Making Work At Home Work: February 2009

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Looking for an expert voice on the topic of work-at-home success?

Mary Byers is a home-based entrepreneur and author of Making Work at Home Work. She’s also a member of the National Speakers Association and a professional speaker skilled at encouraging individuals to think big when it comes to their businesses. As an at-home entrepreneur herself, Mary walks the talk. She’s energizing, motivating, and she’ll challenge you and your team to:

Increase revenue without increasing effort
Grow a bigger vision for your business
Develop specialized entrepreneurial skills
Engage the power of “Focus Pocus”
Turn setbacks into milestones

Invite Mary to speak at your conference and she’ll:

Provide a dynamic and memorable keynote
Present up to two breakout sessions
Host an on-site book signing
Meet with a selected group of attendees for personal coaching
Participate in a “Meet the Pros” session
Submit articles about entrepreneurship for your newsletter or online magazine at no cost to you
Allow you to select any combination of the above

To learn more about Mary, visit www.marybyers.com.

Mary's Most Popular Topics:

Making Work at Home Work
How to Say No…And Live to Tell About It
Spend a Morning, Plan a Year: Developing a One-Page Business Plan
Personality Plus: Understanding Your Individual Leadership Style and Motivating your Team
What’s Stopping You? Practical Tips for Taking Your Business to the Next Level

Books

Making Work at Home Work is a guidebook for entrepreneurial women designed to help them think about their business in a whole new way. It covers important topics such as developing a successful business philosophy, balancing time between work and family, setting realistic goals, and handling the challenges of being a home-based CEO. In addition to including her own experiences, Byers profiles a dozen other women with home-based businesses who offer their hard-won advice.
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How to Say No ... and Live to Tell About It: A Woman's Guide to Guilt-Free Decisions
In this transformational book, Mary Byers tackles the challenges of overwhelmed and overworked women, teaching them strategies for saying no in order to protect limited resources of time, talent, and finances.

A former “yes-aholic,” Byers discusses how to say no graciously and without feelings of guilt as she offers tips women can use to evaluate commitments, priorities, and energy levels so they can realistically decide what to take on.
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The Mother Load: How to Meet Your Own Needs While Caring for Your Family
Motherhood is an intense, 'round-the-clock job that does not comes with scheduled breaks. But to stay healthy and happy, Moms need friendships, laughter, solitude and spiritual renewal.
How can you meet these needs while juggling your family responsibilities?

The Mother Load is packed with down-to-earth suggestions, spiritual truths and real-life advice to help you survive and thrive in your active family. You’ll also discover special insights into achieving balance and creating more intimate relationships.
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The SOS for PMS: Practical Help and Relief for Moms
In her latest book, Mary explores an often frustrating topic, the symptoms of PMS, and offers practical advice and encouragement for mothers. Readers will find comfort in the stories shared by other moms, realizing that they are not alone in their struggles with PMS.

With this book, you will find suggestions designed to inspire healthier lifestyles, relationships, and daily choices for all women.
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Other Publications by Mary Byers

Extraordinary Women
With biblical illustrations, life examples, prayers, places for journaling, and time–sensitive chapters, Extraordinary Women explores how every woman can embrace purpose and delight and extraordinary living.

Discover and live God’s dream for you while you release control to take hold of freedom. Let go of the past to embrace the future, making every day count. Create a strong marriage as you live your extraordinary life.

Insights from fellow Extraordinary Women speakers add extra motivation and encouragement throughout this great resource that combines practical with inspirational to help each reader discover how exceptional her heart and purpose becomes when placed in the Creator’s hands.

The Mother Load

Motherhood is an intense, 'round-the-clock job that does not comes with scheduled breaks. But to stay healthy and happy, Moms need friendships, laughter, solitude and spiritual renewal. How can you meet these needs while juggling your family responsibilities?

Mary Byers, the mother of two lively young kids, shares how to take advantage of small pockets of time to—

* rest and refuel
* establish personal space
* develop and maintain friendships
* care for your physical well-being
* creatively stay sane in the midst of mothering

The Mother Load is packed with down-to-earth suggestions, spiritual truths and real-life advice to help you survive and thrive in your active family. You’ll also discover special insights into achieving balance and creating a more intimate relationship with the Lord.

Product Details:

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (January 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0736915028
ISBN-13: 978-0736915021
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches

Price: $12.00 + $2.50 s/h

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What Others Say About This Book

“I’ve always wished I had a smart, kind mom living next door who could give me advice, reassure me that I’m not crazy, and help me to handle the ‘mother load.’ This book is the next best thing to that mom next door. Mary Byers offers friendly, practical advice on caring for yourself while caring for others. She reassures moms that it is not just okay to take care of yourself, it’s essential, and she offers wise and very practical counsel on just how to do so.”
- Keri Wyatt Kent, author of God’s Whisper in a Mother’s Chaos and The Garden of the Soul

“Mary Byers makes us feel valuable and understood through her compassion, humor, and willingness to share her own joys and frustrations of motherhood. Reading The Mother Load is like sitting across the table from Mary, drinking a cup of coffee or having milk and cookies. She is friend, cheerleader, and mother extraordinaire.”
- Leslie Levine, author of Wish It, Dream It, Do It: Turn the Life You’re Living into the Life You Want

“Moms will be encouraged, refreshed, and find their ‘mother load’ and hearts lightened by Mary Byers’ new book The Mother Load. With both inspiration and practical ideas, I highly recommend it to moms of all ages!”
- Cheri Fuller, speaker and author of The Mom You’re Meant to Be, The School Savvy Kids series, When Mothers Pray, and others

