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I'm excited to be here today with Sarah Bliss.

Sarah is a New York Times best-selling author and a brand advisor.

She's the author of 11 books, which is amazing, including her upcoming

nonfiction work, take the leap, change your career, change your life. She co-wrote three books

with makeup guru Bobby Brown, who's like my favorite makeup person ever, and that's like all I wear.

A former senior writer and editor for Yahoo, she has written for the Wall Street Journal,

Esquire,

town and country, Oprah, and travel and leisure, as well as for many other online publications.

She speech rights. She ghost rights for CEOs and other high profile clients. She does branding work.

She does everything. She currently lives in New York City with her two children and her husband.

Yes. Where she was born and raped. Yes. So welcome, Sarah. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. You are an amazingly prolific author. I'm totally impressed with how much you've done. What made you decide at this point in your career to write, take the leap, and why now? And then tell the listeners a little about what it's about.

Please. Well, basically, I've written profiles my entire career. And the one thing that I found that was really fascinating is a lot of the most successful people, it wasn't a linear path.

It ended up, they had this whole other life beforehand. And to me, that was fascinating and really

inspiring, partly because I wasn't really that happy with my own career. I kind of gone into

nonfiction as like a little bit of a placeholder with this idea that I was going to be a novelist.

And I had written a couple books and the one that was supposed to be my big breakout book just wasn't.

And so I became everybody's ghostwriter.

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