Embrace the Work, Love Your Career: A Guided Workbook for Realizing Your Career Goals with Clarity, Intention, and Confidence

by Fran Hauser, Regina Shklovsky (Illustrator)

Overview

“Embrace the Work, Love Your Career is for women who want to fall back in love with their work and design a career action plan grounded in confidence and clarity.” —Forbes

YOU ARE DESERVING OF A CAREER YOU LOVE.

Fran Hauser, best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, follows up with a workbook for women who want to get more out of their careers. Embrace the Work, Love Your Career combines accessible advice, time-tested strategies, creative prompts, and thoughtful exercises into one holistic resource.

Stemming from years of experience in senior leadership at Time Inc.’s People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly as well as AOL and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Hauser centers her career guidance around six main actions:

• Fall in love with your career
• Design your career action plan
• Create time and space
• Know your value
• Build your dream team
• Reflect and reset

Each chapter starts with practical advice and includes prompts and exercises to help readers create their own personal career action plans. Palate-cleansing meditations and coloring breaks conclude each chapter, offering chances for calming reflection. Through simple, inspiring, and actionable tools, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career teaches women to be empowered to focus on the things that truly matter, set boundaries and, ultimately, realize their full potential.

"Embrace the Work, Love Your Career couldn't have arrived at a better time." —PopSugar

“From the author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, an instructional workbook to help you find professional satisfaction and achieve your goals.” —People

PRAISE FOR FRAN HAUSER:

Named one of the “6 Most Powerful Women in NYC’s Tech Scene” by Refinery29

"Is it possible to be both kind and a total badass? Yes—and Fran Hauser tells us how.” —goop

“Fran gets into the mess—and gets specific—explaining how she has learned to handle all kinds of uncomfortable moments with authenticity and grace” —Refinery29

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951412494
Publisher:	The Collective Book Studio
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Series:	Embrace Your Life Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Fran Hauser is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, former media executive, leading career expert, and champion of women in the workplace. Fran is the author of two books for professional women striving to create careers they love while staying true to themselves: The Myth of the Nice Girl, which has been translated into eight languages and earned the prestigious title of "Best Business Book of the Year, 2018" by Audible, and Embrace the Work, Love Your Career, which has become the go-to curriculum for women’s affinity groups nationwide. Fran is a sought-after women’s empowerment speaker, having spoken at over 200 organizations. As a former Fortune 500 executive and active start-up investor—who has funded over 30 female-founded companies—Fran’s insights have appeared in media outlets such as Fortune, CNBC, Fast Company, and Business Insider. She lives outside NYC with her husband, two sons, and beloved mini Goldendoodle

Regina Shklovsky is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Sonoma County, California. She illustrated the 2018 picture book, Fun in the Mud, which was a 2019 Moonbeam award winner and a 2018 Nautilus award winner. She is passionate about bringing stories to life with pictures and thoughtful design. Her work is rooted in traditional drawing and painting, mixed with vector graphics. She collaborates with local entrepreneurs and authors, as well as independent publishers.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

How to Get the Most Out of This Book 5

Section 1 Fall in Love with Your Career 9

Section 2 Design Your Career Action Plan 29

Section 3 Create Time and Space 73

Section 4 Know Your Value 111

Section 5 Build Your Dream Team 143

Section 6 Reflect and Reset 175

Final Thoughts 194

Love Your Career Tool Kit 197

Acknowledgments 214

About the Author 216

Editorial Reviews

Fran knows how to ask the best questions to help you dream big and set big goals. She knows that we each have our own path, and guides you to creating a career that works for you.

Gretchen Carlson

Confidence comes with knowing yourself, actualizing your dreams, and facing what could be holding you back. This book helps put you in the driver seat to embrace the journey and love your career.

Rebecca Minkoff

The most successful employees are not the ones who say yes to everything, but the ones who have the most focus, confidence, passion and know exactly what to prioritize. This book helps you get there.

Vivian Maza

This book is more than a must read. It's a must experience for any woman who wants to clarify her purpose and create an action plan to manifest it personally and professionally.

Tiffany Dufu

Fran shows you how it’s possible to be more confident, intentional, and mindful at work, which will help you build a career you love.

Regina Buckley

From the author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, an instructional workbook to help you find professional satisfaction and achieve your goals.

People

Time is precious. Fran guides you toward focusing on what creates the most value for your career and what will have the most impact on your journey.

Randi Zuckerberg

Interwoven with meditations, coloring pages and personal anecdotes, this book will help you quiet the noise and focus on building the life you’ve imagined.

Her Campus

[Fran Hauser's] new workbook, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career, is for women who want to fall back in love with their work and design a career action plan grounded in confidence and clarity.

Forbes

Fran Hauser's workbook Embrace the Work, Love Your Career couldn't have arrived at a better time.

PopSugar

Fran’s book allows readers to follow their own path and bring their human to work. It’s part self-reflection, part advice, and the result is a powerful combination to help you love your career and realize your goals.

Erica Keswin

Can a career book be fun? Now it can! From coloring breaks to creative exercises, Fran has made the process of embracing your career goals and dreams a delight.

Piera Gelardi

"[Fran Hauser's] new workbook, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career, is for women who want to fall back in love with their work and design a career action plan grounded in confidence and clarity." —Forbes

"Fran Hauser's workbook Embrace the Work, Love Your Career couldn't have arrived at a better time." —PopSugar

"From the author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, an instructional workbook to help you find professional satisfaction and achieve your goals." —People

"Interwoven with meditations, coloring pages and personal anecdotes, this book will help you quiet the noise and focus on building the life you’ve imagined." —Her Campus

“Confidence comes with knowing yourself, actualizing your dreams, and facing what could be holding you back. This book helps put you in the driver's seat to embrace the journey and love your career.” —Rebecca Minkoff, Founder of Rebecca Minkoff & The Female Founder Collective and best-selling author
 
“Fran knows how to ask the best questions to help you dream big and set big goals. She knows that we each have our own path, and guides you to creating a career that works for you. “ —Gretchen Carlson, Journalist, Co-Founder Lift our Voices, female empowerment advocate and best-selling author
 
“I worked with Fran more than 10 years ago, and I’m still seeking career advice from her! Fran shows you how it’s possible to be more confident, intentional, and mindful at work, which will help you build a career you love.” —Regina Buckley, President, US at Guardian News & Media
 
“Can a career book be fun? Now it can! From coloring breaks to creative exercises, Fran has made the process of embracing your career goals and dreams a delight.” —Piera Gelardi, Co-Founder, Refinery29 & creative visionary
 
“The most successful employees are not the ones who say yes to everything, but the ones who have the most focus, confidence, passion and know exactly what to prioritize. This book helps you get there.” —Vivian Maza, Former Chief Culture Officer at Ultimate Software & angel investor
 
“Time is precious. Fran guides you toward focusing on what creates the most value for your career and what will have the most impact on your journey.” —Randi Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO at Zuckerberg Media
 
“Humans are multidimensional and the most successful books cater to that! Fran’s book allows readers to follow their own path and bring their human to work. It’s part self-reflection, part advice, and the result is a powerful combination to help you love your career and realize your goals.” —Erica Keswin, WSJ bestselling author, keynote speaker and workplace strategist
 
“This book is more than a must read. It's a must experience for any woman who wants to clarify her purpose and create an action plan to manifest it personally and professionally.” —Tiffany Dufu, Founder & CEO, The Cru

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