Paper Doll: Lessons Learned from a Life Lived in the Headlines

By LuAn Mitchell-Halter and LuAn Mitchell

If you assumed that petite LuAn Mitchell-Halter is a beauty queen, you'd be right. She's also been a meat packer, Canada's #1 Female Entrepreneur, flat broke, a multi-millionaire, and survived the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158872087X
• ISBN13: 9781588720870
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Tiger Eye Pub
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

She has allowed me to soar

I saw LuAn on the Cover of Macleans magazine... and read her story...I have similar dilemas, this book was my reading "bible" of sorts...on a flight home... I found passages that hit right where I needed it.... and softened the blow where I wanted it...LuAn, I was visiting my cousin in Ontario, and whining.. my workplace was getting to me, and my homelife was overwhelming at times.she introduced me to your book...This book helped me a lot. I will refer to it often.Thanks...

even students are helped!

I am in grade 8 and I must say I dont get alot of attenchen with the other kids. I am kinda a nerd. because while all the other kids are going to a movie or they are at a volly ball meet. Ia m ither in the class room or at home reading. on my birthday my Aunt got me a book... paper doll. It helped me to accsept that I am diffrent and that thats Ok. luan seems to be a very exstrodenary woman and to have achieved so many greet things in this life. that I can and anyone can too. even if we get off track sometimes. its Ok if others are the way they are and Ia m the way I am!

a great read!

Although PAPER DOLL is a memoir, it is also a teaching book. Divided into 11 chapters with titles such as: Listen to Your Instincts; Surround Yourself with People Who Inspire You; Define Your Dream; No Dream is Achieved Alone; Protect Your Power, etc., LuAn Mitchell-Halter quotes the newspaper headlines that tell her story, & spices the text with sidebars & planning agendas.Certainly LuAn Mitchell-Halter has made a name for herself, from the one the girls at her school gave her, to her salad days as a beauty queen who spoke about women using their minds, to her days as a journalist & TV talk show host, & then to marrying one of the wealthiest, most eligible Canadian bachelors. After ten exciting & loving years, Fred suddenly dies during a routine medical checkup, & LuAn is left holding the ropes to a declining business & a hostile takeover bid... & turns that into a multi-million dollar partnership!PAPER DOLL tells of not only how LuAn Mitchell-Halter survived the "slings & arrows" cast her way, it lets us into the secrets of her success.Rebeccasreads highly recommends PAPER DOLL for the vitality & inspiration in LuAn Mitchell-Halter's rise from poverty to corporate executive, philanthropist & three-time Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World.

THANK-YOU LUAN!!

What an amazing journey! Thank you for sharing your inspiration and story with concrete positive steps for ones own improvement. I read the book on an airplane, laughing and crying out loud, recognizing myself in more than one instance. At the end of the journey I passed the book along to the young female medical student sitting beside me on the plane, off to her first medical interview. As LuAns credo is to uplift and inspire others, it was the least I could do! I have since passed on other copies!! Get it. Read it. Live it.It feels good!Bravo and keep it coming!

A Roller Coaster Ride through Success and Failure.

As an Author, Coach, and Motivational Speaker I read alot of books about people, their motivations, and their relationships. LuAn Mitchell-Halter and Paper Doll get an A+ for the amazing story (if it were fiction people would never accept it), an A+ for the lessons learned, a B for the writing, and an A for the discussion points at the end of the book.An unwed mother at 16,a beauty queen,working three jobs to make ends meet,married to the company president,husband diagnosed with terminal disease,triple transplant extends husbands life,boardroom battle with family members for control,out of court settlement,rug pulled out on financing... and you're barely a third of the way through the book.I do love a lot of the lessons learned:- make a plan, follow your gut, find the good- act from a position of hope and not fear- define your dream- surround yourself with alliances to support your dream- no dream is achieved alone- let your priorities lead- giving back is tremendously rewardingFinally, LuAn encourages readers to use the book for reading groups and provides a list of discussion questions. I recommend you get a copy of Paper Doll. I'm planning to get my mastermind team to do a group study of this inspiring story.