A practical guide to break free and build what's next
Try a New Path is a roadmap for high-achieving people who feel lost after a successful career transition, and are ready for more. More freedom, more purpose, and a life aligned with who they are becoming.
What You'll Discover in 'Try a New Path'
In 'Try a New Path', Shanelle Simmons offers a roadmap for accomplished professionals facing life transitions. This book delves into the Five Pillars of Growth, providing actionable insights and strategies to help you navigate change with confidence. You'll learn how to identify your strengths, embrace new opportunities, and cultivate a mindset geared towards purposeful growth. Each chapter is designed to empower you to step beyond your comfort zone and create a fulfilling path forward.
SIGNED HARDCOVER
A keepsake edition of Try A New Path, personally signed by Shanelle. This premium hardcover includes the author biography and photo, making it ideal for your personal library or as a meaningful gift.
SIGNED PAPERBACK
A personally signed paperback copy of Try A New Path. Part memori and part roadmap, the book helps you examine what has shaped your choices and move confidntly toward what is calling you next.
DIGITAL WORKBOOK
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KEEPSAKE GROWTH BUNDLE - SIGNED PAPERBACK + DIGITAL WORKBOOK
A meaningful keepsake for your next season of growth. This bundle includes a personally signed hardcover copy of Try a New Path and the companion workbook. Read the message, reflect more deeply, and turn insight into intentional action. Perfect for personal growth or gifting.
GROWTH BUNDLE - SIGNED PAPERBACK + DIGITAL WORKBOOK
Read the message. Do the work. Try a new path. This bundle includes a personally signed paperback copy of Try a New Path and the companion workbook. Use both to uncover what is keeping you stuck and take clear steps toward what comes next. Ideal for personal use, book clubs, or gifting.
BULK ORDERS / BOOK CLUBS / ORGANIZATIONS
Bring Try a New Path to your team, organization, book club, or event through bulk orders, signed copies, and engaging facilitated conversations. Shanelle also offers keynotes, workshops, and book-centered sessions designed to help audiences move beyond reflection and take meaningful action.
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THE STORY BEHIND THE MESSAGE
Try a New Path was shaped by the moments when I realized that success and alignment are not always the same. Here is why I wrote the book—and why this message matters so deeply to me.
A Note from Shanelle
I wrote Try a New Path because I needed it.
The biggest transitions in my life did not begin when things fell apart. They did not begin because I lost passion for what I was doing. They began with an internal pull I could no longer ignore.
Athletics gave me a path. The military gave me a path. Both gave me structure, purpose, challenge, and clear ways to measure progress. I knew how to work hard inside systems that told me what came next.
What I did not know was how to move when the old life still worked.
That became the real challenge. Not starting over from nothing, but stepping away from roles, identities, and definitions of success that still looked valid from the outside. Not because they were wrong, but because they no longer fit who I was becoming.
I wrote this book from inside that tension, trying to answer a question many of us face at some point: What do you do when there is no clear map, no prescribed next step, and no title waiting for you, yet you still know you are being called forward?
This book is an invitation to stop living by default and start choosing your life with intention. It is for anyone who senses they are meant for more, even if they cannot fully name it yet.
Try a New Path is where that conversation begins.
The Fifth Path is where the work continues.
