Proceeds from book sales are donated to our Heart of the Home Makeover program. Proceeds from our cookbook are donated to Feeding America.
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Your Job Won't Love You Back
12 Principles to Live in Alignment with Your Heart.
Your job is never going to love you back. And honestly? That’s great news.
In Your Job Won’t Love You Back, author and executive Allison Hill challenges the modern belief that career success alone can provide identity, fulfillment, purpose, and happiness. Drawing from more than 30 years navigating high-pressure corporate environments while balancing marriage, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and personal growth, Hill offers a refreshingly honest and practical guide for anyone who has ever tied their self-worth to their work.
Through candid stories, humor, heartfelt reflections, and actionable exercises, Hill encourages readers to rethink ambition, redefine success on their own terms, and reconnect with the parts of themselves that exist beyond a job title.
At the center of the book is Allison’s original “North Heart” framework, a practical approach designed to help readers align their lives with what truly matters most.
This is not a book about quitting your job or abandoning ambition. It is a book about building a life that feels whole, grounded, connected, and fully yours.
Key Themes
- redefining success beyond career achievement
- work-life balance and modern burnout
- women, ambition, and identity
- relationships and connection
- motherhood and career reinvention
- self-worth outside of productivity
- leadership and emotional wellness
- finding purpose beyond titles and promotions
Lolly the Left Out Lobster
A fun and inspiring story of Courage, Friendship, Differences, Belonging, Connection, and Confidence
Have you ever felt left out? Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Lolly the Left our Lobster is a fun tale that helps your little one learn the importance of empathy and understanding others.
Learning this important skill leads to happier children that have a greater ability to make friends, more posivitely resolve conflicts, and in adult words, develop a higher EQ (emotional quotient).
As a parent or caregiver, instilling open-mindedness for others is one of our hardest jobs.
Fun and colorful illustrations set the stage to deliver an interactive story that parents and caregivers can use to learn new vocabulary, have fun with silly voices, all while teaching how to have understanding for others that may be different.
Recommended by teachers and therapists.
Written in collaboration with a leading therapist, the book offers helpful suggestions, tips, and ways to have a conversation with your children about feeling left out or some of the reasons people behave the way they do when causing others to feel left out.
Sample Reviews:
“As a preschool teacher I feel this story is the perfect way to introduce empathy by showing how Lolly was initially not accepted or helped until she eventually finds a loving crew of pups who see past Lolly’s unusual features.”
“What truly sets this book apart is its focus on empathy. Through adorable animal characters, children learn to see things from another’s perspective. The book doesn’t just explain emotions; it shows children ways to be empathetic.”
“The illustrations just glow. It is a sweet and accessible story that anyone can embrace. Finally, it lends itself really well to “read-aloud” funny voices (which sometimes matters the most: ))”
“Lolly the Left Out Lobster is a bright, cheerful take on being an outsider. We’ve all experienced such a moment when we didn’t fit in. This book is a needed addition to the bookshelves of families, schools, and churches. It teaches kindness from a young age. It teaches kids not to give up and reminds parents to emphasize and model kindness.”
Feeding Family, Feeding America
Created by our family — affectionately known as the Maine Squad — Feeding Family, Feeding America is a collection of our favorite meals with a simple purpose: to help families facing hunger.
Our family took our quarantine time to create a cookbook of our favorite meals to benefit those most in need, donating proceeds to Feeding America, the nation’s largest and most effective organization dedicated to fighting domestic hunger through a network of food banks. Each book purchased will provide up to 100 meals.
This book is meant to give ideas for creating delicious, flavorful foods that take very little effort and the whole family loves. We also included the influence of one of our town’s best, local ingredients we pick up straight from the boats on the dock – lobster!
It wouldn’t be a family cookbook without the whole family participating as key grips, food stylists and taste testers. At the time of production, my daughter Cristina (16) was food photographer; Chauncey (19) was creative director; and, my nieces Carlisle (22), Cate (19) and Caroline (16) took the lead with naming and food styling. Noni (76) cooked, tasted and edited, edited, and edited until she couldn’t take it anymore. Pop (76) just tasted. We loved working on our project…together.
We hope you enjoy this peek into our family recipes, all while helping others.
”The illustrations just glow. It is a sweet and accessible story that anyone can embrace. Finally, it lends itself really well to “read-aloud” funny voices (which sometimes matters the most).
Preschool Teacher
