The Anxious Achiever

Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower

By: Morra Aarons-Mele

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the world. But in our workplaces, anxiety has been a hidden problem—there in plain sight but ignored. Until now.

The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety is built into the very nature of leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.

Inspired by the popular podcast of the same name, The Anxious Achiever is filled with personal stories, research-based insights into mental health, and lots of practical advice. You'll learn how to: figure out your own anxiety profile so that you can recognize and 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; and model—and communicate—healthy behavior as a leader. Whether you're experiencing anxiety for the first time or have been battling it for years, The Anxious Achiever will help you turn your stress and worries into a source of strength for yourself, your career, and the people you lead.

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

©2023 Morra Aarons-Mele (P)2023 Ascent Audio

I feel seen!

Many helpful tools and moments of realizing I’m not alone. Anxiety doesn’t have to hold me back from stepping into more leadership responsibility. A good mix of stories and practical helps.

Exactly what I needed!

As person who has suffered with Depression and Anxiety for half of my life I always wondered how do people cope with this while being a leader or entrepreneur. This book answered all of my questions and has given me insight on how to move forward.

A worse variety of examples, advice and sources

Overall a valuable book for anybody with anxieties, especially those just starting to try manage then and wanting to find out more.

Excellent and thoughtful

A few more examples of dialogue between leader and executive. Thank you sincerely! As we age we seek this wisdom. Better late than never.

Great Information and Engaging Delivery

So many great and practical tips to a variety of potential pitfalls. Very open and honest sharing that does not come across as over sharing or prescriptive.

Helpful and pragmatic

Helpful and pragmatic perspectives grounded in both psychology and practice. Not too woo woo nor dry. Also had hood and implementable suggestions for those dealing with various stages and types of anxiety

How anxiety affects everyone and how to control it to your advance.

Great read and highly recommended for professionals and executives looking to take their careers to the next level.

Got so much out of it. I’m going to listen to it again immediately.

Wish I had read or listen to the book much earlier in my career. Definitely helped to better understand what drives me and what is healthy and productive and what isn’t. Looking forward to sharing this with others

Profound

It's a conversation needed to be had, anyone fostering this conversation is at the forefront of a much needed movement and I applaud Morra for taking on this behemoth of a task with such passion and gusto for us to share and continue the conversation with others. Many tools tactics and terms in here that provide a great understanding of the day to day and longterm struggles many encounter in the workplace and outside

Provided prompts to assess my own achiever’s anxiety, and it shared the experience of various others.

An insightful, thought-provoking, and helpful book. I added some of the strategies to deal with achievement anxiety and imposter syndrome to my toolbox.