The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss

by Kathy Caprino

Kathy Caprino guides women to take the reins in their careers by identifying and overcoming the 7 most damaging power gaps holding them back and accessing new levels of internal and external power to propel you forward to the success you want and deserve.

The business world has been forever changed by the important progress and contributions that women have made. Yet, with only 38% of manager roles and 22% of C-suite positions being held by women, women continue to struggle to achieve the reward, respect, and authority they have earned.

In these pages, career, executive, and leadership coach Kathy Caprino helps women identify the 7 most damaging power gaps that are holding them back from the success they want and deserve, outlining the key steps you can take today to access greater positive power, become the true author of your life, and reach your highest and most rewarding goals.

Kathy has dedicated her work to the advancement of women in business. In her research, she has found that 98% of professional women are experiencing at least one of these seven damaging power gaps, and over 75% are facing 3 or more:


Power Gap 1: Not recognizing your special talents, abilities, and accomplishments
Power Gap 2: Communicating from fear, not strength
Power Gap 3: Reluctance to ask for what you deserve
Power Gap 4: Isolating from influential support
Power Gap 5: Acquiescing instead of saying “Stop!” to mistreatment
Power Gap 6: Losing sight of your thrilling dream for your life
Power Gap 7: Allowing past trauma and challenges to define you
Through riveting real-life success stories of women overcoming these gaps, and proven strategies and solutions from more than 30 of the nation’s top experts in fields that are essential to women’s success, the exercises in this book will equip you with the strength to:


See yourself more powerfully (Brave Sight)
Speak more confidently (Brave Speak)
Ask for and receive what you deserve (Brave Ask)
Connect to your advantage with influential support (Brave Connection)
Challenge and change negative behavior toward you (Brave Challenge)
Be of service in more meaningful ways (Brave Service)
Heal from past trauma and challenge (Brave Healing)
Most importantly, The Most Powerful You will reconnect you to the thrilling dreams you once had for your life and empower you to take the necessary steps to reclaim that dream while making your positive impact in the world.

Genres: Business, Self Help, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Leadership

Audio CD

Published July 28, 2020

About the author

Kathy Caprino, M.A. is an internationally-recognized career and leadership coach, writer, speaker and educator dedicated to the advancement of women in business. A former corporate Vice President, she is also a trained marriage and family therapist, seasoned executive coach, Senior Forbes contributor and the author of Breakdown, Breakthrough and The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss.

Kathy’s core mission is to support a “finding brave” global movement that inspires and empowers women to close their power gaps, create more impact and make the difference they long to in the world.

Kathy is the Founder/President of Kathy Caprino, LLC, a premier career coaching and executive consulting firm offering career and leadership development programs and resources for professional women including the Amazing Career Project course, her Finding Brave podcast, and the Amazing Career Certification training for coaches and her Career Breakthrough Coaching programs.

A leading voice on Thrive Global and LinkedIn, she is also a TEDx and keynote speaker and top national media source on women’s issues, careers, and leadership.

For more information, visit KathyCaprino.com and FindingBrave.org and connect with Kathy on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Reviews

[Maria Alejandres · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. I normally read on my Kindle but I bought this on paper because I know I will keep coming back to read some passages. Kathy is a wonderful person and a passionate coach who has helped me not only with this book but as a coach. I read and listen to everything she publishes. I totally recommend her and her book. I bought another copy for a friend and I think it will be a present for a few more strong women who deserve more success and happiness in their lives.

[Jerry Summers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michelle Sutter, Holland America Line Sales VP, recommended this book to my fellow travel advisors in her Masterminds group. I liked the format that Kathy Caprino has for each of the Finding Brave paths. My wife Tracy has found her Brave as an electrical engineer working in male dominated semiconductor industry. We have explored many of the internal questions and discussed the external actions. As a teacher at an all girls high school I have heard the negative self talk. As a new member of BNI I have seen the benefits to improving yourself with support of a chapter of mentors and sponsors.

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for the female who's feeling stuck in a rut...whether it be in her personal or professional life.

Using all the amazing introspective quizzes (e.g. career assessment) and action-oriented steps, she'll figure out what's blocking her. And become ready to take steps to change her life.

It starts with bravery.

