Playing for Keeps How a 21st Century Businesswoman Beat the Boys.

Best Book Awards - Winner Business Motivational Category

A #1 Best Seller (Kindle 2021) in Memoirs Category on Amazon!

"PLAYING FOR KEEPS" in business is a self-help memoir that provides a "cheat sheet" for your career success.

Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author, Mom and Mentor Therese Allison is recognized as a groundbreaking pioneer and female executive, who broke the glass ceiling in a mostly male business niche (insurance brokerage). Her goal now is to empower women (and men) to "WIN" in business and life by landing a dream job, building business allies, achieving financial success and creating a work/life balance.

Based on 35 years of years of success in business and life, Allison uncovers how she became financially independent at age 38 when her company (McKenna & Associates) was sold to AON, and then retired early at age 43 to spend quality time with her children.

Award-Winning Finalist in the Business: General category of the 2021 International Book Awards

Allison believes ANY PERSON CAN ADOPT HER CAREER SUCCESS TOOLS TO THRIVE IN BUSINESS AND LIFE, including her 16 Pearls of Wisdom, Velvet Glove for Women, Lucy Moments and the Power of Synchronicity.

"The book is a portrait of a successful businesswoman, but also a love letter to Allison's family heritage." - Matt Szabo, The Los Angeles Times

"Business adventures and a bold family's history merge in this compelling, entertaining and fact-filled narrative of one woman's choice to make her way in the insurance brokerage industry...and what she learned on her path. The author weaves clear personal leadership take-aways into the stories of her own challenges and aspirations, with links back to the compelling history of her predecessors in her family, and their influence on California." -Bruce Craven - Faculty, Columbia Business School, Executive Education

"After reading "PLAYING FOR KEEPS", I went through several rounds of interviews for two DA's offices. Out of 100 applicants, I was fortunate to be offered both jobs. The whole time I was thinking of your tips to success, especially at times when I was the only female in the room. I kept telling myself 'people work with people they like, so just be likeable!!!'." - Kaitlin R.

"Therese Allison presents us with a book that is in part a family memoir and in part an insight into the mindset of an extremely successful businesswoman. I laughed, I cried and I scribbled down lessons I wanted to learn. This intimate biography is inspiring and timeless. If you have ever dreamed of retiring at 43 and wondered how you can achieve such a thing, then this is a book you can't afford to pass by." - Artisan Book Review