On Monday 1st December 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Big Impact Without Burnout: 8 Energizing Strategies to Stop Struggling and Start Soaring by Bianca Best.

A copy of this book was gifted to the Founder of PropelHer’s Book Club by Watkins Publishing.

In this summary of Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best, I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

Big Impact Without Burnout is split as follows:

• Introduction
• The Desire to Matter
• Why Impact Requires Strategy 
• Part One: The Foundational Imperatives For Big Impact – First, Go Within
• Part Two: The Expansion Phenomenon – Now, Go and Give Your All
• Manifesting Your Magic

Part One and Part Two each contain 4 strategies each, but those two parts of the parts of the book being the bulk of the book and exploring the 8 energizing strategies mentioned in the subtitle.

In the Introduction, Bianca set the scene for burnout. She states it “is torture for the ambitious woman” and then goes on to share why so many women struggle with burnout in todays’ world. She also shares some signs to help you to recognise if you are experiencing, or are close to experiencing, burnout. 

In Part One: The Foundational Imperative For Big Impact – First, Go Within the first four Big Impact strategies are explored. These are around the areas of energy, mindset, purpose and time. Each chapter is filled with information about why that area is so important and the reader is given plenty of opportunity to reflect on their own life in relation to that area.

Then in Part Two: The Expansion Phenomenon – Now, Go and Give Your All the second four Big Impact strategies are explored. These are around the areas of work, connection, wealth and fulfilment. 

Throughout the strategies the reader is meant to be writing down pledges and actions in relation to the area that has just been covered. These are then brought together at the end so that you leave with your big impact without burnout master plan. 

Overall, it is very clear that Bianca is a well-read and knowledgeable woman. The book is filled with concepts, theories, and references to other studies and books. And Bianca has tried to not make it just a book you read, but a book you work through. There are so many opportunities in the book for the reader to take what they’ve read, reflect on their life, apply to their life etc. 

However, given that this book is for busy women who may be experiencing burnout or close to experiencing burnout at 275+ pages and with so much for the reader to do, it felt like this book may be adding more work to women who already have a busy life and load. 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best

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Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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On Monday 5th January 2026 PropelHer’s Book Club will meet for one last time and discuss The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz, PhD.

PropelHer’s Book Club had it’s first session on Monday 4th January 2016.

A decade, and 119 sessions, later it is time to say goodbye. And the Founder, Charelle Griffith, couldn’t think of a more fitting way to end than with the book that started it all – The Magic of Thinking Big by Dr David J. Schwartz.

Whether you were a member for years, attended a few sessions, quietly read the newsletter or was a follower on social media you are invited to grab a copy of the book and come and join this final discussion.

This is an online event (you’ll be sent a Zoom link closer to the time) so you can join from wherever you are.

And to ensure as many people as possible come it is Pay What You Want.

Book your ticket, have a good read and get ready to discuss (and say goodbye) on Monday 5th January 2026.

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On Monday 3rd November 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

In this summary of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

Think and Grow Rich is split into an introduction and 14 chapters.

In the introduction Napoleon is introducing the  idea of how powerful an individual;s thoughts are and how they can attract success. He shars the story of Edwin C Barrel and the desire he had to work with Edison. 

The next 13 chapters walk you through his 13 steps to success. Some of the steps are desire, autosuggestions, specialised knowledge and persistence. For each of the steps the chapter will go into detail about how the step is important, share stories of others and then give advice on how you can apply the tip. 

The book also shares Napoleon’s six practical steps to riches which includes deciding the exact amount of money you want, being clear on what you are willing to do for the money and having a clear deadline. 

The book then ends with Chapter 15 (How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear) where Napoleon talkes about the main six fears people need to overcome. They are poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love, old age and death. 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

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Think and Grow Rich by Dorie Clark was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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On Monday 1st December 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club will be discussing Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best. 

A copy of this book was gifted to the Founder of PropelHer’s Book Club by Watkins Publishing.

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Craving more time and energy?

