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This Isn't Working!

Evolving the Way We Work to Decrease Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

Published by Indigo River Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

"...takes the lid off the difficult career questions we all face, and provides pointed advice for finding healthy, empowering work."-Steve Woodruff, Author, Clarity Wins

The Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffling, and Quiet Quitting-clearly something is not right at work. Rates of stress, anxiety, and depression were skyrocketing before the COVID-19 pandemic. Tied to their smartphones 24/7, many people were overworking, measuring their self-worth and value by how busy they were. They compared their lives to the filtered lives of peers on social media. They worked in corporate cultures that didn't support employees, and they undervalued the importance of their own mental and physical health.

During the pandemic's height in 2020, many people were forced to stay home. Some found themselves without a job at all; others had to learn to do their jobs remotely. It was during this "down time" that many people realized that busyness, overworking, overconsumption, avoidance, and numbing weren't helping. In fact, the whole approach was batshit crazy.

In This Isn't Working! Evolving the Way We Work to Decrease Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, career transition expert Catherine Altman Morgan explains why we shouldn't be striving to get back to "normal," because normal wasn't all that great. Instead, we need to EVOLVE.

Through her company, Point A to Point B Transitions Inc., Catherine has worked with many clients who suffer with physical and mental health issues caused by work-related stress.

In this book she offers techniques and strategies to rethink how we live and work and start feeling better almost immediately.

"I need this book. You might too! If you've felt a bit dented, here's the fix!" -Chris Brogan, Chief of Staff, Appfire.com

About The Author

Catherine Altman Morgan is an award-winning career transition expert who has been coaching clients and colleagues through job and life transitions for more than 20 years. She also speaks on topics related to career transition, productivity, and small business/entrepreneurship.Catherine graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in Psychology. Before starting her consulting business, Point A to Point B Transitions Inc., she was employed by KPMG, Arthur Andersen, and Deloitte. She also has been a contractor for Protiviti, Navigant Consulting, andRGP.With a background in job search, career transition tactics, and business strategy development, Catherine works with clients who have been laid off, believe their situation is unsustainable, or find that whatever they've been doing isn't working for them anymore. Whether seeking a new corporate job or growing a business, she guides clients throughout the process. Catherine lives in Chicago and can frequently be found at small venues enjoying world music, Latin jazz, or blues performances.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Indigo River Publishing (January 31, 2023)
  • Length: 182 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781954676466

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Raves and Reviews

"Catherine Morgan challenges our deeply-held beliefs and ideas on what work is supposed to look like. In doing so, she opens up the possibility to craft a professional life on our own terms. She smacks you on the side of the head with some straight-talk and follows it up with some compassionate support in a way only a rockstar coach can. When you read this book, you'll see your career differently, both the one you have now and the one you're building towards."

DAVID J.P. FISHER, Author, Hyper-Connected Selling and Networking in the 21st Century

"As I read through This Isn't Working! I found myself jotting down names of people who absolutely needed to read this book right now. So many professionals are in desperate need of Catherine Morgan's expertise. If you are at a crossroads in your profession and your life, and know there's just got to be MORE out there, this book will give you the direction, the tools, and the wise counsel you're seeking."

SARAH ROBINSON, Executive Strategist and Keynote Speaker

"Today's world of work is starkly different from past decades. To get and keep great jobs, This Isn't Working! is the perfect contemporary career guide, written by Catherine Morgan, an expert who gets real results every day for her clients."

PAMELA SLIM, Author, Body of Work and The Widest Net

"No one sets out to work themselves into a downward spiral, but that's what our professional lives often become: a soul-consuming trap. Catherine Morgan takes the lid off the difficult career questions we all face, and provides pointed advice for finding healthy, empowering work. Catherine has been my go-to resource over many years for professional friends in career transition, and I am grateful that she has written this book for the benefit of many others."

STEVE WOODRUFF, Author, Clarity Wins

"Like any important work, Catherine Morgan's book reads somewhere between the transcripts of a very vital conversation and an instruction manual for a new business world that's still in the 'cooling lava' stages of forming. I need this book. You might, too! If you've felt a bit dented, here's the fix."

CHRIS BROGAN, Chief of Staff, Appfire.com

"Catherine Morgan has taken a refreshing and eye-opening look at work in her aptly titled new book, This Isn't Working! She takes the reader through a journey all too familiar-stress, anxiety, and depression and the ongoing problems of work. After seeing how things have turned upside down since the pandemic, Catherine has brought her expertise and wit, sharing new language to use with yourself, and at the end of each chapter bringing us back to the possibility underlying the challenges. Celebration for Catherine's truly needed work that gets to the heart of what's not working at work!"

DAWN ELLERY, CEBS, Human Resources Total Rewards Leader

"Catherine Morgan has stepped up and out to be a voice of raw honesty, transparency, and courage. She has cut through the barrier of silence and shame of those collective human experiences that are shared by so many during these uncomfortable times. This Isn't Working! is a gift to the many who were brave enough to stay, leave, dissolve, scramble, recover, and enter the unknown, finding new ground and meaning. Catherine has nailed it, hit it out of the ball park, and brought wisdom to the surface".

LIZBETH HAMLIN, MA, LMFT, Licensed Psychotherapist

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