The Shelf-Help Podcast:
Review of Jen Sincero’s You Are a Badass:
How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Live an Awesome Life
Welcome to the Shelf-Help Podcast
THE SHELF-HELP PODCAST connects YOU to the best self-help books on the shelf every week. Through analysis of the efficacy of the self-help techniques employed, and review of the application of these books in our everyday lives, The Shelf-Help Podcast hopes to lead you to books that will lead you to your best self! Today, your hosts, Alex, Jake, and Sullivan, examine the validity of advice in self-help guru Jen Sincero’s 2013 book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Live an Awesome Life. Grab a seat, some popcorn, and a book and listen in!
Show Notes
Your hosts
On this week’s episode…
$17.00 in U.S.A., $21.99 in Canada
In her refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, transformational insights, easy exercises and the occasional swear word, helping you to:
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- Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want.
- Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW.
- Make some damn money already. The kind you’ve never made before.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you’ll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can’t change, how to change what you don’t love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
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ABOUT THIS WEEK’S AUTHOR
Jen Sincero
Jen Sincero is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, success coach, and motivational cattle prod who’s helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her products, speaking engagements, newsletters, seminars, and books. Her #1 New York Times bestseller, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (2013), spent over 4 years on the NY Times bestseller list, has sold over 3 million copies, is available in over 35 languages, and continues to grow in popularity around the globe. Her follow-ups, You Are a Badass® at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (2017), also a NY Times bestseller, You Are a Badass® Every Day (2018), and Badass Habits (2020) are written with the same signature sass, down-to-earth humor and blunt practicality that made You Are a Badass® an indomitable bestseller and Jen a celebrated voice in the world of self-development.
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Links and Sources for Further Exploration…
The Essential Marcuse
$25.00 in U.S.A.
“The Affirmative Character of Culture.” The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse, by Herbert Marcuse et al., Beacon Press, 2007, pp. 201–231.
Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help. John Murray, London, 1860.
Binkley, Sam. “Happiness, Positive Psychology and the Program of Neoliberal Governmentality.” Subjectivity, vol. 4, no. 4, 2011, pp. 371–394., doi:10.1057/sub.2011.16.
Binkley, Sam. “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neo-Liberal Interiority.” History of the Human Sciences, vol. 24, no. 3, 2011, pp. 83–102., doi:10.1177/0952695111412877.
Transcript
Available for download here.