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Status fades, impact sticks, and when you lift others, you rise.

LIFT

10 Mentorship Touchpoints to Empower Your Team and Accelerate Your Career

LIFT BOOK RELEASE 2.25.26

What is LIFT?

If you’re stepping into a leadership role—or striving toward one—you likely want to break away from outdated, top-down management models. You’re aiming to build a team culture that prioritizes collaboration and celebrates shared growth. But in today’s remote and hybrid workplaces, it takes a fresh set of skills to connect meaningfully, offer support, and lead with impact. In Lift, Amy Summers, a pioneer in remote work and virtual mentorship, offers a modern approach to leadership grounded in presence, purpose, confidence, and connection.

Through ten intentional mentorship touchpoints, Summers helps you build stronger relationships with your team, empower their development, and grow into the kind of leader who brings others up with you. Drawing from real stories, practical strategies, and insights from her popular podcast and award-winning seminars, Summers shows you how mentorship doesn’t have to be a heavy lift. It’s not about adding more to your plate—it’s about shifting your perspective. At its core, mentorship is a relationship: a shared commitment to potential, trust, and progress.

Whether you’re currently managing a team, preparing to take on more responsibility, or starting your own entrepreneurial endeavor, Lift offers the guidance you’ve been looking for to become a leader who inspires, connects, and creates lasting impact that accelerates not only their careers, but also your own.

Is This Book For You?

• Tired of command-and-control management models?

• Discouraged by generic leadership advice?

• Struggling to connect in remote and hybrid work?

• Worried mentorship will drain your time?

• Want to lead with more impact, confidence and connection?

• Ready to grow your team—and yourself?

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Author BIO

Amy Summers founded Pitch Publicity® in 2003, in her mid-twenties, building a proactive public relations agency that has since earned billions of media impressions for hundreds of companies and organizations. In 2020, she launched INICIVOX®, a virtual platform designed to harness mentorship to enhance communication skills. Summers’s pitching methodologies and mentorship success stories are showcased through her popular microcast, The Pitch with Amy Summers, and podcast, Pitch Live with Amy Summers. A pioneer in remote work and virtual mentorship, Summers has earned business, education, and communication awards in entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Based in New York City, Summers attributes her successful career start in public relations to her education at the University of Florida, where she later served as an adjunct lecturer and as a member of multiple boards of directors.

Artist BIO

Stephen Palladino is a globally recognized artist and storyteller known for his emotionally charged work that blurs the line between chaos and control. Born in the Bronx, New York, where he first honed his craft that fuses street culture with fine art, Palladino now works out of his studio in West Hollywood, California. His raw, unfiltered style has earned him high-profile collaborations with Tiffany & Co., Beyoncé, American Express, Playboy, Capital One, and Lady Gaga. His art lives in private collections across Europe, Asia, and the United States, and spans murals, intricate drawings, and immersive digital experiences that explore identity, culture, and the beautifully imperfect nature of being human. Tens of thousands follow his viral Late Night Drawings series on TikTok, where he creates live, on-the-spot illustrations that push creative boundaries in real time. To learn more, visit palladinoart.com.

Meet the Evolution Squad

Step inside Stephen Palladino’s West Hollywood studio with me—where his signature mix of raw energy and emotion comes alive on paper. Known for creating bold work that’s caught the eye of icons like Beyoncé, Tiffany & Co., and Lady Gaga, Stephen has lent his one-of-a-kind style to bring the Evolution Squad to life for this book.

As you flip through the pages, you’ll meet a Polar Bear, a Caterpillar, and a Butterfly—three unlikely guides that Stephen has illustrated in ways only he can, each representing different stages of leadership and growth. Like his viral Late Night Drawings series on TikTok, the art here feels spontaneous yet deeply intentional, drawing you in as these characters evolve right alongside you.

Lift goes beyond just words on a page—it’s a visual journey into how we lead, mentor, and rise together.

LIFT BOOK RELEASE 2.25.26