Winging it. Emma Issacs. 2018.

I’m about to welcome you into my world. Show you what works for me and share openly what hasn’t. I hope that what you find in the pages of this book inspires you to dream up new ways to be kind to people and to think about how the game you’re currently playing might be worthy of a bigger court. I hope it stretches your thinking about what’s possible, and shows you that when you take giant leaps of faith, the only challenging thing will be some temporary discomfort. 

Are you ready to wing it?

CEO and entrepreneur Emma Isaacs forgot to draw up her life plan, and she doesn’t have a list of five year goals. She doesn’t believe in work-life balance - after all she has five children and heads up Business Chicks, Australia’s largest community for women. 

Like Sheryl Sandburg, who told us to ‘lean in’ to find success, Emma wants to show us that you can’t plan every detail and wait for the confidence to kick in before you begin; instead, take action now, do what feels right and figure the rest out as you go along. In other words, you’ve got to learn how to ‘wing it’ rather than wait.

Drawing on her own life and the stories of the many women and men she has met and interviewed from Sir Richard Branson to Bill Gates to Girlboss Sophia Amoruso - Emma tell us how to: 

Turn a dream into a job

Turn a job into a business 

Network like a champion

Protect your time for the thing that matter

Get fired up not ground down by the kids- career juggle, and understand that sometimes failure is part of the brief. 

Emma shows us that often the only thing holding us back is ourselves; that you can follow your dreams; and that there’s no reason not to start doing so right now.