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Interview with Lisa Johnson, author of Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income

Interview with Lisa Johnson, author of Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income


Lisa Johnson, author of Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income recommends a brilliant batch of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Lisa's book:

Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income

Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income

Lisa Johnson

Review from Book Depository: Are you time-poor but want to be money-rich?

Business strategist, entrepreneur, #1 podcaster and global speaker Lisa Johnson is here to guide you through the world of passive income. No complicated plans or tech troubles; just a simple step-by-step approach using Lisa's simple system to earning money either as a side hustle or as your main business, without ever trading time for money.

Covering EVERYTHING you need to know from how to think of an initial idea, develop it, grow an engaged audience, get into a productive groove, launch your product, generate sales and maintain a consistent income from your product, Lisa takes you through it all, with lots of guaranteed laughs along the way! This will be a book you turn to time and again for motivation, inspiration and practical business advice.

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Easons €23.80 Book Depository €14.91 Waterstones £16.99 Wordery $15.99

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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?

I love The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. As any kind of leader especially online it can be so easy to just say the things that will make people like you but it’s so important that we don’t do this. If we want to really make change in the world then we need to feel comfortable saying things others might not say and that takes a level of bravery. This book helped show me why that’s ok!

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi,Fumitake Koga

Review From Book Depository: The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.

The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It's a philosophy that's profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

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Easons €8.79 Book Depository €11.17 Waterstones £10.99 Wordery $12.99

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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?

The Happy Me Project by Holly Matthews. It’s such a great book. We really can learn from the adversity that others have been through and the resilience they show through it.

The Happy Me Project: The no-nonsense guide to self-development

The Happy Me Project: The no-nonsense guide to self-development

Holly Matthews

Review from Book Depository: Everyone can access happiness - it's a case of learning how.

Holly Matthews is on a mission to make your life better, and she's keeping it simple. No BS. No fluff.

The Happy Me Project is 60 short chapters of straight-to-the-point advice, structured for our time-poor modern world, and packed with practical tips on ways to fill your life with more joy. Whatever you're facing, this book is for you, and Holly will be cheering you along every step of the way: - Do you find yourself saying 'yes' when you mean 'hell no'?
- Are you bored of your daily routine and ready to mix it up?
- Perhaps something awful has happened and you need support working out your next steps.

Holly draws on real-life examples and her own stories of triumph over adversity - from growing up in the public eye to becoming a widow and single mum at 32 - to offer hope and confidence that you, too, can navigate the ups and downs of life, and enjoy yourself along the way.

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Book Depository €13.28 Waterstones £12.99 Wordery $13.63

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Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?

I loved books as a kid and would series of books. I loved the Point Horror series. Scary but not so scary I couldn’t cope with them I would wait desperately for the next one to come out. I also read the Sweet Valley High books avidly but even back then I worried about how the perfect nature of their world would make people feel that weren’t thin, blond and beautiful! I had an inate sense of fairness from a young age.

Sweet Valley High : Academic All-Star?

Sweet Valley High : Academic All-Star?

Katy Rex

Review From Book Depository: When Jessica falls in love with her Shakespeare teacher, she begins to act like her studious twin sister Elizabeth to impress him. Now it's up to Elizabeth to make sure that all's well that end well - but with Jessica playing her role, will anyone be able to tell which twin is which.

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Book Depository €13.40 Waterstones £13.99

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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?

Reading. There is nothing like the feeling of a book. I travel so much and am always being asked why I don’t just get a kindle but I refuse. I have loved flicking through real paper pages since trips to the library and old dusty bookshops as a kid.


Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?

It’s in my hometown down a very old street called St Mary’s Bookshop and it is a complete dusty mess inside but it provided hours of shelter for me as a kid as it was near the school I went to and got bullied in. I used to spend as much time there as I could. I vowed at age 12 that one day I’d write a book and show them all I wasn’t useless because they’d be able to walk into the shop and see my book there. And then I did.


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Many thanks to Lisa for recommending a brilliant batch of books! Please don't forget to check out Make Money Online: Your no-nonsense guide to passive income.
Daryl


Image Copyrights: Hodder & Stoughton (Make Money Online), Allen & Unwin (The Courage To Be Disliked), Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (The Happy Me Project), Dynamite Entertainment (Sweet Valley High).


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