Who Told You You Couldn’t? is part memoir, part manifesto, and a personal rebellion against the inner and outer voices that tell us we’re not ready, not enough, or not allowed.
It’s for those who’ve been overlooked, underestimated, or quietly dismissed. The quiet leaders who nearly stayed invisible. The ones made to feel too early, too loud, too different, or too ambitious, and chose to speak anyway.
Told in four parts, this book weaves together raw personal stories, untold global narratives, and empowering frameworks to challenge the lie that you have to wait to be chosen. From burnout to boldness, rejection to quiet revolutions, it’s a fiercely honest, deeply hopeful invitation to rise before you’re ready, speak before you’re certain, and lead before anyone hands you permission.
Because the question was never really: who told you you couldn’t? It’s: What will you do now that you know you can?
Why choose between a career and travel when you can have both?
In Career or Travel, Why Not Both?, travel entrepreneur and seasoned digital nomad Kach Medina Umandap shares a step-by-step guide for Filipinos looking to break free from the traditional 9-to-5 and embrace a location-independent lifestyle.
Structured in an A-to-Z format, this book covers everything from landing your first remote job as a virtual assistant to earning in dollars and securing long-term travel visas. Whether you’re a fresh graduate, aspiring freelancer, or professional seeking freedom, you’ll find actionable steps to build a thriving online career while exploring the world.
Packed with personal stories, practical tips, and expert insights, this book is more than just a guide—it’s a movement. Kach proves that a Filipino passport is not a limitation but a gateway to global opportunities.
If you’ve ever dreamed of working from a beach in Bali, a café in Paris, or a co-working space in Dubai, this book will show you exactly how to do it. Your journey to become a digital nomad starts now.
Achoo, a bright and sweet but mischievous dinosaur, loves to run, explore the world, and climb trees. Never listening to his mother’s concerns, he roams around until one day a tree climb goes wrong. His mother roars out a warning; there would be no more adventures and no more climbing ever again for him.
Heartbroken, he tries to follow his mother’s words like a good son… until one day his mother does not return from the forest like she usually does. Fearing for his mother, but equally afraid to go against her threatening words, our brave dinosaur faces the greatest challenge of his young life. So, what does our little dino do?
What’s Inside:
- Beautiful, full-color illustrations that bring the dinosaur world to life
- Age-appropriate language perfect for read-alouds and early readers
- Simple life lessons that encourage curiosity, courage, and self-confidence
Tales of the Sikh Gurus is a thoughtfully curated collection of inspiring stories that introduce children to the lives and teachings of the Sikh Gurus. Through simple, engaging narratives, this book helps young readers learn about Sikh history, values, and moral lessons such as courage, compassion, humility, and faith.
What’s Inside:
- Child-friendly storytelling with simple language and clear messages
- Moral values like bravery, kindness, equality, and selfless service
- Supports cultural awareness and value-based learning
- Ideal for children, families, and classrooms
Timeless Wisdom of the Panchatantra — Fun and Moral Stories for Young Minds!
This book brings the classic Panchatantra fables to life for young readers. Filled with talking animals, clever tricks, and unforgettable adventures, these stories teach valuable life lessons, kindness, and wisdom. Children will enjoy each tale while learning important morals that help them understand right from wrong.
What’s Inside:
Short & Simple Stories: Each tale is easy to read and understand, perfect for young readers.
Colorful Illustrations: Beautiful illustrations that keep children engaged and make reading a fun-filled experience.
Life Lessons Made Simple: Morals are explained clearly, helping kids learn values like honesty, courage, and friendship.
Cultural Exposure: Introduces kids to Indian folklore, traditional stories, and timeless wisdom in a fun way.
My First Sight Words Stories is a fun and engaging early reader book designed to help young children learn to read with confidence. Through simple, short stories built around high-frequency sight words, this book strengthens reading fluency, word recognition, and comprehension. It turns reading practice into a joyful and achievable learning experience for young readers.
