Set the Tone

    

Set the Tone

Belief without accountability goes soft. Accountability without belief breaks people. Great leaders do both. The workforce has changed. A new generation walked onto the floor carrying different expectations, and many are doing it in the middle of a workplace mental health crisis. The old playbook of pressure and fear no longer builds loyal teams. Neither does being everyone's friend. Set the Tone is a leadership book for restaurant managers, retail leaders, shift leads, and owners who want teams that care and deliver. Hospitality leadership coach Clay David Laugier draws on more than 20 years on the floor, verified research, and two unlikely coaches from television to show how belief and accountability work together. Inside, you'll learn: • The Ted Lasso Effect: how belief and curiosity build people who coach each other • The Shoresy Standard: how to hold a high bar without breaking your team • The Assist Standard: how to reward the people who make everyone else better • The Whole Roster Principle: why every person on your team brings strengths and opportunities, not weaknesses Every chapter ends with a Try This on Tuesday action you can use on your next shift, along with research sidebars that show the science behind the method. It reads as clearly for a new shift lead as it does for an owner. Set the Tone is Book Two of The Coaching Playbook For Modern Times series, following The Coaching Playbook: Lead with Heart. Coach with Clarity.

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Cheap Houses: A Memoir of Poverty and Reinvention in Rural America

Some children grow up believing the world is fair. Others learn to survive before they are old enough to understand why they have to.

Stevie G. Davis was born to a teenage mother and abandoned by his father before birth. His childhood unfolded in the coal camps and small communities of rural northern Alabama, where his family moved from one cheap house to another in search of work and a place they could afford. The houses had cracked walls, little insulation, and few comforts. Hunger was never far away, and every dollar mattered.

As a boy, he picked cotton, hauled pulpwood, baled hay, cut fence posts, and accepted whatever work he could find. He wore hand-me-down clothes, carried paper-sack lunches, and stuffed cardboard inside worn-out shoes because new ones were a luxury his family could not afford. Poverty was not something he recognized at first—it was simply life.

Everything began to change when he discovered a set of "Future Cards" describing the emerging world of computers. To a boy who had never seen one, they represented more than technology. They represented possibility.

At seventeen, Davis enlisted in the United States Air Force as a medic. Through persistence, self-education, and a willingness to embrace every opportunity, he built a career that eventually led him into medical information systems. In 1992, he was recognized as the United States Air Force Medical Information Systems Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year before continuing his journey into corporate information technology.

Yet success never erased the memories of the cheap houses that shaped him.

Written with honesty, humility, and the eye of someone who remembers every detail, Cheap Houses is more than a memoir of poverty. It is a story of resilience, family, sacrifice, fear, reinvention, and the quiet determination to build a different future without forgetting where you came from.

For readers who appreciated the emotional honesty of The Glass Castle or the perseverance found in Hillbilly Elegy, Cheap Houses offers an unforgettable journey from hardship to hope—proving that while our beginnings shape us, they do not have to define the rest of our lives.

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ELARA: Based on True Events How Losing Herself Became the Road Back Home

 “A haunting story of rescue, survival, and the moment a woman begins to remember who she was before the world renamed her.” Based on true events, Elara is the story of a woman rescued in Miami Beach after years of losing herself to survival, duty, and the belief that sacrifice was the only way to love her family. Told through the voice of Michael Evans, Elara follows one unforgettable night of rescue and the long road that follows, from Dr. Chen’s office in Florida to a safe house in Washington, D.C. Along the way, Elara begins to tell the truth about North Korea, China, America, and the quiet ways a person can disappear long before anyone notices. Created as part of a mother-daughter healing project for women and girls, Elara is accompanied by a 90-minute cinematic story experience featuring narration by Michael Evans, voices and music from Asian performing artists, and the emotional figure skating of Polina Korobova. Featuring voices and music by: Dia (Performing Artist, South Korea); Seunghee (Performing Artist, South Korea); Kim’s Note Family (Performing Artist, South Korea); Ruby (Performing Artist, Vietnam); and the emotional figure skating of Polina Korobova (Figure Skater, Ukraine). With contributions by Brian Fitzgibbons, a nationally renowned missing person investigator who has dedicated his life to finding and rescuing missing girls alongside Michael Evans through Kingsman, their charitable private security and intelligence contracting organization. With real-world guidance from Eunhee Park, North Korean defector and author of The Courage to Die, and Zhang Miaomiao, Voice Artist, China, this project grows from the mission that built a community of more than 3 million female subscribers through The REAL Matrix Reloaded: A Map for Escaping the Prison You Can’t See. FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO BECAME WHAT OTHERS NEEDED AND FORGOT WHO SHE WAS, ELARA IS THE ROAD BACK HOME.

