Leap
Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
About the book
Tess Vigeland, a longtime host of public radio's Marketplace, walked away from that high-status job with no clear plan for what came next, only the certainty that the work no longer satisfied her. The book is her account of that jump, part memoir and part field guide. Writing with humor, she is candid about the fear, uncertainty and risk of leaving the traditional workforce, as well as the excitement, resources and possibilities beyond it. It speaks to mid-career job changers, whether they chose to move or were pushed, to the growing ranks of freelancers, and to anyone weighing self-employment as a real option.
AnneMarie Schindler, founder of Small Wins Consulting, called it supremely impactful: she kept hearing Vigeland discuss it on podcasts while in a role that did not fit, and valued its inside look at one person's move into entrepreneurship.
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AnneMarie Schindler (Founder/Small Wins Consulting)
The second book that was supremely impactful on me was Leap by Tess Vigeland. I was in a role, at a new company, that I knew wasn't a fit and my podcast listening started to skyrocket. It was like I was being "followed" by Tess Vigeland, as she made her rounds to talk about her new book, on just about every podcast I subscribed to. Not only was the book a helpful look inside someone else's journey into entrepreneurship and career-change, but it really helped me reflect on how I defined success and self-worth.
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