Author, Nikki Stone, has truly learned what it takes to find success after overcoming a career-threatening spinal injury to become America's first Olympic gold medalist in the exhilarating sport of inverted aerial skiing; a sport where athletes ski nearly 40 miles per hour, launching off a 10-foot tall snow jump, flipping and twisting 50-feet into the air, and landing on a 45% steep hill. As a motivational speaker and personal development coach, Nikki has taken the tools she discovered to reach the top of the podium and adapted a compelling message to reach audiences from all different backgrounds. Speech attendees and clients tell Nikki that her suggested tools have helped enhance their careers and positively shape their lives so that they, too, have attained their own goals and victories. Encouraged by this feedback, Nikki has adapted her message once again, in book form.
We all gain our inspiration in different ways and from different sources. Recognizing this, Nikki has encouraged successful contributors from all different fields to share their short, inspirational stories on the seven themes that she has found essential for success. When people want to follow the path to success, they want to follow those who did it best. Who wouldn't want to hear the inspirational stories of Mia Farrow (award-winning legend of the big screen), Stephen F. Bollenbach (CEO of Hilton Hotels), Prince Albert II (ruler of Monaco), Nobel Prize winner Dr. Lee Hartwell (for his work with Cancer Research), Tommy Hilfiger (world-famous fashion designer), Buzz Aldrin (world-renowned astronaut), Stephen Covey (internationally respected leadership authority and best-selling author),
Steve Young (National Football League superstar quarterback), Ben Cohen (founder of the famous Ben & Jerry's ice cream), Nadia Comaneci (Olympic gymnastics legend), Keith Lockhart (Symphony conductor of the Boston Pops & Utah Symphony), Summer Sanders (4-X Olympic swimming medalist and sports broadcaster), or Todd English (world-renowned Celebrity Chef)? Take a walk in their shoes and find out how they found their success.
But what good is inspiration without the applied action steps essential to find your own success? After each rousing story, Nikki gives readers a personal anecdote on the theme and follows this will a related daily activity to apply the principles inspired by their role models. Thus, after readers have been moved by the story of how blind climber, Erik Weihenmayer used teamwork to summit Mount Everest, they can experience a way to build their own support system. They can gain encouragement from the story of how Mia Farrow learned to truly believe in herself through her relationship with a displaced refugee woman from Darfur, Sudan, then experience how to build their own confidence. Readers will be inspired by the best and find new ways to beat out all the rest.
Nikki's expertise is woven throughout the entire book so that readers can understand the development of the various activities and relate to Nikki on a more personal level. With a deeper connection and understanding of the author, readers are more compelled to follow her advice. When Turtles Fly offers a unique, powerful approach to achieving whatever your gold medal may be.
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