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Own Your Opportunities: A Story of Self-Discovery and Self-Determination
Silver Award Winner in the “Personal Growth/Self-Help” Category of the Nautilus Awards
Own Your Opportunities is a self-portrait of a Black woman in corporate America who discovers her value and walks away from a company to pursue sanity and the freedom to realize her dream.
Own Your Opportunities is uplifting to women who may feel disillusioned and overwhelmed in corporate America. The story begins with Juliet Hall making a career-defining decision to leave a company after being told her desired career path would not happen. She then recounts her job experiences spanning twenty years—building a narrative to show how she evolved, discovered her gifts, and succeeded in a career amidst a backdrop of corporate trauma before making the pivot to realize her dream.
No matter the opposition—whether it’s family and tradition, systemic bias and marginalization, or difficult leadership—there is always a path forward. In this book, readers will learn how
· Identified her value and gifts.
· Refused to be put into a box and allow others to define success for her.
· Took responsibility for her own growth and development.
Vividly written, Own Your Opportunities is a champion to self-belief and dream fulfillment in women. Readers will benefit from Hall’s wisdom and personal experiences of how she developed her human capital, identified her value, took risks, and positioned herself to achieve her dream.
“Juliet will always bring light to your day. It’s a nice read when someone else can express your thoughts better than you can yourself.” —George Wallace, Comedian/Actor
“Through magnetic storytelling, Juliet masterfully shares truth serum for your workplace toolkit. In a pertinent and poignant reveal, she frames the need-to-know reality that survival in the workplace requires more than oxygen. Inhale .” —Patricia Russell-McCloud, Esq., International Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author of A Is for Attitude
“ Own Your Opportunities is an important read for any leader who is trapped in a workplace culture of marginalization. Leaders—women or men—who have the capability, capacity, and confidence that is unrecognized and/or intentionally underutilized will find wise advice and affirming assurance to seek windows offering new visions and paths charting new directions for their professional and personal lives.” —Martha P. Farmer, Founding Director of Leadership America (Leadership Women™)
Own Your Opportunities is a self-portrait of a Black woman in corporate America who discovers her value and walks away from a company to pursue sanity and the freedom to realize her dream.
Own Your Opportunities is uplifting to women who may feel disillusioned and overwhelmed in corporate America. The story begins with Juliet Hall making a career-defining decision to leave a company after being told her desired career path would not happen. She then recounts her job experiences spanning twenty years—building a narrative to show how she evolved, discovered her gifts, and succeeded in a career amidst a backdrop of corporate trauma before making the pivot to realize her dream.
No matter the opposition—whether it’s family and tradition, systemic bias and marginalization, or difficult leadership—there is always a path forward. In this book, readers will learn how
· Identified her value and gifts.
· Refused to be put into a box and allow others to define success for her.
· Took responsibility for her own growth and development.
Vividly written, Own Your Opportunities is a champion to self-belief and dream fulfillment in women. Readers will benefit from Hall’s wisdom and personal experiences of how she developed her human capital, identified her value, took risks, and positioned herself to achieve her dream.
“Juliet will always bring light to your day. It’s a nice read when someone else can express your thoughts better than you can yourself.” —George Wallace, Comedian/Actor
“Through magnetic storytelling, Juliet masterfully shares truth serum for your workplace toolkit. In a pertinent and poignant reveal, she frames the need-to-know reality that survival in the workplace requires more than oxygen. Inhale .” —Patricia Russell-McCloud, Esq., International Motivational Speaker and Bestselling Author of A Is for Attitude
“ Own Your Opportunities is an important read for any leader who is trapped in a workplace culture of marginalization. Leaders—women or men—who have the capability, capacity, and confidence that is unrecognized and/or intentionally underutilized will find wise advice and affirming assurance to seek windows offering new visions and paths charting new directions for their professional and personal lives.” —Martha P. Farmer, Founding Director of Leadership America (Leadership Women™)
224 pages, Hardcover
Published October 4, 2022
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About the author
Juliet Hall
1 book3 followersOwn Your Opportunities is a 2023 Nautilus Book Award winner in the category of personal growth and self-help.
