You have been intentional about building your career.

Have you been equally intentional about the relationships shaping your decisions, opportunities, and future?

Professional women are often rewarded for being capable, dependable, and able to figure things out.

 

However as careers and responsibilities grow, competence alone is not enough. Some people around you can broaden your perspective, challenge your blind spots, create access to new opportunities, and help carry the consequences of difficult choices. Some can also leave you relying on relationships that were built for an earlier version of your life.

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Natalie Bennett knows how to achieve her goals. As she moves from ambitious student to physician, wife, mother, leader, and entrepreneur, she discovers that her career has advanced faster than her Relationship System surrounding it. Her story will resonate with professional women whose growing careers have brought more complex decisions, greater responsibilities, and a need for relationships that can grow with them.

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Choose Your Circle combines a compelling fictional story about Natalie’s life with Dr. Christine Thorpe’s original framework and research-informed commentary. You will learn how to identify the people who truly share your life and its consequences, build a Trusted Circle for perspective, expertise, challenge, support, access, and opportunity, recognize where you may be over-relying on one person, and cultivate the relationships your next chapter requires.

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Your success should not depend on how much you can carry alone. It should be supported by relationships strong enough to grow with the life you are building.