For the rebels who read to rise. Books are catalysts for courage, clarity, and collective change. Rebel Reads highlights the stories, ideas, and voices shaping a new kind of leadership: heart-led, intelligent, and unapologetically real.
Three powerful Finnish women remind us that transformation often begins quietly with a story that dares to tell the truth, and then turns into a roar.
While it's important to us to try to be inclusive to all, we also want to amplify women's voices and our Crush community members' amazing work, also when they write in other languages than English.
These three Finnish books awaken the roar inside you, and remind you that healing, leadership, and self-love are all acts of rebellion in a world that benefits from our burnout and silence. And good news: Emilia's book is already in English and will be published in multiple other languages.
Here are three new releases you’ll want to add to your reading list right now.
Our Crush 2025 keynote speaker, Dr. Emilia Vuorisalmi, has already made an international impact with her upcoming English release The Healing Power of Hormones (Penguin Random House UK, 2025). Now, her bestselling wisdom will be finally available in Finnish on November 11th.
This book explains why exhaustion, restlessness, and constant feelings of not being enough aren’t signs of weakness, they’re signals from the body that something is out of balance.
Emilia takes us deeper into the fascinating world of our three core “love hormones”: dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. Using the latest research, she reveals how these natural messengers are our guides to resilience, wellbeing, and authentic joy. If you loved Emilia's keynote at Crush, you will love this book.
What makes this book truly powerful is Emilia’s honesty. She shares her own journey from imbalance to inner freedom from people-pleasing to boundaries, and from external performance to inner connection and vitality.
Preorder now to access bonus content, a free VIP workshop in November, and a chance to win Emilia’s curated wellness gift set (valued at €249).
Crush 2024 speaker, author and investor Janiina Lammi delivers one of the most important Finnish books of the year with Tiikeri (Gummerus).
It’s a raw, emotional, and deeply human story about a mother and her neurodiverse daughter navigating a system not built for difference. Told through diary entries and reflections, it paints an unflinching picture of a society that often fails to see the very people who need the most understanding.
From early signs of neurodivergence to years of seeking help, Tiikeri shows the heartbreak, the resilience, and the small moments of grace that hold a family together. It’s not just a story about struggle — it’s about advocacy, love, and refusing to give up on someone you believe in.
Janiina reminds us that leadership sometimes looks like this: fighting for one voice to be heard.
Every parent and person working with youth and children should read this.
Listen or read now on Storytel.
Award-winning stylist, coach, and author Sohvi Nyman invites us to turn inward with her beautiful new workbook Olet ihana.
This is not just a self-help book,but a practical, heart-centered guide to rediscovering your worth and building a loving relationship with yourself. Through inspiring exercises, reflection prompts, and self-compassion tools, Sohvi helps readers reconnect with their inner light one page, one thought, one act of kindness at a time.
You can open it anywhere and always find something that meets you exactly where you are whether you need courage, comfort, or a spark of joy.
Sohvi reminds us that self-confidence isn’t about becoming someone else, it’s about remembering who you already are.
A perfect companion for quiet mornings, self-reflection, or your next creative reset.
Whether through science, storytelling, or self-discovery, Emilia, Janiina, and Sohvi each show us a path toward balance, belonging, and bravery.
They remind us that the real revolution begins within, in the way we love, parent, lead, heal, and speak to ourselves.
So pour a cup of tea, grab your notebook, and let these voices guide you home to yourself.
Which one will you start with?
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