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Welcome to Best Ever You!
For nearly twenty years, Best Ever You has inspired people around the world to navigate change, achieve meaningful and comprehensive success, cultivate gratitude, and create lasting peace. Through books, coaching, podcasts, courses, community initiatives, and practical tools for personal growth, our mission is simple: to help you become your best self and make a positive difference in the lives of others.
We believe that every moment offers an opportunity to grow, connect, serve, and create change.
That's why we invite you to Pause. Breathe. Choose.
Because when you grow, the world grows with you.
From the Original Publishers of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Comes The Guidebook Series
The Guidebook Series was created to help readers navigate three of life's most important experiences: change, success, and peace. Published by HCI Books, the original publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, each guidebook combines practical wisdom, reflection, real-life stories, and the collective insights of approximately twenty contributors. Together, these books provide a roadmap for living with greater gratitude, purpose, resilience, and peace—one choice, one step, and one moment at a time. The lastest in the series, The Peace Guidebook was released April 2026 and is written by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman.
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Peace
The Peace Guidebook by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman invites readers to cultivate peace as a daily practice. Rooted in alignment, compassion, and intentional living, it offers practical guidance for creating peace within yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
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Change
The Change Guidebook offers a compassionate, grounded approach to navigating life’s transitions. Rather than resisting change or forcing outcomes, it helps readers understand change as a natural process of realignment. By clarifying values, releasing what no longer fits, and choosing aligned action, change becomes the foundation for meaningful success and lasting peace.
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Success
The Success Guidebook bridges change and peace by redefining success as alignment in action. It helps readers move beyond outdated measures of achievement and create a version of success that supports both personal fulfillment and long-term well-being.
New Release: The Peace Guidebook - #1 Bestseller
The Peace Guidebook is the newest bestselling book in the Guidebook Series and an invitation to cultivate more hope, healing, and harmony in your life and in the world around you.
Co-authored by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman, The Peace Guidebook offers practical tools, inspiring stories, and simple daily practices to help readers navigate life's challenges with greater compassion, resilience, and purpose. Rooted in ten principles of peace, the book reminds us that peace is not something we find someday—it is something we choose, practice, and create together.
Since its release, The Peace Guidebook has inspired readers around the world and serves as the foundation for The Percolate Peace Project, a growing movement dedicated to cultivating peace through everyday actions, meaningful conversations, and acts of kindness.
Whether you're seeking more peace within yourself, your relationships, your workplace, or your community, this guidebook offers a practical and hopeful path forward.
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The Percolate Peace Project
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Peace begins with a single moment, a single choice, and a single act of kindness.
Inspired by The Peace Guidebook by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman, The Percolate Peace Project is a global movement dedicated to cultivating hope, healing, harmony, compassion, and peace—one person, one conversation, and one action at a time.
Through Peaceprints, Peace Promises, acts of kindness, community initiatives, and everyday moments of connection, we are working together to create a more peaceful world from the inside out. We believe that peace isn't something reserved for world leaders or distant places. It begins with each of us, in our homes, workplaces, schools, communities, and daily lives.
Whether you're taking a moment to listen, extending grace, helping a neighbor, supporting a cause, or simply choosing compassion, every positive action creates a ripple effect.
Join us as we work toward one million
Peaceprints and inspire meaningful change through the power of everyday peace.
Because peace starts with us.
Best Ever You Community Spotlight
Discover inspiring stories, expert insights, thought leaders, authors, changemakers, and our network & community members making a positive impact in the world.
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The Latest from Our Thought Leaders
Explore inspiring articles, practical insights, and thought-provoking perspectives from our community of authors, experts, coaches, educators, advocates, and changemakers. Together, our thought leaders share ideas to help you navigate change, cultivate gratitude, achieve meaningful success, and create greater peace in your life and the world around you.
Gratitude
Change
Success
The Best Ever You Show
Since 2010, The Best Ever You Show has brought listeners inspiring conversations with bestselling authors, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes, advocates, and changemakers from around the world.
Hosted by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino, one of the longest-running personal growth podcasts in the world delivers meaningful conversations about change, success, gratitude, resilience, leadership, well-being, and peace. With millions of downloads and more than 700 extraordinary guests, The Best Ever You Show continues to inspire listeners to live intentionally, grow through life's challenges, and become their best selves.
When you grow, the world grows with you.
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Elizabeth's Best - Things Worth Sharing!
Welcome to Elizabeth's Best, where I share a few of my current favorites—from books and movies to meaningful discoveries, everyday essentials, and things that make life a little brighter
This Month's Picks - June 2026
Welcome to Elizabeth's Best! Here are a few things I'm enjoying and excited to share this month. From a captivating novel and a family-friendly movie to a favorite beauty product, a trusted everyday essential, great music, and a beautiful Maine destination, these are the books, places, products, and experiences currently bringing a little extra inspiration, joy, and comfort to my life. I hope you discover something new to enjoy, too.
📖 Reading
Theo of Golden
🎬 Watching
Toy Story 5
🎵 Listening
Taylor Swift – I Knew It, I Knew You
💄 Using
Estée Lauder Zero-Smudge Mascara
🧼 Loving
Dove Sensitive Skin Beauty Bar
🌲 Exploring
Little River Flower Farm, Maine
Pause for Peace and Humanity
In a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming, we believe it's important to make space for stories that remind us of the very best of humanity.
This section celebrates acts of kindness, compassion, courage, resilience, service, hope, healing, and peace. Here, you'll discover inspiring people, meaningful moments, positive news, community impact, and everyday examples of what happens when people choose understanding, generosity, and connection.
Because peace isn't just an idea—it's something we create through our actions, our relationships, and the way we show up for one another.
We hope these stories inspire you, encourage you, and remind you that even the smallest act of kindness can create a ripple effect that reaches farther than we may ever know.
Compassion is the heartbeat of peace.
Pause for Peace
