Everything we think you (and your field) should be reading, listening to and utilizing in order to stay engaged, informed and one step ahead.
Book / Employment Is Dead: How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work
By Deborah Perry Piscione
In a post-pandemic world with disruptive technologies on the rise, business leaders are faced with the need to adapt or get left behind. In this new book, authors Deborah Perry Piscione and Josh Drean explore how AI and other innovations can transform the workplace—for better or for worse. They challenge the reader to embrace change and offer insights about successfully navigating this new landscape. With case studies and cutting-edge examples, this book helps you positively harness technology.
AI Tool / Doodle
Streamline the meeting scheduling process with Doodle. With its user-friendly, centralized platform, Doodle allows invitees to choose the times that work best for them. Using a visual poll format, all participants can see where schedules overlap and which slot is best for the group. Doodle enhances collaboration and productivity while integrating with your favorite apps and tools, such as Outlook, Teams, Zoom and more.
APP / Imprint
In many ways, our smartphones are making us dumber by replacing our critical thinking skills with mental shortcuts and doom scrolling habits. Enter Imprint: a highly rated app that makes the world’s most important knowledge easy to learn, internalize and apply to your life. Imprint does this by simplifying complex concepts from the world’s greatest thinkers and making them visual. You’ll gain key insights on topic such as leadership, psychology, finance, technology and much more.
Audio Book / The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
By Ryan Holiday
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart! In the Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday illustrates how some of the most remarkable people in history found their success. From Amelia Earhart to Steve Jobs, the common thread of their victories was the application of stoicism: the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring adversity with resilience. With true stories of leaders from every era, this is groundbreaking for anyone who feels frustrated or stuck.
Podcast / The One You Feed
By Eric Zimmer
Inspired by the parable of the two wolves at odds within every person, The One You Feed is an award-winning podcast hosted by behavior coach and writer Eric Zimmer. Zimmer helps others live a more fulfilling life by interviewing experts who offer actionable strategies and inspiring insights that nurture the “good wolf” within. Episodes cover topics like mindset, happiness, wealth and emotions, blending wisdom and practicality, to help listeners live their best life.
Website / Story Lab
By Philipp Humm
Storytelling is an art that grows brands and closes sales. Spinning a good yarn also helps people seem far more compelling, keeping others engaged in what they have to say—or sell. Story Lab is a website filled with content that teaches how to sharpen the way you tell stories, communicate and present information. There are even free instructional material, like videos, a blog, a newsletter and even a five-day storytelling course.
From the May/June 2025 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.
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