Laura Mayer

Tryhard (eBook, ePUB)

A Cautionary Tale of Clocking In and Spinning Out

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A superstar podcast producer delivers a unique, laugh-out-loud, cry quietly invitation to examine our delusional obsessions with work in this eye-opening bookpart memoir, part mentoring, part confessional guidethat dissects the emotional ties that bind us . . . to our desks.

For any type-A, high achiever out there, this is the book that sees you. And provides a cathartic, funny, emotionally charged insight into what drives the perfection-oriented.

Laura Mayer was born a girlboss. As a child in suburban Illinois, she played "V.P. of Sales" in her bedroom, dictating important memos to her twin brother and swapping Judy Blume for the buzzy business books of the day. While other kids dreamed of being pop stars or pro athletes, little Laura had a single-minded focus: the corporate ladder.

Some thirty years later, from a dizzying perch on that very ladderas Executive Producer of Podcasts at ABC News, with such blockbuster shows as Revisionist History, Bad Blood, and Happier with Gretchen Rubin to her creditand with an identity shaped by annual reviews, performance indicators, and executive presence (whatever that means) a disillusioned Laura is calling "bullshit" on the whole work-is-life thing. Sort of.

Tryhard is a gonzo memoir for 9-to-5 devotees who have read every business book and C-suite-or-bust instruction manual yet still find we're burnt out and unhappy. It is also a deeply personal and poignant examination of why we race at all. Laura detangles this delusional mess of priorities we've created, rejects the boss-at-any-cost culture, and invites us to laugh at ourselves (and her) along the way. She offers the modern office worker a new path forward through her own revelations, and implores us, for the love of God, to chill out a little bit.

This is Laura's messy, somewhat enlightened, possibly transformative, heart-wrenching and always entertaining storya one-of-a-kind sightseeing trip on the Great American hamster wheel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063380523
• Artikelnr.: 75601858

Autorenporträt

Laura Mayer is the Executive Producer of Podcast Programming at ABC News and was the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of a multi-million dollar podcasting joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment. She has developed or produced hit shows such as Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History, and By the Book, and was the co-creator and executive producer of season one of The Dream. She began her career at WNYC, New York Public Radio. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.