28 Best Women in Business Books
Women in Business is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Women in Business audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 28 Women in Business audiobooks below.
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Yellen
- By: Jon Hilsenrath
- Narrator: Jon Hilsenrath
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.46(67 ratings)
4.46(67 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” –Sylvia Nasar, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and former Fed chair who she is today.” –Sylvia Nasar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind
“Captivating. . . . Part biography, part history of ideas, the book provides a fascinating window into the ways thinking on economic policy has evolved in the last 25 years. . . . A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the current economic challenges we face.” –Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance
An engrossing and deeply human chronicle of the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, viewed through the consequential life of the most powerful woman in American economic history, Janet Yellen, and her unconventional partnership in marriage and work with Nobel Laureate George Akerlof.
At the dawn of the 21st century, many of America’s leaders believed that free trade, modern finance, technology, and wise government policy had paved the way for a new era of prosperity. Then came a cascade of disasters–a bursting tech bubble, domestic terror attacks, a housing market implosion, a financial system crisis, a deadly global pandemic. These events led to serial recessions, deepened America’s political fractures and widened the divide between those best off and everyone else.
Award-winning economics writer Jon Hilsenrath examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen was Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Her husband, George Akerlof, was an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist.
Long before the upheaval of the past two decades, Akerlof warned of flaws in modern economic thinking; then Yellen had to fix the economy on the fly as it cracked.
In telling their story, Hilsenrath explores long-running intellectual battles over the fragile balance between unruly democratic government and unpredictable markets. He introduces readers to the cast of modern intellectuals and policy makers who deciphered, shaped, and steered these systems through prosperity, chaos, and reformation. And he explains what went wrong, why, and what might happen next.
What emerges is an absorbing examination of how humans think and behave, and how those actions shape markets, inform economic policy, and could determine the future of a now-deeply divided nation.
Hilsenrath reminds us that economics is neither science nor ideology, as some once wished or promised.
Economics is an endeavor.
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Impact
- By: Christen Brandt
- Narrator: Tammy Tibbetts
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.38(77 ratings)
4.38(77 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIf you’ve ever felt too overwhelmed to make a difference, or just unsure of how to apply your unique skills to a bigger purpose, this book is ready to unlock your potential.When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do youIf you’ve ever felt too overwhelmed to make a difference, or just unsure of how to apply your unique skills to a bigger purpose, this book is ready to unlock your potential.... Read more
When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do you start? How can you ensure that your good intentions create a positive impact? How do you focus your scattered efforts? And how do you sustain yourself throughout?
Impact brings you the answers. Drawing on their network and experience as founders of She’s the First, Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts show you how to create your own impact strategy, one that fits into your life and allows you to match what you have with what the world needs.
Their guidance, paired with interactive activities, will lead you to identify your North Star, find the right partners, and plug into movements for long-term, systemic change. Equally important, you’ll learn how to address biases, practice allyship, and shift power to become more inclusive and effective in your journey. -
Wolf Hustle
- By: Cin Fabre
- Narrator: Cin Fabre
- Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 20, 2022
- Language: English
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4.37(152 ratings)
4.37(152 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program is read by the author. From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom–at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabre ran with the wolves of Wall Street. Growing up, Cin Fabre didn’t know anything about the stock market. But sheThis program is read by the author.
From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom–at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabre ran with the wolves of Wall Street.
Growing up, Cin Fabre didn’t know anything about the stock market. But she learned how to hustle from her immigrant parents, saving money so that one day she could escape her abusive father and poverty in the Bronx.
Through a tip from a friend, Cin pushed her way into brokerage firm VTR Capital–an offshoot of Stratton Oakmont, the company where the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, had reigned. She was shocked to find an army of young workers, mostly Black and Brown, with no real prospects for promotion sitting at phones doing the drudge work of finding investment leads for white male brokers. But she felt the pull of profit and knew she would do whatever she had to do to be successful.
Pulling back the curtain on the inequities she and so many others faced, Wolf Hustle reveals how Cin worked grueling hours, ascending from cold caller to stockbroker, becoming the only Black woman to do so at her firm. She also discloses the excesses she took part in on 1990s Wall Street–the strip clubs, the Hamptons parties, the Gucci shopping sprees–while reveling in the thrill of making money.
From landing clients worth hundreds of millions to gaining, losing, then gaining back fortunes in seconds, Cin examines her years spent trading frantically and hustling successfully, grappling with what it takes to build a rich life, and, ultimately, beating Wall Street at its own game.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.
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She Builds
- By: Jadah Sellner
- Narrator: Jadah Sellner
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.25(11 ratings)
4.25(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDHustle culture isn’t working for women. If you’ve ever . . . had too many things to do and not enough time to do them lost focus of your priorities and questioned your lack of motivation or drive believed that if you slowed down, yourHustle culture isn’t working for women.
