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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

MAKE IT HAPPEN

Victoria Knowles-Lacks · 2019
68/100
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Knowles-Lacks writes from genuine lived experience — founding a real business, navigating loss, burning out and rebuilding — and that personal credibility gives the mindset sections more weight than most motivational titles can claim. The Seven Principles of Balance is a concrete enough framework to be actually useful. But the narrow small-business audience, self-published profile, and thin critical record hold this just below the line; readers not specifically in that entrepreneur burnout lane will likely find more traction elsewhere.

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substance68
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originality60
accuracy70
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age-fit75
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Penny’s verdict68
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