Naked Determination: 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear
by Gisela Hausmann

It’s probably the most entertaining book ever written about – overcoming fear.

‘Naked Determination: 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear’s extraordinary proposition is that all of us already own the smarts to overcome most of our fears because the know-how is buried in our stories. So, to illustrate by example, Gisela Hausmann takes her readers on an adventure trip around the globe and through various workplaces to reveal the experiences from which she learned the most.

As a result, ‘Naked Determination’ is an empowering and in large parts even funny life-skills book which lays out how to overcome the fears of getting bullied, being rejected, or not finding love. Naturally, there are also the fears of getting stuck in a boring job, not receiving the answers you need, or not finding the money which supposedly lies ‘on the street.’

Updated in November 2023, “Naked Determination” also reveals Gisela’s strategies for dealing with the ‘new fears of the 21st century’ – feeling threatened by the global climate disaster and worrying about possibly getting ‘replaced’ by robots and AI.

Read ‘Naked Determination’ to find out that you’re more powerful than you might think.

4 out of 5 fairies

An interesting memoir told in snippets of the author’s life, about times they’ve overcome fear in one form or another. I enjoyed reading each story, and the takeaway the author had at the end of them. I thought the chapter breakdowns made sense, and if you’re only interested in certain stories, it would be easy to skip right to those chapters. Although, I’m not entirely sure if I would personally label this as a self-help book. If inspirational stories are your preferred form of motivation to help make yourself better, then this would be perfect for you. If you’re looking for a traditional self-help style book, this isn’t that. Anyone who enjoys biographies is sure to enjoy this!

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Gisela Hausmann is a 29 yr. self-publishing industry veteran, an email evangelist and a top reviewer.

Her work has been featured in regional, national, and international publications including Success magazine (print) and Entrepreneur, on Bloomberg, The Innovation Show – a show for Square Pegs in Round Holes, “The Brutal Truth about Sales & Selling”-podcast, and Austria’s Der Standard and Das Wirtschaftsblatt. Gisela is a graduate of the University of Vienna, Austria.

A unique mixture of wild risk-taker and careful planner, she globe-trotted almost 100,000 kilometers on three continents, including to the locations of her favorite books: Doctor Zhivago’s Russia, Heinrich Harrer’s Tibet, and Genghis Khan’s Mongolia.

Her motto:
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”-Napoleon Hill

For more information about the author please visit her website

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