My book recommendations (Pt. 2)

I'm back with a second big round-up of books for we, high-achieving millennial women, to read on how to live authentically and intuitively, while creating a career that we love and thrive in. Check-out the first edition if you missed it here.  

It has been so fun hearing your recommendations and exchanging favorites. While I haven't read most of these, I trust that you're discerning readers and have excellent recommendations for each other. 

So without further ado, here are a few more suggestions to add to your “TBR” or To Be Read pile: 

Untamed, by Glennon Doyle. Thanks to my cousin for the reminder on this book. Many of you have probably read it or listen to her podcast, but if you're not familiar, this is an excellent primer on social conditioning, how it limits us from fully and authentically expressing ourselves and listening to our “knowing” or intuition. 

Leap, Why Its Time to Let Go In Your Career To Get Ahead, by Jess Galicia. Written by one of my client's classmates, this book has been at the top of my TBR pile for ages and is probably closest to the topics we talk the most about. Galicia interviewed over 150 women who climbed the corporate ladder and then leapt onto a “non-traditional” path to find more freedom and fulfillment.  

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, by Rainesford Stauffer. If you enjoyed my podclass, this book seems like a stronger form take on similar themes. I will let the blurb summarize it: “All the Gold Stars looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.”

A Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control, by Katherine Morgan Schafler. I can imagine this title caught the attention of a few of you. The author helps you discover which of five perfectionist archetypes (including “Parisian” and “messy," which makes me even more intrigued) you are so you can make your perfectionism work for you, instead of against you. The guide we all need, right?! 

Six-figures in School Hours, by Kate Toon. A lot of my clients daydream about creating their own venture one day, so they can have more freedom and balance. This book is for every (aspiring or current) entrepreneur on this list who dreams of “earn[ing] a decent income and have time to read their kids a bedtime story without having a meltdown in the process.” 

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman. This book is a massive reframe and prioritization approach for anyone trapped by their endless to-do list. The author urges us to put aside our checklists to focus on more meaningful activities, debunks the myths that we can optimize our way into peak efficiency and points out that responding to an email only creates more email. 

There you have it! My book wish list just doubled, and I hope you got some inspiration for your upcoming spring break trips, dog walks or car rides. 

Let me know what you read (or listen) to and what you think. Happy reading.