Find Your Inner Red Shoes: Step Into Your Own Style of Success

by Mariela Dabbah

Overview

ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO ADVANCE IN YOUR CAREER?
HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS?

In Find Your Inner Red Shoes, bestselling author, motivational speaker and founder of the Red Shoe Movement, Mariela Dabbah teaches us that personal and professional success is a journey and not a destination point. In fact, it’s only by discovering ourselves and what gives us greatest satisfaction that we can defne what success means for each one of us. Based on Dabbah’s own life and thorough research, as well as the careers of dozens of other successful women, this book will help you fulfll your goals whatever you decide those to be.

Chapter by chapter you’ll identify your strengths as well as the areas in which you might need to make adjustments to advance in the professional world. Dabbah will also show you how to break free from any childhood fears or family pressures that may be holding you back. Only when you recognize who you are can you then tap into your passion and personal style and triumph in today’s competitive global market.

So go head, slip on those red heels (or flats!) and empower yourself, and other women, by joining the Red Shoe Movement. Only you can walk in your shoes down that shiny path toward success and this book is the perfect companion.

Includes exclusive interviews with:
SOLEDAD O’BRIEN
MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS
IVONNE BAKI
CAROLINA BAYÓN
NORA BULNES
ANNA MARÍA CHÁVEZ
REMEDIOS DÍAZ OLIVER
NANCY DUBUC
ELENA ROGER
MARÍA ELENA SALINAS
ROSELYN SÁNCHEZ
CRISTINA SARALEGUI

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142426906
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/22/2013
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Born in Argentina, Mariela Dabbah is an award-winning best-selling author, thought-leader, corporate consultant, and media contributor on issues of education, career development and empowerment with a focus on Latinos. She’s a sought-after international speaker and corporate trainer who has inspired diverse audiences to take the steps needed to fulfill their dreams. Dabbah is a frequent guest on CNN, Univision, Telemundo, Fox News, and all the major English and Spanish networks.

In 2009 she created Latinos in College, a nonprofit organization to help Latino students in the U.S. find everything they need to succeed in college. In 2012, after the publication of the Spanish-language edition of this book, she launched the Red Shoe Movement, an initiative that encourages women to wear red shoes to work on Tuesdays to signal their support for other women’s career advancement. The goal is to move the needle on female representation at the highest levels of all types of organizations.

Aside from having published six books of nonfiction, Dabbah is also a fiction writer whose stories have been published in literary magazines and online. Her first book of short stories Cuentos de Nuevos Aires y Buena York (Metafrasta,
2006) has received wide public and critical acclaim and her first novel will be published soon. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Part 1 Understanding Where You Come From and Where You're Headed

1 What Do Successful Women Have in Common? 3

2 What Messages Did You Receive and What Messages Do You Send Out Without Knowing? 23

3 The Creative Power of Language 41

4 Define Your Own Journey and Establish Your Brand 56

5 Decide and Plan Your Future 76

Part 2 Tools to Grow Your Career

6 How to Modulate the Volume of Your Passion 91

7 The Art of Negotiating 107

8 How to Create a Positive Impression on Your Bosses 128

9 Networking, That Miracle Word 139

10 Mentors, Sponsors, Advocates, Advisors, and Private Coaches 164

11 To Err Is Human 188

Part 3 Moving Ahead! Plain Sailing

12 It's Time to Say Yes to Your Next Challenge 201

13 The Power Is in Your Hands 219

Epilogue 223

The Red Shoe Movement 227

Acknowledgments 229