Your Job Won't Love You Back - defining a life you love

Coming October 2026, explore insights from Allison Hill, author of 'Your Job Won't Love You Back.' Discover how to achieve career fulfillment and a full life you love.

Coming October 2026, explore insights from Allison Hill, author of 'Your Job Won't Love You Back.' Discover how to achieve career fulfillment and a full life you love.
It all started when my friend Jade reminded me of something I said to her about 12 years ago when she was wrestling with some career decisions – “Remember, your job won’t love you back.” That conversation really got me thinking about the concept, career fulfillment, and what I wanted to tell my daughters as they launched into their careers. As I started reflecting, it ended up being a book… about ambition, purpose, relationships, balance, and building a life that feels fully your own. Not anyone else’s.
Through a whole lot of candid stories, big fails, humor, and some heartfelt reflections from my 30 years in some pretty demanding environments, my hope is it provides some thoughts on how to redefine success on your own terms. We often intersect ambition with identity and that can lead to a whole lot of unnecessary angst.
Anyone that knows me, knows I LOVE my job, I love to work, and aspire to be like Martha Stewart still working away and doing creative things at her young age of 84. This is not about quitting your job, setting false boundaries or abandoning ambition. Quite the opposite.
Instead, the book focuses on a “North Heart” framework, actionable exercises that can help build a life that feels whole, grounded, connected, and fully yours.

Burnout? Career Rust-out? or, is it maybe really "Life Rust-out?"

A fun and inspiring story of Courage, Friendship, Differences, Belonging, Connection, and Confidence
Have you ever felt left out? Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? Lolly the Left our Lobster is a fun tale that helps your little one learn the importance of empathy and understanding others.
Learning this important skill leads to happier children that have a greater ability to make friends, more posivitely resolve conflicts, and in adult words, develop a higher EQ (emotional quotient).
As a parent or caregiver, instilling open-mindedness for others is one of our hardest jobs.
Fun and colorful illustrations set the stage to deliver an interactive story that parents and caregivers can use to learn new vocabulary, have fun with silly voices, all while teaching how to have understanding for others that may be different.
Recommended by teachers and therapists.
Written in collaboration with a leading therapist, the book offers helpful suggestions, tips, and ways to have a conversation with your children about feeling left out or some of the reasons people behave the way they do when causing others to feel left out.
This cookbook includes my mom's FAMOUS parm dip! If you know, you know!
Our family took our quarantine time to create a cookbook of our favorite meals to benefit those most in need, donating proceeds to Feeding America, the nation’s largest and most effective organization dedicated to fighting domestic hunger through a network of food banks. Each book purchased will provide up to 100 meals.
This book is meant to give ideas for creating delicious, flavorful foods that take very little effort and the whole family loves. We also included the influence of one of our town’s best, local ingredients we pick up straight from the boats on the dock – lobster!
It wouldn’t be a family cookbook without the whole family participating as key grips, food stylists and taste testers. At the time of production, my daughter Cristina (16) was food photographer; Chauncey (19) was creative director; and, my nieces Carlisle (22), Cate (19) and Caroline (16) took the lead with naming and food styling. Noni (76) cooked, tasted and edited, edited, and edited until she couldn’t take it anymore. Pop (76) just tasted. We loved working on our project…together.
We hope you enjoy this peek into our family recipes, all while helping others.

Allison Hill has spent more than three decades building a career centered on connection, leadership, and purpose, from launching global campaigns at Sprint and The Coca-Cola Company to opening a boutique baby store after becoming a mother, to currently leading social impact and content initiatives at a major private equity firm.
A graduate of Cornell University’s Hotel School, where she also earned her MBA, Allison is the author of Your Job Won’t Love You Back and the children’s book Lolly the Left Out Lobster. During the pandemic, she founded Eat Laugh Give alongside her family, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening connection for families in need.
She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and Ogunquit, Maine with her husband Geoff and their two dogs (Billie - inspired by the Buffalo Bills & Dolly - named after the trailblazer Dolly Parton). She is also the proud mom of her two grown daughters and an adorable grand dog, Izzy.
Activity pages for your littles to enjoy key themes from the book. Includes word scramble, spelling, trace the sentences, missing letters, add 'em up, and coloring.
Sample Reviews of the book:
“As a preschool teacher I feel this story is the perfect way to introduce empathy by showing how Lolly was initially not accepted or helped until she eventually finds a loving crew of pups who see past Lolly’s unusual features.”
“What truly sets this book apart is its focus on empathy. Through adorable animal characters, children learn to see things from another’s perspective. The book doesn’t just explain emotions; it shows children ways to be empathetic.”
“The illustrations just glow. It is a sweet and accessible story that anyone can embrace. Finally, it lends itself really well to “read-aloud” funny voices (which sometimes matters the most: ))”
“Lolly the Left Out Lobster is a bright, cheerful take on being an outsider. We’ve all experienced such a moment when we didn’t fit in. This book is a needed addition to the bookshelves of families, schools, and churches. It teaches kindness from a young age. It teaches kids not to give up and reminds parents to emphasize and model kindness.”
Lolly Activity Pages_Final (pdf)
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