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New book, If Courage Could Talk, explores courage from a fresh perspective

BIO

SHORT AUTHOR BIO

Candace Doby is an Atlanta-based speaker, author and advisor who works with universities and organizations to help young leaders build courage in themselves to have hard conversations, navigate through uncertainty and lead with authenticity. Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences leading marketing teams at Chipotle Mexican Grill and solo traveling to more than 20 countries. This unique combination equips her with the implementable strategies she shares with young leaders to help them understand, develop and activate personal courage. Candace is the author of If Courage Could Talk and the owner of Pep Talker, a greeting card and gift company.

LONGER AUTHOR BIO

Candace combines a decade of research on courage with her experiences leading marketing teams at Chipotle Mexican Grill and solo traveling to more than 20 countries. This unique combination equips her with the implementable strategies she shares with audiences to help them understand, develop and activate personal courage.

Candace is known for delivering those strategies with appropriate attitude to match the realness of courage, which prompts clients to refer to her in-person and virtual presence as “captivating”. She has worked with clients such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Georgia, State University of New York, National Society of Leadership and Success, Cornerstone Credit Union League, YMCA, American Camp Association and many others.

In her own acts of courage, Candace wrote her first book, If Courage Could Talk, to offer readers a compelling entry point into intentional conversations about conjuring their courage. She launched the greeting card and gift company Pep Talker to help customers share motivation with people around them, and she quit a successful marketing career to pursue her vision of making courage fun to talk about and easy to digest for young leaders everywhere.

Candace holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and a master’s degree in Technology and Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a former collegiate track and field athlete. Candace is also a former speaker for Monster’s Making It Count Program where she visited high schools and colleges throughout the U.S. to teach students tools of success.

BOOK DESCRIPTON

SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION

If your fear has a voice … why shouldn’t your courage? In this illustrated, pocket-size book of 100 wittily candid quotes, national speaker and mentor Candace Doby gives courage a voice worth listening to. It’s sometimes sweet … and sometimes shady — but it’s always rooting for you to shine.

LONGER BOOK DESCRIPTION

Wittily candid quotes from the imaginary mouth of courage, delivered as a pocket-size book to help contemporary readers check their fear and do their thing; in paperback with a soft-touch cover that invites them to pick it up and read it again and again.

If your fear has a voice … why shouldn’t your courage? National speaker, mentor, and “Corporate America Dropout” Candace Doby answers that question with her first book, If Courage Could Talk. The illustrated quote book draws upon popular culture to give courage a voice worth listening to. It’s sometimes sweet … and sometimes shady — but it’s always rooting for you to shine.

If Courage Could Talk readily questions readers’ self-doubt and limiting beliefs through 100 quotes of equal parts truth, love and shade to inspire them to check their fear and pursue their goals. With its lighthearted attitude and unique perspective, it simultaneously offers a compelling, counter voice to the one keeping them stuck and an entry point into intentional conversations about conjuring their own courage.

This pocket-size publication is broken down into four chapters to help guide readers through courage’s commentary. Each chapter ends with note pages, giving them literal and figurative space to tend to the ideas and thoughts that surface between each page.

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