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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

343. THE BOOK IS OUT TODAY! (And Why Accomplishments Can Feel Anticlimactic and That’s OK)

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Drumroll, please! My book, Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head - and How to Get It Out, is finally here!

Having my book out in the world is such a surreal experience. I’m incredibly proud of the work it took to write it, and get it out into readers' hands all over the planet (and, hopefully, your hands too)! But honestly, there have been some serious highs and not-so-highs with the whole process, and I’m diving into why in this episode.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://schoolofnewfeministthought.com/343

Order your copy today! Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head - and How to Get It Out: https://www.takebackyourbrainbook.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Y'all, we need a drum roll, the biggest drum roll ever, because after three years, probably longer than that, of working on this project, the book is here.

0:11.0

Like it exists in the physical world, it is at bookstores, it is everywhere. And in this

0:15.7

episode I am going to share the most unexpected but expected part of this book journey process,

0:20.9

let's say, other people are surprised to hear this, I was not surprised,

0:25.2

and I'm going to read an excerpt of the book that I think really gets to the heart of why this

0:28.9

work is so important and will show you where this work can take you. So let's get into it.

0:35.0

Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain.

0:38.0

I'm your host Kara Loyenthile, master certified coach,

0:42.0

and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub. I'm here to help you

0:45.9

turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one

0:51.8

that you're truly excited to live. Let's go.

0:55.0

The book is here. Like it exists in the physical world, it is at bookstores, it is everywhere. I really like I don't even know what to say

1:08.2

because having a book comes out come out is such a weird experience that I feel like I'm sharing with all of you in real time.

1:16.3

But I am super, super proud of this book and the amount of work that it took not just to write it,

1:22.2

but to learn how to share it and market it and sell it which is you know a book just like anything else needs people talking about it and wanting it to move it off shelves.

1:31.0

So that has been a whole learning curve and I'm going to read you an excerpt of the book that is, I think to me, the heart of this work of why I do everything I do, of why I have worked so many weekends over the past three years of why my team has had to work so hard

1:46.2

of what we're all doing here together.

1:48.2

But first I said that I would share and I'm going to share the thing that was the most surprising to other people and not surprising to myself.

1:55.6

And that is that people have been asking me like, oh my God, do you feel amazing?

2:00.3

Like the book is out, you know, do you feel incredible? Do you feel proud? Do you feel great know do you feel incredible do you feel proud do you feel great

2:04.0

do you feel so excited is it so shocking did you cry when you saw the book there's so

2:08.0

many like videos of authors crying on social media when they open their book package and I did not cry.

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