Author: Debra Condren, Ph.D.

Publisher: Morgan Road Books

Copyright: 2006

Why do so many women fail to achieve their professional goals and earning potential? Why do so many women feel guilty about wanting a fulflling career? A business psychologist, executive coach and career adviser who has worked with thousands of smart, high-achieving women, Debra Condren, Ph.D., has discovered the true culprit: this time it's not the men holding women back. This time, women are doing it to themselves because ambition--for women--is still a dirty word.

AmBITCHous offers every woman a revolutionary perspective and a practical roadmap to reclaim ambition in its most gloriously positive sense. "Wouldn't it be great if you could be audaciously ambitious and happy at the same time? You can and you will." Drawing on inspiring stories from her interviews with 500 happily ambitious women (including our own Editor, Pat Lynch), as well as her own professional and personal experiences, Dr. Condren shows how any determined woman can claim the recognition, respect and money she deserves, without feeling guilty and without compromising her integrity. With refreshing bluntness, Dr. Condren makes clear that the rewards of ambition can only be reaped by rejecting our culture's drill on the importance of putting ambitious goals at the bottom of a woman's priority pile--to be tended to only after she's first sacrificed for everyone else--along with refusing to buy into the idea that if she goes after her dreams, she'll be selfish, bitchy, a bad wife, or a bad mother.

More about Debra Condren, Ph.D.
Debra Condren, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a business and executive coach and career adviser. She is the founder and executive director of the Women's Business Alliance. She received a U.S. Small Business Administration's Women in Business Advocate of the Year 2000 award. Her client roster includes a diverse list of Fortune 500 companies and a wide array of executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and students. She has been featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN's Paula Zahn Now and NPR's Morning Edition. She lives in New York City and San Francisco with her husband, son and stepson.  Visit her website here.