Elevate Beyond

At a time when career and job opportunities are becoming increasingly competitive, it is essential to do all you can to show your professional and personal uniqueness. In Elevate Beyond, Jake provides strategies, tips, stories and resources to show how you can stand out in work and life! As a recent graduate from the University of Southern California, Jake knows what it is like to search for internships and jobs and find ways to stand out from his peers. After going to resume seminars, networking events, mock interviews, and doing over 100 professional informational interviews, Jake has unlocked valuable knowledge that can save you time and money and help take you to the next stage of your professional journey. In discussions with the CEO of MVMT Watches, a current NFL player for the New England Patriots, professors from USC, and professionals from Apple and the finance world, Jake shares stories and suggestions on how to elevate yourself beyond the competition. Each interview focuses on a different skill set and showcases how you can succeed in all aspects of life. Jake combines these lessons with his own experiences to teach you how to discover a career you are passionate about, become a champion networker, and use resume, interview and social media strategies to stand out from your peers and colleagues. A framework for career and life advancement, Elevate Beyond combines real world experiences with actionable exercises that make it easy for the reader to apply. Jake's lessons and useful exercises prove that anyone can stand out from the crowd and achieve their goals. The only shortcut in life is to start now, and Elevate Beyond provides you with both the tools and knowledge to get you started on your path to success. As part of his personal journey and mission to give back, Jake will be donating a percentage of all proceeds to Children's Hospital Los Angeles in honor of his good friend David Stroud who passed away after a four year battle with cancer.

ELEVATE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS AND INCREASE YOUR HAPPINESS! From the bestselling author of Elevate Beyond, Kelfer offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from thousands of interactions and experiences with people from across the globe. In Elevate Your Network, Kelfer dissects 25 of the most important keys to building extraordinary relationships in life and business. Each key features stories, experiences, and a practical tip on how to elevate your network in action. In a world run by people, relationships drive happiness, success, wealth, love, and more. In this practical book, you will learn how to empower others at a deeper level, create win-win opportunities, and improve your overall quality of relationships. By reading Elevate Your Network, you will find the secrets and strength to enhance your ability to communicate and create amazing relationships in life and business.

Learn how to make data-driven research accessible to decision makers, policymakers, and the general public Many researchers, scholars, and analysts fail to develop communication strategies that work in today’s crowded landscape of content, research, and data. To be successful, modern researchersneed to share their insights with the wider audience that lies beyond academia. Elevate the Debate helps researchers of all types more effectively communicate their work in any number of areas, from traditional news outlets to the new media platforms of the digital age. After reading this book, you will be inspired and equipped to use traditional and digital media environments to your advantage. This real-world guide helps you present your data-driven research with greater clarity, coherence, and impact. An array of practical strategies and proven techniques enables you to make your research accessible to diverse audiences, form engaging narratives, and design and implement meaningful outreach plans. Each chapter examines a specific communications strategy, such as data visualization, presentation skills, social media, blog writing, and reporter interactions. Written by expert members of the Urban Institute’s Communication department, and edited by Jonathan Schwabish, a Senior Fellow at Urban, Elevate the Debate guides you on how to use the media environment to your advantage and make a difference through policy insights and policy solutions. This valuable book teaches you how to: Develop and apply data-driven and story-focused communication Use the “Pyramid Philosophy” of rooting accessible, engaging communications products in sophisticated research. Solve problems with your research by defining goals and recommending conclusions-based actions Identify the researchers, organizations, funders, influencers, and policymakers who are most important to your goals and precisely target their information needs Employ communication styles and strategies to get your work in the hands of people who can use it and act upon it. Elevate the Debate: A Multi-layered Approach to Communicating Your Research is a must-have resource for academic researches, policy researchers, and all analysts of data-driven research.

NOW A USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! What are your limits? Care to break them? To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down. In Elevate, award-winning CEO and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles—or capacities—that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habits, find your core principles, and build more rewarding personal and professional relationships. As we look to elevate ourselves, we must do so much more than beating the competition, because our greatest competition is ourselves! We need to find ways to consistently outperform ourselves and our own expectations. Robert has built a career on accelerating productivity and careers. Elevate is based on his four foundational elements necessary for elevating our performance: Spiritual: Who you are, what you want most and the standards you live by. Intellectual: How you think, learn, plan and execute with discipline Physical: Your health, well-being and physical performance Emotional: Your ability to overcome challenging situations, your emotional mindset and the quality of your relationships. Elevate explores each of these elements in detail and offers actionable tips you can use to start improving today. The key is elevating yourself beyond the edge of your current abilities. Challenge yourself, and the result will inspire others to rise along with you. It's time to break free of your limits.

FROM USA TODAY AND #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELEVATE Wake up. Get inspired. Change the world. Repeat. Global business leader and national bestselling author, Robert Glazer, believes we all have a responsibility to each other: to give one another the inspiration and support we need to be our best. What started as a weekly note known as Friday Forward to his team of forty has turned into a global movement reaching over 200,000 leaders across sixty countries and continually forwarded to friends and family. In FRIDAY FORWARD, Robert shares fifty-two of his favorite stories with real life examples that will motivate you to grow and push you to be your best self. He encourages you to use this book as part of a positive and intentional Friday morning routine to get the weekend started on a forward-looking note that will carry you through the week. At once uplifting and deeply thought-provoking, these stories will challenge you to propel yourself outside your comfort zone to unlock your innate potential. By making small, intentional changes, you have the power to create lasting impact, not only in your own life, but also to inspire those around you to do the same. Today is the perfect day to start. Glazer's collection of inspiring, thought-provoking stories gives the motivation and mentorship you need to build a more fulfilling life and career. —Daniel H. Pink, Author of When and Drive

“Evan consumes so much content and then knows how to DJ it to inspire people.” —Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times bestselling author of #AskGaryVee and Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook In this bold and empowering guide, entrepreneur and social media sensation Evan Carmichael shares the secret to turbo-charging your path to success on your own terms. With thought-provoking questions and inspiring, instructive examples, Your One Word will help you nail down your personal mottos - the word that captures your purpose and passion. With this operating philosophy in hand, you will then learn how to leverage this powerful tool to create the business and future of your dreams. Aimed at entrepreneurs as well as intrapreneurs, managers, and anyone else who wants to achieve success in a powerfully meaningful way, Your One Word more than just a useful tool. It's also an inspiring and enlightening read.

From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications. In Interdependence, biologist Kriti Sharma offers a compelling alternative to the popular view that interdependence simply means independent things interacting. Sharma systematically shows how interdependence entails the mutual constitution of one thing by another—how all things come into being only in a system of dependence on others. In a step-by-step account filled with vivid examples, Sharma shows how a coherent view of interdependence can help make sense not only of a range of everyday experiences but also of the most basic functions of living cells. With particular attention to the fundamental biological problem of how cells pick up signals from their surroundings, Sharma shows that only an account which replaces the perspective of “individual cells interacting with external environments” with one centered in interdependent, recursive systems can adequately account for how life works. This book will be of interest to biologists and philosophers, to theorists of science, of systems, and of cybernetics, and to anyone curious about how life works. Clear, concise, and insightful, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond explicitly offers a coherent and practical philosophy of interdependence and will help shape what interdependence comes to mean in the twenty-first century.

Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.