1/10/2025 Newsletter
Recipes for Success is a weekly newsletter with recipes for success in your life, career, and kitchen from Sales Leader, Self-Love Author, and Homemaker, Stef Caldwell. Want more? Grab a copy of my debut book, ManifestHer, here.
📚 12 Books I am Re-Reading in 2025
One of the things I love most about books is how the messages you receive from them change every time you read them. One of the things I love most about sharing books with friends is that the messages they receive, and the messages you receive are different, but with similarities here and there.
Which leads me to this: I am SO excited to pick up some books that have been life-defining, career-defining, and utterly game-changing in so many ways. AGAIN. These are the 12 books that I am going to re-read this year, okay actually there’s 13 but the last one is a bonus book. And damnnnn am I excited. My energy towards returning to these books feels a bit like going back to college campus to revisit my favorite professors and catch up for the first time in a long time.
First, we’ll expand our self-worth, look at where we are being driven by our ego to material successes, rather than by our true nature and what our core essences is being called to become. Then, we’ll revisit ambition, setting goals and embodying new identities that ideally are aligned with our true nature and authentic code. Finally, we’ll purge some of the unhealthy aspects of our physical spaces and beings, so we can return to that which is essential, fueling our success for the year ahead. Ahhhh it’s going to be such a nourishing experience. I can’t stinking wait.
DM me if you want to read alongside me. I am thinking of doing a little zoom book club on Sunday mornings at the end of each month to bring together like minded readers to chat about these books and share our individual and mutual experiences with them…. Weeeeee!!!!! Doesn’t that sound fun!?!?! :)
🥖 Gabby’s No Knead Bread
Gabby and I met working for the same tech company in Chicago. One day, shortly after she started, she asked me to lunch, and I said yes. Little did I know that one of the most monumental friendships of my life would begin that day! Gabby is like the sun, she is bright, warm, has the greatest smile, the greatest laugh, and the most charming ways about her. She comes from a loving family, has two siblings she adores (she’s the oldest), and now has baby boy twins of her own. One of the things I love most about Gabby is her zest for life, and her sense of adventure. It doesn’t matter if she and I are floating in the pool, or jumping out of planes (with parachutes on!). Gabby is down. I can’t believe how lucky I am to have her in my life. Since today is Gabby’s birthday, I thought I would share this today so we can celebrate her together by enjoying her fav recipe!
