Books & Publications

The Playbook

This playbook is a calendar, journal, guide with trackers all-in-one. It is a playbook for your life and/or business to help you play this game called life and live it on purpose, with intention.  It is a one-stop purpose shop. With this playbook, you can get your life in order, keep it in order, and remove the excuses. It’s a game changer for those who are ready to take their life and/or business to the next level. It is your playbook of action plays. It is a mini-coaching program at your fingertips that you can carry around with you or leave at your desk. This playbook offers a stock of usual tactics or methods, a playbook of strategies. It contains diagrams or templates of life plays–a life playbook. Dr. Tammy designed this playbook just for you, as guide to help you organize your life and get what you want. Dr. Tammy wants you to manifest all that you desire in the areas of education, career, personal development, family, fitness, fun/travel, finances, and faith. It is a catalyst for change with plays to help you win in life and/or business. This comprehensive playbook is the secret you’ve been looking for to reach your goals.

R.E.A.P. More

76 quotes with commentary—questions and reflective prompts—to help you on your journey toward more. It offers practical strategies and mindset work to apply to your life—to shift your mindset into a positive space ready to tackle the world and move in the direction of more.

These quotes are seeds to plant, sow, and grow into something you can use to help you on our journey toward more. We must plant them, water them, and give them light. Each seed is designed to shift your mindset so you can allow love and positive energy to flow like water and light while you grow your goals into reality and reap the harvest.

Reading as a Social Action: Women Aspiring for More

These are stories from the women actively engaged in a global, online reading community called Women Aspiring for More (WAM). WAM, founded by Dr. Tammy Francis, was set up as an engaging space to build relationships, educate each other, and serve others. WAM was established to encourage reading, promote self-awareness, and invest in self-development through literature and literacy. 

WAM pushes women toward knowledge, light, and self-awareness and serves as a catalyst for personal change.  WAM actively supports and celebrates women to walk in their passion, step into their purpose, and live in both spaces comfortably and intentionally. This self-work is grounded in literary catalysis, the interaction within the reading community for personal and professional development.

In this anthology, the women share their experiences and stories about using reading as a vehicle to grow personally and professionally while in the community reading with like-minded women and engaging in conversations from different perspectives. Each contributor shares how reading with others in WAM has changed their reading habits, reading experience(s), reading enjoyment, and/or attitude toward reading.

The contributors are:

Jeanine Bunzigiye

Chipo Chitewe

Ruth-Ellen Danquah

LaShun Gaines

Lynn Kanyowa-Ndhlovu

Shawntai Lister-Mitchell

Trifanya Osei

Art by Marcus Humose

Publications

Teachers as Reading Models: Secondary English Language Arts Teachers Share Their Reading Habits and Experiences

Empower the Learner: Using Transformative Practices to Construct Critical Thinking Pathways to Disciplinary Reading