Career Courage

chapter two

Confidence: Conquering Your Worst Fears

Cecilia has loved designing celebrations ever since she threw her mother a surprise birthday party at age ten. Now she runs her own business, producing events for some of Miami’s richest organizations. She’s living a dream-come-true. Or is she? Just beneath the surface of a life full of multicolored balloons, tinsel confetti, and popping champagne corks lurks an insup-pressible longing to leave behind a legacy more enduring than a glittering but fading memory of a sensational evening.

But just thinking about what else she might do really scares her. She’d like to write a book about throwing great parties and teach classes on event planning, but she shrinks from stepping outside of her comfortable, ...