The Success Lie: Reframing Your Reality to Thrive Personally and Professionally by Preston, Chantell

The success women were promised is often the very thing holding them back. The Success Lie shows how to build a life and career that actually fit.

They say you can have it all--but at what cost?

In The Success Lie, leadership expert and growth strategist Chantell Preston challenges the deeply ingrained beliefs that tell us success means doing more, earning more, sacrificing more--until there's nothing left of us. Through candid storytelling, research-backed insight, and practical reflection, Preston exposes the cultural lies that keep high-achieving women stuck in cycles of overperformance, guilt, and self-doubt.

From "you can have it all" to "your worth is tied to your productivity," Preston dismantles the narratives that shape our choices and teaches us how to reframe those stories to redefine what success means to each of us. Drawing from her own journey across global leadership roles, motherhood, and burnout, she offers a compassionate but clear-eyed guide to building a rich and satisfying life--without walking away from ambition, purpose, or impact.

In The Success Lie, readers will learn how to:

• Identify the 9 lies shaping their definition of success
• Reframe achievement without sacrificing health, joy, or relationships
• Set boundaries that protect energy and purpose
• Integrate career, family, and personal growth without constant guilt
• Build confidence rooted in self-trust--not external validation

This is not a book about quitting your career or lowering your standards. It's about alignment--learning to make decisions and take actions that reflect who you are now, not who you were told to be.

Grounded, honest, and deeply relatable, The Success Lie is a call to stop chasing someone else's version of an extraordinary life--and start building yours.

Let's do this!

Author: Chantell Preston
Publisher: Resolve Editions
Published: 08/18/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781637635186

About the Author
Chantell Preston is a leadership strategist and trusted voice for women who want meaningful success without sacrificing their health, joy, or identity. After decades leading multimillion-dollar healthcare organizations and founding multiple ventures, she understands firsthand the cost of chasing someone else's definition of achievement--and why it's time to rewrite the rules.

As CEO of Preston Partners, Chantell works with organizations to drive growth through strategic planning, leadership development, and cultural transformation. She is also the host of the Get Real, Get Results podcast, where she shares candid conversations and practical insight to help ambitious women lead with clarity, confidence, and integrity--without burnout or constant pressure.

Chantell's perspective and expertise have earned her recognition as one of America's Top 100 Women to KNOW, along with features in Forbes, USA TODAY, and US Weekly. A sought-after speaker and advisor, she challenges conventional narratives about success and invites women to pursue ambition from a place of alignment rather than exhaustion.

Grounded in authenticity and action, Chantell believes leadership isn't about doing more--it's about making choices that reflect who you are now. Through her work and writing, she equips women to set boundaries, trust themselves, and integrate career, family, and personal growth in ways that actually fit their lives.