The Pie Life
A Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction
by Samantha Ettus
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Pub Date Sep 27 2016 | Archive Date May 02 2017
Bird Street Books | Ghost Mountain Books
Description
The Pie Life is the ultimate self-improvement playbook for women who work. Now is the time for you to banish the guilt and start living a life you love! Having worked with thousands of women over the past two decades, Harvard MBA and best-selling author Samantha Ettus shares the secrets for how you can sustain a thriving personal and professional life at the same time.
Incorporating personal stories from hundreds of women including TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, news anchor Gayle King, Wall Street maven Sallie Krawcheck, Barnard College President Debora Spar, entrepreneur Liz Lange and Marie Claire Editor-in-Chief Anne Fulenwider, The Pie Life will turn everything you know about work/life balance on its head.
Transform your life into one that is more satisfying, rich, and delicious than you ever thought possible and join the thousands of women already living The Pie Life.
Samantha Ettus
@samanthaettus
http://www.samanthaettus.com
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
"The Pie Life is required reading for professional women. Samantha is my favorite authority on how to thrive at work and at home."
- Mindy Grossman, CEO of Home Shopping Network
“In The Pie Life, Samantha Ettus disrupts conventional thinking about having it all. Instead of seeking the elusive zen of work/life balance, Ettus offers an innovative approach to prioritizing and managing life so you can find your sanity, improve your health, get more done, and accomplish your dreams.”
- Marianne Cooper, lead researcher of Lean In & sociologist, Stanford University
“Samantha Ettus is a work/life balance pioneer. I devoured The Pie Life and her ideas have profoundly changed my approach to family and career. Full of deep insight and practical solutions, The Pie Life will fill you up and leave you more than satiated."
- Marcia Cross, Actress
“Samantha Ettus has cooked up a great recipe for a fulfilling life. In The Pie Life she shares her secrets.”
- Jessica Seinfeld, Founder of Good+ Foundation & cookbook author
"Samantha Ettus nails it with a fresh perspective for successfully nurturing your professional and personal life. I couldn’t put it down!”
- -Farnoosh Torabi, Personal Finance expert for O, The Oprah Magazine
“The Pie Life provides worksheets, resources, and examples to help women convert the work/life balance problem into an equation that works for instead of against them. A fun yet practical and thought-provoking read.”
– Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
Marketing Plan
Contributes to: Forbes and TODAY Parents. Hosts a weekly, nationally syndicated radio show in 26 markets and speaks to hundreds of thousands of women annually at conferences and corporations across the country.
As seen on: The Doctors, Access Hollywood, TODAY Show, Inside Edition, Fox and Friends, Dateline, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Home and Family, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, New York Magazine, Redbook, Glamour, Newsweek, Women’s Health, New York Post, Family Circle, and Parenting.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781939457233 |
| PRICE | $25.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Poongothai S, Reviewer
A good self help book with useful tips to organize our life like the pieces of a pie and it points out that all the pieces are of importance for the pie to be delicious.
Brianne C, Reviewer
I must say that this book is delightfully well written. That is the reason I am rating it so highly. I like the author's concept of dividing the different focuses in your life up like you would a pie and assigning them different sizes that make up the whole. Unfortunately, much in this book fell flat for me. I am not saying that the author doesn't give good advice, it just isn't completely applicable everyone. This book geared towards working women (or those who want to work), who also have children, and perhaps a lackluster social life, that want to find a happy medium between them.
It doesn't apply to women who want to stay at home. It doesn't apply to those like me who don't have kids. I couldn't give myself an accurate score on most of the quizzes, because many questions involved children. It also surprisingly doesn't apply to women who have a husband with lofty career goals as well. I can't count the number of times she mentioned a husband going to and recording a recital/play/concert that the wife missed because she had to work. Yes, it's nice if your husband can help you with the balance, but what if he has to work late too? Does only one spouse get to have a fulfilling/balanced life?
That being said, this book will help some women. Unfortunately I am not one of them. If you are stressed because you feel like work is too much and you are not paying enough attention to your kids, read this.
Reviewer 57831
You don't know how much this book helped me. Not just with organizing things and prioritizing my life, but with the guilt and the self esteem that happens as a working parent.
It's all very well to say "Lean in, Do it ALL!" but to actually attempt to do it ALL is probably unhealthy if you try to make your home-work balance exactly 50/50.
Samantha Ettus is the logical best friend that says "if you work ten hours, commute 2 and sleep 8, you're not going to fit another 10 hours of home time in a 24 hour day."
Everyone's pie is different. A coworker of mine actually does have a commute longer than an hour because she lives out of state. Another has a daughter, but no wife. Still another has like three dogs. All of our pies are different. My commute slice is actually about 15 minutes. I don't have a walk the dog slice. I do have a book review slice, and a year-round prepare-for-Christmas slice.
If you feel overwhelmed from Leaning In, Grab a slice of Pie with Samantha Ettus. (you see how I made that sound like a commercial? fancy!)
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