Blaze Your Own Trail

An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity and Compassion

By: Rebekah Bastian

Narrated by: Natalie Hoyt

A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring listeners to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path - just your own!

So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed.

Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian, vice president at Zillow and recognized thought leader, inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. “I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths, magnificent screw-ups, and shocking successes,” she writes. Through story lines and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, child-rearing, existential crises, and everything in between, you will learn to embrace and feel less alone in your own nonlinear journey. Even better, you can turn back decisions and make different ones. Blaze Your Own Trail includes 19 possible outcomes and many routes to get there. You will find that you have the strength to make it through any of them.

Listeners can navigate the audiobook themselves, selecting each chapter, or they can choose one of four preset pathways for easy navigation. Each preset pathway will take you all the way through a full Blaze Your Own Trail experience and lead you to one of the 19 possible endings.

©2020 Rebekah Bastian (P)2020 Rebekah Bastian

I could not stop exploring trails!

After I listened to the first trail, I was bummed it ended so early. But then I started my second trail and could not stop. The stories are so relatable and sincere. It flows and is written well. The data points referenced add depth. Defiantly will be sharing this book!