Lessons from the People Who Paid me (and the Ones Who Didn't)

    

Lessons from the People Who Paid me

(and the Ones Who Didn't):

A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand

Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn't): A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand by Ricka Raga is a 2026 best-selling guide focusing on the hidden dynamics of client management, brand strategy, and the realities of running a creative or service-based business.Raga, a brand strategist with over 13 years of experience, shares raw, actionable insights on, recognizing patterns, setting boundaries, and building a sustainable business.

The book is aimed at creatives, freelancers, consultants, and founders looking to move beyond surface-level business advice and build a sustainable brand.

What if the biggest lessons in your business did not come from your best clients, but from the ones who tested your limits?

In Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn’t), brand strategist Ricka Raga reveals what really happens behind client work. This is a direct look at patterns, mistakes, and hard earned clarity that no course or certification can teach.

This is not a book about getting more clients.
It is about understanding them.

Through real world experience working with businesses across industries, Ricka breaks down the hidden dynamics that shape every project. Some clients move your business forward. Others quietly drain your time, energy, and margins. The difference is not luck. It is pattern recognition and structure.

You will learn how to recognize recurring client archetypes, build systems that protect your business, and shift from reactive execution to strategic authority.

This book challenges the traditional narrative of freelancing and creative work. It moves beyond aesthetics, beyond hustle, and beyond surface level advice. It focuses on what actually builds a sustainable and scalable business.

Inside, you will discover:

• Why experience is about pattern recognition, not time
• How weak boundaries quietly destroy your business
• The real reason beautiful brands fail to generate revenue
• How to filter clients before they cost you time and money
• Why systems, not talent, drive long term growth
• The mindset shift required to move from service provider to authority

Written with clarity and conviction, this book is for creatives, freelancers, consultants, and founders who are ready to stop guessing and start operating with intention.

If you have ever been underpaid, overworked, or stuck in projects that never should have started, this book will change how you see your business and the people you choose to build it with.

Because in the end, your success is not just defined by what you do.
It is defined by who you allow in.

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(and the Ones Who Didn't)

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ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: The Handbook For Managers and A/R Department ACCOUNTS PAYABLE: THE HANDBOOK FOR MANAGERS AND A/P DEPARTMENT

 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: The Handbook For Managers and A/R Department

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE: THE HANDBOOK FOR MANAGERS AND A/P DEPARTMENT 

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE:

The Handbook For Managers and A/R Department

"Accounts Receivable: The Handbook for Managers and A/R Department" by Dr. Lester G. Reid is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals involved in managing accounts receivable (AR) processes. This handbook aims to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and compliance of AR departments, thereby supporting organizational financial health. It covers fundamental AR concepts, the complete AR process, and the importance of timely collections and precise record-keeping. The book emphasizes training and development, technology integration, compliance, and internal controls, offering practical advice and strategies for optimizing AR operations. With a focus on continuous improvement and leveraging modern technologies, this handbook is an indispensable resource for both seasoned managers and those new to the field, providing essential tools to master the complexities of accounts receivable in today's dynamic business environment.

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The Handbook For Managers and A/R Department

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The Sexy Art of Conversation: How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

  

The Sexy Art of Conversation:

How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

(Sexy Challenges)

Conversation is foreplay.
And most people are doing it badly.

The Sexy Art of Conversation is not about small talk, polite chatter, or “How was your day?”
It’s about connection that lingers, words that arouse, and conversations that change energy in a room.

This book explores the four powerful layers of conversation—physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual—and how mastering them can transform your relationships, intimacy, attraction, and emotional connection.

You’ll discover why:

• The right words can create instant chemistry
• Vulnerability is irresistibly attractive
• Deep listening is more seductive than any pickup line
• Conversations can heal, ignite desire, and build trust
• Energy exchange happens long before touch ever does

Blending relationship psychology, metaphysical wisdom, sensual awareness, and humor, this book teaches you how to:

• Create emotional intimacy without force
• Speak in ways that lower defenses and open hearts
• Ask questions that unlock desire and truth
• Recognize and dissolve conversational energy leaks
• Turn everyday conversations into magnetic experiences

Perfect for:

• Couples looking to deepen intimacy
• Singles wanting stronger attraction and connection
• Spiritual seekers curious about energy exchange
• Anyone tired of shallow relationships and surface-level talk

This isn’t manipulation.
This isn’t scripted romance.
This is conscious conversation—where words become touch, listening becomes intimacy, and connection becomes electric.

Because when you learn how to truly speak—and truly listen—
everything changes

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The Sexy Art of Conversation

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The Design of Perfection: 300 Million Years of Silence

  

The Design of Perfection:

300 Million Years of Silence

What if the most sophisticated technology on Earth is not hidden in a lab in Silicon Valley, but hovering right before your eyes?

Meet the dragonfly. It has five eyes. It sees the world 200 times faster than you do. It hunts with a 97 percent success rate, making lions and great white sharks look like amateurs. And it does all of this on a battery of just 0.0001 watts.

But here is the real mystery: It has not changed in 300 million years.

In this provocative journey through biology, engineering, and cosmic philosophy, Jure Ivankovic challenges everything we think we know about life on Earth. Is the dragonfly a biological fluke, or a message in a bottle waiting for a civilization advanced enough to read it?

