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Amy Tan is an accomplished business executive and award-winning author with over twenty years of experience in corporate leadership and market expansion across Southeast Asia. She holds a Business Administration degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Postgraduate Certificate from the University of Nottingham.
Beyond her corporate role, Amy is a passionate storyteller, weaving her diverse experiences into narratives that explore personal growth, resilience, and transformation. Her recent book, Revisiting the Depths - Overcoming Fear and Finding Peace, which won the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, recounts her emotional and spiritual journey as she overcomes a long-held fear of the ocean through diving.
Amy’s latest book, Life Lessons from Mom: For the Man You’ll Become, is a thoughtfully crafted guide that offers practical wisdom on navigating life’s challenges, cultivating meaningful relationships, and building a legacy of love. She is also the author of Doing Business in ASEAN and China: An Ultimate Guide to Doing Business, which showcases her expertise in regional economic integration.
Having lived in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia, Amy brings a rich, cross-cultural perspective to her writing, inspiring readers to overcome challenges and make positive changes. Her work highlights the powerful impact of storytelling on personal and professional development.
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
To find your place in this world, you need a sense of purpose and inherent self-awareness. In Life Lessons From Mom, veteran business executive and award-winning author Amy Tan draws from over twenty years of experience in corporate leadership to bring a practical guide for navigating life's unexpected challenges. This book will show you how to live a life driven by purpose, resilience, and strength. Using personal anecdotes, inspirational stories, and profound insights, the author provides all the tools you need to live a successful and fulfilling life. You will learn to embrace your strengths and weaknesses, build meaningful connections through thoughtful communication, foster healthy relationships, ground yourself with faith, live with integrity, humility, and gratitude, empower yourself with positive thinking, improve your decision-making, chart a roadmap to success, find clarity and purpose, and much more.
Written as a set of lessons from a mother to her son, Life Lessons From Mom is an all-in-one motivational handbook for improving your personal and professional life and nurturing healthy, meaningful, and long-lasting relationships. The most impressive aspect of the book for me is how everything discussed is practically applicable to everyday life, and author Amy Tan presents the content in a way that is not only accessible but also thoroughly engaging to read. The book encourages readers to cultivate a mindset of lifelong learning and demonstrates the importance of the pursuit of passion. In addition, you will get a few valuable nuggets of financial wisdom as well as advice on prioritizing your health and overall well-being. All in all, this book will help you transform and empower yourself to change your life for the better. Highly recommended!
