Product Description
by Shabaura Perryman (Author)
Severed: How Women Rise After Layoffs, Reorgs, and the End of a Career They Loved is an empowering, heartfelt guide for high-achieving women facing career disruption. Whether you're newly laid off, burned out, or choosing to start over, this book is your roadmap from loss to liberation.
Written by Shabaura Perryman, MPH, a public health professional, HIV advocate, and former corporate leader who's survived multiple layoffs, this book blends personal narrative, affirmations, strategy, and clarity. With honesty and heart, Severed walks women through the emotional aftermath of job loss and into the power of reinvention.
This book is for:
- Women entering or returning to Corporate America with eyes wide open
- Women ready to turn experience into entrepreneurship
- Women of color who are done surviving and ready to thrive
- Anyone healing from the identity crisis that comes with a sudden career loss
Readers will learn how to:
✔ Heal from job loss without losing themselves
✔ Rebuild their confidence, calling, and clarity
✔ Launch a new business or purpose-filled career path
✔ Rise in power, especially as a woman of color, in a shifting economy
Severed reminds readers: You are not starting over. You are starting from experience.
