Download or read book Chasing Likes written by Carlee Krtolica and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it's really like to be an influencer? In Chasing Likes, Carlee shares the highs and lows of what it's really like to be an influencer. In a behind the scenes look, she shares the hard work and hustle that it takes to be successful in the field amid all the competition, drama and adolescent behavior that go along with it. Being an influencer isn't all fancy parties and gift boxes arriving at your door - it's a competitive business and there is always someone waiting to take your place. She demystifies the fallacy of what influencers post to their social media feeds and dives into the truth on how influencers make a living trading in the currency of perceptions. In what appears to be a world of wannabe reality stars, Carlee speaks to the main problem facing influencer marketing today: what she dubs "the authenticity gap". Chasing Likes covers everything you've ever wanted to know about the influencer world from mom shaming to mean girls, frenemies, the realities of Instagram engagement, and tackling current social issues including posting the infamous "black square".

Download or read book Generation Brand written by Irina Soriano and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-04-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right this minute, you are the proud owner of a library full of content. And congratulations, it’s all about you! Cute, rambunctious, smart, or downright unflattering photos, videos, phrases, behaviors, what and who you like and love, where you’ve been, and what elicits your frown or thumbs down. You and your reactors have been building your life-brand since the birth of your life online. With trolls, cancel culture, reputational damage, and career destruction tainting our new connected reality, isn’t it time you take control of it? Generation Brand is a modern playbook for cultivating your life-brand seamlessly through every life stage, leading to your early career and career advancement, as it gains power and strength with the rapid accumulation of live-out-loud content. Besides the different scenarios of life-brand, author Irina Soriano explains how it enables every human with social media access to impact positive change in their life and our society over the course of a lifetime. Also, start your exciting life-brand journey in real-time with an original Life-Brand Launch Kit designed by the author. It’s your life(-brand)! Love it forever. Book Review 1: "Irina Soriano is boldly taking a stand on gender equity for ‘Generation Brand’ (those born 2012-2030), introducing new thinking that has a clear link between the need to polish the social media landscape that girls and women are growing up in and empowering them to feel confident, equal to their male counterparts, and ultimately motivated to propel their career path to executive levels. The masses can benefit from the concept of life-brand and mastering it for a fulfilling, fair and just life.” —Susan MacKenty Brady, CEO, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership Book Review 2: “In a world of rapid change and innovation, this book is both a wake-up call about the pitfalls accompanying this progress, and a roadmap for using the concept of life-brand as a new tool for social good and personal welfare. Managing your personal information and how it impacts your reputation and life-brand is going to be an essential part of everybody’s toolkit. Today, we are able to project our views, beliefs, knowledge, experience, and personalities onto a wide, sometimes even global canvas. Learning to do that safely and effectively is going to be an indispensable skill set for ‘Generation Brand’ and future generations, both in the workplace and in private settings.” —Christopher Willcox, former CEO JP Morgan Asset Management

Download or read book Chasing the Thrill written by Daniel Barbarisi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune. Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest. But the mystery didn't end there. Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.

Download or read book Chasing Slow written by Erin Loechner and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Slow models HGTV star Erin Loechner's journey to help you break out of the faster-better-stronger trap and make small changes to refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to what matters most. You're here, but you want to be there. So you spend your life narrowing this divide, and you call this your race, your journey, your path. You live your days tightening your boot straps, wiping the sweat from your brow, chasing undiscovered happiness just around the bend. And on and on you run. Viral sensation and HGTV.com star Erin Loechner knows about the chase. Before turning 30, she'd earned the title "The Nicest Girl Online" as she was praised for her authentic voice and effortless style. Her HGTV web show garnered over one million fans worldwide, and her client list includes Walt Disney World, IKEA, Martha Stewart and Home Depot. The New York Times applauded her, her friends and church admired her, and her husband and baby adored her. She had arrived at the ultimate destination. So why did she feel so lost? Through a series of steep climbs--her husband's brain tumor, bankruptcy, family loss, and public criticism--Erin learns just how much strength it takes to surrender it all, and to veer right into grace. In Chasing Slow, Erin upgrades her life through downsizing--her stuff, her obligations, her fears, her personal metric of "perfect." And ultimately, her invitation becomes yours: to turn away from the fast and frenzy, and find freedom in a new-fashioned lifestyle defined by grace. Life's answers are not always hidden where they seem. It's time to venture off the beaten path to see that we’ve already been given everything we need. We've already arrived. You see? You'll see.

