A book about worthiness as the most overlooked leadership skill in the room — and the practice that turns it into performance, retention, and the kind of culture nobody is currently quitting.
Consider this Eric's prescription for the rest of your life.
Each chapter takes a piece of the lie that you have to earn your way into worthiness and slowly, patiently, takes it apart. Read it cover to cover, or open to the chapter your team needs this quarter.
Where worthiness gets confused with performance — and the cost of getting it backwards.
Whose opinion is currently running your decisions. And whose isn't, but should be.
The only asset on the balance sheet that appreciates in a downturn. Deposits, withdrawals, compounding.
Trust is a number. Here is how to calculate yours, and what to do when it dips below zero.
The micro-behaviors that quietly build — or quietly burn — a culture. The ledger your team is already keeping.
Why the opening of every meeting is the most underused leadership real estate in corporate America.
What a high-performance mask costs over a career. Specifically. In years and dollars and people.
The most underrated practice in leadership. The one I am still, after twenty years, learning.
A practical inventory. A script. And the permission to start with the easy one.
What happens to a team when the highest performer leaves. And what to do six months before they go.
The difference between being managed, being coached, and being counseled. Why your best people want the third.
Where the work ends up if you stay with it long enough. The kind of culture nobody is currently quitting.
There is a moment, in almost every team I have ever worked with, where the leader pulls me aside and says, in some version of the same sentence, "I just don't understand why she's leaving — she had everything here." And I always say the same thing back, which is: I'll bet she didn't think she did.
What she had, in the leader's mind, was a clear path to promotion, a fair salary, a flexible schedule, and a stable team. What she had, in her own mind, was the seventh time in two years that the credit for her work got rerouted through someone else's mouth.
The leader and the employee, in this scenario, are not having an argument about reality. They are having an argument about which little things count. And the leader is, quietly and confidently, losing — because they have built their picture of the relationship out of the big things, and the employee has built theirs out of the little ones.
This is not a generational thing. This is not a "millennials want praise" thing. This is the oldest pattern in leadership, and it has been described in every memoir of every executive I have ever respected. The big things get the budget. The little things get the loyalty.
If you are reading this and your first instinct is to say "but the little things are exhausting," I want you to know two things. First, you are not wrong. Second, you are doing them anyway — you are just doing them in the wrong direction, and you are tired because you are paying interest on a loan you didn't realize you took out.
The little things don't mean a lot. The little things are a lot. The whole job, on the days when nobody is watching, is the little things. The keynote speakers never tell you this because it doesn't sell tickets. The leadership books rarely tell you this because the chapter is hard to fill out. But every senior leader I have ever interviewed for my podcast — every single one — has told me some version of the same sentence: "I wish I had paid attention to the small stuff sooner."
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You Are Enough embarks readers on a profound journey of self-discovery and healing. Through his own experiences and the stories of remarkable individuals, Eric beautifully illustrates the universal struggles of not feeling like we are enough. With practical tools and heartfelt insights, this book will touch your heart, resonate with your own challenges, and empower you to embrace your worthiness.
Have you ever doubted your abilities? How about your wisdom? Have you ever doubted your influence or your discernment or your capacity to love or to be loved? If any of these questions resonate with you, Eric Brooker's release needs to be in your shopping cart within the hour.
This book is a welcome departure from the relentless pursuit of efficiency and achievement. Brooker's story takes the reader into a better world of sufficiency and shared humanity and offers a poignant reminder that we don't need to measure up to be enough, we simply are.
Eric writes from a place of profound vulnerability, clarity of what matters most and passionate concern for his readers. Read this book today. You'll embrace not only your worthiness, but your ability to ensure your future is even better than your past.
It will empower you to confront your struggles with courage, and inspire you to accept, love, and nurture the relationship you have with the most important person in your life — yourself.
You Are Enough is an essential read for anyone who has ever questioned their worth or felt consumed by self-doubt. A needed reminder that our worth is not defined by external circumstances, accolades, or achievements — but by who we are at our core — and that we are always enough.
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From the very first chapter, I was hooked, and all I could think of was how much I wished I could tell my brother he was enough while he was alive. Eric pours his heart out in this book and shares many relatable topics we all have faced in some form as children, parents, and adults. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling with the idea that they are not worthy or want to overcome self-doubt. This is a book you will want to revisit time and time again.
I just never made the time to sit down and read a book for quite some time. Then I came across this book and the title interested me. I'm an emotional guy and this book got me teared up almost instantly cause of the stories I read and how relative they were to some of the things I've been going through in my personal and professional life.
I felt a strong emotion with the humanity displayed in the pages. Also a great amount of meaningful takeaways that I've already co-opted into my daily life. If you have kids, read this book. If you struggle with identifying your self worth, read this book. If you want to give yourself some real contemplative ideas about how to treat one another, read this book.
The book's powerful message on personal loss resonated deeply with me. It helped me understand that the pain we experience in relationships isn't always a reflection of our own shortcomings. I am now committed to being fully present for myself and those I care about, embracing the empowering truth that: I AM ENOUGH.
Brooker's narrative is deeply personal, yet universally relatable. Unlike some self-help books that offer vague platitudes, Brooker provides concrete, actionable advice. He doesn't position himself as a guru who has all the answers but as a fellow traveler on the journey to self-acceptance.
It's rare that you pick up a book for lessons and insights into professional leadership, only to find that you've gotten so much more. Every story includes a poignant lesson and every lesson can — and should — be applied, both in business and in one's personal life.
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Drawn from 150+ conversations on the Counsel Culture podcast. Marshall Goldsmith. Patrick Lencioni. Ken Blanchard. Sage Steele. Andy Andrews. The conversations I have been having for years — now in one place. The book about what mentors get wrong, what counselors get right, and the difference your team is currently begging you to notice.
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