Are you ready to make a living from your craft? Learn how to map out a financial plan, expand production, automate distribution, address legal matters, and much more. Start growing your business beyond the dining room table and leave your day job behind.
From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love. Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion’s impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams. The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth—fashion—into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they’re made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again—without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process. *Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast
This book explains how money is NOT the most important ingredient needed to be successful. Step by step instructions on how to: begin, become legal, gather the equipment and supplies, use inexpensive advertising, perform winning customer service and which customers you should avoid!
Learn techniques and tips to raising children who eat well and have an overall healthy relationship with food. Breaking down intuitive eating in a way that’s easy to understand and even easier to implement, this book shows you how to help your children develop a positive relationship with food. It offers a system that builds healthy habits and better mindsets that will last a lifetime. Through the techniques and tips in this book, you’ll discover how to eliminate stress, anxiety and food battles and instead enjoy feeding your confident eater! Written by a board-certified pediatrician and mom, this book will set your family up for success when it comes to making decisions in the kitchen, grocery store, and restaurant. The actionable advice in A Parent’s Guide to Intuitive Eating will transform healthy eating from a chore into a happy habit! “A complete guide for raising healthy children from pregnancy to late childhood. [Dr. Yami] underscores the importance of providing children with well-rounded meals filled with fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains, along with covering topics such as picky eating, body image, and important lifestyle habits. You won’t want to miss this comprehensive resource!” —Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. “This book will lead you along the path of peace, joy, and nourishment for your child and your family.” —Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND, author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens, co-author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook
Stars Without Number is a science fiction role-playing game inspired by the Old School Renaissance and the great fantasy and science-fiction games of the seventies and eighties. * Compatible with most retroclone RPGs * Helps a GM build a sandbox sci-fi game that lets the players leave the plot rails to explore freely * World building resources for creating system-neutral planets and star sectors * 100 adventure seeds and guidelines for integrating them with the worlds you've made * Old-school compatible rules for guns, cyberware, starships, and psionics * Domain rules for experienced characters who want to set up their own colony, psychic academy, mercenary band, or other institution
Discover the lessons that can help explode your business growth! In clear, easy-to-grasp language, the author covers many of the topics that you will need to know to increase your profits and transform your business venture.
This book can save you more than $100,000. These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their entire financial futures just to get a fancy name on their diploma. But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that this assumption is not only false, but dangerous-a class con game designed to rip you off and doom your student to a post-graduation life of near poverty . From his unique double perspective-he's a personal finance expert (at Daily Finance) AND a current senior at the University of Massachusetts-Zac figured out how to get an outstanding education at a public college, without bankrupting his parents or taking on massive loans. Armed with his personal knowledge, the latest data, and smart analysis, Zac takes on the sacred cows of the higher education establishment. He reveals why a lot of the conventional wisdom about choosing and financing college is not only wrong but hazardous to you and your child's financial future. You'll discover, for instance, that: * Student loans are NOT a necessary evil. Ordinary middle class families can- and must-find ways to avoid them, even without scholarships. * College "rankings" are useless-designed to sell magazines and generate hype. If you trust one of the major guides when picking a college, you face a potential financial disaster. * The elite graduate programs accept lots of people with non-elite bachelors degrees. So do America's most selective employers. The name on a diploma ultimately won't help your child have a more successful career or earn more money. Zac can prove every one of those bold assertions - and more. No matter what your current financial situation, he has a simple message for parents: "RELAX! Your kid will be able to get a champagne education on a beer budget!"
Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less: 41+ Ways to Earn an Income from Opportune Living, offers both practical steps and strategies on how to pay less for more benefits, quality, and comfort from the basic necessities and at the same time earn a living in 41+ different services and businesses that offer others information or services on how to live better with fewer expenses, higher quality, and more benefits. You get what you pay for. Here's how to start cutting expenses, finding hidden markets, and getting higher quality items. Find dozens of practical solutions emphasizing frugality, thriftiness, prudence, results, benefits, advantages, and income. Show others how to get more by cutting unnecessary, marked-up, and frivolous expenses. Lower your cost of living with these practical strategies as you follow the how-to solutions step-by-step for excellent results. You'll learn how to do secret comparison shopping, look for shelf-pulls, and other techniques of wholesalers to cut your own expenses and find higher quality. Directions on how to open stay-at-home businesses emphasizing cutting expenses and using healthier ingredients include hidden target markets, best locations, and expected income. Show others the prudent lifestyle--how to cut expenses and increase quality, or find healthier ingredients and products. Live better by making your life easier to navigate. Pay less using high-quality, highly focused comparison shopping. If you want to make a living sharing the practical applications of living on less or getting what you pay for, high-quality bargain hunting, or home-made product tips, your idea must have redemptive value for a universal audience. Begin by looking for surplus, shelf-pulls, and overstocked items. Live on less yourself, and enjoy the comfort. The 41+ services and businesses in this guide tell you how to start and operate each home-based business. Or live the lifestyle yourself and have fewer unnecessary expenses for yourself or your family. Regardless of your age, marital status, gender, or interest, there are new trends, current information, and smarter, time-saving techniques for enjoying more comfort, quality, status, lifestyle, and benefits while cutting expenses that waste your savings or time.
Provides information on setting up and managing a thrift store, including how to create a nonprofit enterprise, choose a location, get funding, solicit donations, recruit volunteer staff and manage inventory. Original.