Welcome
Hi, I’m Faye McCray.
Hi, I’m Faye McCray.
I believe in ambition. I just don’t believe it should cost you your life.
I’m an author, attorney, communications executive, and someone who knows a thing or two about chasing success, changing course, and questioning the rules we’re taught to live by.
My work challenges the stories we tell ourselves about achievement, identity, and what it means to make something of ourselves. Because there’s a difference between building a successful career and building a life you actually want to live.
My forthcoming book, More Than Your Job: Four Practices for Keeping Your Identity Bigger Than Your Career (Berrett-Koehler, June 2027), is for anyone who’s ever wondered whether there’s more to life than the next big thing.
Spoiler: There is.
Coming June 2027
More Than Your Job is Coming Soon
What if your success is costing you the life you worked so hard to build?
We’ve been taught to chase success, climb higher, and give our careers everything we’ve got. But what happens when the work that gives us purpose starts to define our worth?
In More Than Your Job: Four Practices for Keeping Your Identity Bigger Than Your Career, Faye McCray challenges ambitious professionals to rethink their relationship with work, reclaim their sense of self, and build lives that are as fulfilling as their résumés are impressive.
Because the goal isn’t to stop being ambitious. It’s to make sure your ambition is taking you somewhere you actually want to go.
Your Job Is Not Your Whole Life.
You can be ambitious, successful, and deeply invested in your work without making your career the center of your existence. There’s more to who you are. And more to what’s possible.
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