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Maya Shine is a parent, storyteller, best-selling, and multi-award-winning author who turns real-life lessons into empowering resources for teens, young adults, and those guiding them.
Her debut book, Actionable Life Skills for Teens & Young Adults, has been recognized as a Book Excellence Gold Award winner, Readers’ Favorite Gold Award winner, and Literary Titan Gold Award winner in the Young Adult Non-Fiction category — honoring its excellence, impact, and practical value.
With roots in engineering and leadership, Maya brings structure to complexity — and heart to tough conversations. Her multidisciplinary lens blends logic with intuition and research with lived experience. Maya’s writing offers not just information, but insight — practical guidance wrapped in thoughtful storytelling.
Whether she’s unpacking the realities of adulting or helping families shift generational dynamics, her work is grounded in a deep respect for growth, responsibility, and human connection. She writes for the doers, the dreamers, and the change-makers — those who believe that growing up should come with tools, not just expectations.
Her mission reaches across cultures and generations, with a focus on bridging gaps between where people are and who they’re capable of becoming.
To stay connected, visit mayashinebooks.com or follow her on social media @Maya Shine Books Official — where ideas turn into action, and potential turns into purpose.
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
As a young person in this modern era, it isn't enough to acquire just academic knowledge. You also need to develop your life skills to become independent and self-sufficient. Maya Shine offers readers this comprehensive guidebook -- Actionable Life Skills for Young Adults -- to help you do that. Using the long-established method of 5WH, this book shows you how to be self-aware, attain a growth mindset, and take action to begin your journey into adulthood and a fulfilling life. With this book, you will discover meditation and mindfulness as essential ingredients to self-care, learn about how to present yourself to the world, get a summer job and earn money for the first time, navigate neurodiversity in the workplace, excel in work, manage money, build a budget, handle taxes, save money for college, find your own place, and more.
The late teens and early twenties are a time that can define the trajectory of your life. This is why books like Actionable Life Skills for Young Adults are a must-read for any new adult/teenager who is ready to leave the nest and face the world on their own. Author Maya Shine covers a broad range of topics in this meticulously detailed guide -- basically, everything a young person may need to know about before they leave home for college, career, or any other enterprise for the first time in their lives. Toward the end of the book, you will find an action-plan template to help you oversee the progress you've made in the pursuit of your goals. This is an informative and motivational handbook, and it couldn't be more relevant for today's youth. Highly recommended.
