"Falling in love with your life" reminds us about the one power no one can ever take away from us: the power we have to interpret things positively, in ways that don't hurt us, in ways that can propel us forward into a better life. Dr. Robert Epstein. contributing editor for Scientific American Mind and the former Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today.
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Alicia Castillo Holley is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor and author. What started as a personal guide to help one of her children overcome depression, grew to a best selling guide across the world. In a clear, funny and yet profound way, she provides a path to recover that inner childish joy of being alive. Most of the profits from this guide support prohappiness and proprosperity organizations.
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Alicia Castillo Holley (1961) is an international author and speaker who coined the term "Wealthing" as a systematic approach to creating wealth. She has been an advocate for change in the way education and businesses are conducted around the world.
Born in Venezuela to fascinating parents, she grew up first in a rice growing region -Acarigua- and later in a small town - El Limon. She spent a year in upstate New York as an exchange student in 1976, and came back to El Limon, until 1994, when she left her country. She has lived in Boston; Nyon, Switzerland; Santiago, Chile; Houston; and Perth, Australia, and travels around the world twice a year on speaking engagements.
She started her professional career as a young scientist, presenting her first paper at 16, becoming class valedictorian and working with plant cells. In 1989, she entered the corporate world leading as the head of product development department at Plantagro, a Bayer-Shell Joint Venture. In 1993, she took a self-funded sabatical to work for the Opera House and a year later moved to the USA to study a Master's Degree in Business Administration a Babson College. Having lost all of her savings to the Venezuelan Bank Crisis, she arrived in Logan airport with two kids, two boxes and two suitcases. Eleven years later, after forming Chile's first Centre for Entrepreneurship and first Seed Capital Fund, she retired and focuses on speaking, writing and philanthropy. She is an avid reader and traveler.
Alicia has started 9 companies and 1 non-profit and consulted and coached hundreds of business owners and scientists. She has two children: Daniel Chapellin and Sara Chapellin - also an author.
Born in Venezuela to fascinating parents, she grew up first in a rice growing region -Acarigua- and later in a small town - El Limon. She spent a year in upstate New York as an exchange student in 1976, and came back to El Limon, until 1994, when she left her country. She has lived in Boston; Nyon, Switzerland; Santiago, Chile; Houston; and Perth, Australia, and travels around the world twice a year on speaking engagements.
She started her professional career as a young scientist, presenting her first paper at 16, becoming class valedictorian and working with plant cells. In 1989, she entered the corporate world leading as the head of product development department at Plantagro, a Bayer-Shell Joint Venture. In 1993, she took a self-funded sabatical to work for the Opera House and a year later moved to the USA to study a Master's Degree in Business Administration a Babson College. Having lost all of her savings to the Venezuelan Bank Crisis, she arrived in Logan airport with two kids, two boxes and two suitcases. Eleven years later, after forming Chile's first Centre for Entrepreneurship and first Seed Capital Fund, she retired and focuses on speaking, writing and philanthropy. She is an avid reader and traveler.
Alicia has started 9 companies and 1 non-profit and consulted and coached hundreds of business owners and scientists. She has two children: Daniel Chapellin and Sara Chapellin - also an author.
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This review is from: Falling in Love With Your Life: You will laugh, reflect and fall in love with your life from page one (Paperback)
A delicious recipe for a joyful life. Fun and easy to read, this book has interesting and simple exercises with each chapter. Just follow the steps.
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Falling In Love With Your Life - A Great Read,
By Jennie Heckel "Jennie" (La Crosse, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Falling in Love With Your Life: You will laugh, reflect and fall in love with your life from page one (Paperback)
I was surprised when I read this book about the emotions I felt.You may see some of yourself in her story... Life is not easy. Falling in love with your life is something we all should take the time to read. It will inspire you to change many of the things in your life that are holding you back. Bad things that happen to us and we need to be strong, to take care of ourselves and do our best to get the feelings of loving our life back into our lives. When you need help you need to reach out for it before it is too late...
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Extraordinary,
By G. P. (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Falling in Love With Your Life: You will laugh, reflect and fall in love with your life from page one (Paperback)
Wow! This book is the one I can recommend to everybody. Writing style and exercises are such refreshment and so easy to follow. I truly believe that this book can help many people to summarize their life and look at it from the different much brighter perspective with a lot clear understanding of the instinctive things we all do without even realizing. Great book.
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