Women Career Success

In a world of hustle culture and burnout, women don’t want to lean in, they want to lie down. Now more than ever, women are looking to leave the corporate grind to break out into their own entrepreneurial ventures in a way that feeds their life rather than consumes it. But they don’t know exactly where to start. Kathleen Griffith has been in these exact shoes. When she set out to launch her own business she found that the women’s business space was big on “go, girl” messages, but short on the gritty details of actually building a business.

Julia Boorstin was thirteen when her mother told her that, by the time she grew up, women could be just as powerful as men, “captains of industry, running the biggest companies!” A decade later, working at a top business publication and seeing the dearth of women in positions of leadership, Boorstin assumed her mom had been wrong. But over the following two decades as a TV reporter and creator of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 franchise, interviewing, and studying thousands of executives, she realized that a gender-equity utopia shouldn’t be a pipe dream.

Best-selling author, professional speaker, and former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan Kate White shares the nine core principles gutsy women need to go bigger and bolder and achieve the full level of success they desire. Twenty-two years ago Kate White wrote the best-selling career bible Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do and helped thousands of women push their success to the next level. Now a new generation of women, still eyeing the pay gap and glass ceiling, needs its own set of rules for today's modern workplace.

As a working woman right now, you are making history. We supposedly have equal opportunities and equal pay, but so many ambitious working women are at the brink of losing their sanity, struggling to find a way to succeed in their careers, as well as having joy, love, and fulfillment in their personal life. Is having it all just a myth? Should you, as a woman, just give up and choose one form of success over the other? To succeed on your terms, you have to become masterful in two areas: assertion and boundaries.

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success. Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

Refinement of Manner will set you on a journey to a finer, more elegant lifestyle, while encouraging and challenging you to become the best person you can be in all areas of life. Social, career, financial, home life... you can balance it all with grace, poise, and talent you never thought you had. This is your way to a greater, more fascinating you! This is the book on becoming beyond mannerly to absolutely elegant and refined. Here are the tools to becoming a refined elegant woman of the 21st century.

With its gripping narrative and relatable takeaways, The Grit Factor is both inspiring and pragmatic, a book that will energize and enlighten current and aspiring leaders everywhere - whether male or female.

Perfection isn’t just a lie, it’s exhausting, and Kendra is tired of it. In this vulnerable, wise, and laugh-out-loud book, Kendra takes us on a journey of personal stories and hard-earned life lessons, from her humble beginnings as an awkward, bullied young girl in small-town Wisconsin to launching a business in her spare bedroom with $500. With every pitfall, misstep, and failure, Kendra builds a life—and a career—rooted in joy, purpose, and doing good, a life she wants for every listener.

Success is not born out of skill, school, where we’re from, who we know, or what we scored on the SAT. None of us were born ready. None of us started life knowing how to fly a plane or launch a company or knit a sweater for our dog. But we are born with something more important than skills. We’re born with optimism—the initial seed for success. Optimism fuels the belief that you can be the one to create the good the world needs. But you’ve got to hone it. And practice it. And determine to live from it.

As women, we often wear many different hats: Mother. Wife. Daughter. Sister. Businesswoman. Homemaker. Teacher. Role Model. Mentor. Nurturer. Spiritual Leader. The list goes on and on. In The 7 Practices of Prosperous Women, author Raven Magwood explains the 7 steps that will allow us to unlock our full potential, despite the countless demands we face. Filled with practical guidance, inspiring quotes, and gripping testimonies, The 7 Practices of Prosperous Women is a must-listen for any woman who wants to see her life's dreams become an exciting reality.

Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial, The Courage to Be Rich addresses the rites of passage we all must face - marriage, divorce, death; spending (and overspending) on life's necessities and luxuries; taking control of our financial tomorrows today. From the business of love to buying a home; from imparting proper values to our children to defining our own self-worth; from starting over to staking a claim to our future, Orman shows us how to find the clarity, conviction, and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities of a lifetime.

Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising listeners to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases.

Women face unprecedented challenges in the workplace and find themselves staring up at the glass ceiling. But what if it wasn’t the glass ceiling that was holding you back . . . but rather your own “sticky floors”—those limiting beliefs and toxic behaviors that are within your control? Erica is a sticky floor survivor. As a high-achieving ceiling breaker and C-level leader, she masked her struggles to everyone around her—even herself.

Unleash your superpowers by awakening the divine feminine within - stop holding yourself back and grow into the woman history and science is now celebrating! For centuries, the ways of the woman have been largely misunderstood. And, they still are, to a large degree. The systems put in place have always worked against us - time made marginalization “acceptable”, religion justified it, and justice looked the other way in order to avoid disrupting the status quo.

From a novice translator to CEO of the champagne house Veuve Clicquot North America, Mireille Guiliano shares her insights and experiences on how to work well. Whether it's balancing career and personal life, the pros and cons of risk taking, qualities of leadership, mentoring, the undervalued art of communicating, passion, etiquette, or style, Guiliano gives us a refreshing guide filled with advice that every working woman will need in today's economic climate.

Are you ready to take back control? Would you like to learn how to communicate without feeling your heart pounding a million miles a minute in your chest? Even if you struggle now, you do not have to live that way forever. You are not doomed to a life of communication failure. The vast amount of information included will be worth it.

Forget everything you think you know about branding and "starting a business", and throw out your "how to write a business plan" workbook. It's never been easier to capitalize on the knowledge and expertise you already have, and with a few simple steps you can start making more doing what you love like the badass that you are.

It doesn't matter if you are a Millennial, Gen-Xer, or Baby Boomer. If you are a woman who wants to transform her life, you'll find the answers in You're Already a Wealth Heiress. Linda debunks current wealth-building myths and replaces them with concrete advice that gets results. You will be given a road map for wealth called your Millionaire Action Plan (MAP) and a Wealth Heiress Checklist of action steps for financial freedom.

What if we put limits and boundaries around what it means to be a strong woman? What if you could be strong and ask for help? Karen Wright is one of the most experienced, skilled, and respected executive coaches in the world. And, as a business owner, single parent, and sole provider, she has lived the “I’m doing it all” life. In The Accidental Alpha Woman, she combines what she’s learned on her personal journey with what she knows professionally to provide a simple but powerful framework to solve this whole “strong woman” problem.

You are not alone. Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of what professional women really want. You have had enough of 60-hour workweeks, the day care dash, and the vacations that never get taken. You want to work, but on your own terms. Women have power. In Womenomics, journalists Shipman and Kay deal in facts. Companies with more women managers are more profitable and report higher levels of employee satisfaction.