Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower with Morra Aarons-Mele

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Morra Aarons-Mele is the host of The Anxious Achiever, a top-10 management podcast that helps people rethink the relationship between their mental health and their leadership. Morra founded Women Online and The Mission List, an award-winning digital-consulting firm and influencer marketing company dedicated to social change in 2010 and sold her businesses in 2021. She helped Hillary Clinton log on for her first internet chat and has launched digital campaigns for President Obama, Malala Yousafzai, the United Nations, the CDC, and many other leading figures and organizations. She lives outside Boston with her family and menagerie. For more details, visit www.theanxiousachiever.com.

Book synopsis:

Anxiety affects over one third of Americans. But anxiety at work, especially among leaders, has long been a taboo topic hidden in plain sight. Until now.

In THE ANXIOUS ACHIEVER: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower, acclaimed podcast host and author Morra Aarons-Mele transforms anxiety from a perceived weakness to a strength. Anxiety is a normal human response, and by its nature, a major part of leadership, but it is a double-edged sword: When unmanaged, it can be a destructive force – as overwork, perfectionism, micro- management, unhealthy diets, drinking, or substance use all impact today’s workplace experience. But if harnessed constructively, it can be a catalyst for growth, helping channel superpowers like greater vision, empathy, and communication skills.

Inspired by her popular podcast of the same name, Morra Aarons-Mele has packed THE ANXIOUS ACHIEVER with actionable advice, as well as insights from leading psychologists and other experts, revealing how to:

● Decode your own anxiety profile to avoid common thought traps and triggers

● Confront bad habits and unhealthy coping mechanisms

● Resist perfectionism, manage social anxiety, and set boundaries to prevent burnout

● Deal with feedback, criticism, and impostor syndrome

● Model and convey healthy leadership behavior

"If you are a high achiever and you know—you just know—that you could achieve even more

and be happier if you could wrestle your anxiety to the ground, this is your playbook."

— Whitney Johnson, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Smart Growth

"Morra Aarons-Mele gently and intelligently guides readers through the different facets of anxiety

and shows us how to tame negative self-talk and experience more joy and more success.

Wise and practical, The Anxious Achiever is a game changer."

— Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School; author, The Fearless Organization

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· https://www.linkedin.com/in/morraaaronsmele/

· https://www.instagram.com/morraam/