Author Judy van Niekerk recently hit five Amazon.com best-seller lists with the new book, “Against The Grain.”

United Kingdom – September 17, 2013 – Life and Business Strategist Judy van Niekerk, joined a select group of the world’s leading experts, along with noted business development expert, best-selling author and speaker, Brian Tracy, to co-author the book titled, Against The Grain: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How They Achieved Positive Results in a Down Economy! The book was released on September 5th, 2013 by CelebrityPress™ – a leading business book publisher.

Against The Grain showcases a group of Celebrity Experts® including entrepreneurs, mentors and coaches who have survived and thrived in the midst of the constantly changing marketplace – going Against The Grain. To the reader who wants to enjoy success, these Celebrity Experts® share with them proven ways to move forward with their plans and the mindset required to do it.

Judy van Niekerk contributed a chapter titled “Your Power – Your Riches – 7 Steps to Extraordinarily Release Your Powers Within.”

On the day of release, Against The Grain: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal How They Achieved Positive Results in a Down Economy! achieved best-seller status in five Amazon.com categories.  The book reached best-seller status in the following categories: “Direct Marketing,” “Marketing,” “Entrepreneurship,” “Marketing and Sales” and “Personal Finance.”

Judy van Niekerk, is a Life and Business Strategist, Author and Researcher.  She transforms peoples’ lives around the world daily, mentoring, speaking and training as she ignites the Loves and Talents in people through her various programs. Globally she works with individuals, companies and groups across all markets including youth guiding them to greater levels of empowerment and enrichment. Using the technique she has developed to Unlock Your Inner Technology which was the tool she used to survive almost 20 years of imprisonment by her father, raped, shot, beaten, several pregnancies and brutal home abortions – making it possible for her to finally escape and go on to live a life of love and abundance teaching others to use past challenging experiences as seed for growth – knowing they are bigger than any challenge they could possibly experience.

She has successfully and completely turned her less than ideal childhood experiences into phenomenal opportunities which she has capitalized on to empower millions around the world to see that the challenges we experience are stepping stones for us to grow from.

She demonstrates from her personal experience that we truly to possess the power within to create the life we love and abundance – as she says ‘it is nothing more than a choice, a simple decision that will irreversibly alter your life forever’.

After such a successful release, Judy van Niekerk will be recognized by The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

To order a copy of the book, please go to http://www.judyvanniekerk.com/against-the-grain/

The royalties from this project will be given to Entrepreneur’s International Foundation, a not for profit organization dedicated to creating unique launch campaigns to raise money and awareness for charitable causes.

For more information on Judy van Niekerk and to access the various programs and methodologies she has developed, designed to guide one to greater levels of achievement and fulfillment visit www.judyvanniekerk.com

About Judy van Niekerk:

Judy has reached the top of her game in everything she has turned her hand to in sport and business winning major awards and medals. Although still young she has experienced an enormously wide spectrum in the business world from Accounting and Management Consulting, Environmental Care product development, developing Environmental training for ISO certification for diamond mines and wood mills, lobbying government to amend Domestic Violence Act in South Africa to establishing a whole wine region in South Africa, working closely with government and creating much needed jobs in the under resourced areas of the tribal regions of South Africa.

Having studied Social Justice at Strathclyde University in Glasgow she now spends any free time studying Quantum Physics, researching all aspects of Consciousness and accessing the Universal Intelligence.

Judy currently lives in the UK with her husband and soul mate, Tiny. They travel the world, hiking, sailing and SCUBA diving.

About Celebrity Press™:

Celebrity Press™ is a business book publisher that publishes books from thought leaders around the world. Celebrity Press™ specializes in helping its authors grow their businesses through book publishing. Celebrity Press™ has published books alongside Brian Tracy, Dr. Ivan Misner, Ron Legrand, Mari Smith, Kelly O’Neil, Alexis Martin Neely and many of the biggest experts across diverse fields.

Learn more at http://www.CelebrityPressPublishing.com