A new book by Vaishali Mutalik — out now
You have been given a great deal of advice.
This is a book of tools.
Own Your Power is a quiet manual of modern leadership and life design — fourteen named practices, drawn on paper, for the questions that come back year after year. It is on Amazon now.
Out now
Own Your Power is available on Amazon.
Paperback ₹399 · Kindle ₹149 for the first three weeks.
Buy it on Amazon01 / What is inside
Fourteen named practices, across twelve chapters.
Each one is named. Each one is anchored to a real story. Each one ends with a section called Putting the Practice to Work. As the book has it: a quiet library, not a curriculum.
The Energy and Achievement Grid
Two lines, four quadrants: Thriving, Burning, Searching, Stuck. Burning — low energy, high achievement — is where a great many capable women quietly live.
The Permission Pyramid
Five rising levels, from permission to exist to permission to author your own life. Most women plateau between the second and the third for many years.
The Invisible Load Matrix
Recognised Work, the Performance Tax, the Hill, the Phantom Burden. Map a week in letters, then release, renegotiate, prune and protect.
The Quiet Reflection
Five patterns of careful conditioning — the Smoother, the Apologiser, the Volunteer, the Modifier, the Shielder — and the corner where high likability meets low respect.
The Mirror, Window, Wall, Cage Reflection
Four kinds of comparison. Two are useful and worth keeping. One should be muted. One is a cage, and should be released.
The North Star Compass
Four career pulls: Craft, Cause, Currency, Community. Find your dominant and your secondary, and write the why-sentence you will carry for a year.
The Four Rooms of Power
The Visibility Room, the Sponsor Room, the Negotiation Room, the Architect Room. The Sponsor Room is where your name is spoken when you are not there.
The Five Truths & the Stay-or-Leap Reflection
Five honest questions for any career decision, plotted against your current energy and trajectory. Four clean actions follow: stay, negotiate, rest, or leap.
The Partnership Ledger
Four columns, filled in with your partner in one sitting. Then redistribute by domain rather than by task — and whoever owns the domain owns the remembering too.
The Self-Restoration Wheel
Six spokes: Body, Mind, Friendship, Aspiration, Play, Solitude. Score each from one to five, and always repair the lowest spoke first.
The Family Energy Map
Three concentric rings, every relationship scored on cost and joy. Move the drainers outward — and hand your partner’s family back to your partner.
The Hum-to-Hustle Curve
Five stages of building something that did not yet exist: the Hum, the Articulation, the First Sale, the Parallel Build, and Crossing the Line.
…and two more: The Three Phases of the Founder, and The Three Versions of Winning — which carries the lens the book calls its most important sentence. The venture is the vehicle, the life is the destination, you are the driver.
Own Your Power is on Amazon now.
Paperback ₹399 · Kindle ₹149 for the first three weeks.
Women across every season of life are overflowing with advice and quietly starving for tools.Own Your Power — Introduction
02 / Who it is for
For the woman who is holding it all together, and has not been asked how she is.
- For the woman in her thirties who wrote to me and said, I think I am losing myself in a slow, deeply organised way.
- For the woman in her forties beginning again, and the woman in her fifties asking, for the first time in a long while, what she truly wants.
- For anyone who has been handed eleven sincere and contradictory pieces of advice in three days, and needed a tool instead.
03 / About the author
Vaishali Mutalik
Vaishali is an entrepreneur, author and mentor. Over more than twenty years of building she has founded and led three companies, grown a business that serves 400+ clients across 20+ countries, and held 25–30% year-on-year growth while doing it.
She has spent much of her working life as one of very few women in the room, and much of her personal life doing what women everywhere do — holding several lives together at once, largely unseen. Own Your Power came out of the space between the two: decades of mentoring, leadership work and quiet conversations with women in every season of life, distilled into practices designed to be used, taught, drawn on paper, and adapted.
She believes wisdom is not inherited but earned — through experience, reflection, and the courage to keep growing. She lives in Mumbai with her family.
More about Vaishali’s work →04 / Before you go
So pour something warm. Find a chair that is yours. Open a notebook.
Out now
Own Your Power is on Amazon.
Paperback ₹399 · Kindle ₹149 for the first three weeks.
Buy it on Amazon