My Michael

The biggest hurdle between you and your plans for growth is this: nobody knows you. This is true if you’re a freelancer, an employee, an executive, even a company founder. You may be going all out with your company brand, but you’ve neglected to hone your own. But the first thing your business needs to grow, is you. If you feel like there is way more potential than you are currently leveraging, this book is for you. It is for those wanting to scale their business. For those sitting on a great idea with nowhere to go next. For those experts looking for ways to share the knowledge. For those corporate execs who need to find the next competitive edge. And for those who simply want to find another career path. It is time your prospects, future customers, investors or employer got to know you. Fix this basic flaw of remaining under the radar. With the insights in this book, you’ll set out your strategy and create content. Not just any content, but content that matters. Content that makes you tick and brings you the right contacts. Build your thought leadership and leverage it as a mechanism to scale your business—starting with yourself. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Michael Humblet is obsessed with designing, building, training and scaling sales machines and marketing teams. Twenty years into his sales leadership career, he realised something that stopped him dead in his tracks. Growing a business is not about scaling the sales, it’s about scaling you as a person. Today, Humblet shares what he knows. He started a consulting and training business, climbs the stage as a public speaker every week of the year, founded The School of Sales and The House of Spark, and has helped over 1000 businesses to scale

This novel is at once a haunting love story and a reflective portrait of place."--Jacket.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Galore comes another unforgettable novel. By turns darkly comic and heartbreakingly sad, Sweetland is a deeply suspenseful story about one man's struggles against the forces of nature and the ruins of memory. For twelve generations, when the fish were plentiful and when they all-but disappeared, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay alone on an island. That coot is Moses Sweetland. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, haunted by memories of the short and lonely time he spent away from his home as a younger man, and concerned that his somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses refuses to leave. But in the face of determined, sometimes violent, opposition from his family and his friends, Sweetland is eventually swayed to sign on to the government's plan. Then a tragic accident prompts him to fake his own death and stay on the deserted island. As he manages a desperately diminishing food supply, and battles against the ravages of weather, Sweetland finds himself in the company of the vibrant ghosts of the former islanders, whose porch lights still seem to turn on at night.

In August 1943, Sergeant Craddock leads his battle-weary platoon down Via Garibaldi in Catania, Sicily. Struck by the oppressive heat and their alien new surroundings, the men soon settle into this lull in their combat experience. The next few weeks take on a dreamlike quality as newfound relationships flourish and the war itself – let alone homelife in Britain – recedes into the distance. Against this backdrop, the second book of Alexander Baron’s War Trilogy meditates upon friendship, loyalty and love.

Novel of the microcosmic world of a kibbutz community located near the Jordanian frontier.

“Planetside is a smart and fast-paced blend of mystery and boots-in-the-dirt military SF that reads like a high-speed collision between Courage Under Fire and Heart of Darkness.” – Marko Kloos, bestselling author of the Frontline series A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet… War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big—and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated—but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command. The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won't come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that’s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet—because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The answers are there—Butler just has to make it back alive… “Not just for military SF fans—although military SF fans will love it—Planetside is an amazing debut novel, and I’m looking forward to what Mammay writes next.” – Tanya Huff, author of the Confederation and Peacekeeper series

The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.

The Purpose of the Book: Remembering Michael reads as my own emotional tapestry of healing from the trauma of stillbirth through different forms of writing, including research writing, personal essay work, poetry, and journaling. Throughout this ode to healing, I bring you, the reader, along with me through my healing process, describing the unique benefits of the different forms of writing and my own experiences in writing these pieces. Moreover, my narrative is grounded in the research on healing through writing, including guidance on replacing a dispiriting story with an uplifting one (Meijers & Lengelle, 2012), research on the psychology behind writing for healing purposes (MacCurdy, 2000), information on healing through poetry (Kooser, 2005), and more. Contents: Remembering Michael is split into six sections that follow the chronological order of my experience with stillbirth, as follows. Section One: Losing Michael outlines my experience of finding out that Michael had passed away and coming to terms with the imminent labour and birth with this new lens. Section Two: Labour & Delivery follows the labour process, complications that we faced, and the birth. Section Three: Healing Pains outlines the first few months following the birth, including returning home, getting Michael cremated, and planning Michael's memorial. Section Four: A New Story describes the way in which writing strengthened me to heal and grow in the months following the stillbirth; it also describes how this shocking and tragic story turned into one of appreciative remembrance of a son we never took home. Section Five: His Perspective includes an interview with my partner, Nigel, as he outlines his own trauma experience as the father of a son lost to stillbirth and his own process of healing through writing. The final section, Section Six: Process, Readiness, & Revision, provides a discussion on my process of utilizing writing for healing purposes, including a contemplation on my experience with (and readiness for) embarking on a course with this subject matter after such a traumatic life event, as well as a note about the importance of the revision process in writing for healing. Supporting Women & Newborns in BC: To support other women and newborns in my province, 15% of my own earnings from Remembering Michael ebook and print book sales will be donated to BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre, an organization whose main goal is to improve the health of women and newborns in British Columbia. See the below link for more information about this cause. http://www.bcwomens.ca/. Author website: https://dd-larocque.wixsite.com/rememberingmichael