Former PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi offer a groundbreaking, empowering guide for women that shows how to prioritize a career path, build professional value, and enjoy a full life both in and out of the workplace. At a time when many long-held workplace structures and beliefs are changing, Career Forward is a beacon for women aspiring to achieve success and satisfaction in rewarding careers. Drawing on decades of experience reaching the top of Fortune 500 companies, Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi show women how to maximize their career journeys, get paid what they’re worth, navigate the shifts that occur in any company, build a leadership identity, and have a full life in and out of work. The authors challenge negative stereotypes about female ambition, and urge women to be bold, follow their dreams, and seize the chance to lead “big” lives. The secret is to focus on career first, job second. Instead of chasing a better job title or a salary bump, the goal should be a long-range career path that leads to success. “Career forward” means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough—that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on “difficult” assignments, and work actively to broaden your skills. Packed with personal anecdotes and wisdom from women who’ve been there, and featuring quizzes and checklists for self-evaluation, Career Forward provides a wealth of valuable lessons, including the value of thinking of yourself as a “growth stock” and, instead of chasing the elusive work-life balance, living a well-rounded 360-degree life that fully embraces both. Offering a refreshing response to anyone who wonders whether working hard is really worth it, Puma and Smith Shi’s emphatic answer is “yes,” because by correctly following the blueprint in Career Forward, the rewards will far outweigh the effort.
God can transformed a life from nothing and make something beautiful out of it. My childhood life was hopeless. I didn't stand a chance to survive life and be an adult. I had no hope. I didn't know what it was like to have hope. I was tossed back and forth living from one family member to another. Then I grew to be a teenager, and at fifteen years old, I was raped, and my future was taken from me by rape, and I got pregnant and gave birth to a child. I was a mother before I became an adult. I had no experience about life, and there seem to be no future. Then I had a relationship and lived in a battered relationship. One day, I was told by my abuser, "You think you're Jesus Christ? You're so goody-goody." I don't know why he said that. I retaliate back verbally but not physically. We were married by this time, and there were three children in the marriage, and although he didn't beat the children, they were there to witness the abuse. I stayed in the marital abuse to protect my children from not having a home with a mom and dad. Because I wasn't raised in a home with a mom and dad, I wanted that for my children. Then it came a time because of the beatings, I could no longer stay in the marriage. The beating became severe, and I had to make a choice. If I stayed in the marriage to protect my children so that they can have a home with a mom and dad like I didn't have, there would have been only a dad because I wanted to die. I didn't want to live anymore. My life was being beaten out of me. One day, after I was beaten so badly, my eyes swollen and my head swollen, I lay on the floor, and I cried out to God, "If this is what life is, I don't want to live anymore take me. I want to die!" Then quietly within me, I heard, "It doesn't have to be that way. Leave." I didn't think before that I could leave permanently because I left once with the children, and he came and took us back, but God gave me the strength that I needed, and He directed me how to escape, and I was set free from marital abuse, and through God's grace, He made something beautiful out of me, and my life was transformed from nothing to something good. I will always give God the praise for His goodness, His mercy, and His grace to (me) Grace all the days of my life!
A neglected child finds her way through the world as she struggles against codependency and a need to feel needed on a journey to find her own sense of agency, and eventually, unconditional love.
The reason behind the title of my book, My Biggest Sin—Loving Hugo: My Truth! is to let people know that it could be possible that a young girl could fall in love by herself without the other party being aware of it. That happened to me. This guy, to be honest, didn’t like me whatsoever. Maybe because I was so young. He never even looked at me, but what I felt every time I saw him was incredible. I don’t want to give the wrong message. People need to know that if you fall in love with them, wish I told him in the letter. I just need to say what I feel for him, that I love him, but I respected his choices and wishes. I wasn’t one of them. Loving people is respecting their opinion and accepting what they feel is best for them. I learned to move on even though I loved him deeply. I strongly feel that if you insist, all you do is make things worse. If something is for you, then it is going to happen with time, not because you force it. I wrote this title because I was only thirteen when I fell in love with him, and he has inspired me to write my story. I want to tell everyone what happened.
It’s almost as if author Grace Chapel had the deck stacked high against her from birth—a deck of ungodly evils at the poker table of her life. As a little girl, she was beaten, molested, and raped. As an adult, she was crushed by a divorce after twenty-one years of marriage followed by another heartbreak through infidelity. In 50 Shades of Red, Chapel shares her story. She narrates how plots of vengeance and retaliation flooded her brain daily. To bring the plans to fruition, Chapel needed to totally disconnect from the church and her family. But with her strong faith, could she even consider it, much less be successful? In this memoir, Chapel tells how she was saved by the world’s best hero, Jesus Christ, and sealed with his holy ghost. Through her story, she communicates the message that regardless of past guilt and shame, God’s love transcends every darkened shade of sin.
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