Sunday, May 17, 2026
The Ten Levels - From Having to Being
Friday, May 15, 2026
Lessons from the People Who Paid me (and the Ones Who Didn't)
Lessons from the People Who Paid me
(and the Ones Who Didn't):
A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand
Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn't): A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand by Ricka Raga is a 2026 best-selling guide focusing on the hidden dynamics of client management, brand strategy, and the realities of running a creative or service-based business.Raga, a brand strategist with over 13 years of experience, shares raw, actionable insights on, recognizing patterns, setting boundaries, and building a sustainable business.
What if the biggest lessons in your business did not come from your best clients, but from the ones who tested your limits?
In Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn’t), brand strategist Ricka Raga reveals what really happens behind client work. This is a direct look at patterns, mistakes, and hard earned clarity that no course or certification can teach.
This is not a book about getting more clients.
It is about understanding them.
Through real world experience working with businesses across industries, Ricka breaks down the hidden dynamics that shape every project. Some clients move your business forward. Others quietly drain your time, energy, and margins. The difference is not luck. It is pattern recognition and structure.
You will learn how to recognize recurring client archetypes, build systems that protect your business, and shift from reactive execution to strategic authority.
This book challenges the traditional narrative of freelancing and creative work. It moves beyond aesthetics, beyond hustle, and beyond surface level advice. It focuses on what actually builds a sustainable and scalable business.
Inside, you will discover:
- Why experience is about pattern recognition, not time
- How weak boundaries quietly destroy your business
- The real reason beautiful brands fail to generate revenue
- How to filter clients before they cost you time and money
- Why systems, not talent, drive long term growth
- The mindset shift required to move from service provider to authority
Written with clarity and conviction, this book is for creatives, freelancers, consultants, and founders who are ready to stop guessing and start operating with intention.
If you have ever been underpaid, overworked, or stuck in projects that never should have started, this book will change how you see your business and the people you choose to build it with.
Because in the end, your success is not just defined by what you do.
It is defined by who you allow in.
Monday, May 11, 2026
A Different Approach on the Skills of Life
What if the most important lessons in school were not only found in textbooks, but in the everyday choices that prepare young people for life beyond the classroom?
A Different Approach on the Skills of Life by Leatrice D. Williams opens the door to a curriculum built from more than three decades of teaching experience, community involvement, and a deep concern for how students grow as thinkers, citizens, and future professionals. This is not a traditional academic guide focused only on grades, tests, and classroom routines. It is a practical world of mock interviews, student portfolios, entrepreneurship projects, character education, public speaking, financial awareness, career exploration, teamwork, conflict resolution, and real-world readiness.
At its center is the belief that education should feel alive. A classroom can become a business trade show, a food truck competition, a career convention, a debate floor, a portfolio showcase, or a place where students learn how to speak, dress, listen, lead, apologize, and think with purpose. Leatrice’s approach brings “old school” fundamentals and modern life skills together, reminding educators that reading, writing, arithmetic, manners, character, and critical thinking still matter in a world shaped by technology and artificial intelligence.
The book carries the atmosphere of a busy, creative classroom where students are not passive learners but participants in their own future. They are asked to reflect on values, make decisions, solve problems, build confidence, and imagine the lives they want to pursue. The curriculum also responds to the social and emotional impact of the pandemic, recognizing that students may need renewed guidance in cooperation, attention, communication, and healthy interaction.
What makes this work stand out is its moral urgency. It asks educators to consider whether students are truly being prepared for life—or simply moved from one grade level to the next. The dilemma is clear: should education remain confined to academic instruction, or should it also teach young people how to function with integrity, independence, creativity, and respect in the real world?
Rooted in classroom experience and shaped by the Foundations program, A Different Approach on the Skills of Life presents education as preparation for more than a report card. It is preparation for interviews, careers, relationships, service, leadership, responsibility, and self-belief.
The final lesson is simple: when students are given practical skills, moral guidance, and room to discover their potential, the classroom becomes a foundation for life.
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Magick: From Chaos to Clarity
Magick Is Not a Myth—It’s the Energy You’re Already Using
Magick: From Chaos to Clarity is a powerful invitation to recognize what has always been flowing through you. Magick is not rare, distant, or reserved for ancient stories—it is happening constantly, created by billions of people every day, often without awareness. This book exists to pull that energy out of chaos and into clarity, helping you understand how magick actually works and, more importantly, how you are already using it. And yes, the “k” matters. Magic without it is illusion. Magick with a “k” is creation—the conscious shaping of energy to bring good into your life, your relationships, and the world itself.
Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to create, direct, and share magick intentionally, whether working alone, with small groups, large communities, or even on a global scale. The book explores the deep connection between love and magick, revealing how intelligent and responsive this energy truly is. You’ll begin to see how thoughts, intentions, emotions, and actions all combine into a living metaphysical practice—one you’ve been participating in your entire life. What changes is not your ability to create magick, but your awareness of how effortlessly you already do it and how much more powerful it becomes once you understand it.
By the time you finish Magick: From Chaos to Clarity, your perception of energy, intention, and possibility will be forever shifted. Magick is the most unlimited resource we have—there is no shortage, no competition, and no ceiling to what humans can create together. This book teaches you how to recognize, refine, and consciously use the magick you are already generating, turning everyday existence into an intentional metaphysical practice. As a bonus, you’ll also gain access to a free class on Happiness Notes, showing you how to spread magick through simple, powerful acts that brighten lives one person at a time. The myths of magick may start to look less like fantasy—and more like forgotten truths. Are you ready to step into clarity and change your life from the inside out?
Children's Road Trip: Maze book for Ages 4-12 (70 challenging mazes for kids)
Children's Road Trip:
Maze book for Ages 4-12
(70 challenging mazes for kids)

Saturday, May 9, 2026
Make Peace With Life ShortCast #003 - The Magick of the Double Arch
Make Peace With Life ShortCast #003 -
The Magick of the Double Arch
Welcome to another Make Peace With Life Shortcast, set against the incredible backdrop of the Double Arch in Arches National Park. In this episode, we explore the story behind this natural wonder—how it was formed over millions of years through erosion, pressure, and time. What stands today as something strong and awe-inspiring was shaped by gradual change and loss. We dive into the deeper symbolism of the Double Arch, reflecting on the idea of duality—light and dark, masculine and feminine, physical and spiritual—and how these opposing forces are not separate, but connected. We also tap into the metaphysical energy of this place, considering the possibility that structures like the Double Arch may represent more than just geology. Could it be a kind of portal—an opening between worlds, dimensions, or states of consciousness? Standing beneath it, you can’t help but feel small—and that feeling is part of the experience. Nature has a way of reminding us of our place, grounding us while also opening our minds. Ultimately, the Double Arch is more than just a rock formation. It exists because part of it was lost. Without that erosion, there would be no arch at all. In the same way, many of us are shaped by the losses in our own lives—and maybe, just maybe, there is a kind of magic in that process. This is your reminder to reflect, to connect, and to Make Peace With Life. Be sure to check out MakePeaceWithLife.com to explore more podcasts and shortcasts, read the blog, connect with the community, and grab one of our shirts.
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Friday, May 8, 2026
Every Person Has a Story to Tell
Every Person Has a Story to Tell
What if a life is not one straight road, but a thousand remembered paths crossing faith, grief, science, ancestry, and wonder?
Every Person Has a Story to Tell opens like a memoir, but it quickly expands into something larger and stranger: a life archive shaped by memory’s unreliability, family legend, spiritual longing, professional reinvention, and the haunting possibility that the most important places we visit may not belong entirely to this world. The book moves through ancestors, frontier histories, veterinary practice, personal losses, philosophical reflections, and a mystical valley that lingers in the author’s soul like an unfinished calling.
At its heart, the book gathers family history, memoir, faith, and reflection into a deeply personal meditation on memory, purpose, and the experiences that shape a life.
Its atmosphere shifts between grounded recollection and visionary experience. One moment, the book is contemplating squirrels, elephants, and the fragile mechanics of human memory; the next, it is standing at the edge of a glowing valley in what feels like a parallel universe, where fear gives way to peace and purpose. That tension gives the book its pulse: the earthly and the eternal, the documented and the imagined, the ordinary life and the life that seems to whisper from just beyond it.
What makes this book stand out is its refusal to separate disciplines that are usually kept apart. Science and religion, memory and myth, family history and personal testimony all occupy the same terrain. The central question is not simply what happened, but what a person does with what happened: how experience becomes meaning, how grief becomes redirection, and how a life can be measured not only by achievement, but by whether it remains open to wonder, service, and a second chance.
Some stories are told to preserve the past; others are told to light the way back to the self.
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