Get Real: 26 Canadian Women Share the Secret to Authentic Success

Getting the life you want is about getting real. This book features 20 Canadian women who are ready to reveal the secret to authentic success! Do what you love and love what you do. Thats the main message in bestselling author, TV personality, and TD Waterhouse senior vice-president Patricia Lovett-Reid`s new guide to achieving happiness and success in both your personal and professional life. Most women (and men) follow either an authentic or a conformist track in life, depending on whether they are in or out of alignment with their values. In Get Real, Patricia Lovett-Reid offers valuable advice and real-life success stories from 20 successful Canadian women, from sports figures to CEOs, who have achieved personal and professional happiness. From finding your passion, to getting real about relationships, career, money, lifestyle, and life, Lovett-Reid has formulated a simple, easy-to-follow 6-step strategy that is the key to living a full, authentic life.

Praise for Patricia Lovett-Reid:

"You can''t have a better coach in your corner than Patricia Lovett-Reid." -Jack Fleischmann, general manager, Business News Network

PATRICIA LOVETT-REID, Hon. FCSI, CFP, is a senior vice-president with TD Waterhouse Canada Inc., a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. She is the host of MoneyTalk, a weekly program on Business News Network (formerly ROB TV), and is one of Canada''s leading authorities on wealth management. In 2007, she was named one of Canada''s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women''s Executive Network. She is the author of six books, including the bestsellers Live Well, Retire Well: Strategies for a Rich Life and a Richer Retirement, Surprise! You''re Wealthy: Every Woman''s Guide to Financial Independence and Strategies for Women: Turning Dreams into Reality. She lives in Oakville, Ontario.

JONATHAN VERNEY is president of Warp Communications Group, the corporate storytellers (www.WarpGroup.ca). He co-authored Live Well, Retire Well: Strategies for a Rich Life and a Richer Retirement, has co-written a global marketing report on international executives with Harvard University and The Caldwell Partners, and has created branding initiatives for Canada''s largest corporations. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

JONATHAN VERNEY is the president of Warp Communications Group, the corporate storytellers (www.WarpGroup.ca). He co-authored Live Well, Retire Well: Strategies for a Rich Life and A Richer Retirement, has co-written a global marketing report on the new international executive with Harvard University and the Caldwell Partners, and has created branding initiatives for Canada''s largest corporations. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.