This Time It's Personal: Building a Life, a Business, and a Self That Actually Fits - Softcover

Anthony, Kaitlin; Lazenby, Amanda; Rose, Audrey; Williams, Grace; Ruiz, Grecia; Baitinger, Hailey; Murillo, Heather; Edmonds, Katie; Rodriguez, Liz; McCleery, Mikki

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218772383

Publisher: BEAM Life LLC, The, 2025

Synopsis

You wake up in the life you thought you wanted and feel absolutely nothing.

The promotion, the relationship, the perfect Instagram feed—you checked every box society handed you. So why do you feel like you're suffocating in someone else's dream?

You're not alone. You're not broken. And you're definitely not crazy for wanting more.

This Time It's Personal is the raw truth about what happens when successful women finally stop performing and start living. Compiled by Kaitlin Anthony, founder of The BEAM Life® (Be Everything And More), this collection features nine women who walked away from "perfect" lives to build ones that actually felt like home.

These women were you—burnt out, people-pleasing, and desperately seeking permission to want something different. They were drowning in shoulds, exhausted from pretending, and terrified that admitting they weren't happy would prove they were ungrateful.

Until they chose themselves anyway.

As members of The BEAM Life® community, each contributor proves you can Be Everything And More—successful and authentic, ambitious and aligned, driven and deeply fulfilled.

In these pages, you'll discover:

• How to stop mistaking achievement for happiness
• The exact moment to walk away (and how to find the courage)
• Why your "selfish" desires are actually your compass home
• How to build a life so aligned it feels like coming alive

Each story ends with the declaration: "This time, it's personal because..." followed by their unfiltered truth about choosing themselves over everyone else's expectations.

Stop waiting for permission. Your real life is waiting.

The woman you're meant to be is ready when you are.

About this title

About the Author

Kaitlin Anthony is an ICF-accredited coach, speaker, author and host of the Be Everything And More podcast. She is the founder of The BEAM Life, where she has supported hundreds of women in growing and scaling businesses without losing themselves in the process. A former celebrity stylist turned entrepreneur, she is known for creating powerful communities and bringing a bold, disruptive voice to the coaching industry. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and daughter.

From the Inside Flap

I never meant to burn it all down.

But there came a day when the version of me everyone knew — wife, gym owner, overachiever, the one who kept it all together — didn't fit anymore. I had been living a life built on everyone else's expectations, checking boxes, and smiling through the suffocation. And then one morning, I woke up and realized that if I kept going the way I was, I would lose myself completely.

So I tore it all apart.

I walked away from the marriage that looked perfect on Instagram but felt hollow behind closed doors. I closed the business I'd built with my ex. I fell in love with someone who challenged everything I thought I knew about identity, partnership and who I was allowed to be. And then, just as I was trying to make sense of the chaos, the world shut down.

I started over with nothing but a podcast mic, a messy dream and the belief that maybe — just maybe — I could build a life that finally fit.

This book is the result of that leap.

This Time It's Personal isn't another business book telling you to hustle harder, grind longer or follow someone else's formula. It's a collection of real stories from women who have burned down what wasn't working, faced their fears and built lives and businesses that feel like home.

You'll meet women who:

• Walked away from careers that were killing their spirit
• Rebuilt after heartbreak, loss and failure
• Learned to trust themselves enough to bet on their dreams
• Created businesses that support the lives they actually want to live
  

This is not a book about playing small — it's about becoming the kind of woman who can hold the big life she's dreaming of.

If you've been feeling stuck, waiting for the "right time" to go after what you really want, this is your permission slip. These pages are proof that you don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to take one small, brave step.

Because the moment you decide your future matters more than your past? That's the moment everything changes.

Edition details

• Publisher: BEAM Life LLC, The
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218772383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150