Welcome to Episode #003 of the Make Peace With Life Podcast: The Angry Episode

    

Welcome to Episode #003 of the Make Peace With Life Podcast: The Angry Episode

In this episode, we get real about something we all experience—anger. If you’re on a journey to make peace with life, does that mean you’re never supposed to feel upset, frustrated, or overwhelmed? Absolutely not. We talk about how these emotions are a natural part of being human and why embracing them—rather than suppressing them—is part of the process. We also dive into the importance of asking for help—something many of us struggle with. Whether it’s physical, mental, or emotional support, reaching out can be one of the most powerful things you do—not just for yourself, but for the people who genuinely want to be there for you. In our Life in the Slow Lane segment, we explore how slowing down isn’t just safer—it’s a reset that can help reduce stress and bring clarity back into your life. To close things out, we take a deeper look at life itself. Are our experiences just small pieces of a much bigger journey? Is anything truly coincidence, or do the connections we make carry meaning? Maybe it’s a little of both—and maybe that’s where the beauty lies. Be sure to visit MakePeaceWithLife.com to check out more podcasts and shortcasts, explore the blog, connect with the community, and find out how you can grab one of the coolest Make Peace With Life shirts for yourself.

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The Tennis Made Easy Collection

   

The Tennis Made Easy Collection 

The Tennis Made Easy Collection is the ultimate training digital resource for coaches, instructors, and passionate parents who want to guide players of all ages — from their very first steps on court to competitive performance. Digitable & Printable.

This complete bundle includes five digital products packed with ready-to-use exercises designed to make training sessions fun, structured, and effective: 📕 Minitennis Made Easy — Red Balls Introduce kids to tennis with over 50 playful and progressive games to build coordination, basic technique, and a love for the sport. 📗 Junior Tennis Made Easy — Green Balls Help young players develop solid technique, tactical thinking, and match-like play with 50 structured drills that transform practice into exciting challenges. 📙 Adult & Competitive Players — Yellow Balls Train advanced skills, tactical awareness, and competitive mindset through 50 innovative and high-intensity drills designed for experienced players. 📔 Tennis Fitness Fundamentals Your all-in-one guide to building the physical foundation every tennis player needs. + 1 WEEKLY PLANNER (1 page) to track your progress. ✔️ 200+ step-by-step drills and games/fitness exercises ✔️ Progressive structure from beginner to advanced ✔️ Developed by certified tennis coaches (FITP) ✔️ Easy to print and use on court ✔️ Available in 5 languages (EN, IT, FR, ES, DE) 🎁 BONUS INCLUDED 🎾 Tennis Digital Planner 2026 - Plan sessions, track progress, and bring structure to your entire tennis season. 🎾 Get 'Master Your Breath' (€19.90 value) FREE with every order — limited time! Whether you are a coach running group sessions, a parent supporting your child, or a player looking to elevate your game — this collection will save you time, keep every session engaging, and accelerate progress at every level. 🎾 Transform your tennis training — from first rallies to tournament performance.

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What Will Make Peace With Life Do For You?

What if the life you've been searching for isn't waiting somewhere in the future? What if happiness isn't hidden behind a bigger paycheck, a perfect relationship, or some magical moment when everything finally falls into place? In Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex invites you to step off the endless treadmill of "someday" and discover something far more powerful—the ability to find meaning, purpose, and peace right where you are. Through humor, honesty, personal insight, and metaphysical wisdom, this book helps you see that life isn't something to conquer or perfect. It's something to experience, learn from, and ultimately embrace.

Inside these pages, you'll explore the lessons hidden within life's greatest challenges and its most beautiful moments. You'll discover why there is no finish line to chase, why comparison steals joy, how energy connects us all, and why asking better questions may be more important than finding perfect answers. Whether you're navigating change, searching for direction, recovering from setbacks, or simply trying to understand your place in the world, this book offers a refreshing perspective that reminds you your life already has incredible value. It's not about becoming someone else—it's about understanding the incredible person you already are.

Most self-help books promise to give you answers. Making Peace With Life offers something even more valuable: permission. Permission to breathe when life feels overwhelming. Permission to grow without demanding perfection from yourself. Permission to appreciate your journey without comparing it to everyone else's. And most importantly, permission to make peace with life exactly as it is while still creating the future you desire. If you're ready to stop racing, stop chasing, and start truly living, then this book may be exactly what you've been looking for.

