Women Rising
The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise
1. Edition September 2024
384 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise.
In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you work and live as a woman. Are you tired of being asked to 'lean in,' fit in, perform and conform? The truth is that women today continue to be constrained by pervasive ideas about how we 'should' act and behave.
To break free, we need to understand the forces that limit our potential. Those forces are external and internal, without and within, and they sabotage the very success we work so hard for. In Women Rising, author and award-winning empowerment expert Megan Dalla-Camina shows you how to see and cut the invisible strings holding you back.
Women Rising unveils the 6 external paradoxes that impact how women lead and succeed. You'll uncover how these power paradoxes affect our visibility, empowerment, confidence, success, motherhood and leadership.
Turning inward, you'll discover how our internal narratives, the stories we tell ourselves, can also serve to keep us stuck. Women Rising unmasks 13 archetypes that keep us striving for impossible standards as a Perfectionist, an Overachiever, a Good Girl, a People Pleaser and more.
Finally, Women Rising illuminates the path forward. It shares real, practical tools and strategies that women everywhere can use to craft a future where we succeed on our own terms. Grounded in leadership experience from the world's largest organisations, Megan Dalla-Camina's hands-on toolkit shows you how to find your vision and purpose -- and evolve as a confident, authentic leader.
It's time to rise and to step into your power. This guide will show you how.
Waking Up xiii
The uprising xvii
The reclamation xxi
How to use this book xxiii
Part One: The forces that hold us back 1
It's not just you 3
The paradoxes of power 9
The Empowerment Paradox 13
The Confidence Paradox 23
The Motherhood Paradox 37
The Success Paradox 51
The Leadership Paradox 61
The Visibility Paradox 73
What about the men? 85
Part Two: The stories that keep us stuck 99
The inner patriarch: Shoulds, musts and have-tos 101
That voice inside your head: The inner critic 109
The power of archetypes 115
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The thirteen archetypes of the inner critic 119
The Perfectionist 123
The Beauty Queen 131
The Sceptic 141
The Imposter 149
The People Pleaser 159
The Outsider 167
The Comparer 175
The Good Girl 183
The Overachiever 193
The Self-Doubter 201
The Chameleon 209
The Empath 217
The Ideal Mother 225
Part Three: The tools to help us rise 233
From inner critic to inner wisdom 235
A vision for your life 237
The path of purpose 249
Cultivating conscious confidence 263
Your career evolution 289
Being an authentic leader 305
Creating intentional wellbeing 321
Epilogue: Sovereign Women Rising 343
Acknowledgements 345
About the author 347
Free book resources for women 349