When Brooke Baldwin announced she’d be leaving CNN, she copped to having no real plans for the future. “I don’t have a job I’m jumping right into, and yes, I’m feeling very vulnerable,” she said. However, it turned out that she did have one big project up her sleeve: a book. That April, HarperCollins published Baldwin’s debut, titled, “Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power.” The inspirational tome explored the greatness that can come from women supporting one another in the workplace and beyond. As the anchor told Yahoo! Entertainment, “It’s an idea of a quiet movement of women just committing to each other [and] having each other’s backs.”
It was a topic she wanted to shine a light on and she did so through personal anecdotes, as well as interviews. In fact, it was speaking with women like Gloria Steinem and Karlie Kloss that actually pushed her to step outside her own comfort zone, leave CNN, and pursue a new passion. Speaking with People, Baldwin recalled, “I had this slow realization: How can I hold space with these women and not be the bravest possible version of myself?” The gamble paid off and the book became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller. And while we don’t know how much she was paid to write it, we do know celebrity authors can earn millions for putting pen to paper.
Nicki
