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Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential
A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she'll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now?
Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it—both professionally and personally.
Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her readers to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals.
Women can stop feeling overwhelmed, overscheduled, frantic, and forever guilty—but only if they choose their objectives confidently and unapologetically, and focus their efforts accordingly. Mika encourages women to stop seeking the unobtainable "work-life balance," and instead pursue a life of honesty and authenticity, where career and home life combine rather than collide.
Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it—both professionally and personally.
Drawing on deeply revealing conversations with powerful and dynamic women, input from researchers and relationship experts, and her own wealth of experience, Mika helps women pinpoint their individual definition of success. She advises her readers to define the "professional value" that encompasses their worth in the workplace, and the "inner value" made up of their core beliefs and goals.
Women can stop feeling overwhelmed, overscheduled, frantic, and forever guilty—but only if they choose their objectives confidently and unapologetically, and focus their efforts accordingly. Mika encourages women to stop seeking the unobtainable "work-life balance," and instead pursue a life of honesty and authenticity, where career and home life combine rather than collide.
293 pages, Hardcover
First published May 12, 2015
About the author
Mika Brzezinski
20 books74 followersMika Brzezinski is a television news journalist at MSNBC. Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program, Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program. Additionally, she reports for NBC Nightly News and serves as alternating news anchor on Weekend Today. Brzezinski was previously a CBS News anchor and correspondent. She and Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough began hosting a two-hour late-morning radio show on WABC (770 AM) in New York City.
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January 6, 2016
DNF after 213 pages.
Yes, actually, I DID read 90% of the way through this book and then stop. That's how horrible the last chapter was!
This book was SUCH a disappointment. I'm a huge fan of Mika's. I like her straight-shooting attitude and her clear passion for helping women achieve success.
But, unfortunately, I think this book was a little too much "for Mika" than I, as the consumer, would've liked. First of all, it is basically only useful to women who have already become wildly successful. Mika talks about the trying topics that affect women at the top, such as "at what point do you make TOO much money" and "the benefits of hiring a nanny."
I just couldn't relate!
On the flip side, maybe those people do need books to help them out. But it still could've been so much more inclusive. It was also pretty much only for people who had children. Children children children was the theme of this book, and how you go about working while raising them. Yes, most people have children, but I am simply not interested. And I did not feel that, as somebody who does not and is not planning to have children, that my needs were represented in this book.
I also have a wildly different opinion about the whole mother vs. businesswoman conflict that is up for debate in this book. Maybe I do think that staying at home with your child as a baby is the right thing to do! *gasp* And maybe I do think that, if you're going to have children, you have made a certain commitment that, I'm sorry, means that you SHOULD be home for dinner (almost) every night and that you SHOULD be emotionally available to them. *double gasp* I'm totally fine with other people having differing opinions about this, but Mika is clearly heartbroken about how much her children hate her and aren't close with her. Yet...at the end, she basically affirms that working women are doing everything right! "Maybe we're just too hard on ourselves." OR maybe you really were never there when your children were growing up, and now they have severe mommy issues that will affect them for the rest of their lives. I think Mika is extremely selfish, and hearing her stories about how much she hasn't focused on her children made me feel deeply sorry for them having her as a mother. If you are going to be THAT career focused, where you basically can't even ever turn it off, maybe it would've been a good thing to contemplate the decision to have children more carefully. Growing and raising humans is no small task. I don't think that you can be (a) an amazing mother, (b), an amazing wife, and (c) an amazing careerwoman all the same time! It's basically, like — pick two, and the other one will have to only be "decent."
After all of this, I still continued to read, because I do believe that Mika has valuable advice to impart. And I was hoping that, at some point, I'd eventually start being able to relate.
Then came the "Millennials and Entrepreneurs" chapter. Oh my god. I have never read a more condescending article in my entire life. Mika, who basically admits knowing absolutely nothing about either group of women, instead depending entirely on studies, news reports, and her friends to validate her scathing opinions. The whole chapter is one big shit on millennials, and AS ONE, I was not pleased.
Her broad assumptions that we are all lazy good-for-nothings really irked me. She told a story about a girl who went out to get her lunch and didn't put a lid on the soup container. And laughed. Because it was such a good characterization of my generation. Are you fucking kidding me?? I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Maybe you're just really bad at hiring people?! Because, trust me, there are tons and tons and tons of millennials out there looking for jobs who COULD actually get you a bowl of fucking soup with a lid on it, who simply don't have jobs because OF YOUR GENERATION. The fucked economy and the enormous student loan debt in this country has a million times more to do with the fact that millennials can't get jobs, more than anything else.
