'Finding Passion' Inspires Professionals

Jessica Manca, Certified Executive Coach, launches her first self-published book, "Finding Passion, A Self-Discovery Approach for Navigating Career Crossroads" (Managing Mindspaces 2013) for professionals struggling with the dance of well-paying careers that leave them unfulfilled.

Jessica Manca, Founder of Managing Mindspaces, wants to empower readers with confidence when faced with life-changing career decisions. In her book, Manca introduces a unique approach using self-discovery exercises and coaching questions to intimately challenge thinking and understand the roots of dissatisfaction within one's career. The book is ideal for mid-career and preretirement individuals considering career change, improving work life balance, feeling unfulfilled or bored, or those considering starting their own business.

The book blends social science, autobiography, and professional coaching into a powerful learning experience to ask, "What do I really want?" "Finding Passion" is now available for purchase on Amazon (paperback and Kindle). The book's journey is an interesting testament to Manca's commitment to helping others by being vulnerable to recount the story of her last year as a management consultant.

Three years ago, Manca reached her tipping point when she had burned out within a well-paying career and was transformed by finding her passion. Through working with a professional coach and practicing self-reflection, she had rediscovered herself and worked to resolve feelings that she was meant to do something else.

She shares the warning signs she hid from herself and the personal change process she underwent to realign to the life she wanted. Her book contains eleven chapters with written exercises to find answers, explore options, and work at the reader's pace to make the changes desired.

Manca says, "I remember how much energy I spent thinking about what to do before taking action. This resource is the book and self-discovery process I wish I had known about when I was wrestling with what to do in my career."

Manca believes making personal change is an individual learning experience that requires self-awareness. She adds, "It's a very personal and individual journey to look within yourself and find the permission to listen to what you want, rather than what others, including your employer, want for you. I wrote this book to inspire hard-working professionals to make informed choices in their career before health, stress, and relationships are affected."

About the author:
Jessica Manca, ACC, CEC, PMP is a certified coach, entrepreneur, project management professional and former management consultant. Jessica left the corporate world and founded Managing Mindspaces in 2012 upon answering the call from her ultimate future and calling. She shares her inner light, energy, and inspiration with others and believes that Passion is the answer for looking both inward and forward when making decisions in life.

Manca is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Certified Executive Coach (CEC) with the International Coach Federation and serves clients across the US and Canada on finding balance, passion, and living the lives they want.

Based in Vancouver BC, Managing Mindspaces provides sensible life and career coaching services, to clients struggling with the dance of well-paying careers that leave them unfulfilled. The company's mission is to "illuminate your greater purpose" and offers in-person, phone and Skype coaching to mid-career professionals across US and Canada. Services provided are in accordance with the International Coach Federation standards and ethics.

FINDING PASSION
A Self-Discovery Approach for Navigating Career Crossroads
by Jessica Manca
Publisher: Managing Mindspaces
Language: English
Paperback; $18.95; 148 pages; 978-0992082307
E-book; $9.95; 978-0992082314
Paperback (Additional Worksheets); $8.95; 84 pages; 978-0992082321
Available at Amazon and Kindle Stores.

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For more information on "Finding Passion," and to order the book, visit http://www.managingmindspaces.com/FindingPassionBook.