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    Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

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    A groundbreaking women's leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see -- in themselves and in the world.

    In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were "playing small" in their lives and careers, were frustrated by it, and wanted to "play bigger." She has devised a proven way for them to achieve their dreams by playing big from the inside out. Mohr's work helping women play bigger has earned acclaim from the likes of Maria Shriver and Jillian Michaels, and has been featured on the Today show, CNN, and a host of other media outlets.

    Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In gave many women new awareness about what kinds of changes they need to make to become more successful; yet most women need help implementing them. In the tradition of Brené Brown's Daring Greatly, Playing Big provides real, practical tools to help women quiet self-doubt, identify their callings, "unhook" from praise and criticism, unlearn counterproductive good girl habits, and begin taking bold action.

    While not all women aspire to end up in the corner office, every woman aspires to something. Playing Big fills a major gap among women's career books; it isn't just for corporate women. The book offers tools to help every woman play bigger -- whether she's an executive, community volunteer, artist, or stay-at-home mom.

    Thousands of women across the country have been transformed by Mohr's program, and now this book makes the ideas and practices available to everyone who is ready to play big.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9780698180147
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    • 3/5
      Meh. Nothing really new here, although I do keep reflecting upon my "inner critic." I completed this about a week ago and find that there's nothing truly memorable.
    • 4/5
      Fascinating book on finding your voice and moving from "thinking small" to "thinking big." This book arrived just as I was making some "thinking big" decisions in my life and so I devoured the book from page 1 to the end. Highly recommended if you are looking for an upbeat book to help you change your life.
    • 4/5
      I received this from Early Reviewers. I appreciated Mohr's emphasis of how to silence your inner critic," and although I would have appreciated more variety in her tips, I believe that as an author, her intention was to focus heavily on self talk because she believes that is the most important step, so I can see where she's coming from. Overall, the repetition helped me notice these things in myself, and so I think it was worth reading.
    • 4/5
      I rate the book "4" because of its good or very good ideas that whether old or new, get the attention they deserve in Mohr's particular approach. As she opined, criticism reflects the one giving it, and mine would be that some of the suggestions for conversing with the "inner critic" are too New Age for my tastes. I appreciate the distinction made between fear as pachad and fear as yirah, between panic and reverence for the Almighty. Mohr reveals insight into human nature and helpful ways to get over, around or through it. The one time and to me unnecessary application Mohr made of profanity was in discussing mothers and babies and how she considered it "B-S" that it is said that what's good for baby is good for mother. I've worked with senior level women who said they are empowered by using the "F" word; well, that's one part of Playing Big that does not appeal to me, and I wish Mohr had left out the "B-S". Playing Big can do without it.
    • 3/5
      I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers giveaway. I thought the title and description sounded interesting. The review book I received came with a corresponding notepad - that was nice. I started to read the book and my first thought was the number of typos, mistakes, and bad formatting. I looked at the cover and realized I was sent an advance uncorrected proof - I hope that this is cleaned up - a lot by the time it hits the shelf next month. There were enough errors that I found distracting.As for the content of the book, though, I thought that was good. Not great and in many cases, not unique enough. The book is inspiring, but not inspiring enough. It just left me with a "meh" feeling. There is good information and I think the author, Tara Mohr, really hits on some key points for women's roles in modern society.I also found the whole idea of the "playing big" concept a little awkward at times. I found myself re-reading sentences because Mohr tried to weave that theme in throughout her book and it didn't work at times.
    • 4/5
      Playing Big is Tara Mohr's strategy for guiding women to develop skills and a mindset to live a fuller, more authentic life. The greatest enemy women face is often their own self-doubt, and throughout the ten chapters, Mohr dissects many ways to identify and remedy that doubt. A chapter that resonated with me was the chapter on fear, and recognizing the irrational fear about something you can't control vs. the fear of stepping outside your comfort zone. Each chapter contains many anecdotes and strategies for moving beyond barriers, and ends with journaling exercises and "the big ideas," a summary of the chapter. I found the book helpful for recognizing some of my own hang ups, and picked up a few tools that I'll try using to conquer them.
