Why Writing a Book Will Change Your Life + Business
Cara Says It All
Cara Alwill
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The special introductory price for my new course with my dear friend and fellow bestselling author Amanda Frances, SELF-PUBLISHED, ends tonight! Get all the details + join us here.
In today's episode, I'm sharing more about how writing and self-publishing my book early in my career changed the game for me, and why writing a book is easier than you think.
If you're feeling called to our course, SELF-PUBLISHED, we'd love to have you! Questions? Email Info@TheChampagneDiet.com and we'll help you out!
It's time to stop dreaming of becoming an author and start making it happen. Are you ready? Let's do this.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, and welcome back to the show. You're listening to style your mind. I am your host, |
| 0:05.2 | Carol Allwell. Thank you for joining me today. So if you tuned into the podcast a couple of days |
| 0:11.7 | ago, you may have heard an episode that I recorded with my good friend and fellow best-selling |
| 0:16.4 | author Amanda Frances. We talked all about our journeys with self-publishing, what those |
| 0:22.8 | journeys looked like, how different they were. We talked about what it was like to write our first |
| 0:27.5 | books, and I got a huge response to that podcast. And we actually are doing a course called |
| 0:33.4 | self-published. It's a digital course. First time we're offering this course, so excited about it. |
| 0:39.3 | And enrollment at our special introductory price is ending today. So if you're interested, |
| 0:44.1 | I'm linking it for you in the show notes, or you can go to Amanda Frances.com slash self-published. |
| 0:51.3 | But I wanted to talk a little bit more about why I really truly believe everyone can become an |
| 0:56.8 | author. I got a lot of DMs after that episode saying, you know, I don't really know what I want to |
| 1:02.4 | write about. I don't really know if I'm a good enough writer. I really don't know if I can do this. |
| 1:07.2 | Like, you know, who am I to write a book? All of the questions that came up for me that have come |
| 1:12.8 | up for pretty much everyone that I've worked with that's written a book. But guess what? We still did |
| 1:17.4 | it. And we still did it and had massive success. So the idea for my first book came to me over 13 |
| 1:23.2 | years ago. It was when I started writing my blog, The Champagne Diet. I wanted to write a funny |
| 1:29.2 | but poignant part self-help part diary style book. I don't want to call it a memoir because, |
| 1:34.6 | I mean, I was like in my 20s and I didn't have much of a life to write about at that point, |
| 1:38.6 | but I wanted to share my stories. And I wanted to kind of paint a picture of what it was like |
| 1:43.7 | to be a 20-something-year-old woman navigating her life in New York City. In fact, the first draft |
| 1:49.1 | of the book was actually called The Champagne Diaries. I don't know if you know that fact. |
| 1:52.9 | And while I was working on my manuscript, I also started doing a life coaching certification |
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