Book- Underestimated: The Surprisingly Simple Shift to Quit Playing Small, Name the Fear, and Move Forward Anyway
Having grown up in a single-wide trailer in West Virginia and being the first in her family to graduate college before attending Yale Law School, Mary Marantz knows what it’s like to be underestimated. She understands the drive to prove others wrong and show everyone just how far you've come, while also doubting yourself at every turn.
“I know what it is like to be both simultaneously driven by this unshakable sense you’re being called up to something greater, to know in your bones you were somehow meant for more… and at the very same time, still doubt that a person like YOU will ever get there. It’s so easy for other people to look right through us and miss the pure magic we hold inside.”
In her latest book, Underestimated: The Surprisingly Simple Shift to Quit Playing Small, Name the Fear, and Move Forward Anyway, the sought-after business coach and host of The Mary Marantz Show podcast provides a systematic takedown of the fear keeping us stuck. Chapter by chapter, she exposes and dismantles some of fear’s most boring lies, including self-sabotage, second-guessing, feeling like not enough, imposter syndrome, perfectionism and both fear of failure and success. Through these small but powerful shifts, Marantz shows readers that the mountain they set out to climb isn’t just about reaching their own dizzying heights of achievement. It’s about becoming the guide who helps others in their own journeys.
With a foreword by Sharon McMahon and endorsements by Dr. Alison Cook, Jon Acuff, Steven Pressfield, and Christy Wright, Underestimated is for anyone who feels like they aren’t enough, their dreams are too big or they don’t know where to begin. With equal parts powerful prose and tactical action steps, this book will become the essential go-to field guide for anyone ready to quit playing small once and for all. Or as Jon Acuff raves, “This is the best of what happens when EQ meets IQ.”
Mary Marantz is the bestselling author of Dirt and Underestimated, as well as the host of the popular podcast The Mary Marantz Show. She grew up in a trailer in rural West Virginia and was the first in her family to go to college before going on to Yale for law school. Her work has been featured on CNN, MSN, Business Insider, Bustle, Thrive Global, Southern Living, Hallmark Home & Family and more. She and her husband Justin live in an 1880s fixer-upper by the sea in New Haven, Connecticut, with their two very fluffy golden retrievers, Goodspeed and Atticus. Learn more at MaryMarantz.com
