This Is How We Rise

Reach Your Highest Potential, Empower Women, Lead Change in the World

By: Claudia Chan

Narrated by: Erin Cottrell

Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's Summary

From an inspiring voice in the movement for gender equality, a practical guide to achieving success through a new kind of leadership - rooted in purpose and activism for social change

We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for women. Yet despite centuries of progress, true equality remains out of reach. What will it take to bring us to a tipping point?

To leadership expert and social entrepreneur Claudia Chan, the key is shifting to a "me for we" mind-set, where individuals root their effort in a mission far bigger than personal success, and getting everyone - women and men - to work together for social change. By lifting others, we not only make the world better, but we can also discover our greatest meaning and achieve lasting fulfillment. In This Is How We Rise, Claudia encourages listeners to join a new breed of leaders and become change makers for gender equality. Distilling wisdom and insights from her own personal and professional journey, she shares key lessons learned and offers a toolbox of 13 foundational habits. Claudia shows how to define and develop your own purpose, vision, and pathway to becoming a thriving agent for good.

Whether you own your own business or are part of the corporate world, whether you're at the top of your field or are just starting out in your career, you have the power to lead change and achieve extraordinary success in all areas of your life. This Is How We Rise will show you how to unleash it.

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

©2017 Claudia Chan (P)2017 Hachette Audio

Critic Reviews

"If you're looking to align your life and career with social impact, this book is one of the best investments you can make. A mix of inspiration, spirituality, and business strategy, Claudia provides a practical plan for how to channel your life purpose and create a more equal world for women and men." (Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and cofounder of Ellevest, chair of Ellevate Network, and author of Own It)

"I can't speak highly enough of Claudia Chan's extraordinary ability to inspire women to aim high and act on our passions not just for ourselves alone but to help all women rise. This is an important book that combines Claudia's movement builder's heart with her businesswoman's savvy. It's a book all women need right now." (Gloria Feldt, cofounder and president of Take the Lead and author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power)

"Equality is essential to the future success of humanity; it is not something to be feared or threatened by, but rather a standard to empower us all to live life to the fullest. Claudia Chan has been one of the most dedicated and inspiring voices calling on all people to work together for this basic human right." (Nigel Barker, photographer, filmmaker, and New York Times best-selling author)

Not worth the hype

This felt less motivational and more required training at work. Really disappointed definitely wouldn’t recommend unless this is literally the very first personal development / motivational book you’ve ever read.

Excellent read

Narrator really captured the spirit and essence of purpose of the book. Thank you, Claudia, for these excellent insights and inspiration to reach our full potential no matter where we are in our journey in life. It was a joy to listen!

Toxic Positivity + Delusional Optimism = This book

I went into this book looking for the issues women around the world have to endure followed up with well articulated solutions/propositions for how to solve some of the issues . And even though Claudia sparsely hits on this points, there was way too much fluff in between.

For one, Claudia constantly uses examples of people who overcome the trials and tribulations in their life through faith and belief. For example, she mentions Oprah Winfrey feeling bad about embarrassing one of her guests on the show. And from this, Oprah became a better person which propelled her career to unimaginable heights. That's a pretty big leap to go from a remorseful experience to being one of the wealthiest people in the world without incorporating the other facets of Oprah's life that led to her success.

Constantly, Claudia keeps pushing the narrative that if you find your purpose in life (set by God) and believe hard enough, you will accomplish what you were meant to do in life. It just feels disingenuous, because Claudia doesn't incorporate failure and circumstances into her message. She pulls the "feel good" stories out of the plethora of miserable and downtrodden ones as if those stories aren't realities for people a majority of people around the world. Not to dismiss confidence and hope necessary to move a mission/purpose forward because that is definitely involved in most expeditions to solving global problems, but there's more aspects that goes into it.

My final grip with this book is the overuse of God or higher power being intertwined in someone finding their purpose. Even though Claudia prefaces this topic with a disclaimer telling her readers that they should replace God and higher power with their own complementary substitute, her narrative requires that God exists as he gave each individual their hidden purpose in life. There's not a viable alternative for agnostics or atheists. From this perspective, these groups are excluded from having a true purpose in life. I know Claudia didn't mean any ill-intent when writing this book, but she doesn't properly address how someone that isn't a theist can find their purpose.

The intentions of the book are admirable as Claudia attempts to vocalize how everyone can have a purpose. But the execution missed the mark, and I just wouldn't feel right recommending this book to any in my social network.

Stopped after chapter 3

I was 3 chapters in and just found I was switching off. Such a shame as I love listening to Claudia Chan, but the narrator was so dull. Maybe one to purchase and read myself