Every once in a while, you come across a book and think: Every woman I know should read this. Teenagers, mothers, religious sisters, women who are committed single and those beyond menopause. When you find this book, you pray that tools like social media and the natural interconnected way women communicate will disperse the message worldwide. The Language of Your Body is that book.

The book Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs that Limit Your Potential by Muriel M. Wilkins was a book I struggled to read. As a naturally introspective person who feels like I already have a strong awareness of my strengths and weaknesses, I was humbled to realize how much growth I still need in many areas. However, that realization was not discouraging, but instead inspiring.

Before reading Feast, Faith and Flourish by the Ember Collective, I had no idea just how deeply my Catholic faith is woven into every season of life.

In All the Cool Girls Get Fired, authors Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neil offer an honest discussion on being laid off and coming back stronger. Along with actionable steps, they share other well-known women’s firing experiences in various industries, highlighting that being laid off – fired – is a shared experience that can become a setup for the next chapter in your professional life. 

Pope Leo XIII was concerned with the rise of socialism and cultural and economic problems caused by the Industrial Revolution. He wrote Rerum Novarum: Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor to address these concerns and light a better way for the world.

If you pray the Rosary with any degree of regularity, you know both how simple and how complex it is. If you want to pray the Rosary with more depth and understanding, pick up a copy of Catholic Women in Business Member Shannon Wendt’s new book, “The Way of the Rosary.”