She just goes on and on and on, nitpicking all these stupid little things and basically saying "do this, don't do this" over and over again about every little aspect of work life. Maybe I don't need your advice about what to wear at an interview. No, I wasn't planning on bringing a flashy Gucci purse and wearing dangling earrings, thankyouverymuch.
And, as a side point...this is our world now. We're the next generation of adults who are taking over the workspace. The Baby Boomers and Gen Xs need to get a little bit more comfortable with the idea of moving on over and letting us have a swing at the bat. Since we're the ones that you're going to be handing the ropes over to, maybe you should be more accepting of the idea that the world is changing, and maybe social media is a million times more important than you think it is, and that our ideas about business are potentially the way of the future.
Yes, actually, I DID read 90% of the way through this book and then stop. That's how horrible the last chapter was!
This book was SUCH a disappointment. I'm a huge fan of Mika's. I like her straight-shooting attitude and her clear passion for helping women achieve success.
But, unfortunately, I think this book was a little too much "for Mika" than I, as the consumer, would've liked. First of all, it is basically only useful to women who have already become wildly successful. Mika talks about the trying topics that affect women at the top, such as "at what point do you make TOO much money" and "the benefits of hiring a nanny."
I just couldn't relate!
On the flip side, maybe those people do need books to help them out. But it still could've been so much more inclusive. It was also pretty much only for people who had children. Children children children was the theme of this book, and how you go about working while raising them. Yes, most people have children, but I am simply not interested. And I did not feel that, as somebody who does not and is not planning to have children, that my needs were represented in this book.
I also have a wildly different opinion about the whole mother vs. businesswoman conflict that is up for debate in this book. Maybe I do think that staying at home with your child as a baby is the right thing to do! *gasp* And maybe I do think that, if you're going to have children, you have made a certain commitment that, I'm sorry, means that you SHOULD be home for dinner (almost) every night and that you SHOULD be emotionally available to them. *double gasp* I'm totally fine with other people having differing opinions about this, but Mika is clearly heartbroken about how much her children hate her and aren't close with her. Yet...at the end, she basically affirms that working women are doing everything right! "Maybe we're just too hard on ourselves." OR maybe you really were never there when your children were growing up, and now they have severe mommy issues that will affect them for the rest of their lives. I think Mika is extremely selfish, and hearing her stories about how much she hasn't focused on her children made me feel deeply sorry for them having her as a mother. If you are going to be THAT career focused, where you basically can't even ever turn it off, maybe it would've been a good thing to contemplate the decision to have children more carefully. Growing and raising humans is no small task. I don't think that you can be (a) an amazing mother, (b), an amazing wife, and (c) an amazing careerwoman all the same time! It's basically, like — pick two, and the other one will have to only be "decent."
After all of this, I still continued to read, because I do believe that Mika has valuable advice to impart. And I was hoping that, at some point, I'd eventually start being able to relate.
Then came the "Millennials and Entrepreneurs" chapter. Oh my god. I have never read a more condescending article in my entire life. Mika, who basically admits knowing absolutely nothing about either group of women, instead depending entirely on studies, news reports, and her friends to validate her scathing opinions. The whole chapter is one big shit on millennials, and AS ONE, I was not pleased.
Her broad assumptions that we are all lazy good-for-nothings really irked me. She told a story about a girl who went out to get her lunch and didn't put a lid on the soup container. And laughed. Because it was such a good characterization of my generation. Are you fucking kidding me?? I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Maybe you're just really bad at hiring people?! Because, trust me, there are tons and tons and tons of millennials out there looking for jobs who COULD actually get you a bowl of fucking soup with a lid on it, who simply don't have jobs because OF YOUR GENERATION. The fucked economy and the enormous student loan debt in this country has a million times more to do with the fact that millennials can't get jobs, more than anything else.
She just goes on and on and on, nitpicking all these stupid little things and basically saying "do this, don't do this" over and over again about every little aspect of work life. Maybe I don't need your advice about what to wear at an interview. No, I wasn't planning on bringing a flashy Gucci purse and wearing dangling earrings, thankyouverymuch.
