My Books

Fiction

Avoiding the Friend Zone

Single in Sydney Book 1
Two ambitious graduates, Jon and Kate, navigate their careers and an emerging romance in the bustling city of Sydney in a story that will have you cheering them until the very end.
Avoiding The Friend Zone is a sweet workplace love story with a HEA (happily ever after). It’s the first book in the interconnected Single in Sydney series and can be read as a stand alone story.

Prefer to read offline? Avoiding the Friend Zone is available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.

The Criteria List

A Single in Sydney Short Story
Kate Pieterson sees her university friend Melati after two years, and they catch up over dinner. After her breakup with Jacques, Melati insists that Kate needs a Criteria List to move forward.
The Criteria List is a short story from the interconnected Single in Sydney series featuring Kate, the main character from Avoiding the Friend Zone.

Prefer to read offline? You can download a PDF version of The Criteria List here.

Non-Fiction

The A to Z of Career and Life Confidence

The A to Z of Career and Life Confidence covers a complete alphabet’s worth of confidence-boosting ideas, including practical steps to support you to boost your confidence in your career and life.

Rowena Mabbott

Career and Life Confidence coaching services provided by Rowena Mabbott, based in Sydney Australia

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Feeling more hopeful, connected and with improved relationships sounds great, doesn't it? 😍⁠
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Would you like to feel clear, connected, and confident too? ⁠
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As a Career and Life Confidence coach, I help my clients achieve greater self-knowledge, c

Happy Earth day! 🌏💙

Nature is my favourite place, and the beach especially. This beach is beautiful and cared for by the locals, but many beaches around the world are strewn with plastics. ☹️

This year’s Earth Day theme is planet vs plastic

One of my client’s biggest problems when they come to me is feeling stuck in their careers and lives. They know something isn’t clicking but can’t quite put their finger on it. 🤔

After a Clarity Kickstart program with me, they hav

Hi! 👋🏻 It’s been a little while since I’ve shared an intro post here with my Insta friends, so here’s an update. 😊

I’m Rowena, a certified life coach, author, and co-host of the Two Booked Up podcast.

As a certified caree

Every morning, I try to do a 10-minute meditation as soon as I wake up. Mostly, I do this while still in bed! 🛌 😉⁠
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My short meditation practice helps me feel grounded and gets me in the right mindset for the day. 😌⁠
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Is there something you do e

A huge congrats today to fellow author and business owner, friend and all-round awesome woman, Mel Daniels on the publication of her new book, The Power of Content!

If you’re a business owner, coach or any other service provider, Mel firmly be

A question I am often asked is, can focusing on my strengths lead to career satisfaction?⁠
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The answer is YES!👏🏻⁠
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To illustrate, I'd like to share a case study.⁠
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One of my clients, let’s call him Joe, was equally thrilled and concerned t

With school holidays coming up, you might be thinking about how you can get your kids to read more…🤔

One of the best ways to do that - read a good book yourself! Yes, by role-modelling reading an ACTUAL book (not on a device), you normalise