Book Launch Celebration with Julie Lancaster

Date: November 18th, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, signing to follow. Doors open at 5:45pm.
This is a ticketed event!
Location: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco Street.

Join us for an evening with Julie Lancaster, celebrating their latest book, Beyond Words. The event will begin at 6:00 PM with a reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing at 7:00 PM.

About The Book:

Embark on an uplifting a journey through the compelling and motivational stories of people, just like you, who have encountered difficulty and emerged to flourish, rather than fold in the face of challenge.

Many people talk about “desirable disadvantages” or “formative adversity,” yet in the midst of hard things, before we receive the learning and insight, we all inevitably wonder how and if we’ll make it through. The Big 3 C’s (Challenge, Change, and Complexity) are the very fabric of every human experience, yet when these moments show up in our lives, they are often the exact opposite experiences we wish to encounter.

We are all resilient. Resilience is the essence of being human. We all also have resilience stories. Yet, the resilience stories that are our superpower, our defining moments that have led to triumph and transformation, often remain hidden, untold, until now! The inspiring stories of the curated authors in this book, Triumphs of Transformation: Stories of Resilience, think Chicken Soup for the Soul meets real life stories of resilience, reveals the strategies and principles that successful people have employed to overcome obstacles, achieve their goals, and excel in their personal and professional lives.

Learn about the unwavering determination and innovative approaches that enabled these leaders to emerge stronger than before. From overcoming personal hardships to navigating complex business landscapes, their stories will empower you to embrace change, cultivate resilience, and pursue your aspirations with renewed vigor.

Discover how these remarkable people harnessed the power of resilience not just to recover from setbacks but to "bounce forward," propelling themselves to new heights, despite the challenges they faced. Each chapter offers invaluable insights and actionable advice, showing you how to apply these lessons to your own life.

Through the courageous willingness to demonstrate immense vulnerability and authenticity, there is an even more powerful of lesson: Sharing our resilience stories with one another is the greatest form of human alchemy. When we retell our stories of the Big 3 C’s, after healing and reflection, we effectively transmute the darkest times of our lives into a light that shines out into the world, onto other people’s paths, piercing the hopelessness and serving as a signpost of encouragement.

The stories in Triumphs of Transformation reminds us that the challenge you have, are, or will face is not the “period” punctuating the end of the sentence of your life, it is the “comma,” inviting you to write the next sentence of your existence. These stories of both well-known and every day people remind us, even in our darkest times, that hope is only one story away, we can, in the words of Brene Brown, all be part of one another’s survival guides, and that not a single drop of pain or misfortunate is wasted in our formation. Not to mention the reminder that if they made it, you can too!

Triumphs of Transformation is more than a book—it's a blueprint for turning adversity into opportunity and for cultivating both a skillset and a mindset of unyielding resilience. Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned professional, or someone seeking personal growth, this collection will inspire you to achieve the success you desire. Dive into these transformative tales and let them ignite your own journey towards triumph and transformation.

Overcome your obstacles. Embrace your potential. Transform your life.

About The Author:

With a distinguished track record of empowering over 75,000 clients, Julie Lancaster stands out as a visionary CEO, an award-winning coach and trainer, a leadership development authority, and a master business strategist. Her venture, Lancaster Leadership, has revolutionized leadership teams across sectors, leveraging her unique background that spans from being a rock-climbing instructor to agriculture extension agent in Africa to professor and dean of education, where she specialized in the psychology of motivation and interpersonal communication.

Before launching Lancaster Leadership, Julie served more than 100 direct reports and provided 900 performance evaluations; she’s learned what makes teams succeed and fail.

Earning accolades such as Entrepreneur of the Month, Businesswoman of the Month, Top Coach in Flagstaff, and Adjunct Instructor of the Year, Julie supports organizations with leadership retreats, strategic planning events, team coaching, and leadership academies.

She holds a B.A. in International Studies and M.A. in Education: Culture, Language & Diversity. Julie is a certified group coach, Myers-Briggs practitioner, Change Style Indicator and Change Style Navigator facilitator.

Julie's lifelong passion has been to truly connect with people, places and cultures. Ignited by part of her childhood in Tokyo, Julie has visited, volunteered, or worked in 5 continents, 38 countries and 42 states.

Julie’s work combines the schools of psychology, teaching, coaching, and business to create transformative programming for leaders and teams. She works with organizations that believe change is possible, appreciate being pushed, and seek to invite both productivity and joy. These include the National Park Service, Head Start, W.L. Gore & Assoc., and Temple University. When not in boardrooms or retreat venues, Julie can be found digging in the dirt or hiking across Spain, Italy, or her birth state of Pennsylvania and current state of Arizona.

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