Meredith Rom is a yoga teacher, women’s leadership coach and host of the Rising Women Leaders podcast. She believes when a woman creates a foundation of love within and for herself, she is granted the freedom to live beyond her fear, take bigger leaps, and truly share her greatest gifts with the world. After graduating from NYU in 2010, Rom followed her intuition to Northern California, where she now teaches yoga and mentors women to rise in courage, self-love, and feminine leadership. Find her at www.meredithrom.com and on Instagram @meredithrom.

Meredith Rom thought her life was set to follow the usual trajectory of her classmates in New York—graduate from high school with honors, go to a prestigious university, and begin a career working nine to five—until those expectations were promptly halted by the unforeseen turn in the economic market and high unemployment rates. Following an unpleasant breakup, with no job offers in sight, Rom chose a new course: to follow her intuition across the country to San Francisco and, soon after, halfway around the world to India.This coming-of-age memoir takes you inside the ashrams of gurus and sages of the Far East, where Rom learns to seek happiness within rather than from external achievements and circumstances. Her courageous adventure leads her to heal her heart and believe in the magical happenstance of the universe, along the way discovering the true meaning of acceptance and forgiveness and, ultimately, finding an unshakable love and trust within herself.