Published in 2020
225 pages
Rebekah Bastian is a writer, artist, speaker, mentor, wife, mother, and aerial acrobat. She has held leadership roles including vice president of product and vice president of community and culture at Zillow and cofounder and CEO of OwnTrail. She is a contributor to Forbes.com and a frequent speaker on social impact, career navigation, and corporate diversity. Rebekah started OwnTrail to explore the myriad paths that women take through life―share yours at owntrail.com.
What is this book about?
A modern, feminist take on the classic choose-your-own-journey book, inspiring readers to embrace the fact that there is no singular right path—just your own.
So many women enter their adult lives believing that they should know where they are going and how to get there. This can make life decisions feel intimidating and overwhelming. While some choices that lie ahead are fairly predictable, such as those surrounding career, partnership, and motherhood, the effects of these choices can lead to more complicated and unexpected turns that are seldom discussed.
Rather than suggesting a rule book, Rebekah Bastian, vice president at Zillow and recognized thought leader, inspires you to Blaze Your Own Trail. “I have the benefit of being a living example of crooked paths, magnificent screw-ups, and shocking successes,” she writes. Through storylines and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, raising children, existential crises, and everything in between, you will learn to embrace and feel less alone in your own nonlinear journey. Even better, you have a unique advantage while living in the pages of this book: you can turn back decisions and try other routes. There are nineteen possible outcomes many routes to get there. You will find that you have the strength to make it through any of them.
