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Multiple experts share how they were able to overcome limits to achieve the "next level" in their business, mindset, and/or relationships. In "Level Up" -- you'll hear from experts in business, mindset, and life -- and how THEY were able to surpass their goals, turn disadvantages into advantages, and create their ideal lifestyle! Including...- LARRY DODD was frustrated when it came to inspiring change (and confidence) in his subordinates and co-workers. The solution is for you to create your three "playbooks" that help you discover change from frustration and lead to you getting "comfortable being uncomfortable."- LARRY BECHT sympathizes with the issue of modern-day business being too "crowded" -- and the answer is to use publicity (Authority Marketing) to stand out from the crowd.- DREW GRIFFIN struggled landing local clients until he co-created a new method called Local Media Assets that allowed business owners to come to him, using contests and giveaways.- LANCE TAMASHIRO understands, much like you do, that you can't scale as only one person, but it's also difficult (and scary) to trust others to run your business for you. His solution is for you to hire a full time employee, NOT a freelancer, and he shares the tools and mindsets you'll need to implement to make it happen.- ROBERT PLANK can get you to break out of your shell using podcast interviews -- find out what all the fuss is about and how you can use the WWHW (Why, What, How-To, What-If) formula to consistently network with experts in your industry.- SYNDEE HENDRICKS wants to know: Where is your hidden money? If you've ever felt like giving up, you might simply need to re-focus and consider a new perspective.- TAMMY WASINGER, Functional Medicine Health Coach, has easy and actionable advice for you to improve your diet and lifestyle with a few simple changes, so that you can be your best self and live your best life.- JEANETTE CHASWORTH, The Color Whisperer, wants you to reinvent, recreate and reimagine your home, closet, and surroundings, so that you can move on and grow.- MELINDA KELLY is no stranger to painful growth, mentors, learning, and being resourceful out of necessity.- COLLEEN REKERS can relate to your need to sometimes re-invent yourself, discover self-care, and update your mental "writing" in order to get to your final destination!- SUZY PRUDDEN says that failure is her best tool when it comes to leveling up. Discover her secrets when it comes to grit and determination.- DR. MIKE WOO-MING wanted to escape the "trap" of being a doctor -- he was ready to work smarter, take risks, find fulfilment, and escape fear.Claim your copy of "Level Up: The Best Kept Secrets to Overcoming Roadblocks, Achieving Success & Multiplying Results" so that you too can be inspired, educated, entertained and informed by the adversities of others. Avoid the usual boring facts & figures, cliched advice, and outdated material... instead, take the advice of those "mentors" you can learn from.

This provocative and accessible narrative recounts the inside story of how a broad-based people's campaign was mobilized and subsequently succeeded in pushing Congress to create a consumer financial regulator with clout. What would Congress do—if anything—to tame Wall Street and the nation's lenders following the financial meltdown of 2008? This book tells the true story of how an alliance of consumer, civil rights, labor, fair lending, and other progressive groups emerged to effectively challenge Wall Street and its official protectors and to win substantial new legislative reforms—actions that resulted in the Dodd-Frank Act and its path-breaking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Based largely on in-depth interviews with the leading activists involved in the campaign, Financial Justice: The People's Campaign to Stop Lender Abuse taps into the world of contemporary citizen movements to present evidence into the conditions that determine the success and failure of social movement campaigns. It goes well beyond general, global variables, such as "effective management," to show how the formal and informal rules adopted by a campaign can serve to preclude fragmentation and incoherence.

In Bed with Wall Street offers a look under the sheets at the incestuous relationship between Wall Street, Washington, and the regulators who are supposed to protect the rest of us. The Wall Street meltdown in 2008 brought the country to its knees, and spawned nationwide protests against the lack of regulation and oversight facing Wall Street. But the average American still fails to fully grasp what was—and still is—happening: that the inmates continue to run the asylum. Doyle has been tracking this story for years through his blog Sense on Cents, and exposes here how Wall Street, our politicians, and the regulators themselves have conspired for personal and industry-wide gains while failing to protect investors, consumers, and the American taxpayer. He details the corrupt nature of Wall Street's financial police, who are little more than meter maids imposing fines that amount to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. He exposes the revolving door of Wall Street, wherein the regulators are all former or future employees of the very firms they're tasked with overseeing, and how they routinely serve the interests of the industry itself rather than protecting investors and markets. Recent bombshells—such as multi-billion dollar trading losses at JP Morgan Chase, the manipulation of interest rates via the LIBOR scandal, and money laundering with North American drug cartels and rogue nations such as Iran—are symptomatic of this corrosive culture and the lack of trust and confidence in the system. As the big banks fight tooth and nail to avoid real reforms that would protect the economy, this book is a timely, important, and shocking look inside the Washington-Wall Street conspiracy crippling America and the global economy.