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Visions, Values, and Virtual Assistants; AI needs you more than you need to fear it

     

Visions, Values, and Virtual Assistants;

AI needs you more than you need to fear it

The freight train of AI is moving at terminal velocity. Are you steering it, or just sitting on the tracks?

In the rush to capture short-term margins, organizations are deploying Virtual Assistants as digital walls, unintentionally eroding the very brand equity they spent decades building. When a customer is trapped in an automated loop, or a grieving family member is "processed" by a bot, the cost isn't just a lost call—it’s a lost soul for the brand.

In Visions, Values, and Virtual Assistants, Dr. Kendall Williams provides a scientist-practitioner’s roadmap for the Dual-Environment. Drawing on over 20 years of operational leadership and a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, this book moves beyond the hype to offer a framework for Human-in-the-Loop automation.

This book will help you: • Move from fear to confidence in the age of AI. • Lead your team through AI-driven change without losing their trust. • Identify which parts of your job make you irreplaceable. • Recognize when AI helps your customers, and when it doesn’t. • Identify which customer interactions should never be handed to a bot.

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Music Is Your Superpower: How Music Changes Lives

   

Music Is Your Superpower:

How Music Changes Lives

Music Is Your Superpower, a compelling exploration of how music influences the brain, the body, and the stories we carry through life. Blending accessible science with real human experiences, Stein offers readers a fresh, uplifting perspective on why music matters, not just as entertainment, but as a fundamental part of who we are.

In clear, engaging prose, Stein breaks down the latest research on memory, rhythm, identity, and emotional well-being, showing how music shapes us from childhood throughout our lives. Alongside the science, she shares personal stories and interviews that reveal the profound, often unexpected ways music impacts everyday lives.

“Music is one of the most powerful forces we have,” Stein says. “It connects us, grounds us, and helps us understand ourselves. You don’t need training or talent to feel its effects, you just need to listen.”

What Readers Will Discover • How music rewires the brain across the lifespan • Why certain songs feel like emotional anchors • How rhythm and melody influence mood, memory, and creativity • The role music plays in identity, connection, and resilience • Practical ways to use music intentionally in daily life

Stein’s approach is warm, relatable, and rooted in both research and lived experience. The result is a book that speaks to musicians, music lovers, educators, and anyone who has ever felt changed by a song.

About Sammy Stein Sammy Stein is a respected music writer known for her insightful, emotionally intelligent work across jazz, creativity, and the human experience. With six previous books and a strong presence in the music literature world, and commissions from the Library of Congress and Reader’s Digest, she brings a unique blend of scientific understanding and narrative warmth to her writing.

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Music Is Your Superpower: How Music Changes Lives

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MATH MIND CRUNCH - TOME 3: Ultimate Math Crossword Puzzle

    

MATH MIND CRUNCH - TOME 3:

Ultimate Math Crossword Puzzle

Unlock Your Brain's Potential: MIND Math CRUNCH: The Ultimate Adult Math Crossword Puzzle Book!

Are you ready to challenge your mind, sharpen your numerical skills, and unwind with a truly engaging activity? Dive into our Adult Math Crossword Puzzle Book, meticulously designed to provide hours of stimulating fun and incredible cognitive benefits. Forget the mundane; this isn't your average crossword! We've transformed the classic puzzle into a thrilling numerical adventure. Each puzzle presents a unique blend of arithmetic, logic, and strategic thinking, where every correct answer unlocks the next piece of the puzzle. Why This Book Is a Must-Have: Boost Your Brainpower: Keep your mind agile and active! Solving these puzzles helps enhance problem-solving abilities, improve concentration, and boost memory recall. It's a fantastic workout for your brain, helping to maintain cognitive health as you age. Stress Relief & Relaxation: Step away from daily pressures and immerse yourself in a world of numbers. The focused nature of these puzzles offers a therapeutic escape, helping to reduce stress and promote a sense of calm and accomplishment. Rediscover the Joy of Math: Whether you're a math whiz or looking to brush up on forgotten skills, our puzzles are crafted to be accessible yet challenging. You'll find yourself enjoying numbers like never before, building confidence with every solved grid. Perfect for All Skill Levels: With a range of difficulties, from beginner-friendly to mind-bending challenges, there's something for everyone. Progress at your own pace and feel the satisfaction of mastering each level. Screen-Free Entertainment: Take a break from digital screens and enjoy a tangible, satisfying activity. Perfect for quiet evenings at home, long commutes, or relaxing vacations. The Ideal Gift: Looking for a unique and thoughtful gift for a friend, family member, or colleague? This book is perfect for anyone who loves puzzles, enjoys a mental challenge, or is looking for a new way to relax and learn. Don't just pass the time—invest in your mind! Grab your copy of the Adult Math Crossword Puzzle Book today and embark on a rewarding journey of mental fitness and endless entertainment. Your brain will thank you!