If you’ve ever . . .
- had too many things to do and not enough time to do them
- lost focus of your priorities and questioned your lack of motivation or drive
- believed that if you slowed down, your business would fail and the life you have worked so hard to create would crumble . . .
you’re not alone. Entrepreneur, bestselling author, and business coach Jadah Sellner knows what it’s like to be burned out, in debt, and just barely holding on to a new business. In the process of launching and building multiple companies, she realized today’s aggressive 24/7 hustle culture wasn’t working for her–or for her clients.
In She Builds, Sellner shares a new entrepreneurial model for women, centered on sustainable leadership–a practical framework they can use to create a business on their own terms, prioritize their well-being, and break free from the toxic culture that leads to burnout.
She Builds rests on four essential principles of L.O.V.E.:
LEAD: Define “enough” and surround yourself with the support you need to build a business that lasts.
OPTIMIZE: Learn tangible strategies for focusing on what matters to help you and your business thrive.
VISUALIZE: Create a clear yet flexible twelve-month road map that turns your dreams into reality.
EXPAND: Develop a solid foundation for growth and longevity without losing yourself in the process.
Stepping back isn’t a failure; it’s a strategy. Sellner reminds us that we need to lead with love in life and business, starting with ourselves and moving outward to our families, our teams, our communities, and the customers we serve. Filled with inspiring personal stories, case studies, interactive exercises, and real-world advice, She Builds will help you grow your business and have time to enjoy your life, too.
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She Is Me
- By: Lori Sokol
- Narrator: Sara K. Sheckells
- Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.2(9 ratings)
4.2(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWomen are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing. Statistics show that when women lead countries, those countries are lessWomen are entering the national and international arena more than ever today, from political campaigns to corporate boards to entrepreneurship, and their success is showing. Statistics show that when women lead countries, those countries are less apt to go to war. There is also a positive correlation between the number of women on corporate boards and greater profits. Women entrepreneurs have also been shown to generate higher revenues and create more jobs than male entrepreneurs. In She Is Me, veteran journalist Lori Sokol, PhD, introduces readers to thirty-five women hailing from all walks of life who have successfully utilized qualities like compassion, empathy, introspection, and solidarity to create change and transform lives. Through interviews with women including Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, readers will come to understand how these traits, which have long been considered soft and weak in our patriarchal culture, are actually proving more effective in transforming lives, securing our planet, and saving the world.
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Believe IT
- By: Jamie Kern Lima
- Narrator: Jamie Kern Lima
- Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.2(2226 ratings)
4.2(2226 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER ARE YOU READY TO BELIEVE IN YOU? “Game-changing. Authentic. A must-read for every woman! Jamie is the real deal–and that’s rare.”#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER
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ARE YOU READY TO BELIEVE IN YOU?
“Game-changing. Authentic. A must-read for every woman! Jamie is the real deal–and that’s rare.” –Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“Raw. Real. Powerful. Filled with vulnerability and grit. This book will inspire you to believe in your own power. It’s a book every woman needs!” –Sara Blakely, Founder Spanx
Imagine overcoming the things holding you back, breaking through the barrier of self-doubt and fully becoming the person YOU were BORN TO BE!
In Believe IT, Jamie Kern Lima, founder of IT Cosmetics, shares the wild but true story of how a once struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international bestselling sensation, eventually selling the company for over a billion dollars and becoming the first female CEO of a brand in L’Oreal’s 100+ year history. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, down to her last few dollars and told “No one is going to buy makeup from someone who has your body,” Jamie reveals for the first time what really went down, how she almost didn’t make it, how she learned to trust herself, and the powerful lessons you, too, can use to go from underestimated to unstoppable.
With radical vulnerability and honesty, Jamie takes you on a journey through deeply personal stories of heartbreak and resilience–including accidentally finding out she was adopted when she was in her twenties and the reverberations this has had on all aspects of her life. Jamie also pulls back the curtain on her fight to change the beauty industry’s use of unrealistic images, on behalf of all the little girls who are about to start doubting themselves, and all of the grown women who still do. Spellbinding, riveting, with raw vulnerability and down-to-earth warmth, Believe IT shakes your soul and shows you that you, too, have what it takes to believe in yourself, trust yourself, and go from doubting you’re enough to knowing you’re enough! Do you have big goals, hopes, and dreams but let rejection get in the way? Do you struggle with feeling like you’re not enough and like success is something that happens to other people, but have a hard time believing it’s possible for you? Do you let past mistakes and failures hold you back? Do you know deep down inside that you were created for more, but somehow still doubt yourself?
