BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

How Women Rise - Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith

Recommended by: Elize Fisher

Do you hesitate about putting forward ideas? Are you reluctant to claim credit for your achievements? Do you find it difficult to get the support you need from your boss or the recognition you deserve from your colleagues?

If your answer to any of these is ‘Yes’, How Women Rise will help get you back on track. Inspiring and practical by turns, it identifies 12 common habits that can prove an obstacle to future success and tells you how to overcome them. In the process, it points the way to a career that will satisfy your ambitions and help you make the difference you want to make in the world.

MINDSET - Dr. Carol. S. Dweck

Recommended by: Elize Fisher

Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment but may jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

Mom Who Works - Jenna Worthen

Recommended by Elize Fisher

Face it. Being a mom is a full-time job. Yet over and over, women feel the need to separate motherhood and career hood. Where fathers who put family first are celebrated in the workplace, women choosing a family and a career often comes with increased mom guilt, slower professional success, and unfair workplace discrimination.

Mom, balancing both doesn’t have to leave you overwhelmed while fighting the impossible expectation to “do it all”—whatever that is. Take control and define what it means for you to have it all. In Mom Who Works, Jenna Worthen sounds an anthem to redefine what it means to be a working mom in a world without “working dads.” Full of valuable wisdom and personal-growth tools from moms like you, this guide will empower you to lose the label, ditch expectations, and confidently navigate pregnancy, baby, and beyond as a working woman.

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How We Do ‘It’ will help you better understand how successful working mothers are doing the best they can for themselves and their families. Ultimately, it’s about never quitting; always moving forward. Women who stay on the path and have a desire to succeed will discover that they can find a way to make ‘it’ happen.

It is possible to do both. It is worth it. You can do it.