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LifePass: A Groundbreaking Approach to Goal Setting by Payal Kadakia

January 30, 2022 Melanie Hawken

Payal Kadakia

Book Review

Goal-setting is something that every woman entrepreneur needs to do as part of her business building journey, but in author and entrepreneur Payal Kadakia’s new book LifePass, she introduces a whole new approach to not just setting goals but reaching them too.


In her new book, LifePass, Payal Kadakia, the founder of ClassPass, the revolutionary fitness and wellness platform, shares her unique method of goal setting that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires. When Payal let go of the pressure to achieve a traditional kind of success, she tuned in to her calling and built ClassPass into a multi-million pound company. In LifePass, she shares her unique insights as to how she changed her approach to not just business, but also her life. 

In LifePass, you will learn how to focus on what's meaningful to you; how to embrace all parts of your identity; how to push past expectations to hear your own voice; how to turn failure into learning opportunities; how to make money work for you, instead of working for it; how to manage your time guilt-free; how to build a supportive tribe of people around you; and importantly, how to set actionable goals aligned to your dream.

Payal’s new book is a blueprint for not just setting goals, but for creating a meaningful and distraction free life that helps you to realize them and live the life you dream of.

Author Quotes

Being an entrepreneur is basically about how you innovate. 

You have to understand what’s going on with the world around you, and adapt to that to keep achieving your mission.

When it gets hard and you hit a place where you have to make a right or a left, you have to know where you actually set out to go in the first place.

About the author

Payal Kadakia is the founder of the revolutionary fitness and wellness platform, ClassPass, which provides people access to the best boutique fitness classes, gyms, and wellness experiences around the world. ClassPass connects you to classes and appointments in 30 countries worldwide, revolutionizing the fitness and wellness industry by bringing together the world’s best classes and experiences into one app. Payal is also the founder and artistic director of the Sa Dance Company, dedicated to expressing Indian American identity. Payal is frequently featured in major news outlets and has been listed among Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People, and was named to Fortune's 40 under 40 list. She holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT. Payal lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

www.classpass.com


Why LoA loves it…

Every woman entrepreneur sets goals for herself and her business, but often it can be challenging to make them a reality. Payal Kadakia in her new book LifePass believes that it doesn’t have to be difficult, it’s about making the right choices, being extremely focused, and removing all the extraneous distractions that take eyes off the big prize. This is a great read for all those women entrepreneurs who want to take their big audacious goals and turn them into actionable results this year. — Melanie Hawke, founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa

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