Recommended Portfolio: Success, but with a meaningful life

Laura Báez, a business strategist and founder of her own financial brokerage, created the DAR (Decision, Action, Result) method to recognize the emotional fraud of success, a topic she also addresses in her first book, "Once Upon a Lie."

The Mexican writer's text invites us to question the invisible script of modern success and reconnect with a meaningful life. "I wrote this book for those who feel there must be something more," says Báez. "Those who, despite having achievements, titles, or recognition, feel disconnected from their inner truth. I've been there too. That's why I decided to tell my story, debunk the lies society sells us, and share the method that helped me find direction and purpose," she adds.

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This is not a conventional self-help book. In its pages, the author denounces the false beliefs about happiness, time, identity, and destiny that many people have adopted without question. Through deep reflections, personal stories, and practical tools, Báez proposes a path back to the essentials. One of the keys is the DAR method (Decision, Action, Result), a system she created to help people combat dissatisfaction with clear, coherent, and sustained actions. Created from the experience of hundreds of immigrant entrepreneurs whom Laura has guided toward successful businesses and purposeful lives, Laura Báez is a symbol of transformation, especially within the Latina immigrant community in Canada. Her story is living proof that it is possible to prosper without betraying one's essence. Recognized as the first self-made Latina millionaire in Canada in the brokerage and financial services sector. Her exemplary business career has positioned her as a symbol of strategic vision, financial empowerment, and transformative leadership, especially within the immigrant community.

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In 2023, she was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Successful Women Canada. She is an international speaker, author, radio host, and leadership coach.

Author: Laura Báez

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This biography offers an insight into Late Antiquity and Justinian, a man who, from the humblest beginnings, rose to rule much of the known world and achieved near-divine regard. An emperor who infused spiritual meaning into even the most mundane tasks. See more: Recommended Portfolio: Solutions Must Be Negotiated An excellent administrator obsessed with details. A man, already in middle age, capable of changing the law so he could marry a dancer he fell in love with, and who ruled alongside Empress Theodora for over twenty years. A brilliant military strategist who was never on the front lines. He faced challenges such as climate change, cultural and identity struggles, and the first global pandemic.

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Seal: Taurus Inheritance

A new way of studying our history, using psychological experiments, fieldwork, and big data. It identifies three biases that shape human behavior: conformity, religiosity, and tribalism. Key to understanding transformations such as the rise of agriculture and the first centralized states, the rise and fall of human sacrifice, and the creation of multiethnic empires, their effects are now deeply pernicious. With examples from New Guinea tribes, Libyan militias, and competitive advertising agencies, the author demonstrates how the tools used to manage our biases no longer work.

Author: Harvey Whitehouse

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“Delirio is an extraordinary love story about a man tragically in love with his wife; he searches and searches for her until he can finally imagine he's found her. Yes, there's violence, drug trafficking, madness, perhaps even love itself as a form of total madness. The important thing is that we're talking about a truly great novel, of a kind that is rarely found anymore (…). It's an expression of everything that's fascinating, even terribly fascinating, about Colombia. And when the level of writing reaches the level Laura Restrepo has taken it, you have to take off your hat.”

Author: Laura Restrepo

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