What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?: Discover a Life Filled with Purpose and Joy Through the Secrets of Jewish Wisdom

By Michal Oshman

Book Overview

Let Michal Oshman take you on a journey of self discovery to identify what makes you you, what you were born to do and how to do it.

As a mentor for leaders in top global companies, Michal created a unique personal growth methodology based on the life-changing principles of Jewish wisdom. It is easy to think that the daily challenges we experience in the 21st century are new and unlike any that people faced in the past. Michal draws on her own heritage and a wide range of Chassidut (Jewish teachings) to offer practical advice for common concerns, such as a broken heart, parenting, overcoming setbacks, and getting the most out of your career.

By challenging you to explore what matters, Michal offers solutions to your everyday struggles. She will empower you as well as teach you how to adopt her self-development tools to discover who you really are and what you were born to do with your life. With its uplifting belief that you already have all the ingredients within you to lead a joyous life, Michal's unique mix of corporate culture experience and Jewish wisdom will help you reconnect with yourself.This unique book will help you to find your courage, and move forward freely, with no fear at all!

What leaders are saying about What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?
Yossi Klein Halevi - Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Reading this beautiful book is like sitting with a wise friend who is helping you make sense of your life. In drawing on the insights of Jewish tradition, Michal Oshman shows us how to nurture our souls, the "flame within a shell," and turn pain into growth. Read this book gratefully, and then give it to someone you love.

Mark Gerson - Co-Founder and Chairman, United Hatzalah and author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, The Telling
This is a magnificent book - combining the best of rigorous self-reflection, professional and personal counsel and Jewish wisdom. Michal Oshman shows, in this beautifully construed, wisely informed and always engrossing work, how Jewish wisdom can serve its intended purpose - practical guidance - en route to making one's life happier, more fulfilling and better.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0744029104
• ISBN13: 9780744029109
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Empowerment for those with anxiety and leaders

I received an ARC of this title via BookishFirst. This was one of the better books I’ve read in a long time and I don’t normally read self help books. As someone with anxiety I found this to be extremely helpful in finding new ways to think about myself and others around me that I lead. I started wanting to power read it through like I do my other books but instead I discovered myself taking a chapter a day. This allowed me to soak through what I’d learned and apply those skills the next day. The only reason I did not give this book five stars (I would have done 4.5 if I could) was because the ninth chapter was about leading children. I have no problem with children and others will probably not find this an issue like I did. The issue was that there was no disclaimer of “if you don’t have children you can skip or try to apply this into another aspect of your life” but rather it assumed I had children. As a married woman in her twenties the idea of children gets pushed on you a lot so I didn’t really enjoy the assumption. The rest of the book hands down five stars!