And, as a side point...this is our world now. We're the next generation of adults who are taking over the workspace. The Baby Boomers and Gen Xs need to get a little bit more comfortable with the idea of moving on over and letting us have a swing at the bat. Since we're the ones that you're going to be handing the ropes over to, maybe you should be more accepting of the idea that the world is changing, and maybe social media is a million times more important than you think it is, and that our ideas about business are potentially the way of the future.
June 15, 2016
An interesting read that really forces you to take on the challenge of looking honestly, and even sometimes critically, at how we personally have managed to merge our professional and personal selves. Although I am still early in my career, there were many aspects that I consider to be a good heads up, a solid "hey, definitely don't go down this path!" In terms of navigating the merging of personal and professional selves.
Worth the read, even though there are some things I struggled with and didn't necessarily agree with.
Worth the read, even though there are some things I struggled with and didn't necessarily agree with.
August 14, 2015
Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential by Mika Brzezinski
This is a very disappointing book. It purports to address the challenges of succeeding both professionally and personally, of “professional value” and “inner value.” The book starts with an anecdote about arriving home to be yelled at by her teenage daughter who feels neglected. It is pretty clear based on her account that her whole family feels neglected and that she has been unable to successfully combine work life and family life. It turns out that she doesn’t believe you can balance the two, that “inner life and core values” are more related to work than home.
The book includes sage advice from other successful women leaders in a variety of fields such as Senator Claire McCaskill and Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s Press secretary, who talk about how they’ve combine being successful and ambitious with happy and successful family lives. They stress that being physically present at home is insufficient, you must be emotionally present, not continually fielding phone calls and emails, but face to face with your family listening and participating in an active exchange of ideas. She highlights what they have to say but does not take the next step of explaining how she put their wisdom into action herself but continually reverts to talking about how to grow your `Brand’.
The book contains the results of many surveys mostly done by MSNBC as part of a Working Women Study poll. One set of results deals with whether or not you can `have it all’ and the results indicate that most respondents, whether Breadwinner Moms or Breadwinner Dads, do feel they can manage both work and family, but Brzezinski does not seem to take onboard how they do it. For example PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi who says that “we check our crowns at the front door.” Others use their senior positions to give themselves the flexibility to be responsive to family needs. Denice Biocca, senior HR executive in GE’s Oil and Gas division, talks not only about taking advantage of her power to gain flexibility but also about how she models it for those junior to her by, for example, cutting short a meeting that is running way over time at the end of the day when she and others have kids to pick up.
Brzezinski is particularly hung up on being the major breadwinner in her family. She feels guilty earning so much more than her husband and seems to believe that what she earns is a measure of her success as a human being. When she asks Dee Dee Myers how she handles that issue Brzezinski says “I could practically hear her shrug.” Myers says “During the course of our marriage we have sort of traded back and forth, depending on who is doing what, and how flexible one is versus the other.”
Just when you think Brzezinski is going to explain how she has taken all this advice on board to solve the evident unhappiness of her family and her own overwhelming guilt she launches off into a chapter of advice to millennials and Generation Xers. Only in the last chapter does she address integrating the two parts of her life. However, while indicating there have been some changes the only one she tells about is that when she is on her “Know Your Value Tour” she will be bringing her family along.
I am 71, why did I read this book? Because I am concerned that the women in my life in younger generations will follow the false lead of people like Brzezinski whose charismatic personality when they speak makes it sound as though they have all the answers. What book should young professional women read? “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg. She explained clearly and honestly how a two earner couple could develop and manage both challenging careers and a deeply nurturing and satisfying family life. It is so sad that she will now have to manage it on her own, but the manner in which she and her husband faced the challenges of combining family and astonishing careers will stand her in good stead.
This is a very disappointing book. It purports to address the challenges of succeeding both professionally and personally, of “professional value” and “inner value.” The book starts with an anecdote about arriving home to be yelled at by her teenage daughter who feels neglected. It is pretty clear based on her account that her whole family feels neglected and that she has been unable to successfully combine work life and family life. It turns out that she doesn’t believe you can balance the two, that “inner life and core values” are more related to work than home.