In Believe IT you’ll discover how to…
-Overcome self-doubt
-Gain the courage to take risks, an empower yourself and others
-Tune into and trust your own intuition
-Let go of your mistakes and insecurities
-Turn down the volume on your inner critic
-Handle the rejection, the haters, and the mean girls
-Boost your confidence
-Start your dream (and keep going!)
-And much more…
If you’ve ever doubted yourself or felt truly underestimated, this book will inspire a new kind of belief and confidence in you and your dreams! -
Cultivate
- By: Lara Casey
- Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: June 27, 2017
- Language: English
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4.18(1519 ratings)
4.18(1519 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDA flourishing, fulfilling life is possible—no perfection required! Too many of us think we have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead of feeling put together, we end up feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, andA flourishing, fulfilling life is possible—no perfection required!
Too many of us think we have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead of feeling put together, we end up feeling inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as we try to figure out how to do it all.
Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey has been there, too. In¬†Cultivate, she offers this grace-filled advice: we can’t do it all and do it well, but we can choose to cultivate what matters
Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide,¬†Cultivate¬†offers wisdom from God’s Word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her own life–and in her garden–giving you the tools you need to:
- Discern what matters most to you
- Embrace the season of life that you’re in
- Find the joy and freedom that comes with cultivating what matters
Let Lara be your guide as you learn to cultivate what matters, little by little, with the help of God’s transforming grace.
Praise for Cultivate:
“Cultivate¬†is rich soil for the soul! Whether you are a new sprout, just beginning to brave life in the light; a tender shoot fighting for space among rocks and weeds; or a mature plant in need of nurture and pruning, this book will help you thrive. With her characteristic honesty, humility, and patience, Lara Casey uses her spiritual ‘green thumb’ to gently nudge us toward an intentional life of godliness and growth. If you are ready for a new season of spiritual growth, dig into¬†Cultivate¬†and get ready to bloom!”
–Elizabeth Laing Thompson, author of¬†When God Says “Wait”
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You Are the Key
- By: Caitlin Crosby
- Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: May 12, 2020
- Language: English
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4.17(89 ratings)
4.17(89 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDFor anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you’re building, find here an incredible hope: you don’t have to have it all together to “qualify” for your life’s calling. Just askFor anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you’re building, find here an incredible hope: you don’t have to have it all together to “qualify” for your life’s calling.
Just ask Caitlin Crosby, the former Hollywood talent who didn’t finish college, never got an MBA, and wasn’t supposed to become a CEO–yet that’s exactly what she did. Caitlin’s passion for people led her to launch The Giving Keys, a give-back jewelry brand with the mission of helping its employees transition out of homelessness. Each of their one million keys sold represents a person who wore it and shared it with someone else, in a unique pay-it-forward model.
In¬†You Are the Key,¬†Caitlin opens up about her own secret “flaw” that rocked her sense of self-worth for the better part of two decades and her private battle to believe that our scars are not sources of shame but proof of courage and prompts toward purpose.
Through Caitlin’s all-too-real stories, sparkling with warmth and humor, you’ll find the encouragement you need to:
- Be brave enough to let yourself fail
- Reframe your imperfections as signposts guiding you toward your greatest purpose
- Move forward from past mistakes and build something beautiful
As you learn more about Caitlin and her journey, you’ll learn that your own path to discovering and developing your purpose won’t be a straight line. You’ll fall down, and you’ll get back up again. But Caitlin’s story will remind you that your own imperfections can lead to your greatest purpose–and it all starts today.
Praise for You Are the Key:
“I’ve admired Caitlin’s generosity and her work with The Giving Keys for years. I’m grateful to know her story. It’s a reminder to never allow fear or setbacks to keep us from stepping out into the unknown. Caitlin has shown us that it’s often in quiet moments of courage that we discover the things we’re passionate about and realize more of who we’re meant to be.”
–Joanna Gaines, cofounder of Magnolia
“Caitlin’s work in bringing purpose back to the lives of so many speaks for itself. With her as your guide, you will unlock purpose, confidence, and joy beyond what you could ever imagine.”
–Sarah Jakes Roberts, pastor, bestselling author, and founder of Woman Evolve
“Equal parts powerful and personable,¬†You Are the Key¬†tells the story of what is possible when you follow big dreams with big heart.”
–Maria Shriver, journalist and¬†New York Times¬†bestselling author
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Unapologetically Ambitious
- By: Shellye Archambeau
- Narrator: Shellye Archambeau
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 06, 2020
- Language: English
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4.1(1142 ratings)
4.1(1142 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFull of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley’s first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcameFull of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley’s first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.