Stressed out?

Feeling that your goals are hard to achieve?

If you answered yes to any of the above, you are not alone.

Lots of other brilliant women feel the same and Bianca Best wants to do something about it.

In Big Impact Without Burnout, Bianca shares how you can achieve with your dreams with grace, joy and integrity. She shares 8 essential strategies to holistically shift from stress and struggle to empowered rising and achieving. 

Like the sound of Big Impact Without Burnout and want to give it a read and then discuss the book with other women who’ve read it? Book a ticket using the button below.

Don’t already have a copy of Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best. You can buy a copy of Big Impact Without Burnout by Bianca Best from Bookshop.org (and support Independent bookshops) or from Amazon by clicking below.

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On Monday 6th October 2025  PropelHer’s Book Club  discussed Open Up: The Power of Talking About Money by Alex Holder.

In this summary of Open Up: The Power of Talking About Money by Alex Holder. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

Open Up is split into five sections and finishes with an epilogue.

In Section 1, We Need To Talk, Alex makes her case for why she believes it is so important to talk about money. She looks at what the impact of not talking about money has. She then goes on to share what her advance for writing the book was, the shame we feel around money (whether it be what we earn, what we have saved or the debt we have), and then closes the section by looking at spending habits and giving the reader a whole list of prompts to get you properly looking at your money situation and relationship with money.

Section 2: Let’s Talk Money and Friends introduces the idea of having a money salon and essentially having more open conversations with friends about money. This section then covers things why in the UK the norm is to split the bill, the money conversations you need to have when living with friends, and the financial reality of being a friend and having to attend stag, hens, wedding and other social events.

In Section 3: Let’s Talk Money and Relationship the focus is on money through all stages of dating and being in, and out of, a relationship. Alex discusses the cost of dating and who should be covering those costs, when to start having conversations about money, how to deal with money when in a long-term relationship, and the financial reality of breaking up with someone.

Section 4: Let’s Talk Money and Work discusses finding out about what your colleagues earn, being able to negotiate and get the pay you deserve, working for free and quitting your job. Whilst most of this section is focused on money from an employee perspective at the end is a section around freelancing and how talking about money can be helpful as a freelancer too.

Then in the final section, Be Good With Money, Alex covers some of the money basics in an attempt to help you to be financially fit, which she argues will become one of the next wellness trends. This section covered budgeting, saving, getting out of debt and investing for later life. 

The book then closes on an epliogue where Alex shares some final wisdom on being able to have more conversations about money (in the right way) and reminding the reader why even though it may feel awkward, it is worth having conversations about money.

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Open Up by Alex Holder. 

Like the sound of Open Up by Alex Holder. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

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Open Up by Alex Holder was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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On Monday 3rd November 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club will be discussing Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

Do you want to be rich?

Lots of people dream of being rich, a few achieve it, whilst many more don’t. 

Napoleon Hill spent 25 years interviewing wealthy people to work out how people became rich.  

After all that research Napoleon came up with 13 steps to wealth, which he shares inside Think and Grow Rich. 

Like the sound of Think and Grow Rich and want to give it a read and then discuss the book with other women who’ve read it? Book a ticket using the button below.

Don’t already have a copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. You can buy a copy of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill from Bookshop.org (and support Independent bookshops) or from Amazon by clicking below.

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On Monday 1st September 2025  PropelHer’s Book Club  discussed Happy High Status: Get the Secret to Lasting Confidence by Viv Groskop.

In this summary of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

Happy High Status is split into an introduction and ten  chapters. In the introduction, Viv shares what happy high status, what it isn’t and why adding happy high status to your vocabulary and life can be so powerful. Essentially happy high status is a type of confidence, but for many the term confidence has “baggage”. Viv writes “The truth is, we have an unnecessarily narrow and unhelpful definition of what confidence is and who has it”. Whereas “happy high status as a term is freeing because it is open to interpretation and does not have those connotations”. 

