Curiosity will inform us. Resilience will support us. Resourcefulness will fuel us. Passion will focus us. Courage will sustain us. And our superpowers will help drive us. Has your career taken twists and turns both expected and unexpected? You are not alone. Like the colors in a kaleidoscope, many women have leveraged their skills, passions, talents, and experience to create unique and vibrant careers.This Kaleidoscope Career introduces dozens of amazing women who continue to push the lens and find bold new images sometimes with challenges, often with wins, but always exciting. Their stories are authentic and vulnerable. With curiosity and resilience, they have risen to the heights of public office, the C-suite in multiple industries, founded and sold businesses, and become sought-after experts in a broad range of occupations. This book explores their passions, gaps and pauses, and even burnout, and presents a new framework, This Kaleidoscope Career Power Tools Kit to help offer clarity and inspiration to others.Whether AI, family demands, ageism, or creative challenges are driving women to review, reframe, or rethink how they work, This Kaleidoscope Career will support their personal quest and show them how to position their through-line to tell their remarkable story. An honest take on how women's career paths are not a straight line, this book celebrates their uniqueness and empowers them to redefine success.

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Helen Jonsen has lived a kaleidoscope career as a journalist spanning local and international TV news and digital media and as a public servant and entrepreneur. In her This Kaleidoscope Career podcast, she explores women's nonlinear success. She is the founder of helen jonsen media, a mission-driven communications firm that advises leaders and organizations on strategic communications. Helen is the author of several children's and adult books, and lives with her husband in New York's Hudson Valley.