The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss
Kathy Caprino guides women to take the reins in their careers by identifying and overcoming the 7 most damaging power gaps holding them back and accessing new levels of internal and external power to propel you forward to the success you want and deserve.
The business world has been forever changed by the important progress and contributions that women have made. Yet, with only 38% of manager roles and 22% of C-suite positions being held by women, women continue to struggle to achieve the reward, respect, and authority they have earned.
In these pages, career, executive, and leadership coach Kathy Caprino helps women identify the 7 most damaging power gaps that are holding them back from the success they want and deserve, outlining the key steps you can take today to access greater positive power, become the true author of your life, and reach your highest and most rewarding goals.
Kathy has dedicated her work to the advancement of women in business. In her research, she has found that 98% of professional women are experiencing at least one of these seven damaging power gaps, and over 75% are facing 3 or more:
- Power Gap 1: Not recognizing your special talents, abilities, and accomplishments
- Power Gap 2: Communicating from fear, not strength
- Power Gap 3: Reluctance to ask for what you deserve
- Power Gap 4: Isolating from influential support
- Power Gap 5: Acquiescing instead of saying “Stop!” to mistreatment
- Power Gap 6: Losing sight of your thrilling dream for your life
- Power Gap 7: Allowing past trauma and challenges to define you
Through riveting real-life success stories of women overcoming these gaps, and proven strategies and solutions from more than 30 of the nation’s top experts in fields that are essential to women’s success, the exercises in this book will equip you with the strength to:
- See yourself more powerfully (Brave Sight)
- Speak more confidently (Brave Speak)
- Ask for and receive what you deserve (Brave Ask)
- Connect to your advantage with influential support (Brave Connection)
- Challenge and change negative behavior toward you (Brave Challenge)
- Be of service in more meaningful ways (Brave Service)
- Heal from past trauma and challenge (Brave Healing)
Most importantly, The Most Powerful You will reconnect you to the thrilling dreams you once had for your life and empower you to take the necessary steps to reclaim that dream while making your positive impact in the world.
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Both women and men will benefit from this book, and so will leaders who want to increase impact
Both women and men will benefit a great deal from this book, as well as leaders who want to make a greater positive impact. The 7 power gaps that the book shares are not only what I see many of female leaders, students and others I work with are experiencing that are blocking their success, but also among professional men as well. In fact, there are several gaps that I'm experiencing that from this book I understand more clearly how to tackle and address to create more of the impact I'm hoping for. Highly recommended!
A Must Read For Today's Professional Market
This book is a timely, highly effective call to action for one of the largest issues in our professional world -- the discrepancy between the contributions that women bring to the table and the recognition for that work. The thing I love most about The Most Powerful You is Kathy's emphasis on action. Too many "thought leaders" spend pages and chapters outlining the issue, but fail to deliver on tangible solutions and actions. Not this time! Kathy's chapters are jam packed with actionable value that readers can implement immediately. The best part? Kathy is laser focused on the gaps that, when shored up, will give you the most bang for your buck. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone looking to level up their career, regardless of your gender.
Empowering women with power questions
Are you looking for a deeper understanding of what career obstacles to watch out for? Are you seeking some powerful insights from an experienced and dynamic career coach whose voice sounds like it is talking to you? Then run, don't walk to get a hold of this terrific book by career coach and well known Finding Brave podcast host, Kathy Caprino. I especially loved the reframing and "power questions' that are included in each chapter. Many people talk a good game when it comes to empowering women. Kathy Caprino knows how to get it done.
Amazing Book for Self Reflection
Thank you for writing The Most Powerful You! It took me a couple of months to finish it as each chapter required lots of self reflection and internal analysis. I learned 2 things about myself from your book. 1) I needed to forgive myself in order to activate Brave Speak. I didn’t think I deserved a voice. Self forgiveness activated my self awareness allowing me to walk boldly in my strengths, connect with influential people, speak up to power. 2) I need to grieve the losses of what could have been as a result of the traumatic childhood I had. I spent a whole weekend listing all the losses and I grieved Now I’m a little my present, I celebrate wins, and I’m experiencing joy. New experiences for me and I’m loving it!!!!
As usual, well organized, great exercises
I loved Kathy's Breakdown, Breakthrough, and am a career and life coach. Her concepts resonate with me, and I appreciate her holistic and insightful approach to women come to their own power. Very helpful during a stressful time in the country and the world.
An energizing and empowering book for professional women (and others!)
If you’re a woman in the workplace, you probably experience at least one of the “power gaps” described in this book. Reading this book is like having an energizing conversation with a trusted advisor. You’ll walk away emboldened to make positive change.
It's not just for women...
It's beautifully written and is for anyone who wants to get unstuck and feel empowered. It's thought-provoking, inspirational and most importantly actionable - and it comes with a challenge to every reader...to identify what's in the way of their goal achievement and to gain the courage necessary to move forward.
Empowering, positive energy
I’m a female in a male-dominated medical speciality. Kathy teaches specific tools in a positive way to empower women to address the power dynamics in the work place. This is a very readable book with easy-to-apply principles.
A must read for all women
Inspirational. All women should read this book to bring success in their careers and lives
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