Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat. Audiobook (Free)

The former president of Gatorade and Equinox pulls unconventional insights and kickass lessons from her personal and professional experiences and from a band of highly accomplished ‘Extremers’ from business, sports, and entertainment to help you rock your job and live the boldest version of yourself.

From childhood, Sarah Robb O’Hagan thought destined to become champion, but her early efforts at sports activities, in college, and in music made it clear she was zero normal superstar. Unwilling to settle about Great You: Step Up. STICK OUT. Kick Ass. Do it again. for average, she decided to go Extreme. From dealing with Richard Branson like a thriving Virgin Atlantic executive in her twenties to becoming fired and almost deported a matter of a few months later, she discovered through a series of surprising successes and epic fails how the extremes of her experiences had been the engine of her achievement.

Making her way up the organization ladder to become an executive at Nike, global president of Gatorade, and president of the luxury fitness firm Equinox-as well like a wife, mother, and endurance athlete-she required the opportunity to understand from her relationships with extremely successful athletes, entertainers, and business and political leaders, finding that across an array of pursuits-from Olympic skier to disruptive entrepreneur, from White Home chef to secretary of state-Extremers adhere to the same solution to realize their potential. She learned to develop an almost marvelous inner drive, problem by challenge, until she could outperform almost any competition; to accept her interests, skills and idiosyncrasies and present them as unique specialties; also to step up-and come out of line-without allowing her ego inflate all her hard work. She learned how exactly to grit her tooth in the face of embarrassing failures, overcome her weaknesses, and relentlessly check herself to attain her next degree of success.

In every challenging situation, personal or professional, individuals face the pressure to conform to the accepted norms. But doing this comes with weighty costs: passions stifled, skills ignored, and possibilities squelched. The bolder choice can be to accept what Sarah phone calls Severe You: to confidently provide all that’s distinctive and relevant about you to ultimately everything you do.

Inspiring, unexpected, laugh-out-loud funny, and practical, Extreme You is usually her training curriculum for becoming your very best version of yourself.