Brave Shift: 30 Mindset Changes to Transform Your Life

by Michele Kehrer

One Brave Shift Can Change EverythingIf you’ve ever tried to change your life or business, only to slip back into the same patterns, you’re not broken. You just need a shift.

Dr. Michele Kehrer knows what it takes to create lasting transformation. She’s a business growth coach, serial entrepreneur, and four-time cancer survivor who has rebuilt her life and career after illness, divorce, and setbacks that would stop most people in their tracks. Her secret? Thirty small but powerful mindset shifts that, one by one, change everything.

In Brave 30 Mindset Changes to Transform Your Life, Kehrer blends real-life stories, sharp humor, and hard-won wisdom to show you how to get unstuck and build the business and life you actually want.

This prescriptive self-help guide blends funny, real-life events with the life lessons they inspired, proving that a few small mindset shifts can create the reality you dream of.

Guided by her philosophy that even the hardest times don’t have to be that dire, you’ll learn how every experience can be either a good time or a good story. Kehrer will guide you to see your setbacks not as failures but as stepping stones toward achieving balance, overcoming obstacles, and creating the mindset for success you need in business and life.

As you read, you’ll discover how setbacks into stepping stones that fuel your next big win.Stop second-guessing yourself and speak up with confidence in any situation.Focus on what you can control so you can find joy in work, life, and even the mundane.Clear out energy drainers and create space for habits that make success easier.Challenge the limits you didn’t even know you had.
You don’t have to overhaul your whole life overnight. One brave shift at a time can take you from stuck to unstoppable. Read the book and start now.

Genres: Self Help

207 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 27, 2026

About the author

Dr. Michele Kehrer is a business growth coach, resilient entrepreneur, and four-time cancer survivor who knows what it takes to overcome the toughest challenges. For more than 30 years, she has launched, managed, and successfully sold businesses across multiple industries—and helped countless leaders do the same.

Through Kehrer’s coaching company, Shift to Success, she specializes in guiding rapidly growing companies struggling to scale and businesses stuck below their potential. Her mission is simple: to empower leaders through mindset shifts and strategic growth plans that unlock profitability, foster healthy expansion, and create sustainable success. Drawing on her own experiences facing life-threatening illness and personal hardship, she helps clients transform setbacks into breakthroughs and pursue their vision with confidence.

Kehrer’s inspiring story has been featured on ABC7 Chicago, Oprah.com, and numerous podcasts and blogs. She began her career in healthcare, earning her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, then transitioned to entrepreneurship, building a thriving business even while undergoing cancer treatment.

Originally from Wisconsin, Kehrer now resides in Cape Coral, Florida, where you’ll often find her traveling, cooking, meditating, or sharing a glass of wine with friends.

Connect with Kehrer at https://michelekehrer.com to discover how a brave shift in mindset can open the door to the success and transformation you’ve been seeking.

Reviews

[Rochelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a straightforward and engaging book filled with clear stories and advice. Michele shares her journey and the mindset shifts that have led her to where she is today, encouraging readers to see themselves as capable of reaching their full potential. She shares her journey and past mistakes and lessons learned to help us avoid similar errors.

A quick read with 30 stories where she wraps up each chapter with practical steps you can implement immediately to start improving your mindset and making positive changes in your daily life. I think some of the lessons seem oversimplified. I really enjoyed the lessons about believing in yourself, following your intuition, and not being afraid to start over after failure. She’s had quite a journey and is definitely a survivor, having beaten cancer so many times.

Overall, the author's tone and writing style were enjoyable, and those looking for self-help might get something from the book. Great title because shifts and changes require bravery.

[Courtney Pityer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book in a giveaway

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

To make life changes you do have to be brave, and the book’s title is highly accurate because you also need to shift intentions, actions, and even geography. But many of the suggestions were too pithy to implement and/or required too much privilege ($, friends, mentors, etc). The mindset challenge was a good one though, as was advice to focus on what you can control, small changes lead to bigger ones, and eliminating energy drains, to name a few. Some of the “chapters” worked better than others in this way. Overall the author’s tone and writing style were enjoyable, and those looking for self help enlightenment might get something from the book.

[Kelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brave Shift: 30 Mindset Changes to Transform Your Life by Dr. Michele Kehrer is an empowering and insightful roadmap to transformation. With warmth, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Kehrer turns adversity into a masterclass on resilience. Her thirty practical mindset shifts prove that personal growth doesn’t require drastic overhauls just the courage to take one brave step at a time. This book inspires readers to see setbacks as stepping stones and change as a creative act of becoming unstoppable.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I liked this book, but I think I enjoyed it more for the memoir aspect than the self-help aspect. I found the author’s life fascinating and I wanted to learn more about HER. I didn’t think her advice was very different from tips I have read in other books, but it was a quick easy read nonetheless.

[Holly Sheehy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This is truly a valuable book to own. What I wouldn’t give to have had 30 years ago. Full of real life stories, inspiration and motivation to get you on track to the life you want. I savored the chapters one by one. Absorbing the content and thinking about my pathway to go forward.

[Sue :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is close to a must read.

Michele Lehrer has given us all a lot of positive things to move forward with. I wish I had had this book, this guidance when I was younger.

[Crystal Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brave Shift: 30 Mindset Changes to Transform Your Life is a simple, easy-to-read book packed with straight-to-the-point stories and real wisdom. Michele opens up about her experiences and the mindset shifts that have shaped her life, showing readers that we're not "behind"; we simply haven't yet reached our full potential. Her missteps become guideposts we can use to avoid repeating them.

Each of the 30 stories is just long enough to help you connect with Michele and genuinely take her insights to heart. She closes every chapter with actionable steps you can take right away to start improving your mindset and making meaningful changes in your daily life.

This book is a refreshing reminder that shifting our mindset doesn’t have to be overwhelming or complicated. Through her vulnerability and honesty, Michele gives her readers the confidence to believe they can change, and she offers practical ways to begin that process with clarity and purpose.

Disclosure: I did get an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Agatha · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite shift the author walks you through: how challenging situations should be reframed. Will this make a good story one day? Is this actually an opportunity to learn something? Love her style of writing and found the book to be a little bit of everything: fun and inspirational but she also doesn’t in any way shy away from the tough subjects. Good way to kick off 2026.