After the introduction there are eight chapters with each chapter being devoted to a different type of happy high status:

• Vulnerable Happy High Status
• Dominant Happy High Status
• Balanced Happy High Status
• Generous Happy High Status
• ‘What If …?’ Happy High Status
• ‘Leader’ Happy High Status
• Athletic Happy High Status

For each of the happy high statuses Viv will go into detail about what that happy high status is. She’ll give a number of examples to help the reader really understand that version of happy status. Then, at the end of each chapter, there is a ‘How to get a piece of it’ section, which is where there are specific actions you take to help you start using that type of happy high status. Finally, the chapter ends with summary that includes traits, most useful for and examples of who succeeds at using that type of happy high status.

After going through the eight different types of happy high status there is chapter 9 where you learn about how the advice ‘just be yourself’ isn’t great and how to find your happy high status. Then the book ends with chapter 10 and Viv reminding the reader about how important it is to be confident and therefore the importance of finding and living in your very own happy high status.

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. 

Like the sound of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

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Happy High Status by Viv Groskop was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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On Monday 6th October 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club will be discussing Open Up: Why Talking About Money Will Change Your Life by Alex Holder.

Many people believe that talking about money is taboo. 

So people don’t talk about money, and that causes major problems. 

In Open Up: Why Talking About Money Will Change Your Life by Alex Holder shows how talking about money can change your life, relationships and bank balance. 

Like the sound of Open Up and want to give it a read and then discuss the book with other women who’ve read it? Join PropelHer’s Book Club for 3 months (October – December 2025).

Don’t already have a copy of Open Up by Alex Holder. You can buy a copy of Open Up by Alex Holder from Bookshop.org (and support Independent bookshops) or from Amazon by clicking below.

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On Monday 11th August 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark.

In this summary of The Long Game by Dorie Clark.  I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

The Long Game by Dorie Clark. is split into three sections, followed by a Coda:

Section One: White Space
Section Two: Focus Where It Counts
Section Three: Keeping the Faith
Coda: Three Keys to Becoming a Long-Term Thinker

In Section One: White Space, Dorie shares why it’s important to have space in your calendar and the time to think, but why so few of us have that. Dorie explores why most people are so busy and argues it a mixture of wanting the perceived status that goes along with being busy, but also a focus on execution. Dorie makes it very clear that making white space is vital and that for many of us, that means we have to get better at saying no, even to things that we’d like to do. 

Then in Section Two: Focus Where It Counts Dorie discusses goals and how many people optimise for money, and there are other ways to optimise, ways that could be considered better. The 20% time concept is discussed with the reader being encourage to take time to explore. Then you are challenged to think about time and the way you work differently, whether this is thinking in waves, considering leverage more and paying attention to your network. 

Finally, in Section Three: Keeping the Faith Dorie talks about patience and how it necessary to put in time, and continue to keep continue to put in the work even though it will take time for you to experience the benefits. There is also a discussion on failure and we need to treat things as experiments.

Right at the end there is a short Coda where Dorie shares the three keys, according to her, that are needed to become a long-term thinker.

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of The Long Game by Dorie Clark. 

Like the sound of The Long Game by Dorie Clark. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

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The Long Game by Dorie Clark was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

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On Monday 1st September 2025PropelHer’s Book Club will be discussing Happy High Status: Get the Secret to Lasting Confidence by Viv Groskop.

Most people want to be confident and to be able to deal with challenging situations. But most people don’t want to be labelled as over-confident, arrogant or smarmy. So what is the answer? 

According to Viv Groskop, there is a new way to think about confidence and that’s thinking about having a ‘happy high status’.

In the book, you’ll learn more about what happy high status is and how to access it for yourself. 

Like the sound of Happy High Status and want to give it a read and then discuss the book with other women who’ve read it?

Become a member of PropelHer’s Book Club 2025. You’ll get access to this session and all the other sessions in 2025. 

Don’t already have a copy of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. You can buy a copy of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop from Bookshop.org (and support Independent bookshops) or from Amazon by clicking below.

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