BETWEEN GRIT AND GRACE

In Between Grit and Grace, Dr. Shillcutt presents a fresh, gutsy, life-changing guide for women that enlightens, inspires, and motivates. The book draws on lessons from bossy, caring, fearless, relentless, forgiving and humble women at the shop who show women how to fuel strengths, how to be fierce and feminine leaders, and how to nurture their skills.

Women need to know it's okay to be kind and assertive. Between Grit and Grace will show you that success comes when you are comfortable living in the space between grit and grace - grit meaning being resilient and taking charge of your life (socially-acceptable masculine attributes), and grace meaning showing others mercy (socially-acceptable feminine trait). Author Sasha Shillcutt, MD, a nationally lauded, award-winning physician and speaker, will explain how to give yourself permission to disappoint nice people (and know that you are still a nice person anyway). You'll learn how to stop apologizing for showing your strength and grit, and embrace your grace, too. This is where personal peace lives.

The book uses real-life stories - ranging from women in law and medicine to women in education - to explain that feminine and formidable are not mutually exclusive. You can be both and make it to the top of your field.

Sasha Shillcutt, MD, is a wife, mother, award-winning physician, clinical scientist, national educator, writer, and speaker. A board-certified cardiac anesthesiologist and tenured associate professor, she received a bachelors' degree in biology from William Jewell College, and her MD degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. After finishing a residency in anesthesiology during which she served as chief resident, she completed an executive fellowship in perioperative echocardiography at the University of Utah Medical Center. She has published close to 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles in professional journals including the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association and contributed chapters to four books. In 2016, Sasha was awarded the national American Medical Association's Women Physician's Inspiring Physician Award by her peers.