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Welcome to Best Ever You!

 

For nearly twenty years, Best Ever You has inspired people around the world to navigate change, achieve meaningful and comprehensive success, cultivate gratitude, and create lasting peace. Through books, coaching, podcasts, courses, community initiatives, and practical tools for personal growth, our mission is simple: to help you become your best self and make a positive difference in the lives of others.

We believe that every moment offers an opportunity to grow, connect, serve, and create change.

 

That's why we invite you to Pause. Breathe. Choose.

Because when you grow, the world grows with you.

From the Original Publishers of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Comes The Guidebook Series

The Guidebook Series was created to help readers navigate three of life's most important experiences: change, success, and peace. Published by HCI Books, the original publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, each guidebook combines practical wisdom, reflection, real-life stories, and the collective insights of approximately twenty contributors. Together, these books provide a roadmap for living with greater gratitude, purpose, resilience, and peace—one choice, one step, and one moment at a time.

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Peace

The Peace Guidebook invites readers to cultivate peace as a daily practice. Rooted in alignment, compassion, and intentional living, it offers practical guidance for creating peace within yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.

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Change

The Change Guidebook offers a compassionate, grounded approach to navigating life’s transitions. Rather than resisting change or forcing outcomes, it helps readers understand change as a natural process of realignment. By clarifying values, releasing what no longer fits, and choosing aligned action, change becomes the foundation for meaningful success and lasting peace.

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Success

The Success Guidebook bridges change and peace by redefining success as alignment in action. It helps readers move beyond outdated measures of achievement and create a version of success that supports both personal fulfillment and long-term well-being.

Featured Voices of The Best Ever You Network

Discover inspiring stories, expert insights, thought leaders, authors, changemakers, and community members making a positive impact in the world.

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Al Bean

 

Coaching, Leadership, Student Athletes & Building Team Culture

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Mariya Vynnytska

Healing Ukraine, Touching the World - THE SOUL

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Norah Lawlor

Mom's Book of Wisdom

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Shaun Proulx

 

Authenticity, Reinvention, Media, and Living a Joy-Filled Life

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Discover More Voices, Stories, and Ideas

Latest from Our Thought Leaders

Explore inspiring articles, practical insights, and thought-provoking perspectives from our community of authors, experts, coaches, educators, advocates, and changemakers. Together, our thought leaders share ideas to help you navigate change, cultivate gratitude, achieve meaningful success, and create greater peace in your life and the world around you.

 The Best Ever You Show

Since 2010, The Best Ever You Show has brought listeners inspiring conversations with bestselling authors, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, advocates, and changemakers from around the world.

Hosted by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, one of the longest-running personal growth podcasts in the world delivers meaningful conversations about change, success, gratitude, resilience, leadership, well-being, and peace. With millions of downloads and more than 700 extraordinary guests, The Best Ever You Show continues to inspire listeners to live intentionally, grow through life's challenges, and become their best selves.

 

When you grow, the world grows with you.

Listen and Watch The Real Life Podcast

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Take the Best Ever You Assessment
(From the bestselling book: The Change Guidebook)

Discover your life's vision and your vision of success on your road to rooting in gratitude, navigating change, and finding breakthrough success.

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