This Working Life

How to Navigate Your Career in Uncertain Times

By: Lisa Leong, Monique Ross

Narrated by: Lisa Leong, Monique Ross

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

This Working Life is the audiobook you need to navigate your career with courage, openness and a good dose of laughter in these chaotic and uncertain times. Springing off the success of her ABC podcast, Lisa Leong, together with journalist Monique Ross, is bringing a deep curiosity to the world of work.

You spend most of your waking life working - a jaw-dropping 90,000 hours for the average person. You deserve to feel joy during that time. But how?

This Working Life empowers you to experiment in the lab of life. You’ll reflect on your highs and lows, harness your superpowers and pinpoint your guiding values. You’ll learn the importance of empathy as you craft a job or curate a portfolio career that can grow with you. You’ll unlock the power of rituals, community and self-care and build resilience that will help you face life’s inevitable curveballs.

Lisa and Monique get personal, sharing hard-won learnings from their own lives. This Working Life also features insights from world-leading thinkers like Dorie Clark, Jeremy Utley and Dan Klein and practical activities to help you take action.

No matter where you are, or where you want to be, This Working Life will help you get there.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Lisa Leong and Monique Ross (P)2022 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.

Excellent perspective setter

I absolutely loved this book. I recently had a professor mention that only 10 percent of the world defines their values. AND 10 percent of the world makes 90 percent of the money. Since then as you can imagine I have been trying to define my values.

This book FINALLY helped me define my values and see things from a bigger picture. Thank you so much Lisa! I loved it :) I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in self development, and self awareness!

Not my favorite

If you are someone transitioning careers or having a hard time after covid it might be helpful. I found it to be a summary of a lot of different non fiction books but lacking it’s own essence.

Helpful, thoughtful & inspiring!

I really enjoyed the storytelling and narration. This is the perfect listen for anyone who is trying to work out the next steps in their career! Highly recomended.

Excellent! Very enjoyable.

Excellent, i really enjoyed this listening. Would recommend to anyone. I definitely will listen to it again.

Some lessons worth knowing

Overall, it was an enjoyable book. I'm not sure I learned a ton of life lessons, but still valuable to hear the author's take on how they shaped her life.

Unfortunately, the heavy accent became burdensome to me even though it was originally quaint.

Great For Our Post-COVID Workplace

I've read and listened to hundreds of management and self improvement books, and I found this one to excel at bringing out still more valuable nuggets of wisdom. This book is very timely as it addresses living in a world and workplace in upheaval due to COVID lockdowns and other impositions.

I found that some of the concepts or ways of looking at work brought out in this book are insightful and provide an improved lens in which to view the world of work.

...and I love the Australian accent.

Coherent and fun!

The authors dive into difficult discussions in a way that coherently questions assumptions on approaches to work and life. It was free with Audible, and while it occasionally feels like a long podcast, it delivers a rhythm, insights, and accessibility to big, deep ideas that I found engaging, helpful, and entertaining.

Sad It’s Over

As someone who is suddenly accelerating into a career (wait how did I get here?) I appreciated the wide variety of perspectives. I felt it was a well balanced approach at what a working life could mean.

For the first couple chapters, I was not sure I would stick around but I’m glad I did. It might have to do with how many male-dominated voices I’ve recently listened to on books about business. Having a reset with This Working Life gave me more ease than hustle anxiety.

The middle section was my favorite.

Great story telling.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking forward to maximizing their focus at work or any of their hustles.

Great examples through story lines.

great read, love her accent

great tips for self improvement, and how to take it easy on yourself, great daily reminder of how to think positively in your day to day /work life