DESIGNED, NOT DESPERATE

For Women Who Are Tired of Being Strong

By: Jessika Wheatley

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Paperback | 21 January 2026

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Designed, Not Desperate is a bold, honest, and practical blueprint for women who are tired of surviving, exhausted from hustling, and ready to build a life that actually holds. Through faith, lived experience, and system-based strategy, the author challenges popular advice rooted in motivation and grind culture, replacing it with architecture- structures and habits designed to produce freedom, peace, and legacy.

This book explores the difference between labor and legacy, the importance of protecting focus, the role of family as an economic unit, and the power of intellectual property as inheritance. With humor, cultural truth, and deep reflection, Designed, Not Desperate invites women to stop operating in constant output and start building with intention.

This is not a motivational book. It is a framework for alignment, ownership, and generational continuity.

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