Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman

by Vickie L. Milazzo

We're all just one step away from achieving what we want and getting what we deserve out of life. To seize control of her own life and career, Vickie Milazzo, internationally known women's mentor, New York Times bestselling author, Inc . Top 10 Entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, was willing to take a whacking from a Buddhist monk, jump out of an airplane and step out of a comfortable job into the unknown. In Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman , Vickie shares every success secret she used to grow her career into a $16-million business.Vickie shows you how to get real about achieving wicked success. Not witches and flying broomsticks wicked--but exaggerated wicked. Reading this book, you'll feel like you're sitting with a good friend who inspires you, encourages you and pushes you to think in a more exaggerated and uncommon way. This is a buck-up book with a buck-up plan for any woman ready to take back control of her life and career and unleash the wicked success inside every woman.

Genres: Business

352 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2011

Reviews

[Antoinette Perez]

First half of the book: Great! Full of common-sense-go-get-'em energy, which I responded to. I'd never heard of Vickie Milazzo, but I enjoyed reading about her story of transitioning from the grind as a young nurse, to pioneering a whole new business model and professional certification as an entrepreneur. Her experience guiding her company through the economic downturn in 2008 was also helpful to read. She had to model mental flexibility, leading by listening, and taking risks and making decisions during extreme uncertainty. I have many quotes from the first half of this book that I've already shared with friends. Good stuff.

Second half of the book: Not as helpful for me. I wish Milazzo editor had cut this book by half. Although I haven't read other reviews of this book, I saw the 3.35 average Goodreads rating, and I feel like that's sort of where I'd land on this book. She diluted the power and energy in the first half with the fluff and stagnation of the second half. It felt like the first half was a conversation, and the second half was a lecture, and a dull one at that. (And yes, I realize that a book is actually neither a conversation nor a lecture, but this is still how it felt.)

One last note: the writing style is usually very casual. I could see this being a turn-off for some, that it lacks some of the polish of other self-help nonfiction out there. It worked for me at first, like Milazzo was giving me advice over coffee. But if I had a Kindle version, I'd search how many times she writes about drinking "healthy green tea," for example. The book has some odd little writing tics like that, that her editor either overlooked, or thought were charming.

So yeah, if you're OK abandoning books, know that I think you'll get the most from the first half, and I don't think you need to finish it, per se.

[Stefanie Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Cynthia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my type of book..."burning with fire" "finding your passion" "doing what you love" It was like Oprah x 100 and too much for me. A self-help book with so many points that they all began to sound the same and I quit reading it after the first chapter.

[Narita · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing book. A must read for everyone;for women so that they can know what they are capable of and for men so that they can change their perspective about women's success... It's a treat for every women...

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was good and positive but should have been shorter, fairly repetitive.

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an amazing book every woman ought to read.