Your Lead Authors
If you feel called to share a story rooted in the values you’ve lived, learned, and embodied, you’re in the right place.
This application is open to past podcast guests, past and current clients, coaches, leaders, and anyone who feels the inner nudge to express their truth through the written word.
Two books.
Two distinct journeys.
One shared intention: meaningful stories that support growth, understanding, and connection.
This application is open to past podcast guests, past and current clients, coaches, leaders, and anyone who feels the inner nudge to express their truth through the written word.
Two books.
Two distinct journeys.
One shared intention: meaningful stories that support growth, understanding, and connection.
Become an Author with Us
✨ Your Story Was Never Meant to Stay Inside
✨ Two Books, Two Journeys,
One Shared Invitation
An invitation to apply to become a co-author in one of two collaborative books exploring the values that shape our lives.
Why These Books Exist
💗 Stories shape culture. Values shape stories.
This project was created to bring together real people willing to explore the values that have guided their lives, sometimes clearly, sometimes through challenge, and often through growth.
These books are not about performance or perfection.
They are about lived experience, reflection, and honesty.
By sharing stories rooted in values, we create space for more profound understanding... within ourselves and with one another.
These books are not about performance or perfection.
They are about lived experience, reflection, and honesty.
By sharing stories rooted in values, we create space for more profound understanding... within ourselves and with one another.
Heather Stewart helps women ready to rewrite their definition of success into one that’s rooted in alignment, not burnout.
After a 15-year career as a Chartered Accountant, she made a bold leap into the world of wellness, building thriving businesses in yoga, massage, and coaching.
Known for her grounded wisdom and calming presence, she creates spaces where women feel seen, supported, and safe enough to transform.
Her work is about helping women trust their own timing, follow the call within, and create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. She’s living proof that you can change course and not just survive it, but thrive in it.
After a 15-year career as a Chartered Accountant, she made a bold leap into the world of wellness, building thriving businesses in yoga, massage, and coaching.
Known for her grounded wisdom and calming presence, she creates spaces where women feel seen, supported, and safe enough to transform.
Her work is about helping women trust their own timing, follow the call within, and create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. She’s living proof that you can change course and not just survive it, but thrive in it.
Heather Stewart
Lead Author
Transformation Guide and Creator of the Thriving Life Method
Lead Author
Transformation Guide and Creator of the Thriving Life Method
Rod is a seasoned expert in the field of personal development, with over thirty years of transformative experience.
As a trusted authority on values, Rod has worked with numerous organizations, including not-for-profit and for-profit enterprises.
Rod's compelling presence as a speaker, coach, and author has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world, driving meaningful change from the U.S.A. to Australia, New Zealand, China, and Canada.
Rod is also a four-time Ironman competitor, a cross-Canada cyclist, a former competitive rower, a 200-hour RYT yogi, and devoted husband and father, reflecting his commitment to balancing personal and professional happiness.
As a trusted authority on values, Rod has worked with numerous organizations, including not-for-profit and for-profit enterprises.
Rod's compelling presence as a speaker, coach, and author has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world, driving meaningful change from the U.S.A. to Australia, New Zealand, China, and Canada.
Rod is also a four-time Ironman competitor, a cross-Canada cyclist, a former competitive rower, a 200-hour RYT yogi, and devoted husband and father, reflecting his commitment to balancing personal and professional happiness.
Rod MacDonald
Lead Author and Editor
Founder of The International Academy of Values Inspired Coaching
Lead Author and Editor
Founder of The International Academy of Values Inspired Coaching
What Selected Authors Receive
🌕 A Supported, Intentional Author Experience
Selected authors will receive:
This experience is designed to be reflective, supportive, and purposeful.
- Collaborate to Publish on Amazon! Become a published author! You’ll be part of an Amazon-published eBook along with nine or more other authors.
- Support! Get support along the way with educational sessions, suggestions, and guidance.
- Your Very Own eBook Too! Your chapter will ALSO be extracted into its own eBook, for you to use as a lead magnet or bonus.
- Custom Cover and Layout! Your eBook will have a custom cover and layout that you can use as a lead magnet, add-on, bonus, or revenue stream!
- The Co-Authored Book in 3D! 3D Mock-up of the compilation book (like the ones shown below)
- Your eBook is also in 3D! 3D Mock-up of your individual eBook
This experience is designed to be reflective, supportive, and purposeful.
The Invitation
💛 Feeling the call?
