





Date Published: January 14, 2025
Publisher: Forbes Books
Life is coming at us fast. It’s easier with a guide for life navigation.
The New Life Blueprint: A 21st Century Guide to Success, Health, Wealth, and Happiness in a Complex World by best-selling author Dr. Natalia Peart, with Christopher Burge, offers an insightful approach to navigating life more holistically and sustainably in our rapidly changing world.
Traditionally, success was a straightforward formula: get a degree, land a job, work hard, and enjoy the rewards. In The New Life Blueprint, Peart and Burge first examine the historical, contextual, and personal shifts that have made this old blueprint outdated. They make the case compellingly that this blueprint, which currently guides our educational, career, and life choices, was designed for a simpler, more predictable era but no longer applies in our new, more complex era.
They respond to this challenge by reinventing the old blueprint into a modern-era career, mental, financial, and lifestyle blueprint. Their new roadmap provides readers with the instructions and guidance they need to equip and prepare themselves to navigate their professional and personal lives, build resilience in constant uncertainty, and achieve the sustainable success, health, wealth, and happiness they seek.
Drawing on 14 disciplines, including neuroscience, economics, and performance psychology, as well as decades of experience as a psychologist, CEO, leadership and performance consultant, and Wall Street executive, the authors bring a wealth of knowledge to the table.
This book is not just about survival; it’s about flourishing in a world where change is the only constant. The New Life Blueprint not only captures the urgency and necessity for a redefined approach to living in a complex world but also provides a hopeful vision for thriving with confidence and clarity.
She is the Founder and CEO of Blueprint Global, a human-centered innovation and design consultancy dedicated to helping people and companies prepare, navigate, grow, and lead sustainably in a constantly changing world.
Dr. Natalia has more than 30 years of experience helping leaders and individuals obtain their professional and personal goals. Throughout her career, she’s worked as a clinical psychologist, a leadership and performance consultant for large national Fortune 1000 companies such as Gallup to small businesses, an executive and personal consultant, a Chief Officer of a foundation, and CEO of a nonprofit organization, and now as an entrepreneur.
Whether she is working at the individual, organizational, or societal level, the common thread throughout her experiences is that she is driven by a desire to solve our big challenges involving how to grow and lead, particularly through disruptive change.
She has served on the Federal Reserve Board, 10th District, was a SXSW 2021 presenter, and has been featured in various media outlets, including Harvard Business Review, New York Times, FOX, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Yahoo Finance, Oprah Magazine, Black Enterprise, Glassdoor, Elite Daily, and Thrive Global.
She has also spoken at events ranging from small group workshops to three-thousand-person events. She has earned her B.A. with Honors in Psychology from Brown University, her PhD. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of Maryland, and completed her Clinical Internship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
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Crime Thriller
Date Published: December 3, 2025
At the age of 17, she is forced to run when her parents arrange a marriage to a cartel member. After working with the FBI to take down most of the cartel, she is placed in a protection program. Unbeknownst to her, the Juarez Cartel has rebuilt and is stronger now than before.
In a twist of fate, Aurelia is kidnapped, forced to marry Diego, son to the leader of the cartel, and produce an heir. Diego, who becomes an unseen ally, along with Aurelia begin to align themselves with individuals throughout Mexico to take down the cartel. They will fight, blackmail, and kill to protect those they love.
In an act of desperation, Diego makes the ultimate sacrifice and enlists the help of Daniel Zimmerman, a U.S. FBI agent and Aurelia’s first love. On the day of the raid, will everyone make it out of Mexico alive?
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About the Author
My love of books started as a teen when life was not the best, and I would place myself in the characters shoes and get lost in the story. As an adult, it was my escape from reality in a sometimes cruel world. Along the way, my own stories began to swirl in my head. I always wanted to put those stories on paper, but needing to be a responsible adult, took the safe route.
