Kathy Caprino is a life and executive coach, a career transition consultant, a speaker, and the founder/president of Ellia Communications, Inc.

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Thousands of professional women, though outwardly successful, find themselves in the midst of a crisis, believing that they've sacrificed meaning, fulfillment, balance, and joy in their lives to achieve career success. Breakdown, Breakthrough shows how women can restore their power and reconnect with their life visions as they awake from the paralysis of professional dissatisfaction and personal diminishment. Kathy Caprino identifies twelve specific challenges professional women face and offers concrete, practical advice for overcoming each one-helping readers step back to gain a new perspective, let go of what is holding them back, and say yes to creating a compelling and rewarding next chapter of life and work. She candidly discusses her own struggles with crippling feelings of disempowerment and shares moving stories and heartfelt advice gleaned from her interviews with over one hundred women who experienced and overcame the crises she describes. Breakdown, Breakthrough offers working women who are stressed, stuck, and dissatisfied access to new inspiration, hope, and a definite plan of action.