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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Family-First Entrepreneur: How to Achieve Financial Freedom Without Sacrificing What Matters Most
By Porchlight
Most entrepreneurs launch a business seeking freedom but end up in a prison of 100-hour work weeks isolated from their loved ones. This book is about how to do entrepreneurship differently—letting go of the hustle and embracing a family-first mindset.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
"The idea behind this book," writes Felix Salmon, "is that the unexpected isn’t over." A pronouncement like that offers both great hope and caution, and acts as an important reminder.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / We See You & We Read You
May: Celebrations and Acknowledgements of Many Communities
By Gabbi Cisneros
May is a convergence of three important, month-long observances. We’re highlighting all three in this list of new books and online resources for further education.
Categories: we-read-you
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Blog / Interviews
Sara Elise in Conversation with Sally Haldorson
By Sara Elise, Sally Haldorson
On May 4, Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson sat down with Sara Elise, the author of A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease.
Categories: interviews, managing-directors-cut
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from Your Brain on Art
By Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics that offers proof of how our brains and bodies are transformed when we participate in the arts and aesthetic experiences, and how this knowledge can improve our physical and mental health, help us learn and flourish, and build stronger communities.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / ChangeThis
Slow Down and Exist in the World Where You Want to Succeed
By Allen P Adamson
Finding your brand's focus often starts with standing up and moving from behind your desk, putting down your phone, and looking away from your screens.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
New Releases | May 9, 2023
By Porchlight
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
By Porchlight
In his first book, award-winning journalist Felix Salmon offers a tour-de-force analysis—drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture—of the world that is emerging from the pandemic crisis.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Birth: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
“This is the birth system that most expectant mothers encounter in America,” Rebecca Grant writes in the opening of her new book, Birth. “But what if it could be different?”
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Staff Picks
Without Children
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Validating of my own experience as a soon-to-be-married woman who does not have or want children, Peggy O'Donnell Heffington’s new book is also very eye-opening to the difficulties and importance of motherhood and caretaker-hood, bringing much-needed empathy.
Categories: staff-picks