The book includes sage advice from other successful women leaders in a variety of fields such as Senator Claire McCaskill and Dee Dee Myers, Bill Clinton’s Press secretary, who talk about how they’ve combine being successful and ambitious with happy and successful family lives. They stress that being physically present at home is insufficient, you must be emotionally present, not continually fielding phone calls and emails, but face to face with your family listening and participating in an active exchange of ideas. She highlights what they have to say but does not take the next step of explaining how she put their wisdom into action herself but continually reverts to talking about how to grow your `Brand’.
The book contains the results of many surveys mostly done by MSNBC as part of a Working Women Study poll. One set of results deals with whether or not you can `have it all’ and the results indicate that most respondents, whether Breadwinner Moms or Breadwinner Dads, do feel they can manage both work and family, but Brzezinski does not seem to take onboard how they do it. For example PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi who says that “we check our crowns at the front door.” Others use their senior positions to give themselves the flexibility to be responsive to family needs. Denice Biocca, senior HR executive in GE’s Oil and Gas division, talks not only about taking advantage of her power to gain flexibility but also about how she models it for those junior to her by, for example, cutting short a meeting that is running way over time at the end of the day when she and others have kids to pick up.
Brzezinski is particularly hung up on being the major breadwinner in her family. She feels guilty earning so much more than her husband and seems to believe that what she earns is a measure of her success as a human being. When she asks Dee Dee Myers how she handles that issue Brzezinski says “I could practically hear her shrug.” Myers says “During the course of our marriage we have sort of traded back and forth, depending on who is doing what, and how flexible one is versus the other.”
Just when you think Brzezinski is going to explain how she has taken all this advice on board to solve the evident unhappiness of her family and her own overwhelming guilt she launches off into a chapter of advice to millennials and Generation Xers. Only in the last chapter does she address integrating the two parts of her life. However, while indicating there have been some changes the only one she tells about is that when she is on her “Know Your Value Tour” she will be bringing her family along.
I am 71, why did I read this book? Because I am concerned that the women in my life in younger generations will follow the false lead of people like Brzezinski whose charismatic personality when they speak makes it sound as though they have all the answers. What book should young professional women read? “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg. She explained clearly and honestly how a two earner couple could develop and manage both challenging careers and a deeply nurturing and satisfying family life. It is so sad that she will now have to manage it on her own, but the manner in which she and her husband faced the challenges of combining family and astonishing careers will stand her in good stead.
August 11, 2015
I noticed this book sitting on the front shelves for readers to grab or see. I liked the title that caught my attention. However as I started to read, it seems to focus on the author's path and some other women she admires, which for me was least interested in. I can see using these as some prime examples but help another person see the value in them and how to expand or improve in that area was what I was anticipating.
In chapter two, some parts of this gave me a prospective about defining your professional value and speaking up! As women (including me and still learning this area), we tend not to speak up for ourselves. "Professional identity: personality you wear at work." Most of us do not have mentors or someone to help us grow in the workforce. But she focuses on "ambitious women" are attractive including CONFIDENT! Moreover, she informed women their grooming and dressing as a confident, ambitious woman and agree with keeping your shirts or dressed to mid-knee level when even business women have it above the knee and too far up to the hips?! She said to go with solid colors than pin-striped. But I probably would wear the pinstriped in the legal field, which she was mindful of other professional in general but not elaborating on it per se.
Aggressive=unattractive! Bobbi Brown, cosmetic mogul states, "aggressive comes with intensity and anger as ambitious is passion, drive, and hard work."
sadly out of 200+pages I only was liking about 3-5% if it which noted above.
In chapter two, some parts of this gave me a prospective about defining your professional value and speaking up! As women (including me and still learning this area), we tend not to speak up for ourselves. "Professional identity: personality you wear at work." Most of us do not have mentors or someone to help us grow in the workforce. But she focuses on "ambitious women" are attractive including CONFIDENT! Moreover, she informed women their grooming and dressing as a confident, ambitious woman and agree with keeping your shirts or dressed to mid-knee level when even business women have it above the knee and too far up to the hips?! She said to go with solid colors than pin-striped. But I probably would wear the pinstriped in the legal field, which she was mindful of other professional in general but not elaborating on it per se.
Aggressive=unattractive! Bobbi Brown, cosmetic mogul states, "aggressive comes with intensity and anger as ambitious is passion, drive, and hard work."
sadly out of 200+pages I only was liking about 3-5% if it which noted above.
