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Ditching the Ditty helps women be the best they can be. It shows them how to be thoughtful about choices and how to take ownership of their time. Women in my organization became better employees and colleagues as a result of engaging with the ditty-ditching frameworks and tools. They are clear, easy to use, and work. This is a book that can help women in both their professional and personal lives. If you are a woman or know a woman, buy a copy. You won't regret it.

Betty Vandenbosch
Former Chief Content Officer, Coursera
Former Chancellor, Purdue University Global
Ditch the Ditty is one of those books that feels like it was written just for me—and yet, I know it will speak to so many others. As women, we’re so often sold the story that doing it all is the only way to succeed, and this book holds up a mirror to those narratives in a way that’s both refreshing and challenging. This book is for every woman—whether you’re just starting out or have been navigating the complexities of life and work for decades. It’s a resource I’ll continue to return to, and I can already see how it’s going to be a lasting guide for both individuals and organizations alike.

Sara Truebridge
Founder of EDLINKS® & EDLINKS® Press
Globally recognized strengths-based thought leader in education and resilience
Ditch the Diddy is more than a book—it’s a life manual filled with personal stories, practical tools, and ‘Bit-Size Challenges’ that invite reflection and action. With humour and humility, Lindsey, Molly, and Miriam guide us to trust our intuition, embrace who we are, and step boldly into our own journey. This empowering collaboration inspires us to run our own race and explore life on our terms—an invitation I’ll gladly accept.

Maureen (Mo) McKenna
Eclectic Explorer & Energy Catalyst
Ditch the Ditty: Doing What Matters Instead of Doing It All" is the deep, honest, thoughtful exploration we all need today. As a chronic people-pleaser and often the only woman around the boardroom table, I am the first one to accept the authors' invitation to stop saying yes to everything so that I still have energy, time, and passion left in me to say yes to what matters most. A powerful manual for personal reinvention - and a seed of a massive movement!

Nadya Zhexembayeva
Reinvention Guru, Author, Educator
Founder of the Reinvention Academy
This book is truly empowering and inspirational. There were countless ah-ha moments relating to the real-life stories as I reflected on different aspects of my life, personally and professionally. The invaluable insight on how to navigate the complexities of life, along with the Ditty Decision Tree, have been more than helpful; it has been transformational in creating balance in my very hectic, imperfect, perfect life.

Rebecca Coneglio
Vice President of Enrollment Management, Walsh University
This timely, delightful, travel guide through the female experience will change your life. Ditch the Ditties addresses one of the most pervasive and insidious contributions to women’s exhaustion and burnout - taking on tasks and responsibilities we didn’t ask for, don’t want, and are not energized by, tasks and responsibilities that often rightfully belong to others. Do yourself a favor. Let the Ditty Ditching Divas show you how to cut that out and get busy living and enjoying your own life by “shedding the shoulds” and doing more of what matters to you. Buy at least two copies - halfway through the first chapter you’ll want to give a copy to at least one friend, sister, niece, auntie, coworker, or neighbor.

Julie Rennecker, PhD
CEO & Chief Catalyst, Syzygy Team Solutions
Organizational Development consultant
Author, The Strengths Paradox: How our strengths can hold us back (and what to do about it)
This book is a wise, practical and thought-provoking treatment of an important topic that will feel relevant to any woman, at any stage of life. The light-hearted, accessible tone made for delightful reading about well-researched content that challenged me to look thoughtfully at the tasks and responsibilities that I take on in life. Reading this book will help me to continue making intentional decisions about how I spend my time and will support me in curating a life that reflects my personal “essentials”. Loved this book! A “must read” for any woman!

Linda S. Wilkins
Business-owner, mother, grandmother and “Ditching Diva in Development”
Join the ditching revolution, darlings! This book feels like a warm hug, an uplifting pep talk from your sister circle, encouraging you to cut ties with the extra burdens that hold you back. It is a reminder that we can choose to say no to unnecessary obligations we don’t need to add to our already weighed-down lives. The authors brilliantly blend modern wisdom about the societal pressures we women face with endearing first-hand stories, and manageable mini challenges to help kick those pesky patriarchal norms to the curb.

Natalie Eitel
Mother, Sister, Wife Daughter Special Educator
Any woman who has ever found herself trapped in a decision vortex in which she is tortured by the choice to say no, while knowing that saying no is what she most wants to do, will find this work to be THE roadmap she has always needed. And any human who is caught by the internal struggles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, doubt, and other limiting forces will find this to be a godsend

Maria Sirois, Psy.D.,
Author of A Short Course in Happiness After Loss, and Every Day Counts, International Consultant, Speaker, Psychologist and Ditch the Ditty Fan Club Enthusiast
As a woman dedicated to family while balancing a strong desire for career and impact (volunteer) fulfillment, I have constantly struggled with the concept of over responsibility and people pleasing tendencies. Ditch the Ditty is the resource that I needed to help me come to the realization that saying “yes” is easy. Saying “no”, with confidence, is what creates opportunity and space for us to say “yes” to the things that are aligned with your values and goals. This takes intentional work. Ditch the Ditty is a fun and engaging resource that helps the people pleaser in all of us think more intentionally before we pick up yet another “Ditty”.

Nicole Morris, Ph.D.
Professor, Mother, Daughter
This book stopped me in my proverbial tracks. It was insightful, thought-provoking, heartening, and humorous all at the same time. This is a must read for all women, young and seasoned, at all stages of personal and career development. I will personally recommend this book to all my female coaching clients, contacts, friends, and acquaintances. Whoever said there are no more jewels to be found has not read this book yet. This jewel belongs in every jewelry chest and library.

Frances Rucker-Bannister
Original Diva
CEO and Chief Executive Coach
Inner Summit, Inc
Looking for a resource that has an abundance of life changing questions, is chock full of down to earth insights and provides great examples with real-world approaches for breakthroughs in your life, Ditch the Ditty is the practical, self transformation roadmap for you. Turn off autopilot in your life and grab onto the wheel of insight, choice and commitment to your best Ditty-Free self.

Pru Sullivan
Catalyst for Personal, Organizational and Community, Positive Growth and Change
Finally, a refreshingly honest guide that helps women break free from the exhausting 'good girl' expectations that keep us playing small. Through evidence-based insights, practical tools, and wonderfully irreverent stories, this book empowers us to ditch what we don't want, embrace what we do, and live life on our own perfectly imperfect terms.w List Item

Dr. Michelle McQuaid,
Wellbeing Researcher & Teacher | Playful Change Activator | Best-Selling Author