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Books & Authors We've Championed
A growing collection of conversations with authors whose work we believe in
iLumn8.Life partners with authors at the intersection of personal growth, professional leadership, and the real challenges of living and working today. Every book we champion earns its place here not through a pitch, but because we genuinely think it matters and the person behind it is worth your time.
Re-Placed:
Answering the Call of Leadership in the Age of AI
Author - Kari L. Zeller
U.S. Air Force Combat Veteran · Master Executive Coach
As AI, robotics, automation, and exponential technologies converge, leaders across industries are facing something no change-management framework was built for — a deep disruption not just to how we work, but to our sense of professional identity and worth. Kari L. Zeller names that experience directly: ontological vulnerability. And rather than offering false comfort, she turns the disruption into a framework.
Re-Placed argues that the threat of being replaced by AI is also a rare invitation — to be actively re-placed: to consciously claim a new position where judgment, ethics, presence, and meaning matter more than ever. Drawing on her New Era framework, Zeller gives leaders a practical way to create strategic clarity, let go of outdated assumptions, and build organizations capable of leading into what's actually next — not just managing through it.
"The question we must all ask ourselves is whether we'll lead through this transformation — or be led by it."
~ Kari L. Zeller, Re-Placed
Launch event features a 50 minute discussion with author Kari Zeller and iLumn8 Founder Anne Peterson AND a FREE companion workbook.
Book Published by Fast Company Press · July 2026
What Now?
A Practical Guide To Life After a Cult
Author - Chris Shelton, MSc
Coercive Control Expert - Cult recovery educator
Written by Chris Shelton — a survivor who spent 27 years in Scientology and holds a Master's degree in the psychology of coercive control — What Now? is a compassionate, no-nonsense roadmap for anyone navigating the complex terrain of post-cult recovery.
This is far more than a memoir. It is a practical toolkit for survivors, their families, and the friends who love them. Shelton cuts through the confusion with honesty and hard-won insight, making one thing clear from the start: physically leaving a group is only the beginning. True freedom means reaching inside to undo the indoctrination, release the unearned guilt, and reclaim your own mind.
"The challenge after leaving a cult is re-training your body and mind so they are no longer responding as though you are still in that abusive, traumatizing""
~ Chris Shelton MSc, Author
Chris's launch was such a success we turned his book into a Chapter-by-Chapter Book Discussion Group
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Every author & launch we've hosted, kept here as our library grows.
Transformation From Potential to Practice:
A Handbook For Personal And Organizational Change
Transformation is as old as humanity and has too often been seen as the province of elite priesthoods and arcane methods holding out the promise of autonomy and fulfillment, but rarely achieving their promises. In reality, however, transformation is accessible and can be achieved by a shift in perspective from that which we formed as children to one that we invent for ourselves. When this shift in perspective is accompanied by disciplined practice, no secret methods are needed, and transformation, both for individuals and for organizations, becomes available and effective.
This book provides clear background and evidence for this and offers an approach to transformation that is not dependent on any specific method or guru.
About Ilumn8.life
Why we do this
iLumn8.Life exists as a safe place for lifelong learners — people who take their own growth seriously and want access to expert voices without the noise, manipulation, or manufactured urgency that tends to come with it.
When we champion a book and its author, we host the conversation, introduce our community, and do our best to make sure the right people find the right ideas. That's it. The author's work speaks; we just make sure it's heard.
If you're an author or publisher and you think your book belongs in this company — we'd genuinely like to hear from you.
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