Books published by BMcHAWK TALKS

Upward is a book every businesswoman who dreams of holding a leadership position should read because it will answer questions such as ...Do you wonder how to overcome challenges in the workplace that hold you back from your leadership goals? Do you wish you could ask current women in leadership how they did it? The compilers of Upward, Simone E. Morris, and Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, have done the footwork for you and have gotten the answers. Both women, leaders in their respective fields in their own right, have reached out to more than 20 women who currently hold leadership roles in various businesses and asked them to share their stories. Each chapter is written by a female business leader sharing her struggles and some of the challenges she faced as she made her way in the business world. In addition, each chapter advises the next generation of women on how to best work toward achieving their leadership goals. From this book, you will learn from women already in these positions what you need to do to achieve your leadership goals. For every woman who strives to be a leader and role model for other women, Upward is the handbook to use for success. 

By late March of 2020, we all came to realize we were living in different times-times that pushed us out of our comfort zones. When you thought about the global pandemic and what the future holds for you, there may have been uncertainty. Fear.  Worry. Or you may have felt excited, optimistic, or even hopeful.Triumph Over the Trials contains messages from the following diverse voices in the medical community, post-secondary education, and a variety of professional industries who came together in April 2020 with the help of videoconference tools to write chapters about personal trials:SHONNA DENT, TABITHA EVANS, DIANE GUNDERSON, DR. ANA LARA, DR. CHANTELL WILSON LINK, and BRIDGETT McGOWEN with forward by CLINTON HARRISThe goal is to encourage you to push through even when it''s uncomfortable-even when pushing through is the absolute last thing you want to do."Our greatest abilities are sometime discovered during our greatest trials. You are stronger and more capable than you have ever given yourself credit to be if only you are willing and ready to give yourself the opportunity. Read these words and grow with every sentence and every word. Realize that your present circumstances do not have to be the measure for your future."In these pages, read about some of our biggest trials we have ever had and how we overcame them. Most importantly, you get a piece of advice from each of us that lets you know you can always triumph over the trials. Always.

In Becoming a Designer of Distinction: What Interior Design School Won''t Teach You, Tabitha Evans shares lessons she has learned along the way and offers a hip and insightful way to educate designers on what they need to do to help pave the way to a successful career in interior design. Tabitha''s hopes for readers are for them to create a more meaningful careers through building strong foundations of support while focusing on their strengths.

Open. Sincere. Honest. Unfiltered.In early June of 2020, many of us found ourselves unable to sleep ... unable to function normally ... unable to comprehend that once again, a black man found himself unable to breathe and ultimately met his demise at the hands of the police. You may have also found yourself in a state of shock and wanting to do something. The contributors to A Collective Breath: Stories of Being Black in America and Visions of Change found themselves in similar positions.Their candid, personal thoughts and feelings reveal the many challenges that blacks face in America today-challenges they may not directly divulge to others but that are part of their realities, and they offer ideas for solutions and actions to pave the way to a more optimistic future.Consisting of a wide variety of blacks who are well-educated; who are community leaders, entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals; and who are involved with their families and religious organizations, the contributors tell of what it is like to be black in America. In A Collective Breath, the contributors do not hold back.They take a collective breath -- the breaths that George Floyd, Manuel Ellis, Javier Ambler, Eric Garner, and so many others could not take -- to document for the world how they feel in this moment; the lenses through which they, as blacks in America, view and live their lives; and what they believe needs to change today for a different tomorrow.

Millennials: The So-Called Entitled Generation is an informative book on one of the world''s most controversial generations. The author, Delano Perry, a millennial himself, details the everyday challenges of being considered entitled and narcissistic. He sheds light on many questionable labels and stereotypes in a world where many of the older millennials do not consider themselves millennials and are often confused about the age range of the millennials. They tend to attack younger millennials while members of the older generations criticize them as well.This book explores many of the issues that millennials face such as being known as the broken or lost generation due to the financial setbacks that were caused in the midst of the Great Recession; massive amounts of student debt; and how they have abandoned many of the old ways of thinking about religion, marriage, education, and company structure. Millennials explores how they are one of the most depressed, addicted, and unhealthiest generations despite being so young and vibrant.Much of the work was written based on firsthand experiences and research conducted by Perry. The goal is to not only educate those from different generations of the stereotypes and misinformation but also the millennials themselves, especially those who are thirty and older. The writing is controversial and biased at times but still informative and firm in a world where the word "millennial" has become somewhat of an offensive term. We must begin to shed like on the fact that this is a group of young people who have spent the last decade on an uphill battle with themselves, society, and the economy.