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Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success. Here, she shares the practical strategies, tools, and approaches readers can employ right now, including concrete steps to most effectively:
- Dismantle impostor syndrome
- Capitalize on the power of planning
- Take risks
- Developing financial literacy
- Build your network
- Establish your reputation
- Take charge of your career
- Integrate work, marriage, parenthood, and self-care
Each chapter lays out key takeaways and actions to increase the odds of achieving your personal and professional goals. With relatable personal stories that ground her advice in the real world and a foreword by leading venture capitalist and New York Times bestselling author Ben Horowitz, Unapologetically Ambitious invites readers to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect them to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give themselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions. Shellye Archambeau will show you how.
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Being Boss
- By: Emily Thompson
- Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 10, 2018
- Language: English
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4.1(303 ratings)
4.1(303 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on “being boss” in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson areFrom the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on “being boss” in both business and life.
Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed “business besties” and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the- trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance on:
- The Boss Mindset: how to weed out distractions, cultivate confidence, and tackle “fraudy feelings”
- Boss Habits: including a tested method for visually mapping out goals with magical results
- Boss Money: how to stop freaking out about finances and sell yourself (without shame)
With worksheets, checklists, and other real tools for achieving success, here’s a guide that will truly help you “be boss” not only at growing your business, but creating a life you love.
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Pretty Bitches
- By: Lizzie Skurnick
- Narrator: Andrea Lopez
- Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.96(548 ratings)
3.96(548 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThese empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women — and imagine a more liberated world.Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They haveThese empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women — and imagine a more liberated world.... Read moreWords matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. “Effortless,” “Sassy,” “Ambitious,” “Aggressive”: What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women’s lives — to say nothing of our moods.No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times’ column “That Should be A Word”and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds — or liberate them.
From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them — stories it’s time to examine, re-imagine, and change.
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Worth It
- By: Amanda Steinberg
- Narrator: Amanda Steinberg
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.92(772 ratings)
3.92(772 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom the founder and superstar CEO of DailyWorth.com, the go-to financial site for women with more than one million subscribers, comes a fresh book that shows women how to view money as a source of personal power and freedom–and live life onFrom the founder and superstar CEO of DailyWorth.com, the go-to financial site for women with more than one million subscribers, comes a fresh book that shows women how to view money as a source of personal power and freedom–and live life on their own terms.
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Millions of women want to create financial stability and abundance in their lives, but they don’t know how. They are stuck in overwhelming confusion and guilt, driven by internalized “money stories” that have nothing to do with what is really possible. As the founder of DailyWorth.com, a financial media and education platform, Amanda Steinberg encounters these smart, ambitious women every day. With this book, she helps them face their financial situations head on and wake up to the prosperity that awaits them.
Worth It outlines the essential financial information women need–and everything the institutions and advisors don’t spell out. Steinberg gets to the bottom of why women are stressed and anxious when it comes to their finances and teaches them to stay away from strict budgeting and other harsh austerity practices. Instead, she makes money relatable, while sharing strategies she uses herself to build confidence and ease in her own financial life. Through her first-hand experiences and the stories from other women who’ve woken up, Steinberg’s powerful and encouraging advice can help women of any age and income view money as a source of freedom and independence–and create bright financial futures. -
Divergent Mind
- By: Jenara Nerenberg
- Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 24, 2020
- Language: English
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3.91(2678 ratings)
3.91(2678 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDA paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women–those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder–exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing theirA paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women–those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder–exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.
As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her “symptoms”–only ever labeled as anxiety– were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity–a framework that moves away from pathologizing “abnormal” versus “normal” brains and instead recognizes the vast diversity of our mental makeups.
When it comes to women, sensory processing differences are often overlooked, masked, or mistaken for something else entirely. Between a flawed system that focuses on diagnosing younger, male populations, and the fact that girls are conditioned from a young age to blend in and conform to gender expectations, women often don’t learn about their neurological differences until they are adults, if at all. As a result, potentially millions live with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed neurodivergences, and the misidentification leads to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and shame. Meanwhile, we all miss out on the gifts their neurodivergent minds have to offer.
Divergent Mind is a long-overdue, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are “different.” Sharing real stories from women with high sensitivity, ADHD, autism, misophonia, dyslexia, SPD and more, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely-held misconceptions (for example, it’s not that autistic people lack sensitivity and empathy, they have an overwhelming excess of it).
Nerenberg also offers us a path forward, describing practical changes in how we communicate, how we design our surroundings, and how we can better support divergent minds. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish, we create a better tomorrow for us all.
