Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential

by Mika Brzezinski Narrated by Andrea Gallo

Overview

A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she'll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now? Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it-both professionally and personally. Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her readers to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals. Women can stop feeling overwhelmed, overscheduled, frantic, and forever guilty-but only if they choose their objectives confidently and unapologetically, and focus their efforts accordingly. Mika encourages women to stop seeking the unobtainable "work-life balance," and instead pursue a life of honesty and authenticity, where career and home life combine rather than collide.

Editorial Reviews

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Endorsements:

Praise for Grow Your Value:
“An inspiring evaluation of the potentatial women have to create fully productive lives at work and at home.” – Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Obsessed:
"The writing is vivid and raw... Get the conversation going Obsessed does. And for that reason alone, it is an incredibly brave and important piece of writing." – Fortune

Praise for Knowing Your Value:
"A rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." – TheAtlantic.com

Praise for All Things At Once:
“A refreshingly pragmatic approach for the professional woman: don't wait to have children and don't let your job treat you like a bad boyfriend.” – Publisher's Weekly

“Filled with as much self-deprecating candor as self-congratulatory bromides, Brzezinski and coauthor Paisner nonetheless offer a realistically detailed portrait of the pitfalls to be avoided on one's professional and personal paths to success.” – Booklist

“Penetratingly honest... a straight-from-the-shoulder everywoman story, told with heart and verve. I loved it.” – Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes and CBS News correspondent

Kirkus Reviews

2015-03-21
Constructive advice for women on the work-life balance.In her latest book, Morning Joe co-host Brzezinski (Obsessed: America's Food Addiction—And My Own, 2013, etc.) continues with the theme she started in Knowing Your Value (2011). Using interviews from such successful women as PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Latina movement leader Nely Galán, and Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive, among many others, Brzezinski examines how women have really begun to find their balance and demonstrate their value in the workplace but continue to struggle to find that same kind of equilibrium at home. "According to a 2013 Pew study," writes the author, "only 16 percent of those Americans polled thought a home with the mother working full time was the best environment in which to raise a child….The whole proposition of being a breadwinning or career-driven mother is murky, sticky, and messy." Brzezinski recounts the time she moderated a panel for the White House Summit on Working Families and received absolute silence when she asked the group of distinguished and highly accomplished women how they juggled the work-life balance. From this launching point, she delves into the conflicting emotions that women experience as they try to advance their careers and still maintain rewarding home lives. Throughout, Brzezinski's prose is upbeat and encouraging, and she fills the narrative with personal stories of her own successes and mishaps, as well as those of her interview subjects. These provide a guide for women who have been struggling to equalize their lives, are just beginning to enter the workforce, and/or are ready to start a long-term relationship with or without children. As the author knows, anyone has the power to make wise decisions regarding his or her work and home lives, and this book will encourage plenty of readers to find that power and use it. An inspiring evaluation of the potential women have to create fully productive lives at home and at work.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170645558
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/12/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged

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