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DIGGER THE MAGIC CAT: THE JEWEL OF THE RIVER

This exciting original "talking-animal” adventure story, ideal reading for literate grade-school age children is also the perfect story for parents to read to their kids. Containing twenty-seven pictures, each of the twenty-one chapters is followed by "Food For Thought" questions. These are designed to teach many life-situations seldom discussed at home, as well as to inspire discussion of the interesting story lines. 

This exciting talking-animal adventure story, designed to teach kids valuable life lessons, received six out of six five-star professional reviews.

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Off Limits Billionaire Protector by Scarlett Parker

     

Off Limits Billionaire Protector

by Scarlett Parker

I’m falling for my billionaire boss. And I’m the reason he could lose everything.

Trenton Gable is ruthless, scorching hot, and finds a new way to get under my skin every day.

He’s impossible to read and completely off-limits—which would be easier if his whiskey-brown gaze didn’t make me forget why I’m supposed to hate him.

Then a ninety-day audit traps us together, and suddenly the man who never notices anyone starts noticing me.

He remembers every word I say.

He stays when I’m drowning in work.

He even asks about my brother.

Somewhere between the late nights and stolen kisses, I stop resisting him. His hands. His mouth. The way he says my name like I’m already his.

I fall for him. Hard.

Until our forbidden secret is exposed to the one man who wants to take everything Trenton has built.

His ousted COO is turning me into the weapon he’s been waiting for.

Now the man I love has to choose between his empire... or me.

And I’m terrified he’ll choose the empire.

Off-Limits Billionaire Protector is a steamy, standalone enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity boss romance with a damaged, protective alpha hero who falls first, a sassy heroine, and a guaranteed HEA.

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Being the Light: A Practical Guide to Walter Russell’s Teachings in The Secret of Light & The Divine Iliad

   

Being the Light:

A Practical Guide to Walter Russell’s Teachings in The Secret of Light & The Divine Iliad

What if science and spirituality were never meant to be separate? In 1921, artist and scientist Walter Russell entered a state of expanded consciousness that revealed the hidden structure of creation itself. His revelations—later shared in The Secret of Light and The Message of the Divine Iliad—described the universe as one living field of Light, where matter, motion, and spirit are unified. They’re brilliant… but not easy to understand. Being the Light makes Russell’s teachings clear, practical, and deeply human. It bridges metaphysics and daily life, showing you how to live from the same Source energy that powers the stars. Inside, you’ll discover: The truth behind matter, motion, and stillness How desire becomes the blueprint of creation Why you were never separate from the Source Where science and spirituality finally meet

Practical ways to realize you are the Light—and remember it in daily life through simple exercises and reflections Whether you’re drawn to spiritual science, universal law, or expanded consciousness, this book will help you see what Russell saw— that you are not here to find the Light, but to live as it. Because you ARE the Light! Simple. Practical. Transformative. A guide for anyone ready to understand and embody the physics of the soul.

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Magick: From Chaos to Clarity

   

Magick Is Not a Myth—It’s the Energy You’re Already Using

Magick: From Chaos to Clarity is a powerful invitation to recognize what has always been flowing through you. Magick is not rare, distant, or reserved for ancient stories—it is happening constantly, created by billions of people every day, often without awareness. This book exists to pull that energy out of chaos and into clarity, helping you understand how magick actually works and, more importantly, how you are already using it. And yes, the “k” matters. Magic without it is illusion. Magick with a “k” is creation—the conscious shaping of energy to bring good into your life, your relationships, and the world itself.

Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to create, direct, and share magick intentionally, whether working alone, with small groups, large communities, or even on a global scale. The book explores the deep connection between love and magick, revealing how intelligent and responsive this energy truly is. You’ll begin to see how thoughts, intentions, emotions, and actions all combine into a living metaphysical practice—one you’ve been participating in your entire life. What changes is not your ability to create magick, but your awareness of how effortlessly you already do it and how much more powerful it becomes once you understand it.

By the time you finish Magick: From Chaos to Clarity, your perception of energy, intention, and possibility will be forever shifted. Magick is the most unlimited resource we have—there is no shortage, no competition, and no ceiling to what humans can create together. This book teaches you how to recognize, refine, and consciously use the magick you are already generating, turning everyday existence into an intentional metaphysical practice. As a bonus, you’ll also gain access to a free class on Happiness Notes, showing you how to spread magick through simple, powerful acts that brighten lives one person at a time. The myths of magick may start to look less like fantasy—and more like forgotten truths. Are you ready to step into clarity and change your life from the inside out? 

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