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Finding Your Moxie
- By: Debra Fox
- Narrator: Debra Fox
- Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.84(37 ratings)
3.84(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIf you’re like most modern women, you feel beat down by and fed up with the ads, marketing, and well-meaning people promoting the message of musts. “You must have the perfect body, make lots of money, and have a college degree. Must,If you’re like most modern women, you feel beat down by and fed up with the ads, marketing, and well-meaning people promoting the message of musts. “You must have the perfect body, make lots of money, and have a college degree. Must, must, must!“
Debra Fox’s Finding Your Moxie is a refreshing eye-opener for women trying to thrive in life but struggling to keep up with the myths, lies, and half-truths surrounding success that women have to face head-on every day.
Success, happiness, and fulfillment in life does not result from a checklist–it’s a result of moxie: courage, spirit, energy, know-how, confidence, fearlessness, gumption, and guts! If you have moxie, you won’t let minor setbacks stop you. You won’t give up.
Debra’s book gives you a witty, straight-forward look at your own life. Debra has lived it all–and tells it all through her own experience battling these myths with her inner moxie. She’s the coach in your corner that you’ve always wanted–and needed. Finding Your Moxie will help you bust through those myths by teaching you
why success does not come to those who wait;how to set or reset your life GPS;how to invest your time where you’re appreciated, not tolerated;how to have healthy conflict and resolution; andhow college and knowledge are not the same thing.
Debra’s story will show you step-by-step how to develop the moxie it takes to overcome the modern-day myths and stand up for yourself. This is real stuff–real life, really lived! So learn how to stop playing by everyone else’s rules, and write your own success story!
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Know Your Value
- By: Mika Brzezinski
- Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 25, 2018
- Language: English
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3.82(201 ratings)
3.82(201 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDThe bestselling motivational guide that TheAtlantic.com calls “a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve.” Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women?The bestselling motivational guide that TheAtlantic.com calls “a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve.”
Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women ask for — and actually get–the money, the job, the recognition they deserve?
Prompted by her own experience as cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked a wide range of successful women to share the critical lessons they learned while moving up in their fields. Power players such as Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard’s Victoria Budson, comedian Susie Essman, and many more shared their surprising personal stories. They spoke candidly about why women are paid less and the pitfalls women face — and play into.
Now expanded to address gender dynamics in the #MeToo era, Know Your Value blends compelling personal stories with the latest research on why many women don’t negotiate their compensation, why negotiating aggressively usually backfires, and what can be done about it.
For any woman who has ever wondered if her desire to be liked can be a liability (yes), if there is a way to reclaim her contribution after it’s been co-opted in a meeting (yes), and if there are strategies men use to get ahead that women should too (yes!), Know Your Value provides vital advice to help women be their own best advocates.
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Anna
- By: Amy Odell
- Narrator: Imogen Church
- Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.81(2238 ratings)
3.81(2238 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bloomberg‘s 10 Most Compelling Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would–with singular andINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would–with singular and legendary focus–become one of the most powerful people in media.
As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back.
Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London–an experience that would be the first of many defeats. Undeterred, she found work in the competitive world of magazines, eventually embarking on a journey to New York and a battle to ascend, no matter who or what stood in her way. Once she was crowned editor-in-chief of Vogue–in one of the stormiest transitions in fashion magazine history–she continued the fight to retain her enviable position, ultimately rising to dominate all of Conde Nast.
Based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour’s closest friends and collaborators, including some of the biggest names in fashion, journalist Amy Odell has crafted the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published. Weaving Anna’s personal story into a larger narrative about the hierarchical dynamics of the fashion industry and the complex world of Conde Nast, Anna charts the relentless ambition of the woman who would become an icon. -
Amiga, deja de disculparte
- By: Rachel Hollis
- Narrator: Rachel Hollis
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Grupo Nelson
- Publish date: March 05, 2019
- Language: Spanish
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3.8(122 ratings)
3.8(122 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDRachel Hollis, autora del superventas y fundadora de TheChicSite.com, exhorta a las mujeres a dejar de disculparse por sus deseos, esperanzas y suenos y, en cambio, perseguirlos con pasion y confianza. Rachel ha sido testigo con frecuencia deRachel Hollis, autora del superventas y fundadora de TheChicSite.com, exhorta a las mujeres a dejar de disculparse por sus deseos, esperanzas y suenos y, en cambio, perseguirlos con pasion y confianza.
Rachel ha sido testigo con frecuencia de mujeres que tienen temor de lograr sus propios objetivos. Temen pasar verguenza, no alcanzar la perfeccion o no ser lo suficientemente valiosas. Pero el mayor temor de todos es ser juzgadas por el solo hecho de tener una ambicion.