If something in you feels stirred reading this…
If you can sense that your story is ready to be shared…
If you’re open to exploring your values more deeply — for yourself and for others…
I invite you to apply.
This is a curated experience, and space is limited.
Every application will be reviewed with care.
If you can sense that your story is ready to be shared…
If you’re open to exploring your values more deeply — for yourself and for others…
I invite you to apply.
This is a curated experience, and space is limited.
Every application will be reviewed with care.
This project is designed to help authors expand their authority through authorship.
Once complete, participants will be published authors, contributing a chapter to a professionally produced collaborative book alongside nine or more co-authors.
This is not a revenue-sharing or money-making opportunity.
If selected, authors will be required to pay to participate in the program and will be included as co-authors.
What it is:
Once complete, participants will be published authors, contributing a chapter to a professionally produced collaborative book alongside nine or more co-authors.
This is not a revenue-sharing or money-making opportunity.
If selected, authors will be required to pay to participate in the program and will be included as co-authors.
What it is:
- a visibility and credibility-building experience
- a guided, values-based writing journey
- an opportunity to be part of a meaningful collective
- a legacy piece rooted in truth and lived wisdom
✨ What to Know Before You Apply
What This Opportunity Is
(And Is Not)
(And Is Not)
You don’t have to be a writer to write something meaningful. You just have to share what’s true.
🪶 Why We Ask You to Apply
The information you share allows us to:
• understand your story and chosen value
• create a balanced, cohesive group of authors
• ensure each book offers depth, variety, and resonance
Our goal is to arrive at our final list of authors as efficiently and thoughtfully as possible.
Once decisions are made:
• selected authors will be notified first
• those not selected will be informed shortly after
• some applicants may be contacted for future or alternate book opportunities
• understand your story and chosen value
• create a balanced, cohesive group of authors
• ensure each book offers depth, variety, and resonance
Our goal is to arrive at our final list of authors as efficiently and thoughtfully as possible.
Once decisions are made:
• selected authors will be notified first
• those not selected will be informed shortly after
• some applicants may be contacted for future or alternate book opportunities
Depending on the number of applicants, we require an application process to help us thoughtfully curate each book.
🌸 The Values of Women
- Self Worth
- Connection
- Compassion
- Authenticity
- Empathy
- Growth
- Balance
- Purpose
- Spirituality
- Self Expression
💼 The Values of Men
- Integrity
- Purpose
- Resilience
- Strength
- Leadership
- Self Discipline
- Responsibility
- Freedom
- Courage
- Honor
(These are starting points, not rigid categories.)
The Values We Are Exploring
Authors will be encouraged to choose the value that feels most alive, meaningful, or transformative in their own journey.
Who This Is For?
This application is open to anyone interested in the Values Inspired Become an Author Program, including:
• past podcast guests
• past or current clients
• coaches, healers, and guides
• leaders, creatives, and storytellers
• men and women ready to reflect deeply on their values
• anyone who feels the inner knowing, “I have something meaningful to share”
You do not need to be a professional writer.
You do need a willingness to reflect, express, and engage honestly with your story.
• past podcast guests
• past or current clients
• coaches, healers, and guides
• leaders, creatives, and storytellers
• men and women ready to reflect deeply on their values
• anyone who feels the inner knowing, “I have something meaningful to share”
You do not need to be a professional writer.
You do need a willingness to reflect, express, and engage honestly with your story.
💫 If you feel called to share, this invitation is for you.
Imagine co-authoring a book like this
The Values of Women
The Values of Men
🌿 Two Books. Two Lenses. Shared Humanity.
This project consists of two collaborative books, tentatively titled...
While we share a common humanity, the values that shape us often express themselves differently through our gendered experiences.
These books honour those differences—not as division but as insight.
Each author will be invited to explore one core value and its role in shaping their life.
The typical chapter will include:
These books honour those differences—not as division but as insight.
Each author will be invited to explore one core value and its role in shaping their life.
The typical chapter will include:
- Part 1 (provided by the editor): The definition of the value, how that value often shows up, how to cultivate the value, pitfalls of the value, the corresponding antivalue, and possible dark value.
- Part 2 (provided by you): Your lived experience of how this chosen value has played a role in your life. Typically, this includes a challenge you faced and how the value helped you navigate or overcome that challenge. For example, the value of "Purpose" and how it got you through a time of uncertainty. The chapter should also include an invitation for the reader to apply the value in the same or a similar way if they are ever similarly challenged.
