New York Times bestselling author Mika Brzezinski’s EARN IT! will do for women in their 20s and 30s what her 2012 bestselling book Knowing Your Value did for women of all ages—energize and equip them with the tools to find their voices, know their worth, and build success.
Headlining sold-out Know Your Value events across the country, Mika knows that today’s young women face a whole new set of demands and pressures that make it challenging to realize their professional ambitions, whether they are starting out or taking strategic steps to further their careers.
Now, in EARN IT!: Know Your Value and Grow Your Career, in Your 20s and Beyond (Hachette Books; May 7, 2019)—Mika and her co-author Daniela Pierre-Bravo, a 28-year-old DACA recipient/DREAMer who struggled to pay her way through college while working undocumented as a Mary Kay consultant and then went on to become a producer at MSNBC, have written a no-holds-barred, step-by-step career guide for women in their twenties and thirties.
Featuring dozens of interviews from social media experts, top executive recruiters, and female entrepreneurs, EARN IT! includes insights from Mika’s conversations with accomplished career women such as Tory Burch, Rebecca Minkoff, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joanna Coles, Anjali Sud, Jane Park, Carla Harris, and Dia Simms, and new research from Harvard. EARN IT! is a straight-talking handbook for the newest generation looking to innovate businesses and find meaning in their careers.
The workplace is ripe with opportunity for young women to succeed and get ahead, and Mika and Daniela also discuss the hurdles that they had to overcome starting out and, for Daniela, as a minority. They offer concrete advice on how to own your presence and your voice, exert confidence and self-assurance without being mistaken for “arrogant” or “entitled,” read your audience, and discover how to apply that information to your advantage. They include valuable strategies on how to interview well, negotiate a raise, determine your purpose, advocate for more responsibility, and move forward lucratively.
Mika’s newest title is the blueprint for knowing your value as a young woman. There are of-the-moment reports from young women who have created their own paths or become successful executives climbing the corporate ladder, and millennial women who started in traditional corporate jobs and then decided to be their own bosses.
Written in Mika’s honest, funny, and self-deprecating style, EARN IT! is a powerful book for young women, providing guidance about the best ways to cultivate their strong, confident, determined, ambitious selves to move ahead in the workplace and beyond.
The time to break the glass ceiling is now and Mika has created a guide to help young women smash it!
Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of Morning Joe, founder of Know Your Value, and the author of New York Times bestsellers All Things at Once, Knowing Your Value, and Obsessed. She also served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is the mother of two daughters.
Daniela Pierre-Bravo catapulted from her job at NBC Universal’s prestigious Page program to become a successful booking producer on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and a Know Your Value millennial contributor.