Carlye Adler
Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and bestselling collaborator focused on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and social impact. Her notable books include Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, The Promise of a Pencil, Dear Founder, and Startupland. She has worked on multiple New York Times bestsellers, and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. ((https://us.macmillan.com/author/carlyeadler))
Biography & Author's Journey
Carlye Adler built her career less through a single public persona than through a long record of shaping other people’s ideas into durable narratives. Her path took a decisive turn when she stepped away from Brown University for a semester during her sophomore year and interned at the New York City Resident, a free weekly newspaper in New York. Reporting there, on subjects ranging from a Manhattan police precinct to the Ms. Senior USA competition, convinced her that journalism was her medium. She later sold an early story to BusinessWeek and graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.A. in journalism. That beginning helps explain the texture of her later work: she came up not as a celebrity author, but as a reporter trained to listen closely, find structure in complexity, and make ideas legible to a broad audience. ((https://carlyeadler.com/))
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Dear founder
Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler
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Marc R. Benioff and Carlye Adler
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff reveals strategies for building a revolutionary tech company and disrupting an entire industry through cloud computing.
Dear founder
Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler
Invaluable advice for entrepreneurs from a seasoned executive, covering startup challenges from funding to culture-building and beyond.
Behind the cloud
Marc R. Benioff and Carlye Adler
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The Founder's Personal Brand Playbook
Founders often struggle with the internal pressures of perfectionism and anxiety that hinder their public presence. This playbook is designed for entrepreneurs who need to transform their communication from reactive to authoritative through psychological mastery and structured frameworks.
Inspiring Entrepreneur Models
This learning plan is essential for aspiring entrepreneurs and business builders who want to move beyond theory and learn from proven success models. It's designed for anyone ready to launch their own venture or scale an existing business, combining inspirational stories with actionable frameworks across every stage of the entrepreneurial journey.
Philosophy for the Entrepreneurial Pivot
This plan is essential for founders who feel disconnected from their 'why' or paralyzed by the lack of data in new markets. It is designed for entrepreneurs seeking a deeper intellectual foundation to guide their strategic shifts and ethical leadership.
The Systems Thinking Advantage for Founders
In the volatile world of startups, founders often fall into the trap of reactive management. This learning plan is essential for entrepreneurs who want to move beyond chaos by mastering the structural dynamics of their business. It is ideal for early-stage leaders aiming to build scalable, stable organizations through first-principles design.
The Charisma Blueprint
In an era where soft skills drive professional success, mastering the mechanics of influence is essential. This plan is designed for leaders and professionals looking to transform social anxiety into a strategic advantage through structured communication frameworks.
The Heart and Craft of Connection
This learning plan bridges the gap between private emotional intelligence and public leadership. It is ideal for individuals looking to deepen their personal relationships while simultaneously building the professional confidence to influence and inspire large audiences.
Your Career as an Experiment
This plan is essential for professionals feeling stuck in rigid career paths or those facing mid-career uncertainty. It provides a practical framework for anyone looking to pivot by treating professional development as a series of manageable, data-backed experiments.
Study philosophy, spirituality & business
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"Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and coauthor of several bestselling books"
— TechCrunch
"Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes"
— strategy+business
"Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in BusinessWeek, Departures, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, Portfolio, Wired, and Time"
— Barnes & Noble
"Carlye Adler is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling coauthor/collaborator of several books"
— Macmillan
"Carlye Adler is the coauthor with Marc Benioff of The Business of Changing the World"
— Forbes
"Carlye Adler is a journalist and co-author of many books, including three New York Times bestsellers"
— Penguin Random House
"Carlye Adler is a writer based in Brooklyn"
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"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
