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The Reading List for Ambitious Women
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items I’ve always loved books that leave me thinking a little differently than I did before I opened them. These are the ones that have challenged the way I think about money, confidence, business, success, and what I want for my own life. For me, ambition...
Sections
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Make More Money & Build Real Wealth
Grow Your Career, Build a Business & Lead
Build Confidence, Know Your Worth & Own It
Change Your Habits, Shift Your Mindset & Become Her
Grow Your Faith, Deepen Your Spirituality & Stay Grounded
Make More Money & Build Real Wealth
More money gives you more choices, not more stress. These books changed the way I think about earning, saving, investing, and building the kind of wealth that creates real freedom.
This one made me think bigger about money and stop treating wanting more of it like something I needed to apologize for. It’s a powerful reminder that earning more can mean more choices, more freedom, and more opportunities to create the life you wan...
We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Wealth
Making more money is great, but knowing what to do with it matters just as much. I love how this brings saving, budgeting, debt, credit, and investing together in a way that makes getting your financial life together feel doable.
Get Good with Money: 10 Steps to Financial Wholeness
Sometimes the biggest thing between you and more money is what you believe you’re capable of earning. This one had me looking at my own money mindset, the stories I’d been carrying around, and where I might be getting in my own way.
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Mindset
This is not your traditional personal finance book, and that’s exactly why I wanted it here. It digs into wanting more, receiving more, and changing the beliefs you have around money without making you feel guilty for actually wanting to be wealthy.
Rich As F*ck: More Money Than You Know
This book is more than a century old, but the idea behind it still makes you stop and think: what if building wealth starts with changing the way you think about possibility, opportunity, and abundance? I love having this classic perspective beside t...
The Science of Getting Rich
Grow Your Career, Build a Business & Lead
Working hard can only take you so far. These books have helped me think bigger about my career, business, leadership, and creating opportunities instead of waiting for them.
Working hard and being good at what you do doesn’t automatically move your career forward. This one helped me recognize some of the habits that can quietly hold women back and think differently about what it takes to reach that next level.
How Women Rise: Break 12 Habits Holding You Back
Learning how to negotiate changes more than your salary. I wanted this on my bookshelf because knowing how to communicate, ask for what you want, handle difficult conversations, and negotiate confidently matters whether you’re building a career or ru...
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating Life & Work
There’s something powerful about learning from a woman who has already navigated the rooms you’re trying to get into. This one is full of real career lessons about performance, relationships, taking risks, and positioning yourself for the opportuniti...
Expect to Win: 10 Strategies for Thriving
I love the idea of saying yes to the things that scare you, stretch you, and might completely change your life. This is the kind of book that makes me think about where I’ve been playing small and what could happen if I stopped.
Year of Yes: Dance It Out & Be Yourself
Build Confidence, Know Your Worth & Own It
Knowing your worth changes the way you walk into a room, make decisions, and go after what you want. These books have helped me quiet some of that self-doubt and trust myself a whole lot more.
How many times have we talked ourselves out of something before anyone else even had the chance to say no? This one made me think about fear, criticism, self-doubt, and all the subtle ways we can shrink our own ambitions instead of playing bigger.
Playing Big: Wisdom for Women to Lead
Rejection hits differently when you’re already questioning whether your dream is going to work. I love Jamie’s story because she kept believing in what she was building even when people told her no, and it’s a powerful reminder to stop letting someon...
Believe IT: From Underestimated to Unstoppable
Waiting until you feel completely confident can keep you waiting forever. This book helped me look at fear differently. You don’t necessarily need to get rid of it first. Sometimes you take the next step scared and discover your confidence along the ...
Feel the Fear... and Do It Anyway: Techniques
Confidence can change the way you show up in your career, your relationships, and the decisions you make for yourself. I love books that remind women that we don’t have to wait until we feel completely ready before we trust ourselves and go for it.
The Confidence Code: Guide to Trust in Decisions
Change Your Habits, Shift Your Mindset & Become Her
We all have a version of ourselves we’re working toward. These books have helped me change the habits, mindset, and everyday choices that are getting me closer to becoming her.
Big changes don’t always come from making big moves. This book made me pay more attention to the little things I do every day and how those small habits can quietly move me closer to, or further away from, the life I’m trying to build.
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
Sometimes the mountain standing in your way is you. This book really makes you look at self-sabotage, the patterns you keep repeating, and what might need to change within you before you can become the woman you keep saying you want to be.
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
This one is different, and that’s exactly why it belongs here. It made me think about fear, procrastination, drifting through life, and how easy it is to give away control of your direction without even realizing you’re doing it.
Outwitting the Devil: Secrets to Freedom & Success
Grow Your Faith, Deepen Your Spirituality & Stay Grounded
For me, ambition means very little if I’m growing everywhere except on the inside. These are the books I reach for when I need to strengthen my faith, quiet the noise in my head, reconnect with what matters, and remember that there’s more to life tha...
This is my favorite must have. It’s about observing the voice in your head instead of allowing it to run your life, letting go, and finding more inner freedom.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Some days I need a reminder that God is right there in the middle of whatever I’m carrying. I love having a devotional I can open for a few quiet minutes, reconnect with my faith, and hear the words my heart may need that day.
He Whispers Your Name: 365 Devotions for Women
My mind can be ten steps ahead thinking about what’s next, so I appreciate anything that reminds me to come back to where I am right now. This is one of those books that makes you think differently about being present instead of constantly living in ...
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment