Lauren Holmes

A "debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human"--

Barbara the Slut and Other People

One woman takes a job selling sex toys in San Francisco rather than embark on the law career she pursued only for the sake of her father. Another realises she much prefers the company of her pit bull - and herself - to the neurotic foreign fling who won't decamp from her apartment. A daughter hauls a suitcase of lingerie to Mexico for her flighty, estranged mother to resell there, wondering whether her personal mission - to come out - is worth the same effort. And Barbara, a young woman with an autistic brother, a Princeton acceptance letter, and a love of sex navigates her high school's toxic, slut-shaming culture with open eyes.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah, and Jim Carrey. What do they have in common? Deep analyses by an executive career maximizer show they all achieved their success using Savanting’s biology-driven protocol. Savanting exploits the biology behind how savants outperform their potential – how they achieve incredible feats of genius from deficient brains theoretically incapable of them. We saw this juxtaposed brilliance and deficit with the world’s most beloved savant, Raymond Babbitt, brilliantly portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 1988 Best Picture, Rain Man. Yet savant superskills hint at capabilities of the human brain most have never experienced. Savanting makes savant genius accessible. This unprecedented protocol empowers brilliant breakthroughs from the nonbrilliant; vision from nonvisionaries; and extraordinary execution from the execution-challenged. But above all, it releases creativity from noncreatives. Savanting renders all current methods for cultivating creativity obsolete. Studies show we’re born 98% creative. Entry into our school systems reduces us to 2% creative by age 7. Savanting reactivates our innate creativity by returning us to the way we were born to operate before cultural interference. Creativity increases in flow state. Savanting’s power derives from a subset of the flow state identified by psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi in his 1991 bestseller, “Flow: The Optimal Experience.” Lauren calls this specialized subset “savantflow.” The “savant brain” and the “savantflow brain” yield similar savant superskills. Studies show that each of us has one domain in which we exhibit significant creativity. Coincidentally, savants also excel in only one domain. Savanting helps you to discover and develop your domain for creativity, breakthroughs, and flashes of genius. Steve Jobs is synonymous with creativity. Bill Gates is not. Would it surprise you to learn that Lauren’s comparative analysis confirms that Gates is at least as creative as Jobs? Bill’s unique brand of creativity went undetected by critics who mistakenly assumed the creativity domains of rivals Jobs and Gates were the same. One’s creativity domain needs to be the foundational strategy for one’s most rewarding career and life. All six superachievers demonstrate this. Jeff Bezos appears eclectic in his pursuits. Lauren shows that he has been creatively forwarding a singular domain since childhood. As a result, even the ever-venturing Jeff Bezos is predictable. Based on his prowess in his creativity domain, you’ll want to invest where Jeff invests. This savant-inspired protocol is also a faster more reliable means to achieve mankind’s most sought-after goals. Savanting is the most expedient route to self-actualization in existence today. Continuous self-transcendence is built in. Extreme self-knowledge; sustained, self-sufficient self-love and happiness; wholeness; enlightenment; expanded consciousness; and true biology-driven purpose and potential. As the book’s final chapters reveal, these are byproducts of the savanting modus operandi. Lauren Holmes developed savanting after interviewing over 300 global change executives in a compressed period of time. The shared way of working she observed was then filtered through the lens of her degree in biological anthropology and her subsequent specialization in career and talent maximization. Needless to say, Lauren has similarly focused her education and career on her own creativity domain to develop this unique maximization methodology. In Savanting: Outperforming your Potential, Lauren shares discovery and invention which she was biologically predisposed to pursue. She too outperforms her assumed potential in her personal creativity domain. Lauren Holmes is now a career maximizer turned award-winning maximizing author. She may be reached through LaurenHolmes.com/contact or frontiering.com.

SAVANTING: Outperforming your Potential

WINNER, 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for INSPIRATIONAL FICTION Life-changing, world-changing transformation is the main character of this thriller. A heroic supporting cast of compelling transformers and transformees propels the action. This is an otherworldly tale of catastrophe, crisis, courage, calling, creation, and camaraderie. "The Encore" is as alarming and unnerving as it is inspiring and heartwarming. A torrent of twists and turns will rivet readers until startling reveals end the ride. This shocker is so gripping, so profound, and so riddled with truth and meaning that no reader can remain unchanged. Nor can the world. This is a must-read for all aspiring worldbuilders. An unprecedented prescription for personal and planetary transformation governs the action. A new vision for humanity is unveiled. An unparalleled path to unforeseen levels of human potential is demonstrated. The ordinary can indeed achieve the extraordinary. Many were enthralled by the new modus operandi proposed by Lauren Holmes in her 2001 best seller, "Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience." "The Encore" reveals how her high-growth, high-achievement technology has evolved into new realms of human possibility 17 years later. Plot: A planet being xenoformed by hostile extraterrestrials kidnaps a renowned creator of worldbuilders from future Earth to cultivate a legion of loveable breakthrough specialists to save the planet. In addition to the many other fields of transformation embedded in "The Encore", it is also a visionary ecothriller. "The Encore" is the first in a transformational series for aspiring worldbuilders.

THE ENCORE: A Transformational Thriller

Ein Erzählband über junge Großstädter, ihre Fragen an das Leben und dessen vollkommen unverständliche Antworten. Wo fängt die Liebe an, wo hört die Freundschaft auf? Wer braucht einen Partner, wenn ein Hund der treuere Gefährte ist? Qualifiziert ein Jura-Examen für einen Job im Sexshop? Lauren Holmes Geschichten handeln von der Zeit zwischen Schule, Studium und dem großen Schritt ins Erwachsenenleben. Sie erzählen von Jasons erster Liebe und Lalas exzentrischer Mutter, von Jennas College-Affäre und Barbaras ungewöhnlichem Sexleben. Barbara, Jenna, Lala und Jason: Sie alle reiben sich an Eltern und Freunden, suchen sich und ihren Platz in der Welt, wollen Nähe und sind doch oft einsam. «Ein Buch, das den Beginn einer großen Karriere markiert.» (Colum McCann)

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Barbara die Schlampe

This is the second edition of the powerful peak evolution paradigm shift. It is the means to leave a lifetime legacy more profound, more meaningful, more impactful, and more valuable to world progress than you thought yourself capable of contributing. Peak Evolution offers a breakthrough new approach to achieving the most evolved states known to mankind. It is a means to have right now the advanced functionality of the future human which will not be prevalent for generations. Peak Evolution serves as an explanation and beacon for people who have spontaneously begun to evolve ahead of the general population, and a road map for those who wish to proactively speed evolution. Peak Evolution is a how-to book for achieving beyond your innate potential by harnessing natural evolutionary forces attempting to ensure the survival and peak performance of all living systems. The multitude of systems inside of our bodies or outside of us in a biological ecosystem, for example, are both kept in balance by these natural evolutionary forces. It is therefore only logical to deduce that those same evolutionary forces are also acting upon us directly. Our cultures have simply interfered with our ability to comply with and capitalize on these forces. Peak Evolution identifies ten signals of those powerful evolutionary forces operating in your life so you can harness that flow to function and achieve goals beyond your potential. Your capabilities are extended by the knowledge, intelligence, mechanisms, processes, and creativity of nature. When you align your internal drives with nature's drives, you cannot help but shift into overdrive. You are perpetually pulled beyond your previous potential into a state of accelerating evolution or 'peak evolution'. This is how ordinary people have been capable of extraordinary achievements.

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