The number of Christian women in today's professional workforce is increasing, and they are hungry for practical mentoring. They yearn to learn from someone who has climbed the ladder of success without sacrificing family or faith---something author Diane Paddison has done with excellence and grace. The stories Paddison shares about her corporate, personal, and spiritual life, as well as the lives of other women like her, are both inspiring and instructive, providing on-target advice and concrete examples of how to succeed without feeling overwhelmed or compromised. This is a working book for working women. Full of practical, proven guidance that is both professionally viable and biblically sound, each chapter includes sidebars featuring pertinent facts from current research, resources relevant to the chapter's topic, action-oriented 'to do' lists, and other interactive material. Chapters also include questions suitable for discussion, making it an excellent resource for use in small groups. Work, Love, Pray is a valuable resource for professional Christian women, but it's also a must read for the husbands, sisters, daughters, and friends who share their lives.
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Diane Paddison has held several executive positions for corporations, including Chief Operating Officer for two Fortune 500 companies, Trammell Crow (now CB Richard Ellis) and ProLogis. She is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at the commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley and serves on two other corporate boards, Behringer Harvard REIT Opportunity Fund II and Air Advice. She is also an advisory board member for The Salvation Army and Harvard Business School Christian Fellowship Alumni Association and a Trustee for Oregon State University. Diane is known for seeking opportunities to gather professional women for connection and mentoring time whenever she travels for business. This passion for mentoring women inspired her to found 4word, a national nonprofit designed to connect, lead, and support young professional Christian women to fulfill their God-given potential (www.4wordwomen.org). Diane and her husband have four children, and they live in Dallas, Texas, and Portland, Or?
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Diane Paddison, Harvard MBA, twice held roles as the only female member of the executive team at a Fortune 500 company. Now chief strategy officer at Cassidy Turley, she's also a wife and mother, and a devoted Christian. Paddison began working on the family farm, paid her way through college, served with IBM and earned a Harvard MBA. She rose to the executive committee of Trammell Crow Company and global executive teams of CBRE and ProLogis. In Work, Pray, Love - updated in 2012 - Paddison uses personal highs and lows to help today's women balance career and family. Diane Paddison founded 4word - 4wordwomen.org - linking women committed to faith, family, and work to each other. 4word's value - secular and spiritual -Â emerges not only in local chapters, but also through a virtual community. Paddison's strong "Yes" to faith, family and work stands out as a national dialogue grows around women in business, with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter also speaking out.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Poppy J.
Format:Paperback
Dianne Paddison writes on how women can find the right balance in their lives between their jobs, families and their faith. She starts her career as a commercial real estate broker and after twenty-two years, she realizes she had arrived at the position of chief operating officer. She was not required to sacrifice time with her family because the company she worked for shard her same values. She left the company to go to another company which promised to fulfill her needs to spend time with her family. The new company felt the effects of the declining housing market in 2008. For the first time in her life, Dianne was asked to put her career before her family. The book is a guide for women who are placed in the same situation and it offers information in the tone of narrative chapters, reflection and discussion questions. The book also offers advice for women who would find themselves in similar situations. The questions at the end of each chapter allow the reader to focus on brainstorming problem solving solutions to the career and life problems mentioned within the chapter. Each chapter ends with a situational analysis or factual hypothetical scenario regarding an issue method with the chapter.
The book goes over every issue and obstacle which could stand in the way of a woman achieving balance in her career. These barriers include: family planning, keeping fit and making time for regular exercise, making time for each season in life, understanding the value of networking with other professional women, handling money matters and making a conscious effort to grow your faith. The author discusses the current inequalities in the workplace and how they affect women in general in the workforce.
The rules of life as discussed in the book include: finding your own faith journey, not living by a "one-cross rule" of Christianity, finding if your company guidelines and goals are compatible with your faith, being realistic with your finances, making time for Bible study and Church family, nurturing your spiritual, physical, emotional an professional self, and accepting the limitations of being human. The appendix includes a resource of professional organizations for women with websites and summaries of the company information. The book is a good resource for working women and can be used for beginning a career or studying even after having spent time at home raising a family.
The book goes over every issue and obstacle which could stand in the way of a woman achieving balance in her career. These barriers include: family planning, keeping fit and making time for regular exercise, making time for each season in life, understanding the value of networking with other professional women, handling money matters and making a conscious effort to grow your faith. The author discusses the current inequalities in the workplace and how they affect women in general in the workforce.
The rules of life as discussed in the book include: finding your own faith journey, not living by a "one-cross rule" of Christianity, finding if your company guidelines and goals are compatible with your faith, being realistic with your finances, making time for Bible study and Church family, nurturing your spiritual, physical, emotional an professional self, and accepting the limitations of being human. The appendix includes a resource of professional organizations for women with websites and summaries of the company information. The book is a good resource for working women and can be used for beginning a career or studying even after having spent time at home raising a family.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Diane Rhodes
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We know how valuable a mentor can be for career and life success. However, mentors who can share experience and insights to help balance three important life dimensions - faith, family and career - are extremely rare. As I read Work, Love, Pray, I was amazed at how skillfully Diane Paddison was able to draw from her own experiences as corporate executive, mother, wife and devoted Christian to provide valuable guidance for young women beginning their careers and the challenging balancing act that follows.
