Carolyn Buck Luce - EPIC!: The Womens Power Play Book

Advance Praise

EPIC! is an extraordinary book filled with the wisdom and practices to design your most exquisite life. Ive had the great fortune of knowing Carolyn Buck Luce for many years, and shes a remarkable, engaging, and gifted leader. Shes created one of the most powerful coaching tools that Ive ever experiencedthe Decade Gameto help women heal themselves, manifest their highest contributions, and change the world! Read this book and discover how.

Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason

Carolyn is a powerful leader and brilliant teacher who ignites the best in others. Her book, EPIC! , is a must-read for women who are ready to step into their full power. Now is the time to bring Venus and Mars into full harmony.

Dr. John Gray, bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

What could be more important than designing your own life for what you truly want? What could be more engaging than turning it into a game? In this inspiring and deeply useful guide, Carolyn Buck Luce, a remarkably wise and compassionate leader with wide-ranging experience in the real world, invites us on a life-changing journey to get to YES with ourselves. What a priceless gift!

William Ury , world-renowned negotiation expert and co-author of Getting to Yes

Womens leadership is essential to address the moral and existential challenges of the future. EPIC! was written for such a time as this! Through her own experiences and mentoring thousands of women, Carolyn Buck Luce has honed the methodology and play-full practices to help women to discover their own purpose, power, and potential for good. This book is essential and guides each of us in our contribution that collectively can advance a world of justice and love.

Rev. Dr. Katharine R. Henderson, President Emerita of Auburn Seminary

The Decade Game described in EPIC! came at a pivotal time for meten years after launching my second career. The game is helping me get clarity on what would be truly authentic and energizing contributions to my clients and community and areas of personal growth for me to enable those contributions. I would highly recommend it.

Henna Inam, Executive Coach, Independent Board Director, author of Wired for Disruption

The power plays of clarifying my Stand, destination, and pillars gave me not only valuable perspective for weighing and designing future options, but also confidence in observing how past choices and outcomes implicitly connected to these guiding themes.

Lori Rosenkopf, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School

The wisdom and power tools of the Decade Game helped me to understand and connect the most fundamental things about myselfin some ways, I feel like I clicked myself into place and am now feeling such a sense of Ahhhhh.

Terri Polley, former President and CEO of Financial Accounting Foundation

I am so grateful that I dedicated the time and myself to this experience. It has created a sense of purpose, calm, and confidence that I have longed for. I cant wait to dominate my next decade.

Laurie Kowalevsky, CMO, Lilly Biomedicines at Eli Lilly

The insights and power of EPIC! and the roadmap of the Decade Game have been absolutely transformational. They provided me with a relevant, thoughtful, and actionable framework for focusing on my purpose. They helped me think bigger and challenge myself to be my best self.

Lisa Shalett, former Goldman Sachs partner; Board Director; Co-Founder, Extraordinary Women on Boards

Whose game am I playing? The answer had rarely been clear and was too often not mine. The power of EPIC! has focused my power, streamlined my thinking, and solidified my vision and intentions. I now know who I am, where I am going, and find the path unfurling before me in surprising ways that I am ready to fully engage with. It is hard work made fun, deep work made pleasurable, and transformation made sustainable. To bring your light, rock this world, and create a mind-blowing futureget in the game!

Tiffany Vara, activist and philanthropist

EPIC! is a must-read, and the Decade Game is a brilliant way to engage with creating an empowering and powerful future and vision for your life. With many approaches available for doing this, the created future can seem like a mere hoped-for but unlikely pipe dream. Not so here! The vision becomes palpable, alive, and breathing and begins to alter how you see and experience your everyday present. All of a sudden, you find yourself naturally making choices that lead toward the new futureengaging in new practices, having different conversations, putting unexpected and exciting things in your calendar, all of which are easy, effortless steps to fulfilling your vision.

Debbie King, Principal and Owner, Transformational Leadership Partners

EPIC! is a gift. The wisdom of the Decade Game offered me the opportunity to dive deep, dream big, assess wisely, and set clear intentions about the direction of my life. Its such a brilliant way to get really clear about what makes your soul sing! As a result, Im better oriented toward my desires and am enjoying a clarity about the actions that are in alignment with those desires and which ones are not. EPIC! is where you go to stop playing games and start playing BIG.

Akilah Richards, author, organizer, podcaster

The Decade Game is life-altering in every way. It inspired me to take a whole new level of responsibility for my life. Standing in a decade from now getting here from there rather than there from here changed my whole framing, outlook, and perspective from a tenuous Can I..? to a powerful I already have The process is spectacular, empowering, clarifying, and incredibly effective. I recommend it to anyone of any age or any stage of life. Go for it. It will not just change your lifeit will empower you to create it!

Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money , President, The Soul of Money Institute, Co-founder, Pachamama Alliance

EPIC! is truly for everyone. Entrepreneurs, young professionals, seasoned corporate managers, leaders, parents, and artists alike. The unique Decade Game is one of the most powerful tools you can implement in your work, your life, and your journey. If you are serious about living into your fullest potential, this is the next essential Step toward actualizing your purpose.

Tasha Moffitt, Executive Producer, The Wahl Group Inc.

Read this book and learn to play the Decade Game. It was a game-changer for me. Looking ten years into my future was exhilarating! The inspiring stories and power tools helped me get clear about what I was passionate about: health, healing, science, learning, and working with people who have a common purpose. I now have a vision of my future and a foundational game board which leaves space for magic to happen.

Cheryl Buck, Founder and Chief Vision Officer, CancerTalks

EPIC! is a one-of-a-kind intellectual, emotional, spiritual deep dive that superpowers your innate gifts. With compassion and empathy, Carolyn deftly leads you on a soulful journey of self-inquiry that results in the creation of your own powerful, personal Decade Gamewhere you design the future of your dreams, and then you make it happen. It is a game where everyone wins, and it is brilliant fun to play.

Kim Morton, artist and activist

As a high-performing woman of color, I never quite realized how much my inherited limiting beliefs were getting in the way of my dreams. Carolyns Decade Game has a magical way of getting straight to the Truth of our souls desire. Playing the Decade Game has helped me confront the internal roadblocks and resistance to creating the big life that I am meant to live. It has also showed me that it can be deliciously fun to design our own unique and powerful imprint on the World.