Download or read book Cyber risk and Youth written by Michael C Adorjan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber-risks are moving targets and societal responses to combat cyber-victimization are often met by the distrust of young people. Drawing on original research, this book explores how young people define, perceive, and experience cyber-risks, how they respond to both the messages they are receiving from society regarding their safety online, and the various strategies and practices employed by society in regulating their online access and activities. This book complements existing quantitative examinations of cyberbullying assessing its extent and frequency, but also aims to critique and extend knowledge of how cyber-risks such as cyberbullying are perceived and responded to. Following a discussion of their methodology and their experiences of conducting research with teens, the authors discuss the social network services that teens are using and what they find appealing about them, and address teens’ experiences with and views towards parental and school-based surveillance. The authors then turn directly to areas of concern expressed by their participants, such as relational aggression, cyberhacking, privacy, and privacy management, as well as sexting. The authors conclude by making recommendations for policy makers, educators and teens – not only by drawing from their own theoretical and sociological interpretations of their findings, but also from the responses and recommendations given by their participants about going online and tackling cyber-risk. One of the first texts to explore how young people respond to attempts to regulate online activity, this book will be key reading for those involved in research and study surrounding youth crime, cybercrime, youth culture, media and crime, and victimology – and will inform those interested in addressing youth safety online how to best approach what is often perceived as a sensitive and volatile social problem.

Download or read book Chasing Lucky written by Jenn Bennett and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this coming-of-age romance perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen, scandal and romance collide when an ambitious teen returns to her hometown only to have her plans interrupted after falling for the town’s “bad boy”—a.k.a. her childhood best friend. Sometimes to find the good, you have to embrace the bad. Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it’s not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn’t plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel…and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the newly returned Josie. But everything changes after a disastrous pool party, and a poorly executed act of revenge lands Josie in some big-time trouble—with Lucky unexpectedly taking the blame. Determined to understand why Lucky was so quick to cover for her, Josie discovers that both of them have changed, and that the good boy she once knew now has a dark sense of humor and a smile that makes her heart race. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not quite the brooding bad boy everyone thinks he is…

Download or read book Real Recognition written by Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover, she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations, as opposed to identity and status, for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this, she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Download or read book Chasing Manhattan written by John Gray and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Manchester Christmas comes a new adventure full of love, generosity, and heart-pounding intrigue. Following the runaway success of her first novel, Chase Harrington is hiding in Manhattan. Assuming the visions from her past are behind her, Chase takes an assignment that lands her in the center of a new mystery surrounding a mansion known as Briarcliff Manor and deceased millionaire Sebastian Winthrop. A letter, left by Sebastian, reveals three secrets surrounding the mansion where Chase is now living. Silent messages begin to appear, urging her to help those closest to her who are now in peril, including a deaf child shut away from the world and a war veteran still haunted by his past. With her handsome boyfriend, Gavin, and faithful dog, Scooter, at her side, Chase must unlock the secrets of Briarcliff, help those she has come to love and face the surprise ending not even she saw coming. This latest Chase Harrington adventure is so full of romance, kindness, mystery, and astounding twists and turns, it will leave you wanting to grab a flashlight and best friend, to go searching for clues in the dark.

Download or read book Chasing Darkness written by Danielle Girard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderer is stalking women who have had professional dealings with Department of Justice agent Samantha Chase, and the local police chief is convinced that Chase is the killer. Samantha and her ex-boyfriend, Detective Nick Thomas, try to prove her innocence, and in the process Samantha is forced to confront her long-repressed emotions about childhood abuse.

