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### Description
What moves people to pursue a long-held business idea, dramatically alter a career path, or try something different? And how do they face fear and summon courage to take the leap?

From CEOs to solopreneurs, tech startups to non-profits, [Kylie Lewis](/content/about-kylie-lewis/index.html) uncovers different ways to rethink a career and to reinvent a livelihood, despite feelings of fear. The Leap Stories asks 13 Australians who have made a leap in their working lives exactly how and why they did it — practically, financially and emotionally.

Comprising six updated interviews from Lewis’ [Leap Stories blog](/content/category/the-leap-stories/index.html), alongside seven brand new interviews, The Leap Stories invite you to explore hunches, scratch those itches, back yourself, have a crack and do more than just entertain the possibility of ‘what if’.

> “What The Leap Stories assures readers is that there’s no single path to success and no formulaic way to conjure the courage to take a first or next step toward a fulfilling work life,” says Lewis. “Each interviewee’s leap may not have been instant or dramatic: it may instead have been a series of small hops over a period of time; some sideways sliding; a little backwards and forwards cha-cha, or it could have been an almighty bungy jump. The common theme, however, is honesty, intention and above all, courage in the face of fear.”

From resigning a job without a clear plan of what do to next; moving to a new country for employment; pursuing a long-held business idea; to taking a sabbatical or recommencing study later in life – these intimate and honest interviews prove that to make a career transition or start a business may be scary, exhilarating, a foregone conclusion or a complete about-face (or all of the above). But overwhelmingly, to leap is to live courageously and authentically.

**Featuring exclusive interviews with:**  
Kristina Karlsson of kikki.K ~ Melanie Perkins of Canva ~ Bonnie Ashley of Bonnie & Neil ~ Elliot Costello of YGAP ~ Correne Wilkie of The Cat Empire ~ Ryan Spaccavento of Coffee On Cue ~ Emma Fulu of The Equality Institute ~ Petrina Turner of Petrina Turner Design ~ Carolyn Tate of The Slow School of Business ~ Kai Brach of Offscreen Magazine ~ Aimee Marks of TOM Organic ~ Lydia Pearson of Easton Pearson ~ and Kemi Nekvapil of Raw Beauty Queen

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## The Leap Stories
**The Leap Stories: Intimate Interviews On Overcoming Fear, Choosing Courage Over Comfort And Designing A Fulfilling Career**
_By Kylie Lewis_
Paperback – 216 pages
155x230mm
Embossed front cover detail
RELEASED NOVEMBER 2016
Published by [Creative Minds](http://www.creativemindshq.com/)  
Category: [Book](/content/product-category/book/index.html)