    • 3/5
      I have enjoyed Tara Mohr's writing for a long time (via blogs, etc.) and was excited to receive this book as an Early Reviewer. Mohr's book didn't disappoint. She shares her own thoughts, examples (case studies) of her clients, as well as workbook exercises to help one find their true 'voice'. I found it a quick read, and somewhat similar (in genre) to Sheryl Sandburg's Lean In.
    • 4/5
      This book is aimed at women who are looking for help in taking a next big step in finding their own voices and setting their goals higher than they might on their own. I am not a huge fan of self-help books in general, but found Mohr's advice and step by step guides to thinking about one's aims and goals quite solid.In school, many girls aim to be "the good student" but when out in the world, the skills and self-perceptions that are involved in being a "good girl" are not at all the same as what it takes to see and step up to one's own best potential. Mohr talks about our inner critic, how we receive feedback, both criticism and praise, the bad habits we get into in undermining our own voices even in how we word the comments we make. She discusses how these habits of mind limit our evaluation of our own readiness to take a bold new step.I mostly liked this book because it is written in direct and clear language, without gimmicks. And it is not at all limited to women in corporate cultures -could be just as useful to an artist or writer who needs a guidebook for taking that next big step, or a woman thinking of starting a small business but needs to deal with the ways she hesitates or to come to terms with habits of mind that limit her plans.Each chapter is useful, ending with a recap of its points, several "journaling questions" for the reader to explore on their own, and a review of "the big ideas". At each point, Mohr's suggestions seem reasonable. When she makes a suggestion for action (whether it is training yourself out of an old verbal habit or overcoming a fear), she follow up with good specific pointers for how to do it.This is a good book for most women to read if they would like to come to a new understanding and find tools to use for themselves in making their dream goals come to be.
    • 4/5
      I have to admit it: when I started reading Tara Mohr's book, Playing Big, my first thought was that I'd read all this before. I've read plenty of self-help books that coached me, as her subtitle says, to find my voice, my mission, and my message. I'm a writer, too, so I know how hard it is to stay the course of your passion when there's a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. And the rejection that comes along in my line of work certainly will throw you off course and make you doubt the validity or significance of your message over and over again.But I wanted to give the book a fair read, and I'm glad I stuck with it. There are familiar refrains here that other readers will recognize, too, such as Mohr's admonitions to be wary of the inner critic, detach from praise and criticism, and so on.But Mohr has a refreshing, compelling way of re-stating some of this advice. I appreciated her insights on how the inner critic can arise from fear--so it doesn't do any good, she argues, to harshly tell that critic (yourself) to "shut up" or go away. Better to be gentle with this frightened part of you that urges you to give up or shrink from a challenge. It's trying to protect you from the disappointments that come with failure--but of course, if you don't try, you won't know if you could succeed. I also liked her suggestion that we treat our critical inner voices with compassion; that we hear them, reassure them, and then move on.I found more to like in her chapter on "designing at the whiteboard," in her discussion of how we can remain too long in the planning or designing stages, where we're safe from rejection. Mohr taught me new skills in her chapter on unhelpful speech habits and patterns. I'm vowing to banish phrases and qualifiers like "does that sound right?", and "sorry to bother you, but" along with words that diminish or shrink our statements, such as "just," "actually," and "almost." She's right. Women often hide their opinions in these kinds of disclaimers, or apologize unnecessarily. I'll keep her book at hand to help me learn to write better emails and speak more forthrightly. I enjoyed this book and learned from it. Thanks to LibraryThing and Gotham Books for providing my review copy. The opinions I've expressed in this review are my own, freely given.
    • 4/5
      I am the type of person that has always feared "playing big". I always found it more comfortable hiding in the shadows and out off the radar. Well, I'm 33 now and I know that this is no way to live. Over the years I even managed to let go of the many things that make me happy because of negative feedback or people telling me that I was wasting my time. So, when I saw this book offered as an early read for reviews, I jumped at the chance to read it and super excited when it showed up at my front door.I find that the book has a lot of great information for woman who have never fully lived up to their potential out of fear or other reasons. It is also great that there is hands on activities to do while reading the book, or to even come back to at later dates when you find yourself slipping back into old ways of thinking (which, for many of us, is bound to happen). As a whole, this is a great book that many women could benefit from.That said, the reason I held back on the rating is because of the example women used in the book. Most (if not all) of the women are already higher up on the scale of life and their careers. This is not something I could easily relate to. There is nothing wrong with using these women as examples, I just wish that they weren't all like this. This book could greatly benefit from more of the "average" woman trying to make it in life. I would have loved to see someone who was actually struggling to make it (maybe with a bigger climb to the top). To me, this would be more inspirational.
