
Leap
Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
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Tess Vigeland
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By:
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Tess Vigeland
Until recently Tess Vigeland was a longtime host of public radio's Marketplace. It was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it - but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she'd been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked away from her dream job and into a vast unknown. Suddenly she was no longer "Marketplace's Tess Vigeland"; she was just Tess Vigeland.
For the multitude of Americans who change jobs midcareer (by choice or circumstance), the growing legions of freelance workers, and the entrepreneurially minded who see self-employment as an increasingly more appealing and viable option, Tess Vigeland has created a personal and well-researched account of leaping without a net. With her signature humor, she writes honestly about the fear, uncertainty, and risk involved in leaving the traditional workforce - but also the excitement, resources, and possibilities that are on the other side.
Leap is also about finding a new definition of success. Tess poses the important question, "Who am I without my job?" She shares the accounts of people who struggled with this question before and after they took their own leaps of faith, and they ended up finding out more about themselves than they'd thought possible. Success doesn't have to be measured by salary or a traditional career path, as so many of us are conditioned to think, but by your own happiness and fulfillment.
Part memoir and part field guide, this book offers a funny, thoughtful, and provocative look at how to find satisfaction and success when pursuing a career less ordinary.
©2015 Tess Vigeland (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















I’d recommend this book for anyone who is contemplating a change/leap or for those who have already made a change in and to their professional careers and paths.
It’s nice to hear other stories and outcomes to what can seem ‘scary’ and ‘brave’ all in one.
I’m glad I got the chance to Leap!
Thank you Tess for sharing your story and the stories in your book.
Sounded like my story.
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I was hoping Tess Vigeland's book might serve as a blueprint. It doesn't quite do that, but what it does do is give me an idea of the challenges that are likely in store as well as affirm the idea that it will still be worth it.
I enjoyed the book very much as and Vigeland is a great reader. What I enjoyed most was that the book is entirely relatable to what I am doing, but doesn't make me feel alone or crazy for venturing into the unknown. It made me feel better about my decision, which is just what I needed.
Just What I Needed
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Forever to get to the usable info
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Interesting and entertaining
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LEAP- A story of discovery
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Leaper 2 timer
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Hearing someone else that decide to embark I. This journey of this is not for me, for don’t have any idea what it is. It is refreshing.
I started running today download the app. Allow me to become someone different without my inner thoughts of I am a loser. It is a big change.
I would say something to Tess that I learned a while ago, whenever you decided something you always decided with the best intentions to help you out. Then, since there is no way to figure out the outcome. Just remembered that you took the decision based on your experience and your knowledge at that time.
And just to finalize I will try to get a f$&& you fund. I really think it is very necessary. Thank you. You made me feel I was not the only one in the process to change. Gracias!!
What a perfect book
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But she is so repetitive, maybe she would have needed to go further into her leap journey before finishing the book ? Its a long jump indeed
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Everything Mrs Vigeland says is true, but ...
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Misleading Title
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Good premise, but SO Repetitive
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