Product Description

What if you had a beautiful loving voice inside you that could answer every question in a way that no one else could? What if you had an inner advocate that believed in your dreams and could comfort, inspire, and bolster you every step of the way? You do. You do. You do. You have this and so much more. This one-hour recording on CD captures Tama Kieves' 8/7/2007 teleclass on how to learn how to connect with that voice and trust and utilize your own singular brilliance. In this powerful event, participants emailed Tama their most burning questions on the topic, which she answered during the one hour call. We've received so much positive feedback from people on the call, we're eager to share this material with everyone!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164367 in Music
• Published on: 2007-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1

From the Author
It took me over 12 years to write this book, probably because it took me that long to really live what I was writing about and I didn't want to just put something out there before I'd lived it. I wrote this book because it was the book I needed to read. I'd read all kinds of self-help books on career, but I could never find a book that went past the great ideas of how to do the work you love and showed me the actual living through the fear and wonder of the journey. So that's the book I wrote.

About the Author
TAMA J. KIEVES, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her corporate law practice to write and to embolden others to live their most meaningful self-expression. Best-selling author of the life changing book THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love she is now a sought-after career coach and has helped thousands of individuals world-wide to live their creative dreams. Her dynamic work has been featured on T.V., radio, and in national publications. She presents at Canyon Ranch, the 6 star spa, and is on the faculty of the world-renowned Omega Institute. She is known for her dynamic humor, electrifying presence, realness, compassion, and the big possibilities she brings to every room.

Customer Reviews

For the YOUNG career-changer!
As a self-help writer and career coach, I'm always seeking new books to read, recommend and cite in my own work. Kieves offers an interesting but not especially unique perspective of career change. I kept asking myself, "Would this book have sold if Kieves had not graduated from Harvard?"
The title is a little deceptive: Kieves may have it all, but in the book she was young, single and unencumbered. A forty-five-year-old career changer would bring a different perspetive. A twenty-something, very attractive young woman can have fun with a waitress gig. Twenty years later, she wouldn't exactly fit in.
And Kieves did not "leave it all." She had just started her career and had considerably less invested than a forty-year-old who had just made partner.
There are some very fine insights here but let's not underestimate Kieves's youth, personality, looks and apparent charisma, all factors that fast-forwarded her journey to freedom.

An indispensible guide for the journey
I've read a lot of "creating your true work" guides lately, and after a while they all begin to sound alike. This is one of the few that didn't. The author's lively, supple prose is worth reading even if you're not planning to emulate her, and her frankness about her own struggles and doubts, as well as her joys and successes, is refreshing. But what makes her book stand out from the rest is the focus on -- as her title states -- "trusting the journey." Changing your life isn't an overnight transformation: it's a journey that can take many months or years; you'll traverse deserts and jungles and rain forests; you'll scale mountain highs as well as (on occasion) fall into the pits; and, although you'll eventually feel at ease with where you're going, in reality the journey never ends. Kieves has been through it all, and provides a reassuring "road map" of the process.

I was especially struck by her chapter on "Only the real dream will do": she points out that, although it's tempting to try to turn your dreams into a "practical" career, only the real dream gives you the emotional strength to put up with the inevitable hardships and setbacks; her efforts to pursue free-lance writing that "sort of" allowed her to follow her dream soon fizzled. I've been there, I've done that, and, believe me, she's absolutely right!

Inspirational as well as a fun and good read
I enjoyed this book immensely. It is a must-read for anyone still sitting on the fence wondering which side Life is; it will give just the right impetus to do what is right - follow our dreams and feed our souls. Far from being in any way just another how-to book, Tama tells us of her own experiences in taking the leap and how much richer life is now than before when she was a high paid, Harvard-trained corporate lawyer. It is also a really fun book to read - the author has a wonderful sense of humor and you will find yourself laughing with her all the way through. Laughing as well as celebrating with her. Thank you, Tama Kieves, for sharing this journey with us.