Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

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Overview

A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path—just your own!

So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed.

Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian, CEO of OwnTrail and recognized thought leader, inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. "I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths, magnificent screw-ups, and shocking successes," she writes. Through storylines and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, child-rearing, existential crises, and everything in between, you will learn to embrace and feel less alone in your own nonlinear journey. Even better, you can turn back decisions and make different ones. Blaze Your Own Trail includes nineteen possible outcomes and many routes to get there. You will find that you have the strength to make it through any of them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523087952
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 02/11/2020
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 669,536
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rebekah Bastian is a writer, artist, speaker, mentor, wife, mother, aerial acrobat, and CEO of OwnTrail. Her own path has threaded many of the topics in this book, and her position as a female executive and thought leader in the tech and business communities has given her personal insights into the complex paths of hundreds of women. She is a contributor to Forbes.com and is a frequent speaker on creating social impact through technology and supporting corporate diversity.

Table of Contents

Decision Tree x

Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 Wander or Work 3

Chapter 2 Return or Reimagine 7

Chapter 3 Transition Back 10

Chapter 4 Passion or Prosperity 12

Chapter 5 Happily Ever After in the Rainforest 15

Chapter 6 Reeducate or Reprioritize 19

Chapter 7 Follow Your Heart or Your Ideals 22

Chapter 8 Report or Recoil 27

Chapter 9 Love or Marriage 31

Chapter 10 Lean In or Across 35

Chapter 11 Rent or Buy 38

Chapter 12 Punch It Out 42

Chapter 13 Natural or Medicated 45

Chapter 14 Create Children or Adventures 48

Chapter 15 Ladder or Jungle Gym 51

Chapter 16 Back to Work or Stay Home 54

Chapter 17 Snot and Tears 57

Chapter 18 Balance or Drive 60

Chapter 19 Milky Veil 63

Chapter 20 Intervene or Give Up 66

Chapter 21 Happily Ever After as Two 69

Chapter 22 Break the Ceiling or Break Out 72

Chapter 23 Relocate or Stay Put 75

Chapter 24 Close to Family or Make It Alone 79

Chapter 25 Happily Ever After Raising a Rid 81

Chapter 26 Can't Control Everything 83

Chapter 27 Double Down or Only Child 86

Chapter 28 Resist Temptation or Succumb 89

Chapter 29 Happily Ever After Working Abroad 93

Chapter 30 Prioritize His Needs or Hers 95

Chapter 31 Authentic or Professional 98

Chapter 32 Happily Ever After at the Top 101

Chapter 33 His Name or Yours 105

Chapter 34 Happily Ever After Dodging a Bullet 109

Chapter 35 Happily Ever After Walking the Line 112

Chapter 36 Forgive or Forget 115

Chapter 37 Repair or Divorce 119

Chapter 38 Happily Ever After with Battle Scars 123

Chapter 39 Returnship or Craftsmanship 125

Chapter 40 Pay It Back or Forward 129

Chapter 41 Your Home or a Care Home 132

Chapter 42 Happily Ever After Changing Course 136

Chapter 43 Multigenerational Happily Ever After 139

Chapter 44 Prescribe or Manage 142

Chapter 45 Sandwiched 146

Chapter 46 Explore Other Options 149

Chapter 47 Happily Ever After Having Tried Your Best 151

Chapter 48 Guilt Complex 153

Chapter 49 Happily Ever After Sharing Custody 155

Chapter 50 An Illustrated Happily Ever After 158

Chapter 51 Happily Ever After Creating 160

Chapter 52 Happily Ever After Never Forgetting 162

Chapter 53 Stick It Out or Back Out 164

Chapter 54 Happily Ever After Reestablished 167

Chapter 55 Happily Ever After with a BFF 169

Chapter 56 Meditation 173

Chapter 57 Happily Ever After Blending Families 174

Chapter 58 Happily Ever After Inspiring Others 177

Epilogue 179

Notes 181

Acknowledgments 193

About the Author 197

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