{"title":"Karolina Pelc","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"her-play-book-karolina-pelc-9781637635469","title":"Her Play","description":"\u003cb\u003eForget polished playbooks and sanitized lessons--this is a business memoir and career journey rooted in lived experience, not theory. It's the raw, unfiltered story of a woman who began as a casino dealer and went on to sell her startup in one of the fastest exits in the industry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat if the greatest gambles are not on the cards -- but on the life you dare to build?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHer Play\u003c\/i\u003e is a business and leadership memoir that challenges the notion of luck and exposes how resilience is built long before outcomes are visible. From casino floors to tech exits, it offers an unconventional blueprint for high-stakes leadership.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Written by Karolina Pelc, an exited founder and former casino dealer, this is not a book about success after it happens. It's about the years before anything looks like success--the \"messy middle\" where decisions are made without guarantees and movement matters more than proof.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Karolina Pelc wasn't born into boardrooms. Her story began on the casino floor in post-communist Poland, launching a two-decade journey across cruise ships and continents before she founded, scaled, and sold her disruptive startup to FanDuel in one of the industry's fastest exits.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBut this is no sanitized start up manual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this fiercely honest debut, Pelc plunges readers into the chaos and the power plays of an unconventional path. Before the headlines, she operated in environments where every decision was irreversible--balancing the scrutiny of high rollers, the complex dynamics of international business, and the private battles fought in silence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alongside the visible work ran a deeper internal reckoning. Through raw stories of gritty encounters, psychedelic insights, and the weight of generational trauma, Karolina examines how intuition is rebuilt after doubt and how identity shifts under sustained pressure. She proves what most people miss:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eYour unconventional past is not a liability. It is your unfair advantage.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis book is for those who:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre building ambitious careers without a linear map.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre standing on the edge of a decision that could change everything.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAre navigating leadership, identity, and pressure in silence.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWant insight grounded in lived experience, not templates.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e More than a chronicle of milestones, \u003ci\u003eHer Play\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the internal mechanics of risk-taking and confidence. Drawing on the HerPlay mindset framework, Karolina shows how to turn your history into your competitive edge and master the art of engineered serendipity--make your own luck one bold move at a time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53076456374545,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53076456833297,"sku":"NGR9781637635469","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781637635469.jpg?v=1769730386"},{"product_id":"her-play-book-karolina-pelc-9781918271195","title":"Her Play","description":"Forget polished playbooks and sanitized lessons. This is a business memoir and career journey rooted in lived experience, not theory. It's the raw, unfiltered story of a woman who began as a casino dealer and went on to sell her startup in one of the fastest exits in the industry.   What if the greatest gambles are not on the cards, but on the life you dare to build?    Karolina Pelc wasn't born into boardrooms. Her story started on the casino floor in post-communist Poland, launching a non-linear career that took her across countries and continents through the global gaming, entertainment, and technology industries — before she founded, scaled, and sold her disruptive startup to FanDuel, the number-one gaming brand in the U.S., in under three years.   But Her Play: Make Your Own Luck is not a startup manual or a how-to guide.   In this fiercely honest leadership memoir, Karolina plunges readers into the realities of career and chaos, power dynamics and personal pivots, bold decisions, and private reckonings that shaped an unconventional path. From gritty encounters and psychedelic insights to building a career while navigating profound personal challenges, she shares raw stories from high-pressure environments in a male-dominated industry.   Before she built and exited her company, Karolina navigated a world of sustained pressure, uncertainty, and scrutiny. From casino floors where every decision was visible to the complex dynamics of international business, gaming, and technology, her career unfolded far from predictable paths. Alongside the visible hustle ran the private battles: doubt after public setbacks, heartbreak behind closed doors, ambition, and the audacity required to keep moving forward when outcomes were anything but guaranteed.   As this business memoir and career journey unfolds, Karolina reflects on inherited beliefs, broken assumptions, and the risks she took before knowing whether they would cost her everything. From sailing the globe on cruise ships to taking early leaps into the emerging world of online gaming and tech, Her Play lays bare the experiences that forged her leadership mindset.   More than a chronicle of professional milestones, Her Play explores the internal mechanics of risk, confidence, and decision-making under pressure. Drawing on Karolina Pelc's original mindset framework, the book offers a reflective lens on how setbacks can be reframed and how opportunities are often created long before they appear. It is an inspirational leadership memoir about learning to trust your instincts, rewrite the rules on your own terms, and practise the art of engineered serendipity — making your own luck, one bold decision at a time.        This book is for readers who:   ● Are building ambitious careers without a clear or linear map — and feeling the cost of it   ● Have taken risks that came without guarantees, applause, or safety nets   ● Are navigating leadership, identity, and pressure at the same time, often in silence   ● Want insight, not instruction — and lived experience, not templates","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53181275603217,"sku":"NGR9781918271195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53645205045521,"sku":"NLS9781918271195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781918271195.jpg?v=1772238980"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-karolina-pelc.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}