Audiobooks narrated by Rebecca Lam

Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression

In Liberal White Supremacy, Angie Beeman argues that white supremacy is maintained not only by right-wing conservatives or stereotypically uneducated working-class racial bigots but also by progressives who operate from a liberal ideology of color-blindness, racism-evasiveness, and class elitism. This distinction provides insight on divisions among progressives at the local level, in community organizations, and at the national level, in the Democratic Party. By distinguishing between liberal and radical approaches to racism, class oppression, capitalism, and social movement tactics, Beeman shows how progressives continue to be limited by liberal ideology and perpetuate rather than dismantle white supremacy, all while claiming to be antiracist. She conceptualizes this self-serving process as 'liberal white supremacy,' the tendency for liberal European Americans to constantly place themselves in the superior moral position in a way that reinforces inequality. Beeman advances what she calls action-oriented and racism-centered intersectional approaches as alternatives to progressive organizational strategies that either downplay racism in favor of a class-centered approach or take a talk-centered approach to racism without developing explicit actions to challenge it.

Angie Beeman (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Leading Winning Teams

Elevate your team's performance. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on building a high-performing team from within, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you communicate more effectively, cultivate trust, build a learning and risk-taking culture, and transform your team from one of high potentials to one of high performers. From Tom Brady's advice on motivating your teammates to Amy Edmonson's best practices for building psychological safety, this book will inspire you to communicate openly and effectively; build unwavering trust, even from afar; establish foundational norms; align your team around a shared vision; create an environment of continuous learning; manage conflict and drive change; set ambitious goals and encourage your team to achieve them; and hold each other—and yourself—to high standards. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Brandon Pollock, Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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The Inclusion Equation: Leveraging Data & AI For Organizational Diversity and Well-being

The Inclusion Equation is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide to merging DEI and employee wellbeing concepts with data analytics and AI. In this book, renowned thought leader and professional keynote speaker Dr. Serena H. Huang explains exactly how to quantify the effectiveness of new talent strategies by connecting them to a firm ROI estimate, enabling listeners to approach and win the favor of higher-ups in any organization with the same effectiveness that marketing and financial departments do. This book is written in a style that is appealing and accessible to all listeners regardless of technical background, but with enough depth to provide real insight and strategies. Dr. Huang distills her ten years of Fortune 500 people analytics leadership experience into tools and framework you can leverage to measure and improve DEI and wellbeing in your workplace. Some of the topics explored in this book include how to attract and retain top talent, including Gen Z and Millennials, with tailored DEI and wellbeing strategies; quantifying not only a talent strategy's perceived initial effect on an organization, but also its improvement and expansion over time; turning DEI and wellbeing from illusive corporate concepts to quantifiable metrics; and how to harness the power of AI to create synchronized DEI and wellbeing strategies that maximize ROI.

Dr. Serena Huang (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead

AI has the potential to transform leadership and the human experience of work—or to lead us into an automated and uninspiring work reality. Which one will it be? Humans have always been good at inventing tools that change the way we live and work—though not always good at adapting to those changes. Consider how the internet has given us instant access to gigabytes of data and yet has made us more distracted. Or how social media has enabled us to be more connected than ever, and yet it can also alienate or isolate us. Will the power of AI create a new era of robotic, impersonal efficiency, or will it catalyze a renaissance, redefining leadership and the world of work? So far, that question has mostly prompted a wave of anxiety about the disappearance of jobs and the loss of humanness in our work lives. But as Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter show in this essential book, that's a very limited perspective on the impact of AI, leaving out a crucial point: AI has the power to transform leadership for the better—the key is in how leaders use it. With deep insight and rigorous research, More Human will help leaders navigate our AI-enabled future.

Jacqueline Carter, Rasmus Hougaard (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the 'corporate poverty complex,' a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor. Their business models depend on exploiting low-income Americans, and their political influence ensures a thriving set of industries where everyone profits except the poor, while United States taxpayers foot the bill. In Poverty for Profit, veteran journalist Anne Kim investigates the multiple industries that infiltrate almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, criminal justice, and nutrition. She explains how these businesses are aided by public policies such as the wholesale privatization of government services and the political influence these industries wield over lawmakers and regulators. Supported by original investigative reporting on the lesser-known players profiting from the antipoverty industry, Poverty for Profit adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of how structural inequality and structural racism function today.

Anne Kim (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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Walking with God Through the Valley: Recovering the Purpose of Biblical Lament

Recovering the Practice of Lament The church desperately needs to recover the practice of lament. But what exactly are we asking for? The call for lament echoes throughout the pages of Scripture. This ever-present genre shaped the lives of ancient communities, and it should shape the practices of churches today. And yet contemporary Christian communities often don't know how to engage texts of lament in their contexts. In a world experiencing so much pain, a recovery of biblical lament is more necessary than ever. In Walking with God Through the Valley, Old Testament scholar May Young offers a guide for listeners to engage lament texts both in their church communities and in their personal lives. Drawing deeply from key passages in Scripture, including the Psalms, Habakkuk, and Lamentations, Young posits that true lament must come out of a deep understanding of the biblical text. Through practicing lament in our own lives, we can move through pain and suffering and experience God's renewed hope.