Download or read book I Declare War written by Levi Lusko and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all battle inner struggles—whether it's self-doubt, depression, fear, or anger. It’s time to get out of your own way. Whether you recognize it or not, you're at war with yourself. There's anxiety. Selfishness. Self-sabotaging tendencies. Narcissism. Depression. The inability to do the great things you long to do because you spend so many hours mindlessly drifting through the internet. It is war, but all is not lost. You can win—if you choose to engage. In I Declare War, Levi Lusko candidly shares his struggles with moodiness, bullying, suicidal thoughts, night terrors, and difficulty managing himself. He identifies four weapons you have at your disposal—thoughts, words, behaviors, and power—and illustrates how to use them to achieve ongoing victory. These practical tools from God’s Word will help you learn to: Retaliate against your anxiety by filling your heart with truth and making it inhospitable to terror Stop being victimized by your bad behaviors and become the victor you were born to be Overcome self-imposed isolation by learning to think right so you can live right Spare your family unnecessary heartache by confronting your dysfunction so they don’t have to It’s time to stop being your own worst enemy. Declare war and become the person, the spouse, the parent, and the leader God intended you to be.

Download or read book Elite written by Nick Hays and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven tools to take your team and yourself to the next level Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a practical, no-nonsense guide to elevate your leadership skills and drive your team to their maximum potential. Before you can push your team to the max, you must push yourself—elite teams require elite leaders. This invaluable guide supplies the tools you need to develop effective strategies to motivate, adapt, and overcome. Author Nick Hays combines military training with Harvard education to present a comprehensive program that will unlock the potential in yourself and your team. The business environment has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Volatile market conditions, disruptive innovation, and digital transformations across entire sectors have rendered traditional business methods obsolete. To thrive, businesses must be adaptable, agile, and lean. Policies and procedures may change, but strong leadership and shared goals ensure a source of strength and continuity. Providing real-world methods and effective strategies, this essential resource will allow you to: Embrace the Warrior Mindset to always be proactive, never a victim Develop the trust of your team through strength and shared experience Devise durable and sustainable business strategies and contingency plans that adapt to fluid situations Promote a culture of innovation and authenticity to deliver a solid foundation for your team Elite: High Performance Lessons and Habits from a Former Navy SEAL is a must-read guide for everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs to established business leaders. No matter the stage of your business—development, exploitation, or disruption—Elite will change your approach to business and unlock the warrior within.

Download or read book Scandal written by Emma Lea and published by Emma Lea. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker Grey, gossip columnist and author of The Locker Room blog had an unwanted houseguest. Well, not unwanted, exactly. In fact, there were a lot of people who wanted her…Parker included, but she was off-limits. Talia Jane was definitely someone Parker should not get involved with, especially while she was hiding out in his apartment. Natalie Beckett, better known as Talia Jane, actress and Australia’s favourite girl-next-door, was on the run. Okay, not on-the-run in a criminal sense, but she is definitely staying on the down-low for the foreseeable future. In a desperate attempt to get out of a contract, she did something stupid and now she was paying the price of fame. Hiding out in a journalist’s apartment while hiding from the media? Not the best plan she’d ever had, but then again, it wasn’t her plan. Now that she was there, she didn’t have much choice but to stay put until the media storm died down. But that wasn’t as easy as it seemed because not only was Parker Grey a gossip-monger who could potentially blow up her career, she was also a teenie, tiny bit attracted to him…not exactly an ideal situation for her to find herself in, but what choice did she have?

Download or read book Filterworld written by Kyle Chayka and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From trendy restaurants to city grids, to TikTok and Netflix feeds the world round, algorithmic recommendations dictate our experiences and choices. The algorithm is present in the familiar neon signs and exposed brick of Internet cafes, be it in Nairobi or Portland, and the skeletal, modern furniture of Airbnbs in cities big and small. Over the last decade, this network of mathematically determined decisions has taken over, almost unnoticed—informing the songs we listen to, the friends with whom we stay in touch—as we’ve grown increasingly accustomed to our insipid new normal. This ever-tightening web woven by algorithms is called “Filterworld.” Kyle Chayka shows us how online and offline spaces alike have been engineered for seamless consumption, becoming a source of pervasive anxiety in the process. Users of technology have been forced to contend with data-driven equations that try to anticipate their desires—and often get them wrong. What results is a state of docility that allows tech companies to curtail human experiences—human lives—for profit. But to have our tastes, behaviors, and emotions governed by computers, while convenient, does nothing short of call the very notion of free will into question. In Filterworld, Chayka traces this creeping, machine-guided curation as it infiltrates the furthest reaches of our digital, physical, and psychological spaces. With algorithms increasingly influencing not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced, urgent questions arise: What happens when shareability supersedes messiness, innovation, and creativity—the qualities that make us human? What does it mean to make a choice when the options have been so carefully arranged for us? Is personal freedom possible on the Internet? To the last question, Filterworld argues yes—but to escape Filterworld, and even transcend it, we must first understand it.

