Amina AlTai is an executive coach, leadership trainer and chronic illness advocate, whose roster of clients include Fortune 500 leaders, entrepreneurs, and celebrities. After spending a decade grappling with a fast-paced career in marketing and two autoimmune diseases, Amina hit burnout. In hopes of healing her own life, she sought training in coaching, mindfulness, nutrition, and fitness, and her goal became to teach others how to balance a thriving career, body, and mind. She has partnered with companies such as Google, Snap, Outdoor Voices, Chief, and Roku, and been featured in goop, Forbes, Well+Good, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, and more. She's an Entrepreneur Magazine expert-in-residence, a Forbes contributor, and was named one of Success Magazine's Women of Influence.
The Ambition Trap is a game- changing work that aids readers in rewriting ambition on their own terms. This book is a fresh take on what it means to have enough and how we build careers, lives, and legacies in more connected and fulfilling ways. * Deepa Purushothaman, bestselling author of The First, the Few, the Only * The Ambition Trap is a paradigm- shifter for anyone who's ever felt caught between desire and self- doubt. With compassion and clarity, this book reframes ambition . . . as an inherent right everyone is entitled to claim. . . . It reveals how ambition, when grounded in authenticity, can ignite powerful cultural transformations. The Ambition Trap goes beyond granting permission to dream big- it boldly encourages us to embrace our gifts with confidence and unapologetic determination. * Gay Hendricks, bestselling author of Five Wishes and The Big Leap * In Amina AlTai's glorious new book, she allows us to reframe our relationship to ambition, particularly the vilification of it, to embrace a more positive version. . . . For everyone looking to understand themselves and underlying societal systems that hold perceptions of ambition in place, AlTai offers insight and actionable ideas for a new definition of your ambition and yourself. * Stacy London, stylist, designer, midlife advocate, and New York Times bestselling author * Amina AlTai challenges the notion that ambition has to mean sacrificing our wellbeing. This book is for anyone tired of the hustle and ready to create meaningful work and a life they truly love. * Minda Harts, bestselling author of The Memo * In The Ambition Trap, Amina AlTai redefines what it means to succeed in a world dominated by hustle culture. . . . For anyone ready to step off the treadmill and live a life of true achievement and joy, The Ambition Trap is the inspiring roadmap you've been waiting for. * Claire Wasserman, founder and author of Ladies Get Paid *