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In the wake of Gretchen Carlson s lawsuit against former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, her memoir of her time at Fox working alongside Megyn Kelly, Bill O Reilly, Steve Doocy, and other prominent conservative news personalities is more relevant than ever. In this candid memoir, celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways about what it means to strive for and find success in the real world. With warmth and wit, she takes readers from herMinnesota childhood, when she became a violin prodigy, through attending Stanford and later rising to anchor ofThe Real Story with Gretchen Carlsonon Fox News after working her way up from local television stations. Carlson addresses the intense competitive effort of winning the Miss America Pageant, the challenges she s faced as a woman in broadcast television, and how she manages to balance work and family as the wife of high-profile sports agent Casey Close and devoted mother to their two children. An unceasing advocate for respect and equality for women, Carlson writes openly about her own struggles with body image, pageant stereotypes, building her career, and having the courage to speak her mind. Encouraging women to believe in themselves, chase their dreams, and never give up, Carlson emerges inGetting Realas a living example of personal strength and perseverance. From the Hardcover edition."
Now updated with a new chapter! Includes the #metoo movement and the cultural revolution. A groundbreaking manifesto from journalist Gretchen Carlson about how women can protect themselves from sexual harassment in the workplace and reclaim their power against abuse or injustice. In BE FIERCE, Gretchen shares her own experiences, as well as powerful and moving stories from women in many different careers and fields who decided they too weren't ready to shut up and sit down. Gretchen became a voice for the voiceless. In this revealing and timely book, Gretchen shares her views on what women can do to empower and protect themselves in the workplace or on a college campus, what to say when someone makes suggestive remarks, how an employer's Human Resources department may not always be your friend, and how forced arbitration clauses in work contracts often serve to protect companies rather than employees. Her groundbreaking message encourages women to stand up and speak up in every aspect of their lives. Gretchen also discusses why this fight will require both women and men working together to ensure that our daughters and sons will have a brighter future. BE FIERCE is a cultural movement and a motivating testament to what we can accomplish if we collectively decide to become warriors in the path for a better future. The time is now. Take back your life, your career, and your dignity. Twitter: @GretchenCarlson Facebook: @GretchenCarlson Instagram: @therealgretchencarlson A portion of each book sale will go towards Gretchen's Gift of Courage fund.
When Gretchen Carlson made a life changing decision to "walk off the set" and speak up about injustice in the workplace, she felt as if she were jumping off a cliff, but that leap led to a new calling: to change the way women fight sexual harassment. After the former Miss America, mother of two, and star news anchor at Fox stood up, walked out, and spoke out, women all over the world began to take back their lives, careers and dignity, and she became a voice for the voiceless.In Be Fierce, Gretchen shares her experience and includes stories from the many women who have reached out to her, as well as interviews with prominent women who refuse to submit to intimidation of any kind - people like Lisa Bloom, Anita Hill, and Anucha Browne Sanders. Gretchen also shares the wisdom and research of lawyers, psychologists, and other experts to confront this problem and advance what has become an international conversation.
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