Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment

by Rha Goddess

Overview

Proven strategies for a more intentional and thoughtful approach to your ideal career

In Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom and Fulfillment, soul coach and visionary career consultant Rha Goddess reveals a proven blueprint, already used by hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries, and social entrepreneurs, to radically and thrillingly reset your life by renegotiating your relationship to work. Drawing on personal anecdotes from highly successful individuals Rha has worked with across industries and roles, this book delivers strategies to intentionally reconsider what you do, why you do it, and how you do it.

Based on Goddess's work with private and small group coaching as well as corporate collaborations with organizations such as Google, Delta, and Lululemon, this book explores topics including:

• Resigning versus being resigned—intentionally choosing a new path versus letting your environment make your choices for you
• Raising the standard of renegotiation, where we have a renewed vision for our mental, spiritual, emotional, and financial aspirations
• Unhealthy compartmentalization of our work and real personalities, leading to painful compromise and internal emotional turmoil

Intentional Ambition earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all professionals, no matter where they are in their careers, who know they deserve better and are looking to intentionally plot a more joyful and fulfilling path forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781394299683
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

RHA GODDESS is the founder and CEO of Move The Crowd, Born To Shine, and the Co-founder of nFormation, a first-of-its-kind membership platform created by women of color, for women of color. She is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries, and social entrepreneurs. From the onset of her more than 30-year career as a cultural innovator, social impact strategist, and creative change agent, Rha has drawn on the power of creativity, culture, and community to move hearts, minds and policy. Rha’s work has focused on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health, youth and women’s empowerment, and contributed to initiatives that impacted millions of lives.

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword vii

Introduction: You See Resignation … I See Renegotiation xi

Part I Negotiation 1

1 You Say Career Wall, I Say Life Wall 3

2 Success as Sacrifice: An Unchallenged Story 15

3 When Failure to Succeed Is Almost Guaranteed: Thwarting 27

Part II Resignation 41

4 One Coin, Two Sides: Giving Up vs. Quitting 43

5 The Suck in Success 57

6 Wounded Ambitions and Wounding Ambition 65

Part III Renegotiation 79

7 Reclaiming: Whose Story Is It, Anyway? 81

8 Realigning: The Truth about Getting True 91

9 Reimagining: A More Successful Definition of Success 105

Part IV How to Renegotiate with Yourself 117

10 Changing Your Mindset about Change 119

11 Signing Your Own Permission Slip 131

12 Cultivating Your True Ambition 143

Part V How to Renegotiate with Others 153

13 Setting Up Your Game Plan (and Guardrails) for Reentry 155

14 Coming to the Table Prepared 165

15 Overcoming the Scarcity Scare 177

Part VI How to Renegotiate with the World 187

16 Renegotiating with the World: The “Yeah, But” Chapter 189

17 Who Wins? A Pep Talk to Send You on Your Way 199

Notes 209

Acknowledgments 213

About the Author 217

Index 221