Turning Points is the brain child of Kate Cobb, a British expatriate currently living in France.
In 2005 Kate was diagnosed with a rare muscle condition that would gradually affect her mobility and lead to increasing disability.
At the moment when the full force of the diagnosis hit her Kate said she realised she had a choice. She could either give up and accept the diagnosis and the extreme restrictions she was told it would put on her life. Or she could:
“Start an upward spiral of thinking and action to reverse matters.”
She chose the latter and earlier this year Kate decided that she was ready to tell her story and made plans to create the Turning Points book to include the stories of 24 other amazing women entrepreneurs. The book contains a wide variation in turning points some of them so traumatic and emotionally charged that they will bring tears to your eyes, others are less traumatic descriptions of points in life when the women concerned felt that now was the moment for decision, change and action.
Turning points are personal, what is a massive turning point for some, may simply be a little slight detour for someone else. Also from an individual perspective we may choose to react to one life event, having sat still in reaction to another.
The Turning Points book is an inspiration and collection of these kinds of events, those that act as catalysts for action and change. At some point each and every one of these women chose to act and to take action. They committed their time, energy and money to creating a new reality for themselves.
Their stories however have not been written to stun you into inaction – to thinking well I could never do that, my circumstances aren’t as horrific, as serious or as major as theirs. Their stories are written to inspire you to look for your turning point, the one that gives you your big reason why and to start your own personal process of change.
The stories themselves provide only a part of the content of this book. Also held within its pages is a treasure trough of tips and advice about how to get started and keep going.
It’s written by people who ‘care’ and want to inspire and support you through their success.
I know that many of the people who read this blog are expatriates. A relocation abroad is a major life change, a turning point most certainly, and although this book is not written specifically for expatriates many of the contributors are living abroad and share their experiences within the context of a life lived outside of their home countries.
To Purchase a copy and take advantage of the Free Gifts click this link here: Turning Points.
To listen to some or all of the 25 interviews Kate conducted click here: Turning Points Interviews
Your story is truly inspiring and will ring bells with any expat who has found themselves at a Turning Point when they land in their nth country and have to start again!
The message in the book applies just as well to non-expats as we have discovered this week, when our book sales took us to #1 on the Amazon Best Seller list in Women & Business books!
Comment by Kate Cobb — November 3, 2011 @ 9:43 am
Thanks for commenting Kate and congratulations on reaching number 1. I am still re-reading stories and gaining a lot of insights and ideas from the content. A book to come back to again and again. Now available on Kindle as well.
Comment by Louise Wiles — November 6, 2011 @ 2:12 am
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