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I was going to write a business book – a career journal filled
with clever learnings, sage advice and world-changing missions
– but I was struggling, big time. By struggling, I mean I hated
every word. I spent more than two years producing bursts of
word count, then rereading and deleting them.
Then I met a famous person who said, ‘Don’t write a
business book, my dear. Write the stories you want to leave
for the people you love.’ And so I did. I didn’t set out to write
a memoir, but that’s what was spilling out when I met that
famous person on a sunny Tuesday in Melbourne in June
2017. I’d been at it for two years when she told me just to
write my stories. And so I kept going. I wrote what I want my
favourite people to read, stories that many have never heard.
And while I have written it with my nearest and dearest in
mind, this book is also for you.
Buckle up. Here comes my book: a big, colourful and,
sometimes, downright awful word-vomit of love, fun and
survival with a side order of WTF. Honestly, I can’t make up
the stuff that happens to me.
After the first, each big-ass chapter is arranged by a theme
based on a quality I admire in the people I’ve worked with,
lived with, travelled with or battled alongside. I share with you
the life-changing lessons I’ve learned from those remarkable
people and their unspoken invitation to do life in a way that is
richer than anything I knew before they crossed my path.
My deepest wish is that reading this book makes you want
to do cool stuff, make plans, launch that business, pack your
bags, shave your head, ride that horse, date that hottie, apply
for that job, chuck that party – and, most of all, get your girls
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