May Young (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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What Lights You Up?: Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career

What Lights You Up? takes listeners on a journey to find their next meaningful and fulfilling job—no matter where they are right now. Whether you're an industry veteran pivoting between fields, a stay-at-home parent just rejoining the workforce, or a college student trying to find their footing, this heartfelt, actionable, and authentic book covers everything you need to know about getting results in the modern world of work and is full of insightful, real-life stories of success that inspire the listener to take action in their own life. Inspired by renowned executive coach, business advisor, and speaker Mary Olson-Menzel's highly effective MVP 360 Coaching program, this book delivers insight on topics like: ● Developing and telling your own highly individualistic story to get noticed and hired ● Getting results from LinkedIn, social media, and personal branding ● Rocking the interview, negotiating the offer, and landing the job ● Staying on a path to vibrant success in your first three months at a new job—and the rest of your life What Lights You Up? is an essential guide and roadmap for everyone and anyone seeking direction in their career journey.

Mary Olson-Menzel (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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SPRING Forward: Balanced Eating, Exercise, and Body Image in Sport for Female Athletes

Many female athletes struggle with body confidence and change their nutrition in unhealthy ways, only to the detriment of both their performance and their health. SPRING Forward: Balanced Eating, Exercise, and Body Image in Sport for Female Athletes provides performance nutrition and body image flexibility guidance for adolescent and adult female athletes. This book details the problems and the consequences, and provides extensive education on healthier, higher-quality performance. Nutritional details include specific nutritional needs for female athletes related to hormones and nutrition for peak performance, as well as fad diets. Body image education includes societal pressure, unrealistic ideals, handling mental aspects of body image, psychological obstacles, and dealing with more severe problems. Healthy performance is addressed along with sleep, camaraderie, and how to manage the ups and downs of being a female athlete. Several instructional manuals that can be easily used for teams at any level, from secondary school to elite athletes, are included in the book. Secondary school athletes who used the program showed significant improvement in body image flexibility and gave the program rave reviews, stating that not only were they stronger athletes, but their teams also felt the education was a bonding experience.

Andrew Dole, Catherine Liggett, Kathryn Vidlock (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships

I'm not here to make work friends. Or am I? Managers, peers, work friends, mentors, frenemies, annoying people, romantic interests, people with awful politics, your boss's boss, and so on . . . we probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else. So even if they're not all perfect, it's worth it to build connections that will provide you with support, help you network and learn, and keep your career moving forward. Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer questions like: What should I do to show my boss I'm ready for a bigger role? How do I connect with people and make real friends at work? Is there a way to have tough conversations without setting myself up for drama? When should I opt in (or out) of office politics? What can I do to fix things after an awkward situation? How can I quiet my mind when I'm anxious about what other people think of me? This book will help you make so-so work relationships better, keep the bad ones from bringing you down, and build lasting connections with incredible people.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain

Western political discourse on cybersecurity is dominated by news of Chinese military development of cyberwarfare capabilities and cyber exploitation against foreign governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Western accounts, however, tell only one side of the story. Chinese leaders are also concerned with cyber insecurity, and Chinese authors frequently note that China is also a victim of foreign cyber attacks-predominantly from the United States. China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain is a comprehensive analysis of China's cyberspace threats and policies. The contributors-Chinese specialists in cyber dynamics, experts on China, and experts on the use of information technology between China and the West-address cyberspace threats and policies, emphasizing the vantage points of China and the US on cyber exploitation and the possibilities for more positive coordination with the West. The volume's multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural approach does not pretend to offer wholesale resolutions. Contributors take different stances on how problems may be analyzed and reduced. The compilation provides empirical and evaluative depth on the deepening dependence on shared global information infrastructure and the growing willingness to exploit it for political or economic gain.

Derek S. Reveron, Jon R. Lindsay, Tai Ming Cheung (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu's story and in her food, a portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class, female home cooks navigated the postwar transformations taking place across the world. In Chop Fry Watch Learn, King weaves together stories from her own family and contemporary oral history to present a remarkable argument for how understanding the story of Fu's life enables us to see Chinese food as both an inheritance of tradition and a truly modern creation. King reveals how and why, for audiences in Taiwan and around the world, Fu became the ultimate culinary touchstone: the figure against whom all other cooking authorities were measured. And Fu's legacy continues. Informed by the voices of fans across generations, King illuminates the story of Chinese food from the inside. The result is a revelatory work, a rich banquet of past and present tastes that will resonate deeply for all of us looking for our histories in the kitchen.

Michelle T. King (Author), Rebecca Lam (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify your social and emotional strengths and weaknesses, approach them with a learning mindset, and become a more effective leader today. This book will inspire you to focus your attention inward and outward; connect with others to give more effective feedback; influence with and without authority; navigate differences while maintaining relationships; build trust through active listening; and communicate the right message and deliver it with empathy. This collection of articles includes 'The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most,' by Raffaella Sadun, Joseph Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal, 'The Focused Leader,' by Daniel Goleman, 'Making Empathy Central to Your Company Culture,' by Jamil Zaki, 'Learning to Learn,' by Erika Andersen, 'How to Get the Help You Need,' by Heidi Grant, 'How to Sell Your Ideas up the Chain of Command,' by Ethan Burris, 'When Diversity Meets Feedback,' by Erin Meyer, 'Want Stronger Relationships at Work? Change the Way You Listen,' by Manbir Kaur, 'How to Navigate Conflict with a Coworker,' by Amy Gallo, and more.

Harvard Business Review (Author), Rebecca Lam, Tim Lounibos (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Rebecca Lam