Uncommon Courage: An Invitation

by Andrea T Edwards

Overview

Uncommon Courage is an invitation to be your courageous best self every day. It’s also an antidote to the overwhelm, fear, and rage rolling around the world.

This book opens a path to inner contentment, peace, and happiness, and a path to meaningful action. It brings you an opportunity to reflect. What if there was another way? What if we could do something about the bigger issues facing our world? What if we could make meaningful change? Well, we can. Despite today’s turmoil—which we can utilize as a springboard to action—a transformational journey is possible for all of us.

Uncommon Courage is as practical, funny, and grounded in optimism as Andrea herself, and it’s your toolkit for a deep-dive journey towards joy, purpose, and the kind of inner transformation that will make a real difference in the world we all share.

In this book, you will discover 108 interlinking strategies to shift your thinking, improve your mood, and lighten your heart. This book helps you take on anger, parenting, climate change, self-awareness, and career change. Some of the stories are funny, while others may lovingly push your buttons. Living a full life takes courage and this book is designed to help you build yours.

Read it, reflect, laugh, and enjoy.

Reactions from early readers:

“Reading Uncommon Courage is like going to a dinner party and being seated with an experienced CEO, a spiritual guru, and a wise old grandma.”
Tara Moody, marketing and culture speaker, strategist, content creator

“This is not a quick-fix self-help book, but rather a personal travel guide for you that will help you lead yourself and your life.”
Andrew Bryant, CSP, author, Self-Leadership: How to be a More Successful, Efficient and Effective Leader from the Inside Out

“Written from the depths of her soul, Andrea’s vulnerability encourages us to reflect on how we are living our lives.”
Shirley Taylor, CSP, author, Connecting the Dots to Inspire the Leader in You

“Andrea’s stories takes us through the streets of Calcutta, where she meets Mother Teresa, to being chased, robbed, and nurturedin some of the most dangerous countries on the planet—to learning unconditionally how to say YES to life. Epic.”
John Vincent Gordon, CEO Expat Choice Media

“Uncommon Courage is a kick in the butt and a spark in the heart.”
Anupama Singal, author, SYZYGYmoments

“These stories about travel, challenges, conflicts, people and planetary urgency remind me of sitting around a bonfire and absorbing experiences of the well-travelled wise. Uncommon Courage rocks!”
Kevin Cottam, author, The Nomadic Mindset: Never Settle… for Too Long

Andrea T Edwards CSP, the Digital Conversationalist, is an award-winning B2B communications professional with over 20 years’ experience. She speaks on social leadership and integrity in the digital age to professionals around the world. Her travels currently have her living on an island with her husband, two sons, a dog, and two neurotic cats.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164929640
Publisher:	Andrea T Edwards
Publication date:	06/10/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Having spent half her life living in countries other than her own, Australian born and bred Andrea T Edwards can't get enough of Planet Earth - or the people on it. For sure, there are bad apples along the way, but Andrea focuses on the many - humans of all colour, race and creed - to unite and create a better world for all of us. Why? Because humanity is awesome!

Professionally, as The Digital Conversationalist, Andrea is an unconventional communications professional, who is passionate and determined to help everyone step into their voice so they can own their future. People Power rules and Andrea's goal is to encourage awesome people everywhere to claim our voice, because collectively, we are beyond powerful, and we can create the change we want.

Yes, it is a world gone mad - across business and more broadly, society - so Andrea's big goal is to help everyone understand how they can embrace the digital stage with integrity at the heart of their presence.

A globally award-winning B2B communications professional, Andrea works with the world's largest companies on the transformation needed within to maximize business growth in our digital future. A passionate communications evangelist and expert in social leadership, content marketing, and employee advocacy, Andrea is all about helping businesses understand how they can empower employees to delight customers, grow personal career opportunities and build brand success.

But she has many dimensions. A warrior for Mother Earth, Andrea fights for businesses to step up and lead the offensive to avoid the worst of climate catastrophe, as well as to build equal and diverse businesses that benefit all, and she is driven to make empathy and compassion the critical driving force in the world today.

Apart from Australia, Andrea has lived in Europe, North America and has been loving Asia since 2003 - living in both Singapore and Thailand. She walks her talk consistently as a certified professional speaker (CSP), an overly enthusiastic blogger, best-selling author, and content marketing/social leadership evangelist. She genuinely loves empowering others to step into all opportunities in the digital space.

Always Australian at heart, Andrea is married to a magnificent Englishman, has two rambunctious sons, and her pleasure will always be travelling and sharing the beauty of our world, as well as having a laugh with like-minded people. You can't take life too seriously, after all.

Editorial Reviews

10/18/2021

Topical and refreshingly up to date, Edwards’s (18 Steps to an All-Star LinkedIn Profile) latest is ideal for those seeking to make small changes that can have a big impact. In this highly practical self-help guide, crafted as an “invitation” to live with purpose and courage, Edwards coaches readers on personal growth topics such as self-awareness, self-empowerment, and leadership. Her expertise as a world traveler and communication professional, among many other experiences, shines through in her unique spin on somewhat atypical self-improvement content: along with influencing others and one’s own empowerment, she addresses issues like how to face and find solutions to the climate crisis. For those readers who want to achieve contentment, tweak their health habits, or find encouragement to keep bettering themselves and the world, Uncommon Courage is accessible and engaging.

The guide is long, but it stays highly digestible, with short chapters that can be consumed while riding down an elevator, taking a break from chasing the kids, or in a more concentrated, meditative manner. That approach seems by design: Edwards’ structure allows readers to dip in and out according to their interests or needs. The guidance can be deep or breezily superficial (“buy wine that’s at least four years old”); like all good advice, it can even be irksome when she hits the right button and tells a truth you might not yet want to face. The book’s busy, with some potentially distracting elements—such as the adages Edwards calls “wisdoms” that relate to another project, unconventional hashtags, and QR codes introduced for further reading—but Edwards takes pains to expose readers to fresh ideas and possibilities beyond the purview of the average self-help book.

As Edwards introduces new habits and mindsets, helpful footnotes suggest opportunities for further research, and workbook pages encourage contemplation of the material. Her style is highly narrative, with dishy anecdotes bursting with practical advice delivered in her funny, straightforward, and entirely supportive fashion.

Takeaway: This wide-ranging, of-the-moment self-help guide urges readers to live with purpose and courage to make a difference.

Great for fans of: Shad Helmstetter’s Negative Self-Talk and How to Change It, Jon Gordon and Damon West’s The Coffee Bean.

Production grades Cover: B Design and typography: B Illustrations: A- Editing: A- Marketing copy: A

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