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If you feel stuck in your career or life. If you've been holding back at work or at home. If you feel something is missing but you're not sure what it is or how to get it...

If you want to say a big heck yes to living the life of your dreams…This book is for you.

From discovering what lights you up, to exploring the fears and excuses that hold us back and how to move past them, Breaking Free: Stop Holding Back, Start Being You is a heartfelt journey that will inspire women everywhere to go after what they want in their careers and in their lives without guilt, compromise or sacrifice.

In her book, Corporate Executive, Certified Coach and Keynote Speaker Shannon Talbot includes real-life stories from remarkable women—including Mabel’s Labels co-founder Julie Cole and former Second Cup CEO Stacey Mowbray—alongside practical, step-by-step tips and tools that will help readers call BS on the stories they tell themselves and learn to write new ones.

Sharing her own struggles with rejection, loss, anxiety and stress as she works to balance motherhood with ambition, Talbot shows women how they can pursue ambitious career goals while also prioritizing relationships and well-being. Through her book, readers will be guided to visualize their dreams, overcome obstacles, and break free of limiting beliefs, doubts and bad habits so they can create the life and career of their dreams.

“Dreams turn into hope when we bring useful action to the work. Shannon Talbot’s book is a powerful step on that journey.”—Seth Godin, author of The Song of Significance