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Book Review: All the Cool Girls Get Fired
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.
Discovering Hope in the Beatitudes: A Review of Eight Promises of God by Fr. Mark-Mary Ames
In his newest book, “Eight Promises of God: Discovering Hope Through the Beatitudes,” Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, invites us to see the Beatitudes not as distant ideals or abstract teachings but as living promises.
Loving and Working Well
This article review for "An Exemplary Couple: Saint Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla" by Valentina Di Marco, explores how the saintly couple balanced faith, marriage, and career. The author, a Catholic business owner, draws personal inspiration from their story, particularly how Gianna successfully integrated her medical career with motherhood through Pietro's support and their shared spiritual foundation.
Two New Books Help Readers Heal With Jesus, Through Scripture
We are healed (sometimes!) by our doctor. We are healed (again, sometimes!) by our therapist. And we are healed (always!) by Jesus. It might not be right away, and it may not look the way we’d like it to, but Jesus always heals.
If you want to know what it looks like to find healing with Christ, two new books can help.
The Story of Kate Spade: Learning from a Design and Business Icon
There are so many biographies and memoirs about businessmen and companies founded by men. I’ve long thought we didn’t have enough books about woman-founded companies and female entrepreneurs.
That’s why I was excited to see a new book this summer about the founding of one of my own favorite brands, Kate Spade New York. We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship With Kate Spade is written by Elyce Arons, Kate “Katy” Spade’s best friend and one of her co-founders.

