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STRONG, WISER, BETTER An Essential Guide for Reentering, Reinventing, or Rebooting Your Career at Any Age So many women hit midlife and realize: it's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need a backup plan. Perhaps you paused, or downsized your career to raise children, and you're ready to rejoin the workforce. How do you reboot, relaunch, return to, or reinvent a career at age 40? Or 50? Or 60? And how can you create a career and life that will provide you with purpose and financial security for years to come? In Comeback Careers, New York Times bestselling author and co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski and her sister-in-law Ginny Brzezinski have teamed up to show you that career reinvention is possible at any age. You have the skills, experience and maturity; it's time to own them. For this book, Mika and Ginny interviewed dozens of career-changers working in a variety of fields, from finance to academics to art. They share successful relaunchers' secrets to overcoming obstacles both internal and external, and their step-by-step processes and candid advice. They also reveal key strategies from top job coaches, resume-writers, and LinkedIn experts, tailored to the special challenges of mid-career jobseekers.It's time to rewrite the narrative. You are stronger, wiser, and better at the midpoint, and Comeback Careers is a roadmap to your career reinvention and fulfillment.

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[Mika Brzezinski is now a] guru for career women. -- New York Magazine

A rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve.-- TheAtlantic.com An in-depth look at how women today achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth.-- Today.com An inspiring evaluation of the potential women have to create fully productive lives at work and at home.-- Kirkus Reviews Mika Brzezinski... is on a mission to help women know their worth-and claim it. Her book-turned-movement is giving women across the country the support, knowledge and tools they need to successfully advocate for themselves.-- Forbes Part memoir and part manifesto...chronicles the author's struggles as a woman in the workforce-and outlines the dos and don'ts of achieving equal pay.-- The Daily Beast Provides much-needed perspective.... A thoughtful look at how women can quit getting in their own way.-- Publishers Weekly With books and a constellation of related content under the banner 'Know Your Value, ' . . . [Mika Brzezinski is now a] guru for career women.-- New York Magazine [Mika Brzezinski is a] guru for career women. -- New York magazine Very timely.... Champions equality for women, particularly in the workplace.--Women's Wear Daily-- Today.com The Morning Joe co-host has been through it all, making the advice in her book Know Your Value incredibly, well, valuable... [C]andid and illuminating.-- Marie Claire Mika's Know Your Value asks the essential question-are you getting the money, respect, responsibility you deserve?-and shows you how to get it.-- Katty Kay, broadcast journalist and bestselling author of The Confidence Code

[Mika Brzezinski is a] guru for career women. -- New York magazine

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Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of Morning Joe, an MSNBC anchor, and the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Things at Once, Knowing Your Value, and Obsessed. She also serves as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is the mother of two daughters. Formerly a press secretary on Capitol Hill, a stay-at-home parent, and a real estate agent, Ginny Brzezinski is currently a content developer for the [know your value] website. She is Mika's sister-in-law, and the mother of two. Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of Morning Joe, an MSNBC anchor, and the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Things at Once, Knowing Your Value, and Obsessed. She also serves as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is the mother of two daughters. Formerly a press secretary on Capitol Hill, a stay-at-home parent, and a real estate agent, Ginny Brzezinski is currently a content developer for the [know your value] website. She is Mika's sister-in-law, and the mother of two.

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