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Future Realities of Workplace

  

Future Realities of Workplace

The workplace has shifted from location of work to the engine of civilization: The crucible where technology, humanity, and global systems collide. In Future Realities of Workplace, Dr. Elijah Ezendu delivers a groundbreaking exploration of how emerging forces of AI, robotics, bionics, cultural values, mobility, regulation, ethics and sustainability will redefine how we work, live, and thrive.

Drawing on decades of foresight, global case studies, and bold scenarios, this book maps the drivers of transformation and the impacts on the world system. It shows how the future of workplace will determine the following.

• The global economy and competitiveness of nations.
• The recalibration of education into lifelong learning ecosystems.
• The relevance of talent in a world of automation and augmentation.
• The optimization of industries across all sectors.
• Sustainability of the planet, as workplaces become frontline actors in net-zero and wellbeing economies.

With visionary clarity, Dr. Elijah Ezendu blends analytical depth with future scenarios and vivid case studies. Each chapter moves beyond theory, offering a rich narrative of how humans, machines, and hybrid beings will share, and sometimes contest the future workplace: A portending potpourri of asymmetry between non-human workforce integration and equitable human advancement. If a responsive global governance stoke the fire of order, fittingly structured regulation shall definitely ensure dominance and continuity of human control; conversely, slow or apathetic governance approach in the face of rapid technological innovation will be an invitation to catastrophe.

At its heart, Future Realities of Workplace is a blueprint for leaders, professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and workers who want to design the future, instead of walking blindly into its pitfalls. It calls for workplaces built on adaptability, fairness, innovation, sustainability and human-centred purpose.

The message is clear: The workplace is not a side stage of history. It is the determinant of economic prosperity, human dignity, and planetary survival. To shape the workplace is to shape the future of civilization.

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Anica Storm & The Wand of Time (The Anica Storm Trilogy Book 1)

    

Anica Storm & The Wand of Time

(The Anica Storm Trilogy Book 1)

Anica Storm expected her European vacation to be unforgettable... She didn’t expect it to rewrite reality. After a chance encounter awakens powers no human was ever meant to possess, Anica is pulled into Airrah... a hidden world where realms collide, magic and science coexist, and ancient creatures walk openly among those who know how to see them. But Airrah is not the escape it first appears to be. Someone is hunting ancient relics once thought lost to history... godlike objects powerful enough to tear time and space apart. And now Anica has become part of the hunt. Thrown into dangerous worlds, uneasy alliances, impossible choices, and secrets no one wants uncovered, Anica must learn the truth about her growing powers before the wrong hands claim the most dangerous relic of all: The Wand of Time. Because the Wand of Time doesn’t rewind mistakes. It overwrites them. Entire timelines can vanish. Lives can be erased. And some victories come at a heartbreaking cost. With enemies closing in and reality itself beginning to fracture, Anica must decide how far she’s willing to go to stop what’s coming... before the future itself is erased. Nothing—and no one—is truly safe. Anica Storm & The Wand of Time is a fast-paced cinematic dark fantasy filled with portals, dragons, wizards, vampires, dark fae, ghosts, werewolves, magical universities, dangerous secrets, found family, dark humor, romantic tension, emotional fallout, and high-stakes consequences that continue to escalate throughout the trilogy. Perfect for readers who love immersive fantasy adventures with unforgettable characters, strange worlds, emotional intensity, and twists that hit when you least expect them. Welcome to the Realms of Airrah. The completed trilogy release schedule: Book 1 — Anica Storm & The Wand of Time — July 26, 2026 Book 2 — Anica Storm & The Wand of Knowledge — October 26, 2026 Book 3 — Anica Storm & The Wand of Destruction — February 27, 2027

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From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Real Advice for Real Women!

      

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Real Advice for Real Women!

