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Book Title:Your Job Won't Love You Back: 12 Principles to Live in Alignment with Your Heart
Author:Allison Hill
Published:2026
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Your Job Won’t Love You Back helps people build meaningful, ambitious careers without allowing work to define their identity, self-worth or purpose. Drawing on more than 30 years navigating corporate leadership, marriage, motherhood and entrepreneurship, Allison Hill gives readers practical tools to rethink their relationship with work and redefine success for their current season of life. Through 12 principles and her original North Heart framework, Hill helps readers identify what matters, recognize when they are asking their careers to fulfill needs better met elsewhere, set healthier boundaries, strengthen relationships and reconnect with purpose and joy beyond professional achievement.
Rather than encouraging people to abandon ambition, the book helps them pursue it more intentionally—making career and life decisions based on their values instead of titles, promotions or external validation. Ultimately, it helps readers build lives that feel more aligned, connected and fulfilling.