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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head... and How to Get it Out," is a step-by-step guide designed to equip women and feminist allies with the tools to challenge the sexist messaging that's been ingrained in our psyche. Publisher's Weekly calls it a "galvanizing and motivating debut". Mel Robbins champions it as a playbook to "interrupt internalized age-old messaging." This is no mere self-help. It's self-liberation. Pre-order "Take Back Your Brain" now at unfuckyourbrain.com/book or by texting your email to +13479971784 with the code word "book".
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0:00.0 | So what's in the book that Publishers Weekly called a galvanizing and motivating debut? |
0:05.5 | What's in the book that Mel Robbins says is a playbook for teaching you how to |
0:11.1 | interrupt internalized age-old messaging, a book that she says you should not put down. |
0:17.0 | Maybe a little ironically, I actually want to read you a little bit from the end of the book, rather than the beginning. Here's what the end of the book says. |
0:25.2 | Throughout this book you've learned that the personal is political in so many ways. |
0:30.4 | The systems that structure our society teach us what and how to think about ourselves. |
0:35.0 | And those thoughts not only create our own emotional experiences, but how we show up to live our lives and impact the world. |
0:42.0 | You might be a stay-at-home mom on a farm-ster. live our lives and impact the world. |
0:43.0 | You might be a stay-at-home mom on a farmstead or the polyglot CEO of a multinational corporation. |
0:49.1 | Whoever you are, however you live, you have unrealized brilliance, unexplored potential, undeveloped gifts, all of which |
0:57.0 | you can unleash by changing the way you think. |
1:01.0 | Our unequal and unjust society depends on you staying small, but your liberation and the world's progress depends on you closing your brain gap and learning how to take up space. I don't want you to use my work |
1:16.1 | to become someone else. My deepest wish for you is that you use the tools |
1:20.4 | you've learned in this book to become more of who you already are, because who you |
1:25.3 | already are is already enough. And when women believe they are enough, that's when they go out |
1:31.9 | and change the world. I wrote this book to be a Clarion |
1:36.7 | call for the Feminist Mindset Revolution, but that's a revolution that starts within |
1:42.1 | each one of us. |
1:44.0 | Each one of us has to liberate ourselves from the inside out. |
1:48.8 | And we have to teach ourselves how to do that. |
1:51.5 | My book is here to teach you, but we have to help ourselves. |
1:55.1 | Self-help is a radical act for women. We can't depend on the institutions and |
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