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About the Authors
Jes Averhart is an author and entrepreneur passionate about leadership development and women’s empowerment. She is the creator of 28 Days of Reinvention, host of Reinvention Road Trip® Podcast, co-founder of Black Wall Street Homecoming, and co-author of Oh, Lords! with entrepreneur and founder of Wood Underwear®, Terresa Zimmerman. Jes has worked with Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations on the principles of transformational leadership, self-discovery, and the art of reinvention.
Jes is a midwestern girl (Go Buckeyes!), fourth-generation entrepreneur, and Mom of a six-foot, five-inch teenage boy and bulldog named Roscoe. You can find Jes on LinkedIn and at www.jesaverhart.com and www.reinventionroadtrip.com
Terresa Zimmerman is an entrepreneur, author, advisor, and mentor of business owners. Terresa traveled the world for decades working on brand and strategy challenges with large organizations, heavily weighted to technology. How that took her to becoming the only female founder of a men’s underwear brand, Wood Underwear®, we can only guess. With Wood, she discovered her love for Main Street and all the small businesses that fuel our communities and neighborhoods. She recently co-authored a book Oh, Lords! with entrepreneur Jes Averhart, host of the Reinvention Road Trip® Podcast. And, she co-founded Sayhii with Amy Gurske, industrial psychologist and human guru.
Terresa is forever training for another big run and trying to improve her golf game. She and her husband, David, live in NC and VA, with Aussies, Whizkey, and Tequila. You can find Terresa on LinkedIn.
Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
Oh, Lords! Who We Date, Why We Date Them, and What We've Learned is a work of non-fiction in the dating and relationships subgenre. It is best suited to the mature adult reading audience and was penned by author team Jes Averhart and Terresa Zimmerman. As the title suggests, this is an enjoyable and concise work on the world of dating as told by the two central authors, who unfolded an honest and charming account of their dating lives to see what vital lessons can be gleaned from experience. Focusing specifically on women who date men, the different ‘Lord’ archetypes of the world are categorized and put under the microscope with humor, pathos, and some clever words of warning.
Dating can be extremely difficult in the modern world as gender roles shift and change, and staying empowered as a woman in a world full of men is no mean feat. It’s glorious that author team Jes Averhart and Terresa Zimmerman can engage in this topic openly and powerfully to show women how to retain their power in such situations and to look out for the red flags and danger signals that might try to take their power away in the dating world. I’ve certainly met all of the ‘Lords’ that these authors discuss through different situations in my life. The work is well-organized to take readers through each concept in an accessible and enjoyable way, and also without losing one's optimism for dating at all. Overall, I would certainly recommend Oh, Lords! for people at all stages of their dating life as a fascinating insight into the typicality of human behavior.