There are so many of us in a quarter-life or mid-life crisis, and we just need to sort out the past to move forward. Then there's the fabulous empty nester or corporate gal who's ready to retire and start something new. Maybe something more rewarding on her own.

This book covers all the seven damaging things (power gaps) that are holding us back:

--Not recognizing special talents
--Communicating from fear
--Not asking for what we deserve
--Isolating from influential support
--Saying yes instead of no
--Losing site of our dream
--Allowing past trauma to define us


I recommend this short, easy-to-read book and to follow the advice and workbook-like questions within it if you want to become The Most Powerful You.



Many thanks to Harper Collins Leadership, via Netgalley, for an electronic copy of this book in exchange for my review.

[Michael Stallard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Both women and men will benefit a great deal from this book, as well as leaders who want to make a greater positive impact. The 7 power gaps that the book shares are not only what I see many of female leaders, students and others I work with are experiencing that are blocking their success, but also among professional men as well. In fact, there are several gaps that I'm experiencing that from this book I understand more clearly how to tackle and address to create more of the impact I'm hoping for. Highly recommended!

[Shelly Wygant · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Most Powerful You is meant to help women conquer the 7 destructive power gaps within the workforce. There are many great stories of women that overcome tragedies, disrespect and such. These stories were great to see the outcome for these woman. The 7 principles were easily listed but for me I felt there was more emphasis on the stories and not as much on the 7 principles. This is just my opinion and didn't work for the way I learn. However I feel this is a well written book that could be a great read for many women.

[Eliza VanCort · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all want to live "a beautiful, abundant, and impactful life and career that will make your heart sing, and help uplift others in the process." But how to do this? Caprino's brilliant, welcoming prose tell us how. I can't say enough about this book. It's beautifully written, fun, authentic, moving, and easy to read while at the same time highly edifying. BRAVO!

[Vilma Ferreira]

If you haven’t climbed the corporate ladder yet, or you are still struggling to move on from the beginning levels, or you don’t hold any powerful position, this book is not for you. All examples are from women who already made it, but don’t feel it. Are you already an Executive, high level manager or such, this book may help. No my case or the case of many women I know.

[Nicki Kendall · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting and informative read for anyone feeling stuck in a rut in their career or current job. Some thought provoking and doable suggestions.⭐⭐⭐ #kathycaprino #themostpowerfulyou #tea_sipping_bookworm #goodreads #tea_sipping_bookworm #litsy #thestorygraph #amazonkindle #bookqueen #bookstagram

[Anne Janzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re a woman in the workplace, you probably experience at least one of the “power gaps” described in this book. Reading this book is like having an energizing conversation with a trusted advisor. You’ll walk away emboldened to make positive change.

[Dawn Mosondz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an amazing book. Recommend for any woman regardless of her position in life. It has something in every chapter. Just when you think that this chapter won't apply to me, there is a window that opens and you are able to relate and take away some information.

[Jolie Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers some great prompts to help anyone but especially women uncover how to reach a more powerful and authentic version of themselves. I can’t remember where it was referred but I’m glad I picked it up. Will definitely have to reread again to go through the prompts more intentionally!

[Ruchi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes it is good to hear what you already know. For all the powerful women out there!

[Derek Morrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a lot of bulleted-lists in this book

[Karolina Antolik]

Przesłuchałam audiobooka. Ocenię, jeśli przeczytam.

[Alex Morgan Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5*

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was looking forward to reading this book as the idea of a most powerful version of myself was definitely appealing and I think there are some useful lessons within the book. For me this book is aimed more at those women who are working within the corporate world. Many of the case studies within it focus on women who are looking to find success and the methods Kathy uses helps them to identify where the weakness, or development area is and then the tools to move forward.

I am self employed and run my own business and was looking for something that would help me to develop my personal strength and improve my success within the business. I found that many of the people in the book seemed to be employed by large conglomerates and therefore I struggled to relate to the situations and interpret how the methods could work for me.

This book works using case studies to illustrate the methods used so if you prefer a book which with give you a list of actions and activities to do then this might not work for you. It is easy to read and the case studies are interesting and help to highlight the many challenges within the work environment. If I was still working for a large corporation I think this would have had a bigger impact on me.