Risky Women

"Megan helped me take a step back to think bigger and unlock more influence and potential than I'd imagined." -Valerie Kaplan, Former CMO, Headspace "Every ambitious, fearless woman's guide to success." -Amber Hameed, Managing Director, Accenture Song Risky Women is for every woman who is tired of chasing what feels like an elusive goal of fulfillment, an imaginary arrival point in her personal and professional life when she will feel like she finally made it. There's a reason why so many of us feel stuck in a goldilocks trap, where we can't find our way out and can't shake the feeling of restlessness, like nothing feels quite in our lives. Because our current workforce model wasn't built for women to succeed at the highest levels of leadership, in organizations or our own businesses. We have to build a new paradigm, and we can't wait for corporations to catch up. We have to bet on ourselves, take risks, and do business the way we want to do business. This book will be your street fighter's manual to knowing when to stay and fight, and when to get the hell out.

Megan Farrell Ragsdale is an accomplished certified coach, thought leader and innovator with a proven performance record in executive coaching, innovation leadership, customer experience, talent management, sales and marketing and communications. She is passionate about teaching Mindfulness as a key competency for increasing business performance.-Whether it's getting important work funded, developing young professionals, or getting executives to do things that they wouldn't do for anyone else, Megan's success lies in her ability to get people excited about their own potential, and tenaciously convince people to do the right thing by their employees and their customers. Megan's experience spans multiple lines of business in global Fortune 500 companies, including high tech, consumer electronics, retail, energy, telecommunications, and the public sector, with such brands as Dollar Shave Club, Hulu, Deloitte, FBI, Motorola, Sony, and the United States Navy. After traveling the world and working in Asia and Europe, Megan returned home to grow roots-she's now nurturing those roots in San Diego.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here? Chapter 2: FEAR | The Monster in Your Head Chapter 3: INTUITION | Learning To Trust Yourself Again Chapter 4: NEED | Getting To the Heart of What Really Matters Chapter 5: DRIVE | Why You Do What You Do Chapter 6: HABIT | Swap Suffering for Freedom Chapter 7: EMPOWERMENT | Take Back What Was Always Yours Chapter 8: RISK & REWARD | How To Increase Your Chance for Success