Book Tour is Crazy Business
Hi Ladies!
So here we are in the Girls Guide offices for a pit stop while on our book tour. We had a few days in Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, Madison CT., Seattle and took the red-eye back from San Francisco today/last-night (quick aside: nothing makes you feel older than taking a red-eye). Next week we're going to Boston, the week after that Los Angeles and San Diego.
WOW book tour is hard. To appreciate how ironic it is that we wrote that, you have to know that in our other life as publicists we sent hundreds of authors out on tour and rolled our eyes if they ever complained. About anything. Bad hotel? Suck it up! Delayed flight? Read a book! They were on book tour, everyone wants to be on book tour why complain? Well...we are NOT complaining but we will say that book tour is hard. Although we are doing some great things while out there and we love the women we are meeting.
Most of the women that are coming to our events are looking for advice on how to face and get the most from a milestone moment. They are ready for a raise, a promotion, a new career but just are not sure about how to start. We think you start with having a good attitude towards change. If you see yourself as someone in-progress then you are open to new ideas, people and opportunities. As we are considering asking for a raise and/or promotion, quitting our job or starting our own business it is important to be open to change because that's really what you are facing.
We wanted to share a few stories from a few of the cool women we have met that will hopefully inspire you a little bit to have a positive attitude about change and please write a comment if you have a story to share:
We met a woman at our Philadelphia booksigning that is seriously considering moving to Australia to open a plus size shop. Apparently, there are very few shops that cater to larger sizes and she is ready to change her life. Oh, and it's summer there.
Someone told us at our DC booksigning that feels that she has never been appreciated for all of the hard work she does and after the workshop committed to start keeping track of her accomplishments for her next review. This was a big step for her because she said in her 15 years of work she never spoke up in a review and always just accepted the cost of living raise she was given. Remember, that is often under 5%! So she is changing into the girl who asks and that's pretty exciting.
A woman at one of our Seattle events told us that she wanted to break into another industry even though she had put in 10 years in her current profession. When she shared this with the group, two of the women there offered to help her craft her resume and get her a few informational interviews. Cool!
We had a caller during one of our radio interviews who asked us what to do if you work with a bunch of unsupportive and back-stabbing women. We told her that you can only change your piece of the world so vow to do it differently. She agreed.
So change can be exciting. We grow through change. And change can make things better for girls at work.
OK on to planning for our Boston leg. Hope to see you there (see MEET for the where and whens of it).
So here we are in the Girls Guide offices for a pit stop while on our book tour. We had a few days in Chicago, DC, Philadelphia, Madison CT., Seattle and took the red-eye back from San Francisco today/last-night (quick aside: nothing makes you feel older than taking a red-eye). Next week we're going to Boston, the week after that Los Angeles and San Diego.
WOW book tour is hard. To appreciate how ironic it is that we wrote that, you have to know that in our other life as publicists we sent hundreds of authors out on tour and rolled our eyes if they ever complained. About anything. Bad hotel? Suck it up! Delayed flight? Read a book! They were on book tour, everyone wants to be on book tour why complain? Well...we are NOT complaining but we will say that book tour is hard. Although we are doing some great things while out there and we love the women we are meeting.
Most of the women that are coming to our events are looking for advice on how to face and get the most from a milestone moment. They are ready for a raise, a promotion, a new career but just are not sure about how to start. We think you start with having a good attitude towards change. If you see yourself as someone in-progress then you are open to new ideas, people and opportunities. As we are considering asking for a raise and/or promotion, quitting our job or starting our own business it is important to be open to change because that's really what you are facing.
We wanted to share a few stories from a few of the cool women we have met that will hopefully inspire you a little bit to have a positive attitude about change and please write a comment if you have a story to share:
We met a woman at our Philadelphia booksigning that is seriously considering moving to Australia to open a plus size shop. Apparently, there are very few shops that cater to larger sizes and she is ready to change her life. Oh, and it's summer there.
Someone told us at our DC booksigning that feels that she has never been appreciated for all of the hard work she does and after the workshop committed to start keeping track of her accomplishments for her next review. This was a big step for her because she said in her 15 years of work she never spoke up in a review and always just accepted the cost of living raise she was given. Remember, that is often under 5%! So she is changing into the girl who asks and that's pretty exciting.
A woman at one of our Seattle events told us that she wanted to break into another industry even though she had put in 10 years in her current profession. When she shared this with the group, two of the women there offered to help her craft her resume and get her a few informational interviews. Cool!
We had a caller during one of our radio interviews who asked us what to do if you work with a bunch of unsupportive and back-stabbing women. We told her that you can only change your piece of the world so vow to do it differently. She agreed.
So change can be exciting. We grow through change. And change can make things better for girls at work.
OK on to planning for our Boston leg. Hope to see you there (see MEET for the where and whens of it).
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