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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't: A Memoir of a Life Through Events―the ... Journey of Survival and Hope for Career Women - Softcover

Gilbert, Jennifer

 
9780062076007: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag: A Memoir of a Life Through Events--the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't: A Memoir of a Life Through Events―the ... Journey of Survival and Hope for Career Women
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062076000 ISBN 13: 9780062076007
Verlag: Harper Paperbacks, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag is a warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinators.

With her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune 500 companies, broadcast media giants, international nonprofit organizations, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates and beyond. Yet few of her clients or colleagues have known, until now, that Jennifer not only a self-made success: she’s also a survivor. After a random, near-fatal attack left her body in critical condition on a crowded city street, and left her with emotional wounds that would take years to heal, Jennifer embarked upon a journey to reclaim her life.

This is her story, in her own words: I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag, an intimate, poignant, inspiring memoir of perseverance, rediscovery, and hope.


How does a woman who orchestrates other people’s happiest moments reclaim her own after a tragedy that should have destroyed her?


  • A Raw and Honest Memoir: Jennifer holds nothing back in recounting the brutal, random attack that changed her life, and the silent, solitary journey she took toward healing.
  • Self-Made Success: Read the incredible story of how a young woman, while privately battling deep trauma, built one of New York City's premier event-planning companies, Save the Date, from the ground up.
  • Against the Odds: Go behind the scenes of high-stakes event planning, where Jennifer's grace under pressure—honed by personal crisis—allowed her to solve disasters for clients from Bill Gates to Oprah Winfrey.
  • An Inspiring Story of Hope: Discover how surviving the unthinkable taught Jennifer Gilbert the true meaning of celebration, perseverance, and why life's greatest gifts don't come in a goodie bag.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jennifer Gilbert is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Save the Date®, the New York–based special-events company. She was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, received Working Woman magazine's Entrepreneurial Award of Excellence, and her company was voted one of its top 500 woman-owned businesses. An in-demand speaker, she has appeared at numerous schools and industry events, and her work has been featured in People magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and InStyle Weddings, as well as on Fox and CNN. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.

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When Jennifer Gilbert was twenty-two years old, someone tried to cut her life short in the most violent way. Not wanting this traumatic encounter to define her life, she buried it within and bravely launched a fabulous career in New York as an event planner. Always the calm in the storm—from fixing a ripped dress to relocating a lavish party on two days' notice—she was convinced she'd never again feel joy herself. Yet these weddings, anniversaries, and holiday parties slowly brought her back to life. No one's entitled to an easy road, Gilbert learned, but instead of anticipating our present in a goodie bag, it's our presence that is the real gift.

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Verlag
Harper Paperbacks
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062076000
ISBN 13 
9780062076007
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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