The Working Woman's GPS: When the Plan to Have It All Leads You Astray

You were told you could have it all. A successful career. A happy family. A fulfilling life. So why do so many accomplished women feel overcommitted, and quietly exhausted?

The Working Woman’s GPS explores the reality many professional women face when the cultural promise of “having it all” leads to pressure, imbalance, and uncertainty about what success should actually look like.

In this candid and insightful guide, JJ DiGeronimo helps ambitious women step back, question outdated expectations, and redefine success in ways that align with their values, priorities, and energy.

Through personal experiences and interviews with professional women across industries, she offers a framework to help readers reconnect with what truly matters and design a more intentional path forward.

Drawing on her own career in the technology industry and years of research and conversations with professional women, JJ DiGeronimo shares practical insights into the challenges many women face as they balance career ambitions, family responsibilities, and personal fulfillment.

Inside, you will discover how to:

• Reevaluate the cultural expectations that shape women’s career decisions
• Use the GPS framework (Goals, Purpose, Self) to regain direction
• Recognize the pressures and tradeoffs affecting professional women
• Identify what is draining your energy and where to set boundaries
• Reconnect with your priorities and redefine success on your terms

This book is for women who are questioning the promise that they can have everything at once and still feel fulfilled. If you are navigating the demands of career, family, and personal identity and wondering whether there is a better way forward, this book will help you pause, reflect, and recalibrate your path.

Explore JJ DiGeronimo's Award-Winning Books for Working Women

JJ DiGeronimo's books guide women through the evolving journey from striving and career success toward deeper alignment and purpose, wherever you are in that journey.

• The Working Woman's GPS -For working moms with young children who are stretched thin and running on empty. This book helps you align your time and energy to create momentum at home and at work.
• Accelerate Your Impact-You have done the work. Now it is time to own your next level by expanding your influence, pursuing promotions, and stepping boldly into leadership.
• SEEKING -This book guides you through the internal work of dismantling self-doubt, money fears, and perfectionism so you can realign with your energy and the work you are being called toward.
• Illuminate Your Path - You already have what you need. This book helps you remember your inner knowing so you can move through life's crossroads with clarity, steadiness, and growing self-trust.

JJ DiGeronimo is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, retreat leader, and guide for professionals navigating meaningful life and leadership transitions. For more than two decades, she has helped women rise and lead in technology and business through her books, keynotes, and the Tech Savvy Women global community. During that time, she began noticing a common pattern: many successful professionals reach a point where achievement alone no longer feels like the whole story.Her work has since evolved to explore that transition. Through her books, corporate keynotes, retreats, the Together We Seek podcast, and her Illumination framework, JJ helps thoughtful professionals navigate life's crossroads, inner shifts, and unexpected detours so they can create deeper meaning, influence, and impact. She supports those moving beyond external validation, perfectionism, and striving, and toward alignment, authenticity, and purposeful contribution.Before expanding more fully into this work, JJ spent more than two decades building a successful career in the technology industry, where she continues to champion and empower women in STEM-based careers. Alongside her corporate path, another journey quietly unfolded through a series of personal and professional crossroads that led her into a multi-phase process of spiritual awakening and self-trust. Today, these dual paths coexist, blending grounded leadership with inner guidance in a way that reflects the fullness of her work.JJ is the author of four books, including The Working Woman's GPS, Accelerate Your Impact, SEEKING, and her newest book, Illuminate Your Path: How Life's Crossroads Awaken the Gifts You Already Carry, which introduces a six-phase journey of awakening and remembering. Through her writing, speaking, retreats, and global community, she helps high achievers and seekers alike reconnect with their inner knowing and step into the gifts they already carry.Featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Thrive Global, JJ is a trusted voice in women's leadership and a sought-after keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies, executive leadership programs, and global Women in Tech and STEM initiatives. Her message is both practical and lived: follow your whispers, they know the way.