Unbound

A Woman's Guide to Power

By: Kasia Urbaniak

Narrated by: Kasia Urbaniak

Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

The ultimate guide to owning your power - and mastering how to use it.

How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much - and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze? 

Kasia Urbaniak teaches power to women - and her answers to these questions may surprise you. Based on insights from her experiences as a dominatrix, her training to become a Taoist nun, and the countless women she has taught to expand their influence, this book offers precise, practical instruction in how to stand in your power, find your voice, and use it well. 

Learn how to: 

• Embrace your desires as the pathway to your destiny. 
• Ask for - and get - what you need in your life, work, and in the bedroom. 
• Skillfully navigate hearing "no" and any resistance, even your own. 
• Flip power dynamics when someone crosses your boundaries and puts you on the spot. 
• Create new and expanded roles for the people in your life with precise, targeted asks.

Whether you're getting crystal clear on exactly what you want, or turning the tables on a man who has shut you up and shut you down, Urbaniak's methods teach women to stand for themselves in every interaction. 

Part manual, part manifesto, part behind-the-scenes look, Unbound is a how-to guide to the impossible, the outrageous, the unimaginable - a field guide to living your wildest, best, and most satisfying life.

©2020 Kasia Urbaniak (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Must read for every Woman!

Kasia and the Academy’s teachings are revolutionary and life changing. Every woman and anyone who loves woman needs to read this book.

Favorite frame: the outrageous ask. I am formulating mine = watch out world!

So much yes, thank you!

THIS IS EVERYTHING

This is the Holy Bible of Power for Women.

You are doing yourself a disservice if you do not listen to this book.

I'm serious.

Buy it, listen to it, let Kasia's gorgeous narration wash over you, feel grounded, safe, hopeful, emboldened, clear, untouchable and FUCKING RAW in the BEST way.

You can't change what you want. So why not find out what it is and how to get it?

Why waste any moment of the precious time you have on this stinkin beautiful planet?

Why are you still reading this? What are you waiting for?

I'm life, Annie, am I bothering you??? FIGHT BACK FOR YOUR LIFE, ANNIE!!!!!!!!!

Access power, connect to desires, wield influence

I could not stop listening to this book. The amount of useful and life giving information available in these 7+ hours is incredible. Kasia Urbaniak has a gift for presenting mind blowing information in clear and accesible ways. I listened straight through the first time and I’ll listen again taking time to savor each chapter in a contemplative, meditative fashion.

I cannot wait to put the tools available in this book to use in order to imagine a richer, fuller life and create it in a fashion that is easier than I knew was possible.

life changing

this may be the single most important book I've read in my entire life. the insights exercises and illuminations are essential and this book is changing the world

Life changing!!

Her examples were spot on with my life -- how I give and give & apologize when I need to ask or not ask at all. I will be reading/listening to this several times@

Powerful and Enlightening

Unbound put the spot light in my good girl training and showed me exactly where I am stuck. Most importantly, Unbound gave me the tools to test my limits and the “permission” to advocate for myself. Unbound has a plethora of information. I’m ready to start over at Chapter 1 to make sure I didn’t miss anything!

Revelation & Confirmation

So so good. Filled with insights and brilliant new perspectives as well as confirmation of things I had known all along.

Favorite Frames So Far:
You have no control over what you want.
When you feel legitimate about a desire you are 100% connected to the feeling of wanting it.
Asking with legitimacy means that you know, at a cellular level, that you have the right to ask for it.
(really ALL of the legitimacy chapter)
When she walked, it was as if the Earth walked with her.
Submission is the deeply felt connection to the truth of who you are right now.
Attention turned in when it's critical...strips the nutrients out of what should be the luxurious surrender of the submissive.

The Most Rewarding Credit You'll Ever Spend

The effect of this book: I feel seen. That's great by itself, but what's even better is that this book gives you very practical, very applicable advice that might change the entire way you go about... everything. Many books on empowerment for women read like self-righteous manifestos, and, while you agree with everything they say, they aren't much help in your everyday reality. This one is. There is so much down-to-earth practical knowledge here that I wish I had twenty years ago, I can't even. Best investment you'll ever make here. Wholeheartedly recommend.

Outstanding On So Many Levels

May all women have an opportunity to listen to & discuss these ideas, practice these exercises, and feel her own power.

Impossible to listen to aloud unless alone

I've absolutely loved this book both times I listened, and I've even joined a book group for this book so we can do all the exercises together. Completely recommend for every woman who has to live in this world.

The voice and tone of the narrator is impeccable, I would rate the performance a 5/5 except for one very key caveat: the volume levels are entirely inconsistent and I have to maximize my volume to hear 70 % of the book. But then, when I'm unprepared the narrator says at 5x the volume "DOMINATE HIM" and I suddenly have a very awkward conversation with roommates that I just woke up with that very out-of-context statement. If I want to listen in the shower, one of my main places to listen to books, I must keep one hand on the volume for the majority of my shower because it changes with such frequency that I cannot leave it alone, else I become the example from the book about the neighbor who plays loud music at night. This is not a problem with narration, this is an issue with making this publish ready.

A dominant request: what would whoever was in charge of this publication need in order to normalize the volume to make this listenable without headphones? Myself, and future listeners would be thankful.