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Martina Nicolls is a human rights and peace activist, independent foreign aid and development consultant, writer, wellness advocate, and healer. Her consultancies include human rights, labor and workers’ rights, education, health, countering child labor, countering human trafficking, gender equality, conflict mitigation, peace building, governance, program evaluations/audits, and data quality assessments.
PRINCIPLES:
Reject greed
Tread lightly
Connect locally
Respect diversity
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2025 LAUNCH OF NEW BOOK
INNOVATION WITHIN CONSTRAINTS HANDBOOK: ACTIONABLE IDEAS, TECHNIQUES, AND EXERCISES FOR TRANSFORMATIVE SOLUTIONS DESPITE LIMITATIONS
EBOOK AND PAPERBACK AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
Are you navigating tight budgets, limited resources, or organizational barriers but still determined to achieve groundbreaking solutions? Innovation Within Constraints Handbook is your ultimate guide to unlocking creativity, driving progress, and achieving transformative results, no matter the obstacles in your path.
In this actionable and inspiring handbook, you’ll discover:
- Practical Techniques for Problem-Solving: Proven methods to turn challenges into opportunities and leverage constraints to fuel innovation.
- Step-by-Step Exercises: Interactive tools and activities designed to help you break through limitations, both individually and as a team.
- Real-World Case Studies: Success stories from industries, nonprofits, and startups where innovation flourished under constraints.
- Mindset Shifts for Resilience: How to embrace constraints as a catalyst for growth, rather than a roadblock.
- Creative Frameworks: Models like “Reverse Thinking,” “Boundary Expansion,” and “Resource Reimagination” that you can apply to your unique challenges.
Whether you’re a business leader, creative professional, entrepreneur, humanitarian, emergency responder, or problem-solver in any field, this book equips you with the tools you need to think differently, innovate boldly, and create impact – even in the face of adversity.
Why This Handbook Is Different
While many books focus on innovation, Innovation Within Constraints Handbook takes it a step further by acknowledging the real-world limitations we all face. It’s not about waiting for the perfect resources – it’s about taking action with what you already have.
Perfect for those working in startups, nonprofits, education, healthcare, or any sector where resourcefulness is key, this Handbook is your roadmap to achieving the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Transform challenges into opportunities. Innovate with what you have. Make an impact today.
Order your copy now and start your journey to constraint-driven innovation!
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FINALIST:
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021: BIOGRAPHY!
THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF
JAMES JOYCE
BY MARTINA NICOLLS
NOW AVAILABLE HERE IN PAPERBACK
The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020) is about the apartments and hotels where Irish author James Joyce lived during his nineteen years in Paris, from 1920 to 1939. James Joyce (1882–1941), author of Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939) never owned his own apartment, but moved in and out of residences in the heart of Paris.
The Paris Residences of James Joyce, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, includes photographs of each of his homes, with an historical account of his life and the heady times of Paris, where intellectuals from around the world gathered in a cultural collection of cameraderie and competition.
Book Reviews:
“James Joyce, like many Irish people before him and after him, found in Paris the refuge they needed from the oppressive and repressive social and political atmosphere of Dublin. […] Frequently short of money, the Joyce family moved between hotels, apartments and the guest rooms of friends. Martina Nicolls has now produced a handy topographical guide to no less than twenty-three Joyce addresses, all photographed by herself, and identified with Google maps. […]For although all readers will know about Hemingway, and probably most readers will know about Sylvia Beach, as with Ulysses and Finnegans Wake there is always something new to be learned, for the book notices a great many bit-part players, all of whom are listed in an appendix […] Written in jaunty prose, with many discursions, this book, hard-covered and modestly sized, should be profitably read between walks, perhaps in the Café Flore or the Jardin du Luxembourg (the Luxembourg Garden), as a prelude to deeper immersion in James Joyce, or Paris, or both.”
David Charles Rose
Author, Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris
“Nicolls is to be congratulated on her energetic research in connection with each of the residences. The book includes a timeline showing the periods the family stayed at each address. Another table lists Joyce’s eye examinations and operations. […] If, like me, you enjoy viewing Paris through the places associated with James Joyce, Nicolls’s book is one to bring with you.”
Conor Fennell
Independent Scholar; James Joyce Quarterly, 59.3, 2022 and Author, A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris
WEBSITE: The Paris Residences of James Joyce
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) United Kingdom
LAUNCH OF RAINY DAY HEALING WEBSITE
My Rainy Day Healing website offers self-help and guidance for wellness and healing. Dip in and out of content for strategies and ideas to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, to reduce trauma, to release negativity, to gain serenity, to help decision-making, to move forward with life plans, and for personal or group consultations.
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MARTINA’S WEBSITES
Feast or Famine blog site (general blogs, Sunday walks & book reviews)
PRAISE FOR SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: “We adore reading your blog! Your unconventional perspective and real voice have an impact in the world. Keep writing, because your words matter. Thank you for being you! Thanks – W. Thomas.”
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND BLOGS
SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA’S WEBSITES INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR SUBSCRIBE TO HER SUBSTACK WRITER’S PLATFORM TO RECEIVE SUMMARIES AND INSIDE SCOOPS AND THOUGHTS:
SUBSCRIBE HERE TO MARTINA’S SUBSTACK – “The Stories in You and Me”
PODCAST SERIES: TRIPLE TREAT BOOK CHAT
The Triple Treat Book Chat series will present book reviews – three books at a time with an overarching theme. The Podcast is presented by Martina Nicolls and Tamar Zhghenti. The Podcast themes include:
Podcast 1: “Island Living.”
Podcast 2: “Father and Son.”
Podcast 3: “Georgian Poetry.”
Podcast 4 is in post-production and will be available soon: “Idols and Icons.”
DONATION
Make a small donation to instantly target your funds to local needs, because the power of proximity aids those who can’t wait.
Donations will support individuals, organisations, activities, and programs at the grassroots, local municipality, and community levels, within my extensive network across the globe. Thank you.
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