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The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and working a mediocre day job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was there that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Eight years later, she is the founder, CEO, and creative director of Nasty Gal, a $100 million plus online fashion retailer with more than 350 employees.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, read by Sarah Jes Austell. The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion. It was a stolen book. At age 17 she was a dumpster-diving, shoplifting anarchist. By 29 she was the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, a $100 million-plus fashion empire. Filled with brazen wake-up calls ("You are not a special snowflake"), frank observations ("Failure is your invention"), and behind-the-scenes stories....

På omkring otte år gik Sophia Amoruso fra at være ludfattig anarkistisk friganer til en velhavende forretningskvinde. I "Girlboss" fortæller hun sin historie for at lære andre, kommende girlboss'er at stille spørgsmål og ikke tage noget for givet. En girlboss skal vide, hvornår man skal følge reglerne, og hvornår man skal omskrive dem. En girlboss styrer sit eget liv. Hun får, hvad hun vil have, fordi hun arbejder hårdt for det. "Girlboss" er Sophia Amorusos historie.

Restez vous-même, devenez motivé, réalisez vos rêves ! Dans le best-seller du New York Times, Sophia Amoruso raconte comment elle a passé du déchétarisme, à la fondation d'un des entreprises les plus dynamiques du monde. Adolescente, Amoruso voyageait en auto-stop, commettait des petits vols et lors des temps les plus difficiles fouillait dans des poubelles pour les restes de bagels. À 20 ans elle a quitté l'université et changé des centaines d'emplois. Son dernier poste de travail était de contrôler les identités à l'entrée de l'école d'art.

This is a summary, analysis, and review of New York Times best-selling book #GIRLBOSS by founder and CEO of the hit clothing brand Nasty Gal. Sophia Amoruso is an unconventional success story who will show you how you too can find the success she found, and that luck isn't what gets you to the top.

Take the Brand Boss personality test to reveal your specific archetype and how this acumen applies to your life, your relationships, your career and your company. Are you a catalyst, coach, or crusader? Optimist or a woo-er? Maven or mastermind? Poet or a prodigy? Just like there are 12 astrological signs, we’ll share the 12 personality archetypes and then help you drill down to unlock yours.

In #GirlBoss, Sophia Amoruso, a well-known American fashionista, shares her wisdom and inspiration with women who are also seeking success. While less conventional than other female business moguls, Amoruso stands on her own after rising from her days of dumpster-diving to eBay saleswoman to CEO of her own worldwide company. Her business, Nasty Girl, started as a self-funded enterprise in her aunt's basement. In a few years, she was reporting revenues more than $10 million!

While it is human nature to shy away from things that are outside of our comfort zone, it is only by spending time in our discomfort zone that we can grow, and improve, and realise our full potential. Whether it's putting yourself forward for a new challenge, asking for difficult feedback, nailing a presentation or getting a dream job, in this book Farrah Storr shows how you have to push through what she calls 'brief moments of discomfort' in order to get to where you need to be. Farrah describes these brief moments of discomfort as 'like HIIT training for your life' - and shows how the more you force yourself into them, the easier it will get.

 What's standing in the way of your best life? It's not your boss, your mother or your metabolism. Maybe it's you. Lauren Handel Zander knows that people are hungry for results-oriented, no-nonsense advice. Someone to tell it to them straight. To give them not only inspiration to change but a step-by-step plan to get it done. That's what she's done for tens of thousands of clients at Handel Group with her take-no-prisoners brand of radical personal accountability - a proven program that has worked for best-selling authors, top businesspeople, award-winning artists...and now, you. 

From the powerhouse Mind Body Green calls 'the Brené Brown of Wonder' comes a self-help book that will reframe the way we look at ourselves and the world and help us reach our full potential. Wonder is what we're born with. Worry is what we learn. Now is the time to return to wonder.