Jewish Professional Women (JPW) returns on Thursday, April 24th, at 6:30 PM at *LOCATION CHANGE* Jewish Federation Los Angeles (6505 Wilshire Blvd.): with The Rocket Booster Effect: Transforming Hustle into Flow. Join us as Hollywood executive turned bestselling author Tara Schuster explores why hustle is like a rocket booster: essential for launch, but not enough to keep you in orbit.
Tara will lead us in a dynamic workshop about why hustle can get us off the ground, but flow keeps us soaring. Together, we’ll explore how to:
- Build sustainable systems to turn temporary success into lasting achievement without burning out
- Quiet imposter syndrome and negative self-talk
- Show up at work confident and authentically you
- Connect meaningfully with other driven Jewish Professional Women and feel ready to ask for what you want to succeed
Whether you are launching your path, navigating change, or looking to sustain professional momentum with more ease, this night is for you.
Who: Jewish Professional Women
What: Networking & Workshop with Tara Schuster • The Rocket Booster Effect: Transforming Hustle into Flow
When: Thursday, Thursday, April 24th • 6:30 PM
Where (LOCATION CHANGE): 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
Schedule: 6:30 PM – Arrivals, Apps, & Drinks + Networking
7:00 PM – Interactive Workshop with Tara
8:15 PM – More Drinks, Apps, & Connection
If you have any questions, please contact Kassie Jeffers at JPW@JewishLA.org.
We look forward to seeing you on April 24th.
Best,
Loryn Arkow, Anna Josephson, and Lauren Miller
JPW Committee Co-Chairs
Elyse Benudiz, Daryl Drabinsky, Tamara Kagel, Thea Raskin, Marlyse Scherr, and Andrea Stern
JPW Committee
For 2025, there is no minimum gift to attend JPW programming. However, those who donate a minimum gift of $500 will receive a special rate ticket and additional benefits. Your donation is tax-deductible.
Tara Schuster is an accomplished entertainment executive turned mental health advocate and best-selling author of the runaway hit, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who’s Been There. She has sold over 250,000 books to date in the U.S. alone. With her unique blend of hilarious, poignant personal stories and refreshingly honest, optimistic advice, Tara launched into the book world as the millennial voice the self-help space craved.
In January of 2024, Tara released the paperback edition of her highly-anticipated second book, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, a relatable, easy-to-follow guide to healing your deepest soul wounds, getting off your “good enough” plateau, developing habits that will give you lasting courage and resolve, and creating the spectacular life that you actually want. Full of practical, free baby steps we can take today, it's for people who are ready to liberate themselves from their emotional suffering, discover their purpose, and finally sit in the driver's seat of their experience. Kirkus has called GLOW “an approachable, exuberant combination of memoir and self-help.” It is has been endorsed by thought leaders such as Adam Grant (#1 NYT bestseller), Lori Gottlieb (#1 NYT bestseller), and Glennon Doyle (#1 NYT bestseller and host of the podcast We Can Do Hard Things) who said of Tara, “[She] is a phenomenal storyteller…Glow in the F*cking Dark is a revealing and powerful book that lit me up from the inside out.”
Previously, Tara served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central, where she was the executive in charge of critically acclaimed shows such as the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning Key & Peele, the Emmy® Award winning @Midnight (now After Midnight on CBS), and many others.
Over the last 12 years, Tara has spent her “10,000 hours” on the other side of the couch studying philosophy, therapies, religions, and even memoirs of the adults she admired so that she could find emotional freedom from a neglectful and psychologically abusive childhood. Her only hope is that she can make others feel less alone in their experience and also provide free, accessible tools to help readers reclaim their agency and heal without blowing up their lives.
In her free time, Tara enjoys running and weightlifting - a sentence she truly never thought would be true. Tara currently resides in Los Angeles.
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