Fed up with getting ‘advice’ from a minister that has a mistress on the side? Or a ‘man of the cloth,’ that suggests you must ‘live with and deal with’ being married to an abuser, a philanderer or a spouse whose sole career goal is to not HAVE a career? Are you still nurturing a mate that has been unemployed more years in his life than he’s been employed? Tired of psychoanalysts that are just plain ‘psycho and anal’ themselves? Frustrated by a therapist telling you to put your fears to ‘bed,’ as he tries to get YOU to bed? Real Advice For Real Women is the book for you if you’re ready to be the Powerful, Purposeful, Passionate woman you’ve envisioned yourself to be! Are you ready to take a step in the direction that encourages you to abandon the backward beliefs of an era past it’s time and that doesn’t acknowledge you in your prime? Learn to generate and create positive benefits in the four most important relationships in your life: •Relationship with YOU•Relationship With Your Children•Relationship With Your Spiritual Self•Relationship With Your Spouse/Lover/Mate

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Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology:

   

Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology:

A Dream Officer's Playbook for Tech Equity in Disability and Aging Services

by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown

What does freedom actually look like for someone who has been told what they cannot do their whole life?

That question lives at the heart of Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown. It is a book about what becomes possible when a whole community -- providers, families, Direct Support Professionals, policymakers, and the people being served -- decides that the way things have always been done is not good enough anymore.

The care system we are working inside was built in the 80s, way before we had the tools we have today. Imagine finding a pager from that era and thinking it still works -- then spending years looking for the payphone you need to go with it. We honor what was built with what we had. And now it is time for all of us to move forward together.

This is not a book about technology replacing people. It is about technology giving people back their time, their dignity, and their choices -- and giving the communities around them the tools to actually support that. DSPs who are burned out. Families who are exhausted. People with disabilities who deserve more than a system running on assumptions from 40 years ago. The blueprint is here. The community that changes this already exists. This book is for all of you.

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The Fall of Two Houses

Disclaimer: reading may require spiritual cleansing and other purification rituals. What would you sacrifice to keep your kingdom alive? In the Land of Dreams, light means life, tradition is law, and power is bought with blood. As Lord Crushma faces his own slow death, he races to secure his legacy before enemies close in and darkness swallows the Westlands. His solution is a political marriage, but his only heir is unfit to rule, his allies are corrupt, and every choice threatens to damn the realm he's trying to save. His most dangerous option is an ambitious Count, brilliant at starting conflicts and catastrophic at ending them. To refuse her may doom the Westlands. To accept her may ensure its destruction. The alternative is a young girl not nearly old enough to be courted, and Crushma must choose between the lesser of two evils.

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Every Person Has a Story to Tell

 

Every Person Has a Story to Tell

By Dr. Walter R. Hoge

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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Best of Friends Trilogy

 

Best of Friends Trilogy

Book 1: Best of Friends: What happens when a family death wreaks havoc among siblings? What would you do if the ‘peace-maker’ of the family suddenly loses control? If the opportunity arose, would you agree to simply ‘burn the will,’ sell the estate and split the proceeds? What would be your response when calling the cops and being told: “We’re not coming out, unless there are bullets flying and bodies to count?” Elizabeth Caliente is faced with such propositions in Sherry Brantley’s award-winning ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy. Best of Friends has won two national awards for ‘Best Fiction of the Year!’

Book 2: Before Best of Friends: In this much-anticipated prequel to the ‘Best of Friends,’ trilogy, readers discover how the Fabulous Five group were formed in their youth, and are introduced to the unfolding of the powerful secrets binding the group together. Secrets only this private group were privileged to know. Join this tight-knit group as you uncover the mystery of the ‘Secret of the Blanket.’ Included is an excerpt from the books’ final work of the trilogy, ‘Still Best of Friends.’

Book 3: Still Best of Friends: The explosive conclusion of the ‘Best of Friends’ trilogy! The Fabulous Five were bound together by secrets they’d all swore to carry to their graves. But with the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ exposing the ‘Secret of the Blanket,’ will the Fabulous Five find themselves desperately being consumed in a modern-day media frenzy that is threatening to consume them? Will this group of friends be able to survive the onslaught of the public revelation of their past deeds? Or will they crumble under the weight of their unexpected circumstances? Travel with the Fabulous Five: Elizabeth Caliente’, Kim Worthy, Kiona Stone, Angela Jackson-(A.J.) and Quineeta Davis as once again, they attempt to weather the storms of adversity that threaten to decimate their bond, their friendship, their past! Will the ‘Dastardly Duke Discovery’ prove to be the final nail in the coffin? Or will vow to continue to ‘deny ‘til they die,’ their involvement in the mystery they’re shrouded in?

Meet the dynamic members of the Fabulous Five as this explosive trilogy takes readers on a whirlwind excursion among five friends. Though often humorous, the ride is filled with lessons on friendship, family dynamics and strong relationships. You’ll love connecting and bonding with the members of the Fabulous Five, as they deal individually and collectively with the drama that surrounds them!

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and the Author

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