Viola Davis and Joy Reid are among investors in ALTR, a soon-to-launch personal development and learning subscription app equipped with feature short-form audiobooks by Black cultural icons and ...
Self-help, self-improvement or personal growth — call them what you will, but the literary genre is around an $800 million industry annually. And why not? Most of us want to be better than we ...
Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens Samuel Smiles’ 1859 book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct—an appropriately self-published work that birthed the modern genre.