Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Best Self
Mike Bayer · 2019
🎙 Narrated by Mike Bayer, with Dr. Phil McGraw (foreword)
72/100
👍 Worth It
Bayer's Best-Self-versus-Anti-Self framework and the Seven SPHERES quizzes give you something concrete to actually work through, and the Dr. Phil foreword lends it some credibility. It's a solid, practical life-coaching listen even if it treads familiar self-help ground — the author's own narration keeps it personal and direct.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Author-narrated with Dr. Phil McGraw voicing the foreword — a personal, credible listen consistent with the book's coaching tone.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing72
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy65
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read72
Penny’s verdict72
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