On my last week in the PICU, my fellow coworkers and I went on a float trip. Several people asked if we had it to do over again, would we still have become a nurse. Surprisingly, only two people said they would. When going around and asking what everyone would have done instead, I said I would have become an author. Silence ensued for a minute, before there was a chorus of, "Go for it!" Two months later, I did a ton of research and started my first novel. Seven months later, I had a completed piece of work. Months of beta reading and changes along with and editor, helped round out what my book has become.
Now, twenty years later, I am pursuing that dream of storytelling.
Aurelia's story is about overcoming any obstacle, even when being pushed down from every angle for most of her life. It is about seeing some of the worst circumstances in life, facing those head on and fighting back to make her life better. It is about believing that just because you were born into a certain life, you can fight for what you want and make your way out. It is about finding love in the worst circumstances and having life ripped away once more. It is about a woman fighting in a man's world and excelling. It is about finding friends in the misted of tragedy and realizing sometimes people will fight for you just as hard.
We see the mark drug cartels not only leave on the U.S. and Mexico in general, but in the lives of real people. We see how easy human trafficking and bringing drugs in from Mexico can be. We learn that people are so greedy for power and money, that they allow these things to happen. People that should protect us. This is a powerful story of how Aurelia, who is immersed into this world, not only fights for herself, but others who have been drug in along with her. There are powerful characters that Aurelia meets along the way who join forces to not only help her with this fight but become the family she never had.
This is a romantic suspense novel, appropriate for ages 18+ (adult only).
Book #1 Nomad Outlaws Trilogy
Four years ago, Rebel saved Ginger by claiming her as his, a desperate act to keep them both alive, then vanished. Now, Bike Week in Daytona Beach throws them back into each other's paths. He's a dangerous nomad, a ruthless killer, and her addiction. She, in turn, is his. Can they bury the past and find a future together, or is it already too late?
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I grabbed Ginger by the hand and pulled her out of the room, down the hall and to the bathroom. Her resistance was futile, her fear unimportant. I knew what I had to do, and if she were smart, she'd realize it, too. If she wanted to live. I opened the bathroom door and yanked her inside, thankful that I found it empty. It was filthy, but better than nothing, and it had a shower that everyone used when they felt the need to be clean, which wasn't often.
Ginger
spun around when I shut the door, the look of a trapped animal in her pretty
blues. I ignored her growing terror, steeling myself for what I had to do.
Even behind closed doors I had to make it real, had to be convincing that I
was an unfeeling bastard. I saw her swallow, could see her tits rising and
falling rapidly as the fear of the unknown overwhelmed her. She was expecting
the worst, preparing herself to do whatever she had to do to survive.
"Take
off your clothes." I kept my tone harsh, indifferent to her growing panic. She
shook her head vigorously and stepped back, slamming hard against the cracked
porcelain sink. A nervous cry escaped her, and her eyes were wild as she took
in her surroundings and realized that there was no escape. Her gaze touched on
the door behind me before meeting my eyes.
"Please‒"
"Take off your
f**king clothes," I said in an uncaring, demanding tone. "You're filthy, and
not in a way that turns me on. Now undress." I removed my cut and the t-shirt
beneath it. "In fact, I think I'll join you." Her eyes nearly popped out of
her head at that. "If you're not undressed by the time I'm out of my clothes,
you won't like the consequences."
I kicked off my boots as my hands went
to the front of my pants. As I’d expected she would, Ginger's small
hands began to unbutton her blouse. Slowly she began to expose enticing,
creamy skin to my wandering eyes. I undid my pants. She lowered her gaze to
the floor and turned around before reluctantly removing the garment. I let her
have her moment of modesty before I looked into the mirror in front of her.
Christ. I took notice of her perfect tits and rosy tips. I lowered my zipper,
the sound of it overloud in the tiny room. I could tell that she knew what I
was doing by the stiffening of her backside, but she didn't let it stop her
from removing her jeans. As I kicked mine away, hers hit the floor.