The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction

by Samantha Ettus

Overview

The Pie Life is the ultimate self-improvement playbook for women who work. Now is the time for you to banish the guilt and start living a life you love! Having worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, Harvard MBA and best-selling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time.

Incorporating personal stories from hundreds of women including TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, news anchor Gayle King, Wall Street maven Sallie Krawcheck, Barnard College President Debora Spar, entrepreneur Liz Lange and Marie Claire Editor-in-Chief Anne Fulenwider, The Pie Life will turn everything you know about work/life balance on its head.

Transform your life into one that is more satisfying, rich, and delicious than you ever thought possible and join the thousands of women already living The Pie Life.

Samantha Ettus

@samanthaettus

http://www.samanthaettus.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939457233
Publisher:	Bird Street Books
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

If you want to change your life, spend an hour with Samantha Ettus. Sam’s mission is to unleash the power of women. Since graduating from Harvard Business School, Sam’s goal has been to find the spark within each one of us and turn it into a fire. Sam is a best-selling author of four books, a writer for Forbes, a sought after keynote speaker, and host of a nationally syndicated call-in radio show on Biz Talk Radio. Sam has worked with thousands of women who aim to perform at the highest levels in their professional and personal lives. She has shared her advice on TODAY, NBC Nightly News, CNN, The Doctors, Access Hollywood, Fox and Friends, and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

Sam lives in California with her husband and three children.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Tools Introduction Chapter 1: Measuring Tools Chapter 2: Pie in the Sky Chapter 3: Get Slicing Chapter 4: Setting Goals Chapter 5: The Partnershift Chapter 6: A Life That Works Chapter 7: The 25th Hour Chapter 8: The Village Part 2 The Slices Chapter 9: Health Chapter 10: Children Chapter 11: Career Chapter 12: Romance Chapter 13: Friendship Chapter 14: Community Chapter 15: Play Conclusion: The Messy, Gooey Pie

Editorial Reviews

"The Pie Life is required reading for professional women. Samantha is my favorite authority on how to thrive at work and at home."
-Mindy Grossman, CEO of Home Shopping Network

“In The Pie Life, Samantha Ettus disrupts conventional thinking about having it all. Instead of seeking the elusive zen of work/life balance, Ettus offers an innovative approach to prioritizing and managing life so you can find your sanity, improve your health, get more done, and accomplish your dreams.”
-Marianne Cooper, lead researcher of Lean In & sociologist, Stanford University

“Samantha Ettus is a work/life balance pioneer. I devoured The Pie Life and her ideas have profoundly changed my approach to family and career. Full of deep insight and practical solutions, The Pie Life will fill you up and leave you more than satiated."
-Marcia Cross, Actress

“Samantha Ettus has cooked up a great recipe for a fulfilling life. In The Pie Life she shares her secrets.”
-Jessica Seinfeld, Founder of Good+ Foundation & cookbook author

"Samantha Ettus nails it with a fresh perspective for successfully nurturing your professional and personal life. I couldn’t put it down!”
-Farnoosh Torabi, Personal Finance expert for O, The Oprah Magazine

“The Pie Life provides worksheets, resources, and examples to help women convert the work/life balance problem into an equation that works for instead of against them. A fun yet practical and thought-provoking read.”
-Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

“A detailed plan to help women successfully manage and balance their careers and family lives.” — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2016-05-25
A detailed plan to help women successfully manage and balance their careers and family lives. Ettus (The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years, 2001, etc.) advises women to think of their lives as pies cut into pieces. The size of each piece depends on the circumstances of one's life at any particular time. There are seven "basic" pieces, she says: career, children, health, intimate relationships, community, friends, and hobbies. She then provides exercises to help readers analyze what the size of each pie piece should be; a chart guides readers, for example, to see the difference between "broad" and "achievable" goals. Woven throughout are examples from Ettus' personal life and from the lives of 150 "accomplished women" she interviewed. A finance executive, for example, talks about learning "to focus on finding the right men to work for, those who didn't see baby making as an obstacle." She also says that she found a company who understood her desire for a career and motherhood, and she succeeded at both. Ettus' writing is engaging and smoothly moves from one story to the next, interspersing easy-to-use practical advice. Readers will be able to focus on particular chapters that resonate and leave others aside without losing comprehension. The author's use of detail will help readers relate to stories and advice; in the parenting chapter, for example, she explains, "[Family] Rituals can be as simple as trying a new kind of lasagna every Thursday night….Do broccoli lasagna one week and Mexican lasagna the next." Ettus doesn't pretend life is a fairy tale, though; she explains that her "pie" began to "crumble" when she was simultaneously dealing with shingles, her father's bladder cancer, and her child's pneumonia. However, she and the vast majority of women she interviews have highly successful careers. Women who aren't as career-driven or financially privileged may have trouble relating to the story of a sales executive who solves some of her time issues by having two nannies, for example. Additionally, all the women are in heterosexual relationships and have nuclear, two-parent families. An often useful and entertaining book aimed primarily at women with high-end careers.

Kirkus Reviews