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Being Boss

Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms

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About this listen

 From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life.

Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the- trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance on:

    The Boss Mindset: how to weed out distractions, cultivate confidence, and tackle "fraudy feelings"
  • Boss Habits: including a tested method for visually mapping out goals with magical results
  • Boss Money: how to stop freaking out about finances and sell yourself (without shame)


With worksheets, checklists, and other real tools for achieving success, here's a guide that will truly help you "be boss" not only at growing your business, but creating a life you love. Business Development & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Management Management & Leadership Personal Development Personal Success Women in Business Business Boss Leadership

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Critic reviews

"Finally, a book for entrepreneurs that honors your intuition while cultivating your inner badness...full of real-life insights and bold strategies to help you define success, take charge of your day, and create the life you've always wanted."
—-Melissa Hartwig, Whole30 co-creator and #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Ditch the myth that creatives and business don't mix. Being Boss is the uncomplicated guide to creating your own success."

- Mike McDerment, co-founder and CEO, FreshBooks

"Kathleen and Emily are two of the hardest working and passionate hustlers around. Their care and attention to detail doesn't just show in their work, but in how they've built a tribe of raving supporters. In this book, they don't just talk about creating the business and life you want--they show you how, step by step."—-Jasmine Star, photographer, influencer, and renowned business strategist
"Holy crap-this book is beautifully written and laid out, helpful as only something from the trenches could be, and offers no-BS ideas for truly becoming and being the boss of your business."
—- Paul Jarvis, online brand consultant, host of the Sunday Dispatches podcast, and author of Company of One
Being Boss is a practical guide to inspired sovereignty in your work and in your life. This book offers a roadmap for finding agency, authenticity, and joy, and it is chock full with helpful strategies the reader can get started with right away. Want to make the most of this gift of a life you've been given? Kathleen and Emily will show you how.—- Tara Mohr, author, Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create & Lead
This book really is full of very useful, applicable information for anyone who runs their own business or wishes to do so. I have been an independent artist for soon to be 20 years and I am SO JEALOUS of anyone starting their business now at this moment: they can implement all these principles from the start and save themselves so much trouble and stress❤️

Real information for real life and business

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Great book ladies, thank you for sharing your advice and tips and I love that you went into detail about partnerships and collaborations. I’ve taken away some great tips especially about aligning my values with my boundaries. The practical tips that you’ve offered are of great value to the average mumpreneur like me who is looking for guidance in what can be an overwhelming industry at times.

Being Boss, the title says it all!

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These gals have a knack of speaking to such a wide audience of creatives yet somehow relating to you on a personal level at every point. Devoured on a 6 hour drive and loved every minute. Thank you Kathleen & Emily!

Just buy it

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This book is amazing for creatives and serves as a great source of inspiration. through listening to this book I've opened 2 new business ventures

loved every minure of this book

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I love the podcast and was in two minds about getting the book. The content is well structured and I like that they narrated it as that felt familiar. I definitely think I would have preferred this as a physical book as it does contain some practical tips that I'd like to circle back too but it's lost in the audio. I don't know that there's anything groundbreaking it new in the book or that it's remarkably different from the podcast except that we get more of a glimpse of them as individuals which is a nice change.

I'm happy for them

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I chose this as my free book from Audible and I think it is going to be the smartest decision I have made in a while. They give you tips And some great practical advice. I felt before the end of the first chapter these bosses knew exactly what was going on in my head and they were speaking directly to me.

Best Decision.

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I’ve read the book but I wanted to have the audio book running in the background whilst I “do the work” it’s inspirational, visionary and just generally brilliant! Love these girls!

Awesome

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