Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life

by Lisa Sugar

Overview

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at POPSUGAR creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters and she’s the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night. 
 
How did she do it? By figuring out what her dream job was, taking risks, and believing in herself. And now she wants to motivate others to do the same. She wants to show them how to live colorful, interesting lives where every second counts.
 
She'll do so by sharing her personal and business story. Lisa knows that creating your dream job requires hard work, patience, and experience. She'll give advice, in big and small ways, about exactly how to do that, from starting a company to ditching a relationship that isn't working to becoming a fabulous boss. And with the great, accessible writing style that has made PopSugar such a hit, she'll make it fun!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594888437
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lisa Sugar founded PopSugar in 2006. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three daughters.

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Table of Contents

Timeline ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Find Your Passion 11

Chapter 2 Embarking on Adulthood 31

Chapter 3 Just Do It 57

Chapter 4 Work Hard, Play Nice 75

Chapter 5 Major in Your Health 95

Chapter 6 Moving Past the Crappy Stuff 113

Chapter 7 Don't Go It Alone 133

Chapter 8 Your Personal All-Star Team 153

Chapter 9 A Word on Looks 173

Chapter 10 The Work/Life Blend 197

Epilogue 227

Acknowledgments 233

Editorial Reviews

06/20/2016
Sugar recounts the founding of her media empire, PopSugar, while also imparting advice for personal and professional fulfillment. She left a successful career in advertising to pursue writing full-time, and she encourages readers to find the “intersection of passion and talent.” Sugar presents tactics for networking and crafting a resume or cover letter, and describes her experience creating and leading a successful team. Her commentary on “having it all” is astute, noting that “ ‘all’ is subjective” and having a support system is vital. She discusses her relationship with her husband as a blueprint for a successful marriage and outlines her own healthy eating and exercise habits. It’s difficult not to notice Sugar’s limited viewpoint, however, when she counsels readers on getting over break-ups despite her own lack of experience with them (she met her husband when she was 17), or concludes commentary on body image and self-acceptance with the banal statement “Learning to love my hair has been a long journey.” The advice is also largely tailored to young professionals, as when she comments on the acceptability of not knowing what you want to do, “whether you are 15, 25, or even 35.” That said, she knows her readership, and there is plenty of helpful guidance here for those just setting out on establishing themselves. Agent: Andy McNicol, William Morris Endeavor. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for POWER YOUR HAPPY:

"Sugar presents tactics for networking and crafting a resume or cover letter, and describes her experience creating and leading a successful team. Her commentary on “having it all” is astute... there is plenty of helpful guidance here for those just setting out on establishing themselves."
--Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

09/01/2016
If you've perused the trendy pop culture articles on POPSUGAR.com, you may not be aware that the website is the namesake of its founder. Digital media mogul Sugar's debut book is one-part memoir, one-part guide to life, documenting her rise to success by turning her passions into an empire. Reading more like a blog than a book, the material addresses topics such as finding your passion, work, love, friendships, health, and beauty. The author supports individual lessons with examples from her childhood, college, or career. Each chapter ends with intuitive questions or a project to complete. One of Sugar's repeating motifs is that happiness can be found when a person's career and personal interests are in sync. While the advice is often lighthearted ("eating ice cream" is frequently prescribed as a quick fix), readers will discover substantial guidance that is easy to implement on everything from networking to interviewing to parenting. VERDICT Working mothers will find this an excellent companion to Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. Twenty- to thirtysomethings will savor Sugar's solid, candid wisdom. [See Prepub Alert, 3/28/16.]—Jennifer Clifton, Indiana State Lib., Indianapolis

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