About the Book.
From the founder of Moms Demand Action, a guide to harnessing your potential, living without fear, and coming alive at any age.
Too many of us are living on autopilot. We believe we’re too old, too busy, or too inexperienced to go after what we really want. Shannon Watts has a message for you: Think again. If you are ready to stand tall in your greatness, Fired Up invites you to shatter your self-imposed limitations and unleash your potential so you can finally start living the life you deserve.
Since starting Moms Demand Action, the nation’s largest grassroots organization against gun violence, Watts has helped thousands of women step off the sidelines and into their power. What most women don’t realize is that inside all of us is a spark waiting to be ignited. Your spark is the catalyst for your life’s meaning and joy. When nurtured, it has the potential to transform not only your life, but the world.
Whether you want to stand up for yourself at work, launch the business you always dreamed of, or leave a toxic relationship and reclaim your confidence, Fired Up shows you how to identify, light, and feed the fire inside you. As Watts says, “That’s not an indulgence—it’s a requirement for living the most authentic life possible, without regrets.”
About the Author.
Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots group fighting gun violence in the U.S. Known as the “summoner of women’s audacity,” she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Woman of the Year. She recently organized the largest Zoom gathering in history, mobilizing over 200K voters and raising over $11 million in support of Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign. Watts is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office.
About the Moderators.
Taylor Salditch has always been passionate about building young women’s power. She started her career at mission-based start ups, the most influential of which focused on helping young women build power through money. It became clear to Taylor that structural change was requisite if young women were going to be able to thrive in the United States, so in 2015 she accepted a position on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to get closer to figuring out how to make that happen. In 2018, Salditch was approached by Cecile Richards to help her launch Supermajority, a women’s equality organization focused on mobilizing millions of women voters, particularly young women voters, in critical elections to create the conditions for meaningful policy change we all need. Since 2023, she has served as executive director of both Supermajority and its sister organization Supermajority Ed Fund. Most recently, Salditch oversaw the organization's 4.5M contact attempts to 3.1M infrequent and non-voting young women during the 2024 presidential election and continued to grow the organizations’ base of 530,000 members. Salditch is from Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Political Science and Economics.
Kate Baer is the 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet. Her work has also been published in The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Huffington Post and The New York Times.