Like a great mentor, Paddison does not preach or direct. Rather, she shares her own triumphs and heartaches with humility and candor, and poses thought provoking questions for her "mentees" to consider and explore. She doesn't shy away from sensitive, yet important topics that are too often glossed over in other forums. Reading each chapter feels like a powerful mentoring session with someone who speaks from the heart and wants only the best for the reader.
This is a book I will recommend frequently and share with my college age daughter. Although targeted for young Christian women, I believe Work, Pray, Love would be valuable for any woman looking to balance her career and family goals and navigate the workplace with integrity and grace.
Like a great mentor, Paddison does not preach or direct. Rather, she shares her own triumphs and heartaches with humility and candor, and poses thought provoking questions for her "mentees" to consider and explore. She doesn't shy away from sensitive, yet important topics that are too often glossed over in other forums. Reading each chapter feels like a powerful mentoring session with someone who speaks from the heart and wants only the best for the reader.
This is a book I will recommend frequently and share with my college age daughter. Although targeted for young Christian women, I believe Work, Pray, Love would be valuable for any woman looking to balance her career and family goals and navigate the workplace with integrity and grace.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By DHW
Format:Paperback
OK...I'd like to offer the first male review of this book!
I finished the book this weekend and frankly have a problem with it. It says, right there on the front cover, that the intended audience is Young Christian Professional Women.
Well, I beg to differ.
Simply put, I thought the book was fantastic. I'm a bibliophile and rarely say that about any book! I so agree with what the Prof from Michigan State says in the earlier review. The book is very inspirational, practical and honest. It is rare to find a book with all three.
However, the problem I have is that the audience described on the cover is far too narrow for such a great book!
I think that any husband of a current or former Christian businesswoman should read this book. I am one of those and it gave me extremely valuable insight into the mind of my wife.
Insight into the mind of my wife is, well, something that is priceless!
Also, if any one has a daughter that is a junior or senior in high school OR a daughter in college...they should have their daughter read this book. They will be inspired and given invaluable counsel on the journey they have yet to begin. Counsel that will both help steer them in the right direction and, more imporantly, steer them away from things that can lead them astray.
It is going into the hands of Maggie, my 17 year old, ASAP!
I finished the book this weekend and frankly have a problem with it. It says, right there on the front cover, that the intended audience is Young Christian Professional Women.
Well, I beg to differ.
Simply put, I thought the book was fantastic. I'm a bibliophile and rarely say that about any book! I so agree with what the Prof from Michigan State says in the earlier review. The book is very inspirational, practical and honest. It is rare to find a book with all three.
However, the problem I have is that the audience described on the cover is far too narrow for such a great book!
I think that any husband of a current or former Christian businesswoman should read this book. I am one of those and it gave me extremely valuable insight into the mind of my wife.
Insight into the mind of my wife is, well, something that is priceless!
Also, if any one has a daughter that is a junior or senior in high school OR a daughter in college...they should have their daughter read this book. They will be inspired and given invaluable counsel on the journey they have yet to begin. Counsel that will both help steer them in the right direction and, more imporantly, steer them away from things that can lead them astray.
It is going into the hands of Maggie, my 17 year old, ASAP!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
practical encouragement
Good, practical encouragement much needed for today's Christian working woman. Can definitely relate to the author! I have already recommended this to friends.
Published 12 days ago by ATKC
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great encouragement for working moms
Diane is a business professional but this book could apply to any woman in any career. There are a few sections that focus more on the single, child-less, fresh-out-of-college... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Aggienurse
5.0 out of 5 stars
Realizations to a young professional
Work, faith, and family... the three important priorities in Diane Paddison's life, as she explains in her book Work Pray Love. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Daaper
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too Specific to be helpful
I was really looking forward to this book but it proved to be somewhat of a disappointing. I thought it would appeal to a wider audience and be helpful to any young woman looking... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Rhiana Jones
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Review of Work, Love, Pray by Diane Paddison
For young Christian women, Work, Love, Pray: Practical Wisdom for Young Professional Christian Women by Diane Paddison is filled with resources and links to professional... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Keiki Hendrix
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Advice
I was initially drawn to the title of the book since it reminded me of Eat, Love, Pray. I like the layout of this book as Diane Paddison includes a Reflection and Discussion at the... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Thee~Classy~Gal
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just What I Needed!
As a young, professional, Christian women, I've struggled to find role models that have been successful in their work, family and faith. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Christine M
4.0 out of 5 stars
Practical Wisdom
And there is plenty of it in this unique peek into one persons' life who tries to reconcile family and work. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Louann Carroll
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Advice
This book has great advice for working women. It tackles topics such as finding a church group that fits into your busy schedule, how to show your faith at work, and even has a... Read more
Published 17 months ago by G. Hembrough
5.0 out of 5 stars
Meaningful, Thoughtful and Optimistic
Work, Love, Pray: Practical Wisdom for Young Professional Christian Women
Meaningful, Thoughtful and Optimistic
At the end of 2011 heading into yet another... Read more
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Published 17 months ago by John Hogan