What’s Inside:
- Short, easy-to-read stories using commonly taught sight words
- High-frequency word repetition to support word recognition
- Age-appropriate vocabulary for young learners
- Encourages independent reading and confidence-building
For more than three decades, Burma’s political prisoners, activists, and visionaries have embodied moral courage in defying authoritarian repression and unjust laws. At the forefront of this moral struggle stands Aung San Suu Kyi, whose unwavering commitment to nonviolence, democracy, and spiritual renewal has shaped the modern Burmese political landscape.
This book undertakes a philosophical exploration of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political thought, drawing inspiration from Johan Galtung’s study of Gandhi and guided by personal interviews and close observation of her political journey from 2012 to 2020. It examines whether she should be understood, as Michal Lubina suggests, as a ‘hybrid politician’—one who blends Western liberal ideals with Burmese Buddhist values—or whether a more fitting lens reveals her as a peacebuilder committed to a spiritual revolution.
This study challenges simplistic portrayals and explores whether Aung San Suu Kyi’s principled leadership reflects not a betrayal of liberal ideals, but rather the articulation of a distinctively Burmese path toward peace and justice. It presents a deeply contextual account of moral courage, just law, and an uncorrupted society as essential elements in Burma’s ongoing quest for federal democracy and decentralized governance.
Everyone’s naked. Universal connectivity coupled with powerful AI is making everything transparent and everyone vulnerable. Geoeconomic fragmentation, climate change and social inequality are worse than ever.
In this new world:
- How can we ensure profitable growth and business longevity?
- How can we achieve environmental and social sustainability without sacrificing profits or material self-interest?
Current approaches like ESG and Milton Friedman’s doctrine of solely maximising profits are proving ineffective. Amassing wealth at the expense of people or the planet is untenable, and ESG regulations are adding costs without creating meaningful change. We need a new model.
For long-term viability, both business and sustainability must be profitable. But in the naked era where every action is visible and traceable, businesses will need to earn their returns by solving pressing problems. At the same time, for sustainability to be sustainable, we need profitable solutions.
The winning strategy for both objectives is steward leadership—doing well by doing good. Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit is a practical playbook to drive business success by addressing the very challenges that are threatening humanity today.
In 1967, a curious phenomenon has Singapore in its vice-like grip. Over 500 men end up in hospitals seeking treatment for a phantom condition—their manhood is shrinking.
Welcome to the koro epidemic, when real men go to great lengths to recover their virility—or what they thought they had lost.
Against this backdrop are three young men dealing with the mass hysteria. There is Su Tang, a newbie gangster operating in Chinatown. He falls in love with Yin, a hooker who belongs to Ang Hor Tiap, the only all-women gang known in Singapore. But she rebuffs his advances.
There is Wee Tiong, a young doctor recently returned from his medical studies in the UK. Yet to come out of his closet, he struggles to live up to his mother’s wishes for him to find a nice girl to settle down with before her death.
And there is James Yang, a young layabout conscripted into the army. Resentful of the regimented life at first, he finds his purpose in the machismo of guns and drills.
Comic and relatable, A Mild Case of Mass Hysteria explores how their lives – reflective of the different classes in Singapore – pan out in a young country which, too, has hang-ups about its shortcomings.
Lost in Florence, Filipina writer Isla Mendoza stumbles upon a mysterious bookshop on Via Lullina, a street that isn’t supposed to exist. Within its walls, she discovers an old book filled with enchanting love letters—and one addressed to her.
The letter is from Luca Rossi, a man Isla has never met. Too curious to let it go, she tracks him down, only to discover a grumpy Italian chef who thinks she is out of her mind. Destiny? Foretold by a magical letter? With love as the plot twist? No, grazie.
Drawn to the book for their own reasons, Isla and Luca begin an investigation. The more the pair try to resist, the more the book writes. What will happen when they reach the last page?
