Some journeys change your life.Others force you to defend it.After years of travelling the world, living across cultures and raising two adventurous boys, Dawn Bates believed she understood risk. She had lived through political unrest, built businesses across continents and learned that courage often begins where certainty ends.Nothing, however, prepared her for Scotland.What began as a family camping adventure became a criminal investigation that questioned...

Owning Our Ovaries is a definitive work on women's resilience, agency and transformation. Bringing together seven women from around the world, the book offers a compelling collection of personal histories that confront miscarriage, endometriosis, domestic and systemic abuse, rape, addiction and the cultural silencing that so often follows. These stories are not framed as tragedy but as evidence of the power, intellect and courage women bring to their own healing and leadership.At i...

Becoming who we truly are is a defining moment in every woman’s journey; yet many women are still hiding amongst the self-imposed shadows of life.Becoming Annie is a story about a woman who not only redefines what it means to be a woman in the corporate world, but also what it is to be a woman in each and every area of life. And more importantly, how we relate to each other. Annie Gibbins has been championing others her entire adult life, giving back and consistent...

MANUP by Tough to Talk is a no-nonsense look into the silent war that countless men across the globe are fighting with their mental health. These are their stories in their own words.Society sits back while men are grappling silently with their biological, emotional, psychological, past trauma, current life events and gendered issues. These men do not get the help they need because to them they do not have a mental health problem, they have financial problems, an a...