Habiendo aprendido a definirse a si mismas a la luz de otras personas -ya sea como esposas, madres, hijas o amigas- muchas mujeres han olvidado quienes son en realidad y quienes deberian ser. En este libro la celebridad emprendedora en linea, Rachel Hollis, alienta a las mujeres a ser duenas de sus esperanzas, deseos y metas, y les recuerda que no tienen que pedir permiso para desear alcanzar mas. Con un llamado a las mujeres de todo el mundo para que no dejen de hablar de sus suenos, Hollis identifica las excusas de las que tienen que liberarse, los comportamientos que deben adoptar y las habilidades que necesitan adquirir, en el camino hacia el crecimiento, la confianza y la mejor version de sus vidas.
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Future You
- By: Frances Valintine
- Narrator: Fiona Macleod
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2022
- Language: English
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3.77(11 ratings)
3.77(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWhat does it take to go from imagining a different life to creating one? Entrepreneur and educator Frances Valintine has spent her life trying to untangle why some people don’t embrace change even when they know their future depends on it.What does it take to go from imagining a different life to creating one?
Entrepreneur and educator Frances Valintine has spent her life trying to untangle why some people don’t embrace change even when they know their future depends on it.
Future You shares insights from Frances’s own extraordinary career to show how breaking away from expectation and routine is integral to living a full and successful life. Frances inspires and empowers readers to make bold self-discoveries: to take risks, step off the conveyor belt, open your heart to chance, overcome self-doubt, foster generosity, pass less judgement, think originally, and lead with possibility.
Your brain has an incredible power to get you to where you want to be. Your role is to let your brain know the destination, and to be brave enough to begin your future now.
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Feminist Fight Club
- By: Jessica Bennett
- Narrator: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Wave
- Publish date: September 13, 2016
- Language: English
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3.77(5603 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDPart manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work–a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation ofPart manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work–a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.
It was a fight club–but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify–and harder to prove–than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born.
Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday–such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas–and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. With Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace–as well as the system that perpetuates them.
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Centered Leadership
- By: Joanna Barsh
- Narrator: Joanna Barsh
- Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 18, 2014
- Language: English
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3.74(66 ratings)
3.74(66 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDWhat enables some talented people to rise to the top and live their full ambitions at work and in life, while others stop short? In 2008, Joanna Barsh launched and sponsored Tthe Centered Leadership Project at McKinsey and & Company to answerWhat enables some talented people to rise to the top and live their full ambitions at work and in life, while others stop short? In 2008, Joanna Barsh launched and sponsored Tthe Centered Leadership Project at McKinsey and & Company to answer that very question. In the process, they uncovered what distinguishes leaders who are successful from those who achieve true greatness. They called it Centered Leadership because these leaders find their balance in the midst of chaos and lead from their most resourceful self to unleash the potential of others. In the business bestseller, How Remarkable Women Lead , Barsh described Centered Leadership’ s five capabilities and the research that underpins it. Here, with colleague Johanne Lavoie, she 30-year McKinsey veteran Joanna Barsh provides a practical, actionable field guide for implementation. Since 2008, Barsh, Lavoie and others at McKinsey have travelled the globe giving seminars, leading programs, workshops, and keynotes helping men and women to build these capabilities . In Centered Leadership , Barsh and Lavoie will guide you through the Centered Leadership program. You’ ll find the interactive tools, exercises, and practices that have helped the men and women in Centered Leadership programs gain the skills, courage and confidence to unleash their potential and that of those around them. And, along the way, you’ ll read inspiring stories of men and women leaders who demonstrate the power of these skills in action. Those early in their careers will learn how to use these skills to explore their passions and accelerate their professional development. Those forming families will be able to use them to reconcile manage work and life to get the most out of both. And those who have already achieved success will be able use these practices to reach their next leadership horizon. No matter what stage you are currently at in your career, or what level of leadership you aspire to, this book will equip you with the tools to unlock your own Centered Leader and achieve more positive impact at work and outside it.
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Influencer
- By: Brittany Hennessy
- Narrator: Brittany Hennessy
- Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.72(1312 ratings)
3.72(1312 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIf you’ve ever scrolled through your Instagram feed and thought, “I wear clothes, eat avocado toast, and like sunsets–why can’t someone pay me to live my best life?” this book is for you … Every one of yourIf you’ve ever scrolled through your Instagram feed and thought, “I wear clothes, eat avocado toast, and like sunsets–why can’t someone pay me to live my best life?” this book is for you …
Every one of your favorite influencers started with zero followers and had to make a lot of mistakes to get where they are today–earning more money each year than their parents made in the last decade. But to become a top creator, you need to understand the strategies behind the Insta-ready lifestyle …
As nightlife blogger, then social media strategist, and now talent director at Hearst Magazines, Brittany Hennessy has seen the role of influencers evolve and expand into something that few could have imagined when social media first emerged. She has unrivaled insight into where the branded content industry was, where it is, and where it’s going. In this book she’ll reveal how to
build an audience and keep them engaged,package your brand and pitch your favorite companies, and monetize your influence and figure out how much to charge,
plus tips on
landing an agent,getting on the radar of your favorite sites, andpraising a brand without alienating their competitors.