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb unsafe and unfair practices that led to the 2008 financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why. Open for business in 2011, the CFPB was Congress's response to the financial catastrophe that shattered millions of middle-class and lower-income households and threatened the stability of the global economy. But only a few years later, with U.S. economic conditions on a path to recovery, there are already disturbing signs of the (re)emergence of the high-risk, high-reward credit practices that the CFPB was designed to curb. This book profiles how the Bureau has attempted to stop abusive and discriminatory lending practices in the mortgage and automobile lending sectors and documents the multilayered challenges faced by an untested new regulatory agency in its efforts to transform the broken-but lucrative-business practices of the financial services industry. Authors Kirsch and Squires raise the question of whether the consumer protection approach to financial services reform will succeed over the long term in light of political and business efforts to scuttle it. Case studies of mortgage and automobile lending reforms highlight the key contextual and structural conditions that explain the CFPB's ability to transform financial service industry business models and practices. Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward is essential reading for a wide audience, including anyone involved in the provision of financial services, staff of financial services and consumer protection regulatory agencies, and fair lending and consumer protection advocates. Its accessible presentation of financial information will also serve students and general readers.

"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight." —Entertainment Weekly She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home. She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and rotting sneakers, carrying a purse with a half pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. Even in 1985 Mississippi, two dollars won't go far on the road. She's headed for the bright lights and big times and even she knows she needs help getting there. But help's not hard to come by when you look like Fay. There's a highway patrolman who gives her a lift, with a detour to his own place. There are truck drivers who pull over to pick her up, no questions asked. There's a crop duster pilot with money for a night or two on the town. And finally there's a strip joint bouncer who deals on the side. At the end of this suspenseful, compulsively readable novel, there are five dead bodies stacked up in Fay's wake. Fay herself is sighted for the last time in New Orleans. She'll make it, whatever making it means, because Fay's got what it takes: beauty, a certain kind of innocent appeal, and the instinct for survival. Set mostly in the seedy beach bars, strip joints, and massage parlors of Biloxi, Mississippi, back before the casinos took over, Fay is a novel that only Larry Brown, the reigning king of Grit Lit, could have written. As the New York Times Book Review once put it, he's "a writer absolutely confident of his own voice. He knows how to tell a story."

The 2015-16 season marked a significant moment in Clemson football history. Not only did the team play in its first national championship in thirty-four years, but the nation also finally took note of the burgeoning renaissance. When Dabo Swinney told a national television audience about his team's willingness to "bring your own guts" after an emotional win over Notre Dame, it was a spontaneous line to a television reporter in the delirious, rain-soaked aftermath of a landmark victory. But Swinney's comment also underscored the identity and drive that would fuel a truly special season. Larry Williams relays the intimate details of Swinney's life, his impact on Tiger Town and his mission to create an elite program on and off the field.

The San Rameo Cross was an artifact of enormous religious significance ... and a not-so-small fortune in cold, hard cash. ...When he decided to investigate the murder of a fellow private eye, Larry Kent found himself caught up in a web of intrigue as greedy men and women vied to own the near-priceless relic.First to come forward was Emanuel Constatine, a fussy little man who hated violence and yet was prepared to kill to get what he wanted. Then there was Alice Gordon, a seductive woman for certain, but also one of many secrets. The same could be said for the scheming, sable-haired Marina Koch. But most deadly of them all was the skeletal Hendrick Fluger, a man described as the devil himself, and whose name was only ever spoken in terrified whispers!

The most difficult killer to catch is the one who doesn't realize he's a killer! That was Larry Kent's dilemma when he signed on to protect beautiful actress Valerie Nash.Whoever he was, the mystery murderer was two distinct personalities in one ... and the dark side of him was slowly but surely gaining dominance.As bodies started piling up, Larry uncovered one man's dirty secret and another's violent past. But even when he worked out who the killer was, there was still one more problem to overcome ... to make the man realize just how many lives he'd taken in the name of his twisted love for Valerie ...

It began when Larry Kent's old boss at the CIA asked him to come back for one more assignment - to a kill a double-agent who also happened to be one of his closest friends. Larry couldn't go through with it ... and it was just as well that he didn't, because nothing was as it appeared to be. An enemy of the United States had perfected a terrifying mind-manipulation drug - and after that, it became Larry's job to find out just who that enemy was. The trail took him first to Mexico City, then on to Australia, where he met up with an old love ... and an even older enemy, who wanted him dead! (Book 703)