Story of My Book

Fierce Agency shows high-achievers how to lead yourself well each day, exercise your personal power, and act with courage to live a life true to yourself, not just the one others expect. 

How? This book isn’t just aspirational. You’ll learn real practices grounded in neuroscience and performance psychology to help you learn to think like the best athletes in the world. It’s a 5-Pillar system I call Fierce Agency™. By practicing these elite athlete mindsets, as well as additional techniques I’ll cover in the book, you can declare your independence from the ordinary, and start leading the fulfilling, extraordinary life you’ve imagined but didn’t think was possible. Until now.

My name is Jess Sargus and I’m the author of Fierce Agency: How to Be the Best Leader You’ve Ever Had. I wrote this book because I want everyone to realize that they have the power to change their life today, and every day, and to make it a life filled with joy and meaning. A life of success that you define for yourself with no regrets, and no apology.

My hope is that, in reading this book, you will discover what I have found to be true over the course of my life as a professional, as an athlete, and personally: exercising your personal power is the secret to happiness, meaningful success, and a stronger, more supportive community. In this book, I hope to instill in you the same sort of passion and excitement that I have for self-leadership. Ultimately, this book is a tool to help you do more than live your life as a main character. It helps you lead your life as its author.

Or, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, to “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

In this book, you’ll learn about:

• How to center yourself in your life to set your Fierce Agency free
• Why traditional success doesn’t guarantee fulfillment, and what really does
• How to unlearn limiting beliefs that keep you from exercising your full personal power, and to manage your energy so you can put your full power into what matters most to you
• The DDD three-part goal framework that the most successful people in the world share
• The Five Pillars of Fierce Agency™: daily mindset practices and habits that are the foundation for being the best leader you’ve ever had
• Why Fierce Agency matters more than ever now, not just to you, but to your community and to the world

You will love this book if you’re a striver with a competitive streak to be your best, with a heart as big as your goals. This book is your high-performance tool to help you live a life true to yourself while making a positive impact on the world.

Fierce Agency is a nonfiction book that speaks to high-achievers who have checked the boxes of conventional success and still felt empty or dissatisfied. It’s also for those just starting out on their high-performance journey, those who are looking at self-leadership and performance psychology for the first time and want an extra edge that elite performers in business, sport, or any profession share.

Where Does Your Support Go?

My publisher (Manuscripts Press) gave me a publishing team to help me produce and launch my book. I am working with…

• A revisions editor, copy editor, and proofreader this Spring to further hone my book (when you buy a ticket for my launch, you’ll get early excerpts and access to earlier versions of my manuscript!)
• A marketing specialist to coach and support me in marketing efforts, and help me reach new audiences
• A cover artist and layout editor will be designing my book. (The mockups you see currently are a placeholder!)

As a thank you for your essential support, I am offering extra rewards for all founding supporters. All pre-sale packages include: 

• A ticket to my Virtual Book Launch event
• Either a physical copy (softcover, paperback) or digital copy (ebook) when I publish
• An invitation to join my Author Community and get behind-the-scenes sneak peeks into the publishing process
• Early access to the Introduction and some excerpts from my book, with the opportunity to review it and give me early feedback
• The opportunity to be involved in finalizing my cover and title
• Your name will appear in the Acknowledgments section of my book
• Priority Advance Notice of my 4-City In-Person Book Tour Events

I am also offering some exclusive rewards as extra thanks for founding supporters who buy higher-level pre-sale packages, including:

• A personalized and signed physical copy (softcover, paperback) of Fierce Agency
• A Fierce Agency™ Journal to make it even easier to start practicing the elite athlete mindsets right away
• A ticket (or tickets, depending on your pre-sale package) to my In-Person Book Tour in your preferred city during my four-city tour (TBD, currently anticipated to be Austin, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York)
• The opportunity to work with me directly on your self-leadership and high-performance goals, either 1:1 or at your organization
• And more!

Other Ways You Can Support Me

If you can’t contribute right now, these other forms of help would be amazing:

• Please share my pre-sale campaign on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook, and with your friends, family and network.
• Please recommend my book to five (5) friends, family members, or co-workers who you think would enjoy it via text or direct message on social media.

Thank you so much for all of your love and support!

Warmly,

Jess Richman Sargus

Author Bio

Jess Sargus, JD, MPM, is a self-leadership and high-performance evangelist. A three-state bar licensed, Ivy League–trained lawyer and undefeated former MMA fighter, Jess is also a certified Mental Performance Mastery coach, and Accredited Spotlight Practitioner. 

Her 23 years in high-stakes legal and business roles include Marvel Studios, Disney, and a global social media tech unicorn. She also has competed, managed, and coached combat athletes at the highest levels of boxing and mixed martial arts. 

Jess is a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and coach who blends neuroscience and performance psychology to teach high-achievers how to master your mental game with the precision and purpose of an elite athlete, so success is the inevitable result of the freedom and fulfillment you experience every day. If you have a brain, you can learn to think like an athlete, even if you’ve never done anything more physically athletic than get out of bed.

She is the creator of Fierce Agency™, the science-based self-leadership framework that helps high-achieving professionals learn to think like the best athletes in the world, and the author of her forthcoming 2026 book by the same name. When you practice  Fierce Agency™, you become the best leader you’ve ever had. You stop merely living your life, and start leading it. Jess’s mission is to inspire and empower people to lead themselves with Fierce Agency™ each and every day. 

She lives in beautiful Pflugerville, Texas, with her chaos agent Frenchie/Pug puppy, Maya Angelulu, and her Luck Dragon (best guess) 15-year-old dog, Paul Newman.

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