October 27, 2017
Mika Brzezinski was caught on a live microphone with Joe Scarborough and Donald Trump planning a town hall where she asked what questions Trump wanted and asked him NOTHING but things like when did you golf last.Joe was divorcing his wife while having an affair with Brzezinski behind each of their spouses backs and asked MSNBC to give Mika a raise to hide money from Joe's wife,while scheming to write this book where she knows her value and asks for a raise.This was all pre planned by Scarboroughs sleazy political reflexes all the way up to the subsequent"know your value tour"This book is pure fiction.Read Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi aND HE GOES THROUGH THIS ENTIRE SCHEME IN ONE CHAPTER ENTITLED MORNING BLOW.Brzezinski knows her value and it's being Joe Scarboroughs personal groupie,sex toy and financial phony bank.Brzezinski value is pleasing Joe Scarborough sexually while hiding his assets from his wife in his divorce settlement,then write a fictitious book about demanding money and going on a speaking tour for a few hundred grand.Don't go to her show,she already duped you with her book!!!!!!!!!!!Incidentally she was caught on the licve mic aftewr Trumps comments about vgrabbing women by their pussies aND SHE ALSO CAMO OUT DEFENDING HALPERIN,until he was fired!!!!!!!!!!!!NO ROLE3 MODEL FOR WOMAN....A ,LIAR FROM A TO Z
September 15, 2016
A Must read :
"People pleasing is poison. It is enemy number one for women who want to grow personally and professionally. It actually saps your value. If you are trying to be all things to all people you will not leave a solid impression on anyone nor would you make any genuine light useful contacts "page 112
"Your time is worth more than nothing. Your time is a big part of your value. If you know you understand that others will buy in" Page 267
Be able to write a 15 word ad for yourself such as :"she's smart she's direct she's funny she's informed all this and Fabulous " page 76
Be able to sum up your professional value in one sentence, example "I am Mika Brzezinski co host of MSNBC Morning Joe and three-time New York Times bestselling author. I am focused determined smart always ready for a spontaneous quick verbal volley and laugh or to deploy the smooth political segue when tense moments erupted on set and in public life. " Pg 77
Always be ready to say what you can bring to the table and one sentence, example "Mika Brzezinski is a career television journalist with three decades of news and anger reporting, who is building a movement to help all women grow their value in their careers and in their lives" Page 77
"People pleasing is poison. It is enemy number one for women who want to grow personally and professionally. It actually saps your value. If you are trying to be all things to all people you will not leave a solid impression on anyone nor would you make any genuine light useful contacts "page 112
"Your time is worth more than nothing. Your time is a big part of your value. If you know you understand that others will buy in" Page 267
Be able to write a 15 word ad for yourself such as :"she's smart she's direct she's funny she's informed all this and Fabulous " page 76
Be able to sum up your professional value in one sentence, example "I am Mika Brzezinski co host of MSNBC Morning Joe and three-time New York Times bestselling author. I am focused determined smart always ready for a spontaneous quick verbal volley and laugh or to deploy the smooth political segue when tense moments erupted on set and in public life. " Pg 77
Always be ready to say what you can bring to the table and one sentence, example "Mika Brzezinski is a career television journalist with three decades of news and anger reporting, who is building a movement to help all women grow their value in their careers and in their lives" Page 77
August 11, 2015
I enjoyed this book generally; I especially admire Mika Brzezinski's willingness to tackle the difficult question of how to integrate work and personal/family life. That question is huge, and few writers deal with it.
On the other hand, I found the approach and writing somewhat superficial and self-absorbed; the text is based on lingo like "re-branding" and "take a deep dive" rather than serious introspection and careful word choice. One woman, for instance, has re-branded herself four times: as an Olympian, a television reporter, an airline pilot, and a fortune five hundred executive. Now there's a role model we can all aspire to. Clearly these are first-world problems.
I hope other writers will take on the integration of public and personal life. There is a lot yet to be said on that topic from serious psychologists, philosophers, writers, and thinkers.
On the other hand, I found the approach and writing somewhat superficial and self-absorbed; the text is based on lingo like "re-branding" and "take a deep dive" rather than serious introspection and careful word choice. One woman, for instance, has re-branded herself four times: as an Olympian, a television reporter, an airline pilot, and a fortune five hundred executive. Now there's a role model we can all aspire to. Clearly these are first-world problems.
