RioVida Books

Secrets of Six-Figure Women

In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker,and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female highearners: A Profit Motive, Audacity, Resilience, Encouragement, Self-Awareness, Non-attachment, and Financial Know-How.

Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including more than 150 women whose annual earnings range from $100,000 to $7 million, Barbara Stanny turns each of the six-figure traits into a specific strategy for upping earnings. By rigorously fine-tuning them, readers can, step-by-step, climb the income ladder.

Barbara Stanny, the leading authority on women and money, is a popular motivational speaker, financial educator, former journalist, and career counselor. She is the author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money and Secrets of Six-Figure Women. She lives in Washington state.Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. www.barbarastanny.com

Marty Richards and Diana Novak

Outskirts Press December 2007

Love without Lies

Love Without Lies: How to Build and Keep a High-Trust Relationship, by relationship experts Marty Richards and Diana Novak, reveals the authors' most effective strategies for evaluating partnerships then improving them through the communication and problem-solving skills that make honesty and intimacy possible. Relationships built on nurturing, honest and intimate unions don't have to exist only in fairytale-land, according to the authors.

Readers will find out how to change a relationship into one that Richards and Novak call the High-Trust Relationship that is characterized as being free from fear, threat and manipulation. Unlike many books in this genre, Love Without Lies avoids clichés and vague generalizations in favor of realistic, specific and easy-to-read prose, all designed to help readers apply the skills directly to their own lives. For instance, Love Without Lies shows readers:
* Which certain words and actions produce positive changes in relationships, and why other words and actions are guaranteed to make things worse.
* How to be honest with one's self and invite others to respond with honesty.
* Recognize potential relationship-busting problems early.
* How to improve any relationship -- even without a partner's cooperation.
* Turn criticism, complaints and compliments into an advantage.
This step-by-step guide shows how to create a High-Trust Relationship and shows what sets people in High-Trust Relationships apart from the others.