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đź’Ľ Real Talk: Tough Lessons to Thrive in Your Career

Unveiling the Realities of Professional Growth

Happy Tuesday! Today we feature our first-ever new release, available now: Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure Is Good, the Great Ones Play Hurt, and Other Hard Truths by Erika Ayers Badan.

You might remember Ayers Badan as the trailblazing CEO at Barstool who's since taken the helm of Food52. Her eye-opening book shatters common career myths and serves up practical advice to help you tackle your professional journey with resilience and authenticity.

đź“• In the book, Erika breaks down myths and misconceptions about career success, emphasizing the importance of embracing failure, pushing through challenges, and understanding the true nature of professional development.

Wonder how embracing hard truths can transform your career? This book offers a candid and practical guide to achieving professional fulfillment by facing reality head-on.

SMARTEST TAKEAWAY

Embrace Failure and Play Hurt to Achieve Career Success

➡️ Failure is a Stepping Stone: Embrace failure as a crucial part of growth. Each setback is an opportunity to learn and improve.

➡️ Persistence Pays Off: The greatest achievers persist through tough times. Playing hurt isn't about ignoring problems but pushing through challenges with determination.

➡️ Authentic Professionalism: True success comes from understanding and accepting the hard truths of your career, rather than sugar-coating the journey.

A FEW MORE LESSONS

1. Embrace Failure

Understand that failure is not the end but a valuable learning experience. Reflect on past failures, identify lessons learned, and apply them to future endeavors.

2. Push Through Challenges

Commit to pushing through tough times with resilience. When faced with obstacles, remind yourself that persistence is key to overcoming challenges and achieving long-term success.

3. Stay Authentic

Cultivate an authentic approach to your career. Be honest with yourself about your goals, strengths, and areas for improvement. This self-awareness will guide you toward more meaningful and sustainable success.

GET STARTED TODAY

Find your resilient career mindset with these simple steps you can take today:

Reflect: Take a few minutes to think about your biggest career challenges and setbacks. What did you learn from them? Write down these lessons.

Plan: Outline a simple plan to address one current career challenge. Identify the first few steps you need to take to tackle it head-on.

Act: Take one concrete action today that moves you closer to overcoming your career challenge. Whether it's seeking advice from a mentor, doing some research, or setting a meeting, start now.

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Unlock your career potential with Nobody Cares About Your Career by Erika Ayers Badan. This book is your ultimate guide to advancing your career, boosting resilience, and understanding professional challenges. Discover insights and strategies to transform your career approach and navigate the professional world with authenticity and strength.

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With the verve and motivation of books like YOU ARE A BADASS and the smart, specific ideas of titles like ATOMIC HABITS, NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR CAREER is a real playbook. It’s about how work really works and how you can get work to work for you. It’s about thank you notes and thankless tasks, the energy in meetings and energy vampires, how to pick a boss and how to get a boss to pick you. It’s about being all in (but not bringing your whole self to work―some of you is better left at home) and becoming valuable to your workplace. It’s about participating―with your brain, your skills, your experience, and your willingness to pitch in and offer yourself up for something you may not even know how to do yet. It’s about making your own luck at work.

A QUOTE TO REMEMBER

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Success is not about avoiding failure but about learning from it and moving forward stronger.

Erika Ayers Badan

đź”” Did You Know? Books from major publishers are traditionally released on Tuesdays to optimize distribution efficiency and maximize initial sales. Releasing on Tuesdays gives books a full week to build momentum before the weekend and ensures they have the best chance to appear on bestseller lists.

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