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YOU ARE DESERVING OF A CAREER YOU LOVE.

Fran Hauser, best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl, follows up with a workbook for women who want to get more out of their careers. Embrace the Work, Love Your Career combines accessible advice, time-tested strategies, creative prompts, and thoughtful exercises into one holistic resource.

Stemming from years of experience in senior leadership at Time Inc.'s People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly as well as AOL and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Hauser centers her career guidance around six main actions:

• Fall in love with your career

• Design your career action plan

• Create time and space

• Know your value

• Build your dream team

• Reflect and reset

Each chapter starts with practical advice and includes prompts and exercises to help readers create their own personal career action plans. Palate-cleansing meditations and coloring breaks conclude each chapter, offering chances for calming reflection. Through simple, inspiring, and actionable tools, Embrace the Work, Love Your Career teaches women to be empowered to focus on the things that truly matter, set boundaries and, ultimately, realize their full potential.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR

Fran Hauser is an author, keynote speaker and startup investor. She is passionate about helping women build fulfilling careers and successful businesses. Fran has invested in over 25 female-founded companies across consumer packaged goods, media & publishing, and wellness. Her writing, speaking and investing is informed by 15 years spent in media, where she rose through the ranks at Time Inc. to President of Digital. She is the best-selling author of The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate which has been translated into six languages and was named "Best Business Book of the Year, 2018" by Audible. She resides just outside of NYC with her husband and two sons.

Regina Shklovsky is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Sonoma County, California. She illustrated the 2018 picture book, Fun in the Mud, which was a 2019 Moonbeam award winner and a 2018 Nautilus award winner. She is passionate about bringing stories to life with pictures and thoughtful design. Her work is rooted in traditional drawing and painting, mixed with vector graphics. She collaborates with local entrepreneurs and authors, as well as independent publishers.

REVIEWS

"Confidence comes with knowing yourself, actualizing your dreams, and facing what could be holding you back. This book helps put you in the driver's seat to embrace the journey and love your career."—Rebecca Minkoff, Founder of Rebecca Minkoff & The Female Founder Collective

“I worked with Fran more than 10 years ago, and I’m still seeking career advice from her! Fran shows you how it’s possible to be more confident, intentional, and mindful at work, which will help you build a career you love.” —Regina Buckley, President, US at Guardian News & Media

Fran Hauser named one of the "6 Most Powerful Women in NYC's Tech Scene" by Refinery29

"Is it possible to be both kind and a total badass? Yes--and Fran Hauser tells us how." —goop

"Fran Hauser turns the 'nice girl' notion on its head."—Forbes

"Fran gets into the mess--and gets specific--explaining how she has learned to handle all kinds of uncomfortable moments with authenticity and grace" —Refinery29