6 Early Holiday Book Gift Ideas that Keep Giving
/The holiday season is quickly approaching. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am grateful for your continued participation, support, and engagement as part of the Charisse Says community.
One way for me to show my appreciation for you is to share several early BOOK gift ideas. These are some of my favorite books that I’ve been intimately familiar with in 2022. Remember, in passing on knowledge to others, you impart one of the greatest intangible assets to the next person. Happy book-buying for yourself and your loved ones!
A Wealthy Girl - No explanation needed for author Charisse Conanan Johnson. Through the pages of A Wealthy Girl, you will be shaped by a new wealth conversation, rooted in both the tangible and intangible aspects of wealth, told through the lens of Charisse’s unique inspiring life journey and the stories of other powerful women. This is not an ordinary wealth-building book. Your wealth is beyond what sits in your bank account -- it embodies your relationships, your craft, and your faith. In the book, you’ll learn:
8 Myths Stopping You From Becoming Wealthy
Step 1: Build an Environment for Wealth Creation
Step 2: Work Your Craft
Step 3: Develop an Investor Mindset
Step 4: Run Wealthy Experiments
Step 5: Start a Business or Support the Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses Around You
Step 6: Build a Faith Muscle
Step 7: Be a Girl
BONUS Step: Enjoy Your Wealth
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, The acclaimed Guardian author Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Time is our biggest worry: There is too little of it. Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life.
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. Author Angela Garbes, who previously wrote the acclaimed Like a Mother, reflects on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context—the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative, Essential Labor is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering.
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace. Powerhouse author Minda Harts, who also wrote The Memo, has published the essential self-help book for women of color to heal - and thrive - in the workplace. In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’ signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path.
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Author Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive - which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
Get Good With Money. Author Tiffany Aliche, who was a successful preschool teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole, introduces the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems. With helpful checklists, worksheets, a tool kit of resources, and advanced advice from experts who Tiffany herself relies on (her “Budgetnista Boosters”), Get Good with Money gets crystal clear on the short-term actions that lead to long-term goals.
That’s it - these are some of my favs. As an author, I know that the best validation comes when others buy books and our ideas spread.
A Wealthy Girl Corner
Please, please, please take some time at the start of the holiday season to thank yourself for the wealth goals that you have set. We often don’t give ourselves credit for all the things we have to manage and achieve. Take a deep breath and slow down to show yourself appreciation.
