You Are a Badass
How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
by Jen Sincero
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“@InfoSecSherpa I love that book! I have listened to it twice. @JenSincero is amazing. | Good book! Grab a free audiobook at | My recommendations from last year. Would you like a list for 2018 #books | Piles of #books in my car. Here's two recent reads I HIGHLY recommend. You Are A Badass by @JenSincero, also on YouTube as 5 hour listen. I did both, read & listened. Good job Jen. Also... Do Over by @JonAcuff. Great book, Seth Godin says best career book ever. I agree.”
Source →“@InfoSecSherpa I love that book! I have listened to it twice. @JenSincero is amazing. | Good book! Grab a free audiobook at | My recommendations from last year. Would you like a list for 2018 #books | Piles of #books in my car. Here's two recent reads I HIGHLY recommend. You Are A Badass by @JenSincero, also on YouTube as 5 hour listen. I did both, read & listened. Good job Jen. Also... Do Over by @JonAcuff. Great book, Seth Godin says best career book ever. I agree.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Jay Shetty and Deke Bridges
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Jen Sincero's 'You Are a Badass' reads like a bar conversation with a tipsy life coach who swears a lot and promises you can manifest a Lamborghini. Across 27 bite-sized chapters, she mixes stories of her own rock bottom with blunt directives like 'Love yourself like a crazy person' and 'Your brain is your bitch.' The immediate, no-nonsense motivation is the useful part: you'll finish sections ready to act, armed with mantras to hush self-doubt. But the book’s simplistic abundance logic sidesteps real-world constraints, and by chapter 15 you may find the Law of Attraction cheerleading more exhausting than empowering.
Read this if...
- •A 22-year-old with a liberal arts degree sending out resumes and getting ghosted, who needs to hear 'fake it till you make it' without sugarcoating to push through imposter syndrome and keep applying.
- •A 35-year-old marketing manager who's been dreaming about launching a podcast for two years but keeps researching instead of recording, and needs a humorous, no-excuses kick to just record the first episode.
- •A painter who hasn't touched a canvas in six months, scrolling through inspiration but never starting, who responds better to tough love and mantra-like reminders than to structured planning systems.
Skip this if...
- •You'll likely put it down during the third chapter of 'Trust the Universe' financial advice, when you realize your student loans and systemic barriers aren't just a mindset problem.
- •Annoying if you want a book that builds an argument rather than fires off one-liners; you'll bounce when you notice every chapter is essentially the same cheer in different words.
- •Skip if profanity feels like a cheap substitute for substance, or if you'd prefer a guide that acknowledges structural inequality instead of treating mindset as a magic wand.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the selfhelp book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it.In this refreshingly entertaining howto guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and worldtraveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously...
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Audience Fit
- A 22-year-old with a liberal arts degree sending out resumes and getting ghosted, who needs to hear 'fake it till you make it' without sugarcoating to push through imposter syndrome and keep applying.
- A 35-year-old marketing manager who's been dreaming about launching a podcast for two years but keeps researching instead of recording, and needs a humorous, no-excuses kick to just record the first episode.
- A painter who hasn't touched a canvas in six months, scrolling through inspiration but never starting, who responds better to tough love and mantra-like reminders than to structured planning systems.
- You'll likely put it down during the third chapter of 'Trust the Universe' financial advice, when you realize your student loans and systemic barriers aren't just a mindset problem.
- Annoying if you want a book that builds an argument rather than fires off one-liners; you'll bounce when you notice every chapter is essentially the same cheer in different words.
- Skip if profanity feels like a cheap substitute for substance, or if you'd prefer a guide that acknowledges structural inequality instead of treating mindset as a magic wand.
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Healing, Positivity, and Self Confidence.
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Deke Bridges
“@InfoSecSherpa I love that book! I have listened to it twice. @JenSincero is amazing. | Good book! Grab a free audiobook at | My recommendations from last year. Would you like a list for 2018 #books | Piles of #books in my car. Here's two recent reads I HIGHLY recommend. You Are A Badass by @JenSincero, also on YouTube as 5 hour listen. I did both, read & listened. Good job Jen. Also... Do Over by @JonAcuff. Great book, Seth Godin says best career book ever. I agree.”
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