Whether you’re just starting out or you’re ready for bigger campaigns, Hennessy guides you through core influencer principles, from creating content worth double tapping and using hashtags to get discovered to understanding FTC rules and delivering metrics. She’ll show you how to elevate your profile, embrace your edge, and make money–all while doing what you love.
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The Confidence Code
- By: Katty Kay
- Narrator: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: April 15, 2014
- Language: English
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3.71(10837 ratings)
3.71(10837 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDNew York Times Bestseller Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence–and learning howNew York Times Bestseller
Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence–and learning how to achieve it–for women of all ages and at all stages of their career.
Working women today are better educated and more well qualified than ever before. Yet men still predominate in the corporate world. In The Confidence Code, Claire Shipman and Katty Kay argue that the key reason is confidence.
Combining cutting-edge research in genetics, gender, behavior, and cognition–with examples from their own lives and those of other successful women in politics, media, and business–Kay and Shipman go beyond admonishing women to “lean in.”Instead, they offer the inspiration and practical advice women need to close the gap and achieve the careers they want and deserve.
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Pay Up
- By: Reshma Saujani
- Narrator: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.62(544 ratings)
3.62(544 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’sINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today.
We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed.
In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it’s time to Pay Up.
Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction–for families, for our nation’s economy, and for women themselves–is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform.
Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work. -
Earn It!
- By: Mika Brzezinski
- Narrator: Daniela Pierre-Bravo
- Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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3.61(93 ratings)
3.61(93 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDA straight-talking guide for the newest members of the workforce, with road-tested advice for landing a job, navigating the new world of work, establishing a personal brand, and getting the recognition (and money) you deserve. The whirlwind of jobA straight-talking guide for the newest members of the workforce, with road-tested advice for landing a job, navigating the new world of work, establishing a personal brand, and getting the recognition (and money) you deserve.
The whirlwind of job applications, interviews, follow-up, resume building, and networking is just the beginning. What happens after you’ve landed the job, settled in, and begun to make a difference-where do you go from here? What if you feel stuck in what you thought would be your dream profession? New York Times bestselling author Mika Brzezinski and producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo provide an essential manual for those crucial next steps. Earn It! is a practical career guidebook that not only helps you get your foot in the door; it also shows you how to negotiate a raise, advocate for more responsibility, and figure out whether you’re in the career that’s right for you.A blueprint for your future success, Earn It! features insightful and inspiring interviews with leaders in media, fashion, and business, recruiters, HR, execs, and kickass young female entrepreneurs like Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin of theSkimm, Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud, and Jane Park, founder of the cosmetic subscription company Julep.... Read more -
Beyond the Mat
- By: Julie Rosenberg
- Narrator: Carolyn Cook
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.55(69 ratings)
3.55(69 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDAchieve professional and personal success by following the philosophical principles of yoga, along with powerful poses that can be done at a desk, in flight, or on the go Yoga is thought of by many as a fitness hobby–a gentler alternative toAchieve professional and personal success by following the philosophical principles of yoga, along with powerful poses that can be done at a desk, in flight, or on the go
Yoga is thought of by many as a fitness hobby–a gentler alternative to SoulCycle and CrossFit–but its underlying philosophy offers much more than a good workout. Yoga can relieve stress, focus the mind, and provide a path to reinvention, resilience, and a meaningful life. In Beyond the Mat, physician, executive, and yoga instructor Julie Rosenberg reveals how the essential lessons of the four-thousand-year-old Yoga Sutras contain a relevant framework in which to thrive both personally and professionally, with:
- Principles for achieving work/life balance, building resilience, cultivating compassion, and working effectively with others
- Practices to manage time, avoid distractions, and get in “the zone”
- Breath-control exercises to mitigate stress and anxiety
- Power poses that can be done at home, at a desk, or on the go
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You Don’t Look Your Age…and Other Fairy Tales
- By: Sheila Nevins
- Narrator: Lena Dunham
- Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 02, 2017
- Language: English
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3.35(2326 ratings)
3.35(2326 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USD“…the decided advantage of the audio book is that it is read by a cast of stars as long as your arm — thanks to Nevins’ considerable achievements in television and production…This is choice listening for the car, as the“…the decided advantage of the audio book is that it is read by a cast of stars as long as your arm — thanks to Nevins’ considerable achievements in television and production…This is choice listening for the car, as the stories are short and thus lend themselves to erranding and other short hops.” Fran Wood, NJ.com
This program is read by the author and a full cast: Cynthia Adler, Alan Alda, Bob Balaban, Christine Baranski, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Katie Couric, John Henry Cox, Blythe Danner, Lena Dunham, Edie Falco, Tovah Feldshuh, Diane von Furstenberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Gayle King, Diane Lane,
Sandra Lee, Judith Light, Jenna Lyons, Audra McDonald, Janet Mock, Sheila Nevins, Rosie O’Donnell, Jean Richards, RuPaul, Liz Smith, Lesley Stahl, Gloria Steinem, Martha Stewart, Meryl Streep, Marlo Thomas, Lily Tomlin, and Gloria Vanderbilt.“Thank you to Sheila Nevins for putting all this down for posterity. Women need this kind of honest excavation of the process of living.” –Meryl Streep
An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant audiobook for any woman who wishes they had someone who would say to them, “This happened to me, learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don’t get smarter as you get older, you get braver.”
