LEAP Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want

On the National Public Radio personal finance show she hosted for 11 years, Tess Vigeland's broadcast voice was notable for its satisfying clarity and intellectual certitude. The softer confidence evident in this audio is a good vehicle for her message that internal measures of success are more enduring than relying on a job to define one's worth. Her compelling backstory recounts how she gained enough confidence after a fitness makeover to quit the NPR gig and strike out on her own. She describes how doing this forced her to ponder questions about her professional value and about how to work from home without a team, live on less income, and manage the roller-coaster emotions that result from becoming professionally unmoored. More inspiration than advice, Vigeland's book is essential listening in this age of professional insecurity. T.W. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2015]