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Self-help, personal development & practical advice

BECOMING HEROINES

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth

What if women forgot everything they'd been taught and radically redefined modern leadership? For those who have spent years playing by the rules only to suffer the cost, and who are now ready to transform their world and work, this is a soulful guide to knowing their power and using it for change at the deepest levels.

Catastrophic events give us an opportunity to question everything. With systems of inequity revealed as never before and the need for revolutionary change in the air, female leaders are stepping forward to reinvent the broken systems they once accepted. BECOMING HEROINES guides them to ditch the old rules and create new ones, starting with healing internalized trauma, understanding principles of equity and inclusion, and refusing to be silenced any longer.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin runs wildly popular leadership and activist programs for women willing to undergo the deep inner transformation that leads to rebirth. Now she's leading brave readers on a journey to reclaim power, prompting them to:
- Observe and unpack the structures of oppression with which women engage in their daily lives
- Confront and analyze their own internalized biases
- Listen, advocate and overthrow systems and institutions that work to keep women and all marginalized people out of power
- Engage the process of building a future world that creates freedom for all

This book is a must-read for any leader who's ready to live out her values more radically, rise from the ashes of trauma and defeat, and lead us all to a better world.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin is the CEO of Gaia Project Consulting, a worldwide executive coaching and consulting firm, as well as the Founder of The Gaia Project for Women's Leadership. She has been featured in major media such as CNN, Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times. She has taught courses to thousands of executives worldwide, including at Columbia Law School and on behalf of Emerging Women Live. She speaks routinely in corporate and non-profit environments. This is her first book

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Book Published 2021-07-20 by Portfolio

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An excellent read for women who want a comprehensive guide to the heroine's journey, social activism, and healing all woven into one tapestry.

Becoming Heroines stokes the burning flame within women that these times are different. In this book, Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin pours fuel on nascent fire, ready to redefine our culture in ways we all yearn for but can't manifest. Until now. Thank you, Elizabeth, for setting forth the organizing principles needed to make the most of unprecedented times. You are the voice we need to guide us.

Becoming Heroines has been a game changer for me both professionally and personally. Elizabeth's deep dive into how systemic oppression and inequality inform the way we show up in our activism, our work, and at home has opened up for me a deeper understanding of how and why I so often get in my own way. With examples, exercises, and personal revelations, she guides the reader to a place of deep understanding about what steps we need to take to align our true values with our actions. I'm grateful for this book and highly recommend it whether you identify as a leader, an activist, or just someone who wants to claim their own personal journey.

In Becoming Heroines, Elizabeth reminds us that we all have a voice, we just have to decide how we want to use it. And if we are all using our collective voice then no one can stop or silence our revolution!

Becoming Heroines creates a deeply important new lens through which to view the arc of a woman's life. Private lives are public issues and Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin does a beautiful job shining a light on the individual journey and how taking agency in your own life is connected to a broader political movement of radical transformation.

The Lean In era of mass market women's empowerment books always felt more than a little empty, which is why it's immensely refreshing to read the substantive and honest Becoming Heroines. In this reframing of the monomyth, Elizabeth McLaughlin calls on all of us to sit at the intersection of unapologetic ambition and proactive empathy. More than anything, this is a recognition and appreciation of our imperfections in a world that responds to flaws by rewarding men and punishing women. Elizabeth has written something for every woman who wants to live her life to the fullest while empowering those around her along the way.

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I'm buying this book in bulk and giving it to all the people I love. An inspiring, empowering clarion call and guide to become the heroines we are meant to be. A book that meets this moment in our history, [it] illuminates the power of our gaze as we witness destruction and our collective power to birth a more free and equitable world.

...This book not only jolts the reader toward personal transformation and rebirth, it offers a much-needed intersectional lens on how to disrupt systems of privilege and intuitively reclaim one's gifts for the greater good...

Becoming Heroines is an important book for exploding the dominance of the hero's journey and thus for exploding the white supremacist patriarchy. Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin shows us how the matriarchy is rising. She provides readers with the wisdom, steps, and tools to discover and excavate their inherent gifts so that they can fully live into their goddess-given purpose. She uses her voice to help others reclaim their voices and break through the oppression of silence.

...Believing in your power and understanding how to activate it is such an important lesson. Thank you, Elizabeth, for writing this book...

A profound roadmap for how whole systems of oppression can die if we choose to do the work.