting where family ties, loyalty and animal rescue intersect, you're invited to visit Hawkins Ridge Sanctuary."

Ruby James (Author), Mike Lenz, Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Tarot in Other Words: An Essential Anthology by Leading Queer Tarot Writers

"Cassandra Snow's groundbreaking Queering the Tarot helped change the shape of tarot discourse for scores of new readers to reclaim this ancient practice in their own way. Tarot in Other Words opens doors for these brilliant tarotists, offering unique insights and concepts for tarot readers of all levels. Queerness will be a thematic thread running throughout the project, with individual essays tackling a variety of topics that expand on that theme in new and compelling ways. Presented in two parts, the anthology comprises ten essays that shine a light on the tarot from multiple queer perspectives. Understanding queerness—and why it matters in tarot—can teach all of us so much about not just gender and sexuality but also how and why we should liberate ourselves in the first place. These essays on queerness show us that who we are is right, beautiful, and sacred. Queerness teaches us to honor differences in others and understand that what is good for one may not be good for all. There is a historical basis for why tarot and queerness go hand in hand: for a lot of cultures, such as the Romani and other oppressed groups forced into nomadic lifestyles, fortune-telling using cards and other tools was and is to this day survival work. This is the same reason we see so many queer, BIPOC, and disabled people take up tarot in the US."

Cassandra Snow (Author), Charli Burrow, Kira Fixx, Sanya Simmons, Sarah Beth Pfeifer (Narrator)

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The Relationship-Driven Leader: Strengthening Connections to Enhance Productivity and Wellness at Wo

"Discover the power of relationship-building to enhance your leadership, boost your team’s well-being, and drive organizational success. Psychologist and organizational behavior expert Dr. Karen Bridbord sheds light on how nurturing strong work relationships can lead to unmatched productivity and greater overall wellness throughout an organization and among its staff. Through compelling research and insightful case studies, Bridbord reveals the detrimental impact dysfunctional relationships can have on both personal and business achievements, and how to come back from 'relationship system failure.' By rethinking workplace relationships, you can foster deeper connections within your team, resulting in enhanced cohesion and well-being for all members. The Relationship-Driven Leader explores the profound influence of everyday interactions on team experience and team performance. Bridbord emphasizes the importance of 'micro-moments' in leadership to spark significant improvements. This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. By focusing on well-being through relationship-building, you can create a healthier, more engaged, and more productive team."

Dr. Karen Bridbord (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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James Baldwin: The Life Album

"James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin's many incarnations have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin's work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin—the man behind the prophet and the online meme—who is the focus of this book. Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin's archives and material legacy—from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France—to offer a fresh look at the writer's understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin's own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin's troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin's development of a unique worldview, 'Black queer humanism,' premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice."

Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Climate Action for Busy People

"As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now. While large-scale innovations in policy and technology are necessary to preserve the planet, the wisest and most lasting adaptation solutions originate at the local level. However, with something as large as the climate crisis, it can be hard to know where to begin. Climate Action for Busy People is a hopeful and realistic roadmap for individuals and groups who want to boost climate preparedness and move the needle towards environmental justice. Drawing from her professional and personal success in climate adaptation and community organizing, Cate Mingoya-LaFortune begins with a brief history of why our communities look the way they do and how that affects how vulnerable we are to climate risks. Each chapter will help listeners scale up their actions, from identifying climate solutions that an individual or small group can pull off in a handful of weekends to advocating for change at the municipal level. It's not too late for people of all ages and skill levels to create climate safe neighborhoods. Climate Action for Busy People is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to make lasting and equitable improvements that will make their communities climate resilient."

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings. It is 'the work that makes all other work possible.' But as historian Premilla Nadasen argues, we have only begun to understand the massive role it plays in our lives and our economy. Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today's care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people's pain translates into other people's profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future."

Premilla Nadasen (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Motheater

"In this nuanced queer fantasy set amid the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, the last witch of the Ridge must choose sides in a clash between industry and nature. After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea 'Bennie' Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her reputation to uncover what’s killing miners on Kire Mountain. When she finds a half-drowned white woman in a dirty mine slough, Bennie takes her in because it's right—but also because she hopes this odd, magnetic stranger can lead her to the proof she needs. Instead, she brings more questions. The woman called Motheater can't remember her true name, or how she ended up inside the mountain. She knows only that she's a witch of Appalachia, bound to tor and holler, possum and snake, with power in her hands and Scripture on her tongue. But the mystery of her fate, her doomed quest to keep industry off Kire Mountain, and the promises she bent and broke have followed her a century and half into the future. And now, the choices Motheater and Bennie make together could change the face of the town itself."

Linda H. Codega (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation

"The lives and writings of six leading Black Buddhist women—Jan Willis, bell hooks, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, angel Kyodo williams, Spring Washam, and Faith Adiele—reveal new expressions of Buddhism rooted in ancestry, love, and collective liberation. Lifting as They Climb is a love letter of freedom and self-expression from six Black women Buddhist teachers, conveyed through the voice of author Toni Pressley-Sanon, one of the innumerable people who have benefitted from their wisdom. She explores their remarkable lives and undertakes deep readings of their work, weaving them into the broader tapestry of the African diaspora and the historical struggle for Black liberation. Black women in the U.S. have adapted Buddhist practice to meet challenges ranging from the injustices of the Jim Crow South to sexual violence, social discrimination, and bias within their Buddhist communities. Using their voices through the practice of memoir and other forms of writing, they have not only realized their own liberation but carried forward the Black tradition of leading others on the path toward collective awakening."

Toni Pressley-Sanon (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Trailblazer: The Story of the First Black Female Secret Service Agent to Protect the President and H

"Trailblazer is the remarkable and inspiring story of Cheryl Tyler, a Black woman who defied all odds and shattered barriers in her quest to protect the highest office in the land. This memoir transports listeners into Tyler's world as she embarks on a journey to become the first Black female agent assigned to the Presidential Protective Division of the United States Secret Service. Her dedication, resilience, and unwavering commitment to her duty shine through as she serves as a top agent, safeguarding not only Presidents George H. W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton but also world leaders and celebrities. Those accomplishments earned her well-deserved accolades, but this book uncovers the story of the challenges she faced as a woman of color in a predominantly male all-white profession. Tyler's memoir delves into the heart-wrenching struggles she endured during an eighteen-year class action lawsuit against the USSS. Alongside other Black agents, she fought relentlessly to eradicate racial slurs, workplace discrimination, and unfair employment practices within the Agency. As plaintiffs, they emerged victorious, securing a historic $24 million compensation. Listeners will be captivated by Tyler's resilience and triumph as she shines a light on one woman's fight for equality and her extraordinary journey to make a lasting impact."

Cheryl Tyler (Author), Sanya Simmons (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Sanya Simmons