Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership
Heather Plett · 2024
🎙 Narrated by Heather Plett (self-narrated)
78/100
👍 Worth It
Heather Plett writes from the real, raw experience of caring for her dying mother, and it shows — this is a genuinely moving, practical guide to being present for people without trying to fix them. It leans more relational than tactical if you're hoping for hard leadership strategy, and its spiritual framing is more general than explicitly Christian. Since Plett narrates it herself, you get all that warmth firsthand — worth the listen.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: General/secular spiritual framing (e.g. 'liminal space') rather than explicitly Christian — nothing conflicting, just worth flagging for faith-focused readers. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: excellent Self-narrated by the author at Private Ear Studios — personal, first-person delivery that fits the memoir-adjacent material.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness78
Craft & writing80
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit85
Human-eye read82
Penny’s verdict78
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