    • 3/5
      Playing Big continues the big ideas set forth in Lean In with practical ideas to find your voice, your mission, and your message. It addresses topics such as self doubt, how to leave your good student self behind, and finding your calling. I appreciated that antidotes about other women were only used as examples rather than the whole story. More helpful to me were Mohr's tables that contrasted behaviors, and her journaling questions.
    • 3/5
      It's hard to say immediately after having read this book how useful it will be in application, but it certainly sounds promising in theory. Playing Big offers guidance on topics like quieting your inner critic, finding the voice of your inner wisdom or "inner mentor," and taking leaps towards your dreams rather than letting them get stalled by feeling as if you need more preparation. To some extent, I felt like the last point sometimes ignored that there are cases where specific preparation is needed. For example, one case Mohr uses involves a woman who thought her plan should be to go back to school to become a physical therapist. Mohr talks with her about why she wants to do that and steers her towards giving talks to share the knowledge about health that she has now. Now, that works if the calling she feels is really to share information about health. But if she specifically feels a calling to work professionally as a physical therapist, then she's going to need the qualification eventually. That person would be abandoning her calling if she didn't pursue the formal training. Or a person who feels a calling to be a teacher and lives in a state where teachers need a masters is going to need the masters. Mohr presents this in terms of finding a way to serve your calling with the amount of expertise you already have, and maybe gaining more later if you feel like it. In my opinion, everybody needs more expertise (and sometimes is even required to have proof of it), so the emphasis should be on finding things that you can do to share what you have while gaining more, not instead of gaining more. Still, it's a fairly short book, so maybe she didn't feel like she should belabor the details of this point too much when the problem she was trying to address was fear of taking action.
    • 4/5
      I am sadly very overdue with this review. To be honest, when I received the book for review, the last thing I wanted to do was to pick up another book of advice.I wish I'd done it earlier. I have ordered multiple copies to share with friends because the book so perfectly describes some of our conversations. Just having recognition that it's not just us that are having these challenges is a relief. I particularly appreciate the summary at the end of each chapter and the tables that break things down very simply. I know that I won't have time to pull the book out each time I need it, but I can take those pages and pinpoint the challenge (unhooking from praise and criticism and hiding). Buy this book for yourself--but consider it for a high school or college graduation gift. The more that women can share the message that it is OK to play big, the better off we'll all be.
    • 3/5
      I received this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I was looking forward to this book based on the title and description. However, I was really disappointed with it. The author comes off with a "holier than thou" attitude I found very distracting, each chapter begins with her talking about why she is different and better. As for her method, I feel the content, heavy on visualization, would be better delivered in a lecture rather than a book. She does make some interesting and useful points, but the book did not impact me in any way.
    • 3/5
      Playing Big had a lot of great information in it...too much information!It took me forever to read this book because I couldn't stay focused. This is a book about the great idea of a step by step plan of a woman's rethinking of her role and "taking the plunge" in overcoming all the "stops" society has placed on women's roles in corporate society.Many great observations and re-training one's thinking pattern arepresented. A woman needs to value her own expertise and ideas. There is just too much detail in this self-help book. One tends to get side-trackedby allowing her mind to wander.Tara Mohr appears to have very formidable seminars but to have them successfully impact a reader, she needs to be less detailed and moresimply to the point.The Title and Book cover are appealing and truly impressive.* I won this book, but this review is my honest opinion.
    • 5/5
      The subtitle for this book promises that it will help you find your voice, your mission, and your message. It's a very thought-provoking text that ranges widely, discussing fear, people pleasing, subtle speech habits, hiding and how to turn from these problematic behaviors to self-promotion. The author is a life coach, who is clearly distressed by the patterns she sees in women's inability to move forward. I recommend it for women who feel themselves held back by self-destructive, self-deprecating behaviors.
    • 3/5
      I received this book through the Early Reviewers program. It's probably not a book I would normally read. About halfway through, I was thinking i would give it one or two stars. However, later on, I did find a couple chapters helpful. One chapter in particular, "Communicating with Power," had some concrete information I could use. After finishing this, I realized that at certain points in my life, different pieces of this book would be helpful. So, although it's not a rave review, I do see where this book could be helpful.
