Always Be the Shark: Reclaiming Your Story to Reclaim Your Life

by Stevie Dawn Carter

Overview

Ever asked yourself, "I did everything right-why isn't my life how I want it to be?" Author Stevie Dawn Carter slammed into a brick wall after she achieved a 5 years-long goal and realized she felt hollow instead of fulfilled. Exposing her personal struggles, Stevie Dawn has empowered her clients, and now she brings her proven insights for true, satisfying success through her book, Always Be the Shark: Reclaiming Your Story to Reclaim Your Life.

This is the book for you if you are in a transition-"I've been a mom and now my kids don't need me!" or "I'm leaving a business career to start my own business." As a high achiever who is used to doing everything and doing it well, Stevie unleashes your inner shark to get more out of your life, clearly pursue your best life, and discover joy and peace along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985252408
Publisher:	Stevie Dawn Inspires, LLC
Publication date:	02/08/2022
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

As a motivational speaker and coach, Dr. Stevie Dawn is focused on helping people to unleash unstoppable success in their lives both personally and professionally. Her experience as a 4-time business owner, along with her work in the private and public sector, allows her to enhance her presentations with real life stories and examples that are applicable to every audience. Her educational background includes a master's degree in sociology from Wichita State University and a doctorate in leadership from Colorado State University. With over 20 years of teaching and training experience, Dr. Stevie Dawn approaches every engagement with humor, inspiration, and energy to get people moving towards their best lives.

Editorial Reviews

This compelling personal narrative will inspire you to rediscover who you truly are and reclaim your greatness. Dr. Stevie Dawn shows you how to become the CEO of your life and own your ocean. Using the actionable strategies she provides, you'll upgrade your life and unleash unstoppable success!

-Robert Maisel

Get your sticky notes and paper ready! Be open and ready to do the work. It's all about you and Stevie uses great examples of herself to help you through. This book is a step by step guide, really a roadmap to getting out of your own way to achieve unstoppable success for yourself, really in every aspect of your life. Stevie grabs you right away and keeps you engrossed. I seriously savored EVERY word and I am SO excited to read it again. I don't know if I will ever be tired of rereading and growing because, bottom line, this book causes growth, IF you are willing to do the work. My two cents...it's worth the work. I'm encouraged!

-Rachel McCants

Strategies? What strategies do I use? What strategies do you use? How do you change beliefs? Strategy #8: Shine a Light on Your Beliefs. "Shifting my beliefs about myself shifted my outcomes. In fact, this was the start of a true turning point in my life..." As I read "Always Be the Shark", it was definitely a true turning point for me. I couldn't stop highlighting sentences and paragraphs and strategies and checklists in this book. So much resonated with my habits, my emotions, visions in my life, and future successes within my own business. This is a book that you will want to read again. You will want to jot excerpts on notecards and tape them to your mirror. You will want to recommend this book to your peers. Dr. Stevie Dawn Carter's writing skills are like that of a wizard - the trick to her magical success is helping people discover their own true selves.

-Leesa McKeon - Media Bee Connections

From the Publisher

2022-03-11
A debut business motivational manual offers advice to female executives.

“Most people are stuck with underwhelming results because they don’t believe in themselves,” writes Carter. “And all of us have the ability to create the lives that we want if we only remove the obstacles and start to see the greatness within.” Drawing on her own autobiography and her extensive experience creating and managing businesses, the author lays out her insights on why so many people thwart their own ambitions—and strategies on how to change that. “It seems that we’re trained from a very young age to think like employees,” she writes. “At a certain point, we have to become the boss.” Carter challenges her readers to rethink how they conceive of the CEO’s role in any organization. (It seems clear that her target audience is her fellow female executives, but most of the principles she advances are universally applicable.) Readers should concentrate on the six “pillars” of reinvention, which include bold self-confidence, elevated habits, captivating vision, opportunity-focused, magnetic mindset, and emotional resilience. These are coupled with dozens of useful strategies (“Bring Your Body Language to Attention,” for example) to create a blueprint for professional renovation. The author’s sincerity throughout is unmistakable and will certainly provide motivation to many of her readers. But that gravity is hampered by the derivative nature of some of her advice. Sentiments like “We need to pick up the paintbrush and paint our own vision,” and “There is no destination. It is the journey we must enjoy” are so ubiquitous in books of this type as to become almost meaningless. Still, careful readers will find that Carter has plenty of worthwhile insights to convey.

An earnest and helpful, if sometimes familiar, guide to improving performance in business and life.

Kirkus Reviews