Building Your Personal Philosophy: New Methods for Women with Sharmadean Reid
Power Hour
Adrienne Herbert
4.8 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sharmadean Reid MBE is a founder, writer and creative consultant who in her 20 year career has launched an innovation led salon, a beauty tech start up and now a media company.
Sharmadean’s amazing new book is out now. New Methods for Women is 49 powerful essays that offer new perspectives on life, work, self, friendships, parenthood, and relationships. Sharmadean interweaves the lessons she’s learnt, with a diverse range of thinkers, ideas and stories that have informed her approach. There are countless books that tell women how to navigate the system as it is, but what women really need is to change the system to empower and support them: this book gives you the tools to do just that.
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