Preface

Success and happiness are not just for the world’s richest, luckiest, thinnest, or smartest women. We can be successful and happy even when we aren’t given every opportunity or advantage. I know because I have never been the richest, thinnest, most beautiful, luckiest, or smartest woman in the world. Yet, I’ve created a life, career, and business that I love—despite significant challenges.

Along the way, I found that the negative voices in my head are lying, and that by connecting my internal knowledge to my external energy—or, simply put, my competence to my confidence—I could achieve both success and happiness. In 2013, at the age of 53, I ended my corporate career as a senior vice president of a Fortune 50 company and launched what ...

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