Kylie Lewis aims to inspire curious creatives and entrepreneurial spirits with her new book, The Leap Stories: Intimate Interviews On Overcoming Fear, Choosing Courage Over Comfort, and Designing a Fulfilling Career, in which she asks 13 entrepreneurial Australians who have made a leap in their working lives exactly how and why they did it — practically, strategically, financially and emotionally.
Comprising six updated interviews from Lewis’ blog, alongside seven brand new interviews, The Leap Stories hopes to inspire readers to explore hunches, scratch those itches, back themselves, have a crack and do more than just entertain the possibility of ‘what if’.
“What The Leap Stories assures readers is that there’s no single path to success and no formulaic way to conjure the courage to take a first or next step toward a fulfilling work life,” says Lewis. “Each interviewee’s leap may not have been instant or dramatic: it may instead have been a series of small hops over a period of time; some sideways sliding; a little backwards and forwards cha-cha, or it could have been an almighty bungy jump. The common theme, however, is honesty, intention and above all, courage in the face of fear. “
From resigning a job without a clear plan of what do to next; moving to a new country for employment; pursuing a long-held business idea; to taking a sabbatical or recommencing study later in life – these intimate and honest interviews prove that to make a career transition or start a business may be scary, exhilarating, a foregone conclusion or a complete about-face (or all of the above). But overwhelmingly, to leap is to live courageously and authentically.
The Leap Stories: Intimate Interviews On Overcoming Fear, Choosing Courage Over Comfort, and Designing a Fulfilling Career by Kylie Lewis is available at selected retailers and online here.
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