“This book has the rare combination of true wisdom, refreshing substance, and practical ideas that are do–able! An encouraging read for mothers of young children!”
- Susan Alexander Yates, author of And Then I Had Kids and And Then I Had Teenagers

“Do you feel like you are carrying the mother Over–load? Then take a break and refresh yourself with this book. Mary’s suggestions for meeting your needs will be like a drink of cool water—a blessing to both you and your family!”
- Kendra Smiley, conference speaker and author, Aaron’s Way: The Journey of a Strong–Willed Child

“Want to be a more balanced, joyful, playful, and sane family manager? Join Mary Byers—a real mom like you and me—on an enjoyable journey of unloading the heavy stuff and replacing it with all that’s good and rewarding and fun about motherhood.”
- Lorilee Craker, author, We Should Do This More Often: A Parent’s Guide to Romance, Passion, and Other Pre–Kid Activities You Vaguely Recall

“Who better to encourage moms toward personal growth, while commiserating about the lack of available time, than a mom in the trenches? Mary Byers speaks to our heartfelt needs with humor and understanding born of experience. Moms seeking practical ways to balance their responsibilities should put down their mother loads and pick up this book!”
- Cynthia Sumner, author of Mommy’s Trapped in the Bathroom

How To Say No

In How to Say No...and Live to Tell About It, author Mary Byers tackles the challenges of overwhelmed and overworked women, teaching them strategies for saying no in order to protect limited resources of time, talent, and finances.

82% of women surveyed indicated they have trouble saying no to such requests

A former “yes-aholic,” Byers discusses how to say no graciously and without feelings of guilt as she offers tips women can use to evaluate commitments, priorities, and energy levels so they can realistically decide what to take on.

In these pages, you’ll learn:

• when yes isn’t the logical answer
• how to identify the best use of your time
• how you can use your gifts and talents more effectively
• ways to turn down opportunities graciously
• how to gain more time to spend with your family

Learn to say no and you make it possible to say yes to the things in life that really matter.

Publication Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (February 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0736916873
ISBN-13: 978-0736916875
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches

Price: $12.00 + $2.50 s/h

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When purchasing, you will be redirected to 2CheckOut.com Inc. (Ohio, USA), an authorized retailer for goods and services provided by Word Works by Mary Byers.

What Others Say About This Book

In a world of stressed out women, MARY POINTS THE WAY TO SANITY AND SERENITY in practical ways.
Pam Farrel, author
Men are Like Waffles, Women are like Spaghetti

For those yesaholics whose lives blur hectic, Mary Byers comes alongside, offering PRACTICAL NO-SAYING ADVICE. How to Say No…and Live to Tell About It helps readers understand that busyness is not synonymous with worth and the tyranny of “should” can clutter already-hectic schedules. For those afraid of exercising the no muscle, SAY YES TO THE MESSAGE OF THIS BOOK.
Mary E. DeMuth, author
Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God

“Say yes to Mary Byers’ wonderful new book—and to living with passion and purpose. A MUST-READ for every woman!”
Cyndy Salzmann, author
Making Your Home a Haven

“Say ‘Yes’ to reading this book because the one word that every wife, mother, and woman should be learning to say along with her toddler is a resounding ‘No!’ MARY BYERS HAS NAILED IT! This excellent, practical manual shows all of us how to say No with grace, compassion, and practice. Mary has convinced me to become a recovering Yesaholic! ‘No’ is the word that gives all of us the freedom to truly live the priorities we profess to possess.”
Cindy Sigler Dagnan, speaker and author
Who Put Peanut Butter on My Daily Planner?

Mary's book will help you to better know yourself so you can say a resounding "Yes" to the strengths and desires God has placed inside of you. A PRACTICAL GUIDE ON PERSONAL BOUNDARIES AND PURPOSEFUL LIVING for every busy woman.
Dr. Todd Cartmell, author
Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry

This book offers hope and help for a disease that is epidemic in our “hurry up, can't say no” culture. In my seminars, I teach and coach busy leaders who need to learn that "less really is more" if they want to lead and still have a life at the end of the day. This book will show women that SAYING "NO THANK YOU" CAN SET THEM FREE TO SAY "YES, I'D LOVE TO" WHEN IT COUNTS!
H. Dale Burke, founder Dale Burke Leadership and author
How to Lead and Still Have a Life

The SOS for PMS: Practical Help and Relief for Moms

Gather any group of moms together and the topic of frustrating PMS symptoms rises up in conversation along with the guilt and concern about its effects on family members. Now Mary Byers offers mothers encouragement, help, and camaraderie as she shares:

• women’s stories—the good, bad, and the hopeful
• overlooked symptoms and how to manage them
• foods and activities to avoid or indulge in
• God’s first aid for stress, depression, and anxiety
• a call for help—how husbands can come to the aid of their wives

This gathering of useful advice and shared experiences will comfort readers who have ever felt alone in their PMS plight and will inspire healthier lifestyles, relationships, and daily choices for all women.

Publication Details
Suggested Retail: $11.99
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers (August 2008)
Language: English
ISBN13: 978-0-7369-2170-1
ISBN10: 0-7369-2170-2
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Buy Now!

When purchasing, you will be redirected to 2CheckOut.com Inc. (Ohio, USA), an authorized retailer for goods and services provided by Word Works by Mary Byers.