Download or read book Home Ground written by Louise Welsh and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Ground is a powerful and enduring collection of new writing from established authors, learners, students and tutors who have worked together in Glasgow. The stories and poems in this book are peppered with the landmarks, spaces and places that are emblems of our city. Most of all, they are about people; their hopes and fears, and their trials and triumphs.

Download or read book Blue Moon written by Elise Noble and published by Undercover Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know what they say about showbiz? They love to build you up, and then they tear you down. Luna Maara never wanted to be a star, but by the time she realised she hated the limelight, she was in too deep. Sold-out concerts, fans screaming her name on the street, memes going viral whenever parts of her fell out of a costume. Oh, and stalkers. Don’t forget the stalkers. The latest one calls himself Mark Antony, and he sends her linguine carbonara and…dog treats? Most people think she has it all—the fame, the money, the luxurious lifestyle. But under the facade, there’s nothing but an empty shell. Everyone close to her lies, or takes advantage of her, or both. Her family, her friends—she can’t trust anyone. Not even Ryder. Somehow, her former bodyguard’s betrayal hurt most of all. Former SEAL Ryder Metcalfe never meant to fall in love again, but during a nightmare trip to the Caribbean, a prickly pop princess wormed her way under his skin. And then she ditched him. Which was his own fault, and also his biggest regret. He can’t turn back the clock. He can’t change fate. But somebody else can. When Luna’s scared, there’s only one person to call. Only one man she trusts, with her body if not with her heart. Mark Antony might gift Ryder a second chance, but he’s determined the star-crossed couple won’t get a third. Blue Moon is a story of second chances and self-discovery with plenty of dark humour and a morally grey girl squad. There’s also some grovelling and a dog. Who doesn’t love a dog?

Download or read book Finding God s Life for My Will written by Mike Donehey and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA BESTSELLER • The lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for award-winning contemporary Christian band Tenth Avenue North shows readers that by seeking God first and focusing on serving Him, we can live daily in His will. "Perhaps God isn't giving me the plan because He wants to be the plan." This was the aha moment for Mike Donehey after years of wrestling with his obsession to know God's specific plans for his life. He came to the realization that waiting for absolute certainty from God before making decisions may seem uberspiritual, but it can lead to a life of intense stress, paralyzing fear, and crushing regret--just the opposite of the freedom granted to those living a Christ-filled life. "This is my story...how I gave up begging to know God's will and began to ask His life to come and change my will." With his signature humor and relentless hunger for God, Mike will show you that discovering the Father's purpose and plan for our lives is not the shell game that we all too often make it out to be. If you're unsure what to do next, take heart and accept the ultimate invitation: learn to see God as the plan, not simply the formula to the plan.

Download or read book Illuminated by Water written by Malachy Tallack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its blending of nature writing and memoir—also touching on the connection of time, beauty, and memory—Illuminated by Water is an elegiac tribute to fly fishing and the natural world. Illuminated by Water is a book about the author’s own decades-long passion for ­fly fishing and how it has shaped the way he sees and thinks about the natural world. That passion is shared and made legible here, not just for other anglers, but for those who have never yet cast a line in the water. Why is it that catching ­fish—or even thinking about catching fish—can be so thrilling, so captivating? Why is it that time spent beside water can be imprinted so sharply in the memory? Why is it that what seems a simple act of casting a line and hoping can feel so rich in mystery? Alternating between regional and thematic chapters, Tallack considers ‘wildness’, its pursuit, and its meanings; the compulsive appeal of tying flies; the ethics of catching and killing; the allure of big ­fish; and beauty—where it’s sought and where it’s found. He describes ­fly fishing trips to America, Canada, Shetland, and England. Throughout the book, certain themes recur—environmental harm and healing; the relationship between fishing and time; hope and its manifestations; and the ways in which angling can deepen engagement with the natural world.