I hope other writers will take on the integration of public and personal life. There is a lot yet to be said on that topic from serious psychologists, philosophers, writers, and thinkers.
May 23, 2015
Its a good and insightful book that deals with maintaining balance and yes building a brand in the workplace. All good... I dont agree that the millennials are educated regarding history.
That generation is very innovative ans bring alot to the table ans they are even the largest workforce but still there are many shortcomings....
Also being a successful woman has always been about balance as usual. committing to a relationship means truly ensuring that the one youre with understands your vision, mission and purpose in life and meshing a life together
That generation is very innovative ans bring alot to the table ans they are even the largest workforce but still there are many shortcomings....
Also being a successful woman has always been about balance as usual. committing to a relationship means truly ensuring that the one youre with understands your vision, mission and purpose in life and meshing a life together
September 22, 2016
2.5 stars. Not a book I would have picked up, but Morning Joe spoke at a conference I was at and I received a book. I have been fortunate to read some very good books lately with the same general themes, and this one covered many of the topics. Felt that I didn't gain true net new thinking, and that this book was a bit superficial, although it was interesting to get a take from a 100% female view. In some ways the book is very raw and in other ways I felt it scratched the surface. Felt like there were stories and would have like to see more "so what do you do about it".
June 26, 2015
I like her writing style. It was a good book, but not as good as the Know Your Value Book. I did enjoy it and found a lot applicable to my life.
November 30, 2015
Ideally, I'd give this 3.5 stars. The information was excellent and I enjoyed hearing the anecdotes from professional women who are trying to balance career and home.
June 29, 2016
Read my full review here: http://www.heydaycoaching.com/blog/20...
August 8, 2016
I think I would really like Mika in person, but she writes like she's trying to make herself feel better about how she justifies her decisions.
July 22, 2018
Very enjoyable to read. Provides an empowering and refreshing perspective on balancing personal and professional lives.
August 10, 2022
I could not finish this book. I had a number of issues with this book. I have to admit I had no idea who she was - I don't watch morning news shows or network television at all - if you're not on a streaming platform I probably don't know who you are.
I also have to admit that adultery is a trigger for me so if you're lying and plying your trade somewhere else -you're not for me - MALE OR FEMALE. Be gone Tiger Woods, see you later Lee Ann Rimes.
First she's a wealthy white woman with a myriad of high level network connections. This was all true before she was a television star. Her advice rings as hollow as Sheryl Sandberg's advice in Lean In. When you're already halfway up the ladder it's much easier to continue to climb.
Second after looking her up I found that she's now divorced after a long term affair with her now husband and co host on Morning Joe. How can she talk about honesty, communication, family while she's lying to the people she purports to value while writing the book? NO credibility - ZERO.
I also have to admit that adultery is a trigger for me so if you're lying and plying your trade somewhere else -you're not for me - MALE OR FEMALE. Be gone Tiger Woods, see you later Lee Ann Rimes.
First she's a wealthy white woman with a myriad of high level network connections. This was all true before she was a television star. Her advice rings as hollow as Sheryl Sandberg's advice in Lean In. When you're already halfway up the ladder it's much easier to continue to climb.
Second after looking her up I found that she's now divorced after a long term affair with her now husband and co host on Morning Joe. How can she talk about honesty, communication, family while she's lying to the people she purports to value while writing the book? NO credibility - ZERO.
September 16, 2022
Oh no. This book broke my heart. The theme is one that pulls me in, but as the narrative unfolded, all I could do is compare Mika with “The Devil Wears Prada” with the way she treated her assistants (her coffee demands) and even one of her closet friends who she told was fat and needed to rebrand herself. Mika appears to be too focused on the whole woman power thing to be compassionate towards those in her orbit, including her family. I want to like Mika and her string woman brand, but she seems so self-absorbed. What a disappointment.
January 29, 2021
Although I appreciated the sentiments behind this book, I found it painfully boring to read and I ended up giving up by halfway through because the whole thing was schmaltzy and repetitive. I didn't find it particularly useful as a resource or even as a source of inspiration, and it was entirely forgettable. Don't waste your time.
March 21, 2020
I didn't think this was as substantive as the first book.
September 24, 2015
starts slow, but food for thought in the angst/problems presented
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