The answers are not in the fossils. They are in the code.

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The Design of Perfection: 300 Million Years of Silence

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus:

Complete Edition with Introduction, Historical Context, Character Insights, and Author Biography

Frankenstein is one of those rare novels that almost everyone recognizes by name, yet far fewer people have truly experienced as a book. Popular culture has transformed the story into an image — the monster, the lightning, the laboratory — but Mary Shelley’s original novel is something far more powerful, unsettling, and emotionally intelligent than many readers expect.

What surprises modern readers most about *Frankenstein* is not the horror itself, but the atmosphere of loneliness that hangs over every page.

This is not simply a story about a scientist creating life. It is a story about obsession, isolation, guilt, ambition, rejection, and the terrible consequences of refusing responsibility for what we create. Beneath the gothic imagery and icy landscapes lies a deeply human novel — one that feels remarkably modern nearly two centuries after it was first published.

Reading *Frankenstein* today feels very different from reading many classic novels of the same era. The prose is elegant and literary, but the emotional core is immediate. Victor Frankenstein’s gradual psychological collapse feels intensely personal, while the Creature himself emerges not as a simple villain, but as one of the most tragic and sympathetic figures in classic literature.

That emotional complexity is one reason the novel continues to endure.

The Creature’s longing for acceptance, companionship, and understanding gives the novel an emotional weight that many readers never expect going in. There are moments in *Frankenstein* that feel less like traditional gothic horror and more like profound reflections on alienation and humanity itself. In many ways, the book asks timeless questions that still resonate today:

* What responsibilities do creators have toward what they create?

* Can intelligence exist without compassion?

* Does society create monsters through cruelty and rejection?

* What happens when ambition outruns morality?

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The Roads Don’t Love You

   

The Roads Don’t Love You

Mya-Mae Michael

The Roads Don’t Love You is a raw, emotionally charged UK urban fiction novel following Mara, a quiet West London girl who falls into county lines, toxic love, prison and street life after becoming involved with an older road boy who changes the course of her life forever. Blending gritty London realism with deep emotional storytelling, the book explores trauma, obsession, survival, girlhood and the devastating reality behind the lifestyle so many people glamorise online. As Mara spirals deeper into violence, loyalty, revenge and repeated prison sentences, she’s forced to confront the truth about the roads, the people she loved, and herself. Dark, immersive and heartbreakingly honest, The Roads Don’t Love You will appeal to readers of UK street fiction, toxic romance, prison drama and emotionally driven coming-of-age stories. He wasn’t her first mistake. He was just the one that changed everything. Mara is fifteen when she first notices him — older, dangerous, already known on the roads. To everybody else, he’s trouble. To Mara, he feels like escape. What starts as excitement quickly turns into obsession. Drawn into county lines, fast money and a world where loyalty means everything, Mara loses herself chasing love in places that were never built to protect girls like her. The deeper she falls, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between passion and control, survival and self-destruction. Then the roads start taking things back. Friendships. Freedom. Innocence. Prison stretches. Violence. Trauma that follows her long after the bruises fade. And somewhere between the streets, the cells and the chaos, Mara is forced to face the hardest truth of all: The roads don’t love anybody back. Raw, emotional and unflinchingly honest, The Roads Don’t Love You is a powerful story about toxic love, survival, girlhood and the brutal reality behind the lifestyle people romanticise online. Perfect for readers of gritty UK urban fiction, emotionally charged street romance, and realistic stories about county lines, trauma and survival.

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Future Realities of Workplace

     

Future Realities of Workplace

The workplace has shifted from location of work to the engine of civilization: The crucible where technology, humanity, and global systems collide. In Future Realities of Workplace, Dr. Elijah Ezendu delivers a groundbreaking exploration of how emerging forces of AI, robotics, bionics, cultural values, mobility, regulation, ethics and sustainability will redefine how we work, live, and thrive.

Drawing on decades of foresight, global case studies, and bold scenarios, this book maps the drivers of transformation and the impacts on the world system. It shows how the future of workplace will determine the following.

• The global economy and competitiveness of nations.
• The recalibration of education into lifelong learning ecosystems.
• The relevance of talent in a world of automation and augmentation.
• The optimization of industries across all sectors.
• Sustainability of the planet, as workplaces become frontline actors in net-zero and wellbeing economies.

With visionary clarity, Dr. Elijah Ezendu blends analytical depth with future scenarios and vivid case studies. Each chapter moves beyond theory, offering a rich narrative of how humans, machines, and hybrid beings will share, and sometimes contest the future workplace: A portending potpourri of asymmetry between non-human workforce integration and equitable human advancement. If a responsive global governance stoke the fire of order, fittingly structured regulation shall definitely ensure dominance and continuity of human control; conversely, slow or apathetic governance approach in the face of rapid technological innovation will be an invitation to catastrophe.

At its heart, Future Realities of Workplace is a blueprint for leaders, professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and workers who want to design the future, instead of walking blindly into its pitfalls. It calls for workplaces built on adaptability, fairness, innovation, sustainability and human-centred purpose.

The message is clear: The workplace is not a side stage of history. It is the determinant of economic prosperity, human dignity, and planetary survival. To shape the workplace is to shape the future of civilization.

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