Juliet Hall is the principal of Juliet Hall INC, a boutique leadership consulting agency based in Atlanta. Recognized by several organizations in Atlanta as a “Top Black Woman of Influence,” Hall serves as an advisor and coach to C-suite and deputy leaders and speaks on national stages on the topics of servant/inclusive leadership and self-maximization. After 20 years of leadership in the corporate system, Hall faced her own words: “You can courageously build your own kingdom or be an unfulfilled laborer in someone else’s.” She is passionate about helping leaders, especially women, who are at a professional crossroads to pursue their own self-discovery, develop their natural talents and thrive in what they are uniquely created to do. Hall has presented her work to executives across different industries, including government, education, healthcare, ministry and nonprofit. A graduate of Spelman College and the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, she has traveled to over 20 countries and enjoys cardio boxing and playing tennis.
For more information, please visit https://juliethall.com, or follow the author on Instagram (juliet.hall) and YouTube (@juliethall).
Juliet Hall is the principal of Juliet Hall INC, a boutique leadership consulting agency based in Atlanta. Recognized by several organizations in Atlanta as a “Top Black Woman of Influence,” Hall serves as an advisor and coach to C-suite and deputy leaders and speaks on national stages on the topics of servant/inclusive leadership and self-maximization. After 20 years of leadership in the corporate system, Hall faced her own words: “You can courageously build your own kingdom or be an unfulfilled laborer in someone else’s.” She is passionate about helping leaders, especially women, who are at a professional crossroads to pursue their own self-discovery, develop their natural talents and thrive in what they are uniquely created to do. Hall has presented her work to executives across different industries, including government, education, healthcare, ministry and nonprofit. A graduate of Spelman College and the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, she has traveled to over 20 countries and enjoys cardio boxing and playing tennis.
For more information, please visit https://juliethall.com, or follow the author on Instagram (juliet.hall) and YouTube (@juliethall).
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March 3, 2023
Author Juliet Hall in her own unique and authentic voice delivers a must read gem for any aspiring career professional. She share how her own career aspirations in Corporate America were met despiteful rejection tightly mainly to a toxic work environment. The heart of the book highlights how she overcame these challenges discovering her own voice and setting a path of success only she could traversed. Its a real life hero story bound to keep you as the reader engaged and inspired to take your own journey.
January 10, 2023
Juliet's openness to tell her personal and professional stories will serve as a benefit for future professionals. This book is a great guide for those navigating through the politics of a corporate environment.
March 19, 2023
Truly enjoyed this book! Juliet's honesty through her personal experiences in corporate America was truly inspiring.
September 27, 2023
I received a copy of this book in return for an honest review, and I enjoyed reading it. The author kindly mailed me a hardback book which is tactile and pretty to look at. Her story is nothing sensational, there is no drama, she has not emerged from serious trauma to achieve great success. She simply went to school and college, got a job, and continued to work throughout her adult life before setting up her own company. This book tells her story of working in a largely male-dominated environment in corporate America and being a single black woman in positions of power.
As a white woman in England, you would think that this book might be irrelevant, but everything that Juliet describes in her working experience is something that I have experienced or know people who have experienced in varying forms. I can relate to her story, and I am glad I read her book. She motivates her readers to take charge of their own lives, to celebrate their individual power, and to make opportunities work in their favour. She has inspired me to keep doing what I do because I am authentic to myself, and her book will do the same for you.
As a white woman in England, you would think that this book might be irrelevant, but everything that Juliet describes in her working experience is something that I have experienced or know people who have experienced in varying forms. I can relate to her story, and I am glad I read her book. She motivates her readers to take charge of their own lives, to celebrate their individual power, and to make opportunities work in their favour. She has inspired me to keep doing what I do because I am authentic to myself, and her book will do the same for you.
July 19, 2023
Juliet did a phenomenal job sharing her journey to re-discovering and walking in her purpose. Thank you for the courage to do what others don’t. It matters. You matter.
Thank you!
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May 6, 2024
This was the best motivational book I have read in a very long time.
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