    • 5/5
      I cried through every chapter as they revealed me all the ways I've been playing small all my life. This book couldn't have come in a better time. I'm deeply grateful for the author.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book truly “opening the mind” and creating lots of inner questions. Impressef by big amount of powerful recommendations and exercises. Plus the authors voice is really soothing and assuring for the audio version, which I rarely find common in many other audio books:)
    • 5/5
      If I had to designate “required reading” for female entrepreneurs, Playing Big by Tara Mohr would be on the list.Women entrepreneurs are the changemakers the world needs right now.However, we have been conditioned to not make noise, to be polite, and to question our knowledge.It’s our job, as female changemakers, to recognize these patterns and work through them. And it can be done if you follow the advice outlined in Playing Big.Playing Big is the playbook on how to speak up and lead. And Mohr expertly navigates her readers through these waters by focusing on topics, such as:•Your Inner Critic•Your Inner Mentor•Fear•Criticism and Praise•Good-Student Habits•Hiding•LeapingMohr provides exercises (from guided meditations to journal prompts) to help you combat what’s holding you back. These exercises are thought-provoking – but not in a scary way. If you are want to bust through your mindset blocks as a female entrepreneur, run (don’t walk!) out and get a copy of Playing Big today. This book will transform your life – and business.My big takeaways:#1: I am attached to praise and criticism.One of the big mindset blocks I am working through is a fear of criticism or making someone unhappy. I am a people pleaser (reforming!), and the desire to not upset someone affects how I market my business. Specifically, I am afraid of personal attacks. I pride myself in being a “nice person,” and as an empath, a personal attack rattles me to my core.Nevertheless, I have to bust through this mindset block because I am here to play a bigger game. I am here to change lives. And that means I will rock the boat. I am working on understanding this: As a changemaker, I will be criticized on my journey. It’s not a matter of if – it’s a matter of when. I am glad to have Playing Big at my disposal to help me navigate this situation when it happens. #2: I am a professional hider.In Playing Big, Mohr lists six ways that women hide:a.This before thatb.Designing at the whiteboardc.Overcomplicating and endless polishingd.Collecting and curating someone else’s idease.Omitting your own storyf.I need the degree…As you read this list, did you first think “wait, that’s not hiding?!” These hiding tactics are so ingrained in our lives; we don’t even recognize them for what they are. Know this: These are all diversions. And we have to cut this shit out. You with me? How Playing Big relates to entrepreneurs:I know I’ve already said this, but it bears repeating:Playing Big is a must-read for female entrepreneurs. It calls out our shit (in a loving, gentle way), shows us how to bust through our mindset blocks, and leaves you feeling empowered.Honestly, it’s the book I wish I had written. Nonetheless, I am glad Tara Mohr wrote it so I can use it to play a bigger game with my business.And if you’re ready to take up more space, to make more meaningful noise, and to play a bigger game, then get your copy of Playing Big today. You will not regret it.
    • 5/5
      This book really resonated with me as it provided simple steps on how to “play big”. I think this was a little more directed towards women who were climbing the career ladder, which I am not, but I found nuggets of wisdom all throughout. Very well written and organized and the narrator was pleasant to listen to for a lot of hours.
    • 5/5
      “Playing Big” is aimed at women who are looking for help in achieving their dreams. Not only is the book written for women who feel as if they are stuck in moving forward—held back by a sense of insecurity and confusion about how to take the next step, it is also written for women who have become complacent with where they are now because they don’t believe they have what it takes to take the next step. Although I often tire of self-help books, I found Mohr’s book to be a refreshing change. Yes, she discusses popular topics like unhooking from praise and criticism, listening to your inner mentor, etc., but she also includes fresh topics. In particular, I enjoyed the chapter on how women have trouble with the transition from being a “good student” while in school to being a good leader post-graduation. The book is well written and a quick read. Each chapter concludes with a summary of its key points, journaling questions, and a review of “the big ideas.” The suggestions and material in the book are applicable for a wide range of women-- artists, writers, entrepreneurs, engineers, etc. I received a complementary review copy of this book from LibraryThing Early Reviewer’s Program.