Sheila Nevins is the best friend you never knew you had. She is your discreet confidante you can tell any secret to, your sage mentor at work who helps you navigate the often uneven playing field, your wise sister who has “been there, done that,” your hysterical girlfriend whose stories about men will make you laugh until you cry. Sheila Nevins is the one person who always tells it like it is.
In You Don’t Look Your Age, the famed documentary producer (as President of HBO Documentary Films for over 30 years, Nevins has rightfully been credited with creating the documentary rebirth) finally steps out from behind the camera and takes her place front and center.
In this program you will hear about the real life challenges of being a woman in a man’s world, what it means to be a working mother, what it’s like to be an older woman in a youth-obsessed culture, the sometimes changing, often sweet truth about marriages, what being a feminist really means, and that you are in good company if your adult children don’t return your phone calls.
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Money: Who Has How Much and Why
- By: Andrew Hacker
- Narrator: Cotter Smith
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1997
- Language: English
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3.3(17 ratings)
3.3(17 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDOn the publication of Andrew Hacker’s instant classic and bestselling Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Newsweek described him as a “political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats,On the publication of Andrew Hacker’s instant classic and bestselling Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Newsweek described him as a “political scientist doing with statistics what Fred Astaire did with hats, canes, and chairs. he doesn’t crunch numbers: he makes them live and breathe.” Now, with the same keen, objective insight and wizardry with numbers, Hacker tackles the other emotionally charged issue that most preoccupies us, wealth and its distribution.
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In MONEY, Hacker sifts through reams of data to answer the questions we most frequently ask about money:
Have women made real strides toward economic parity?
Has affirmative action improved the economic status of African Americans?
Does immigration really take jobs away from hardworking Americans?
Hacker’s answers are surprising and fascinating, illuminating the financial condition of every strata of America. Shattering all the taboos we have on the subjects of wealth, poverty, and worth, MONEY is essential listening for anyone who wants to know more about their slice of the American pie. -
Ding Dong! Avon Calling!
- By: Katina Manko
- Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 27, 2021
- Language: English
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3.08(10 ratings)
3.08(10 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDWith their distinctive greeting at homes across the country–Ding Dong! Avon Calling!–sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabledWith their distinctive greeting at homes across the country–Ding Dong! Avon Calling!–sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabled women to earn
money on the side and even become financially independent in a respectable profession while selling Avon’s wares to friends, family, and neighborhood networks.Ding Dong! Avon Calling! is the story of women and entrepreneurship, and of an innovative corporation largely managed by men that empowered women to exploit networks of other women and their community for profit. Founded in the late nineteenth century, Avon grew into a massive international direct sales company in which millions of “ambassadors of beauty” sat in their customers’ living rooms with a sample case, catalogue, and a conversational sales pitch. Avon was unique in American business history for its reliance on women as representatives, promising them not just sales positions, but a chance to have a business of their own. Being an Avon Lady avoided the stigma that was often attached to middle-class women’s work outside the home and enabled women to maintain the delicate balance of work and family. Drawing for the first time on company records she helped acquire for the archives, Katina Manko illuminates Avon’s inner workings, uncovers the lives of its representatives, and shows how women slowly rose into the company’s middle and upper management.
Avon called itself “The Company for Women” and championed its high flyers, but its higher echelons remained dominated by men well into the 1990s.
Avon is more than perfumes and toiletries, but a brand built on women knocking on doors and chatting up neighbors. It thrived for more than a century through the deceptively simple technique of women directly selling beauty to women at home.
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