My Rejection Story
By Alice Draper
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In exclusive interviews, bestselling authors like Tina Wells, Kristen Butler, Jason VanRuler, and Neil Patel share how they navigated the toughest periods of their personal and professional lives, and how this shaped the success they now experience today.
Studies show that the stories we tell ourselves about rejection influence whether these failures fuel our ambition and propel us forward, or stifle our growth and hold us back.
If your rejection story is holding you back, it is time for a reframe.
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Stop Chasing Certainty: A Neuroscientist's Case for Curiosity Over Control with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Why Success Doesn't End Rejection — It Amplifies It
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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How to Stop People-Pleasing as someone with ADHD and RSD
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Is People Pleasing Common in ADHD?
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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The Ellsberg Paradox and Why It Is Kinder To Reject Someone
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Steve Magness: Rejected by Every Agent, He Sold 80K Copies — A Performance Scientist's Guide To Rejection
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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“The First Person Who Rejects Your Book Is You” with Non-fiction Book Coach Stacy Ennis
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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“I Wanted to Live”—Racial Trauma, Alcoholism, & Coming Home to Herself, with Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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100 Rejections Later: How I Learned to Pitch
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Listener Favorite: Jesse J. Anderson on ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
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May 27, 2026 |
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“I Hunted Down David Dobrik in an Airport. Here’s What He Said”, with Jude Sack
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May 20, 2026 |
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Building Rejection Resilience Through Psychology and Strategy, with Dr. MH Pelletier
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May 13, 2026 |
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Navigating Transgender Family Rejection & Romantic Rejection, with Kenny Ethan Jones
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Late-Diagnosis ADHD & Rejection Sensitivity as a Black Woman, with Dari Crawford
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Anne-Laure LeCunff: Overcoming Negativity Bias Through Tiny Experiments
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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How Abandonment Issues Can Contribute to Fear of Rejection, with Dr. Carol Chu-Peralto
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Listener Favorite: Guy Winch on How to Heal From Romantic Rejection
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Listener Favorite: Arielle Estoria on The Human Need for Belonging & Unfolding
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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How to Deal with Book Publishing Rejection, & Tips for Landing the Book Deal with Allison Lane
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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What is Family Estrangement? (Brooklyn Beckham Mess & More)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Why Are We So Afraid of Rejection? A Survival-Based Exploration from an Evolution Expert
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Tracy Otsuka: How to Overcome Learned Helplessness with ADHD
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Why Death is the Ultimate Motivator, with Jodi Wellman
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Why Rejection Hurts So Much — And How To Recover
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Loneliness in Dubai, Making Friends as an Adult, and Life as an Expat, featuring Afshan Nasseri
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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How to Negotiate with a Narcissist in Divorce, featuring Lisa Johnson
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Narcissism Doctor: What Happens When You Reject A Narcissist (featuring Dr. Sterlin Mosely)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Whitney Goodman: How To Deal With Toxic Positivity
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Eva Langston: "My Novel Died On Submission" — Publisher Rejection, Landing a Book Agent, & Fostering a Writing Community
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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From Lawyer to Dancer & Speaker: Kim Bolourtchi on Strategic Unruliness
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Top ADHD Creators: Why is Self-Promotion So Hard with ADHD?
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Tara Jaye Frank: Leaving A Marriage, Learning Through Publisher’s Rejection, & The Helper’s Dilemma
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Jamie Varon on Delayed Gratification versus Instant Gratification & How To Detach From Results
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Arielle Estoria on The Human Need for Belonging & Unfolding
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Marques Ogden on Life After NFL, Identity Loss, Losing a $25M Construction Biz, & More
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Dr. Amanda Crowell: The “Great Work” Psychologist & How Defensive Failure Is Getting In The Way
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: How to Cope With Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Jessica Zweig: "It Was More Painful To Stay!" Walking Away From A Successful Business To Find Alignment
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Meredith Carder: ADHD Masking Burnout & When Masking Can Help
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Christine Platt: Reinvention, Collective Covid-19 Grief, & Redefining Selfishness
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: Messy Activism, Jenna Kutcher Speaking Up, & More
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Katie Horwitch: "Lonely Is Love with Nowhere to Go" — Navigating Identity, Eating Disorders, & More
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Guy Winch On The Science Of Why You NEED To Unfollow Your Ex
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Jesse J. Anderson: "I Would Blow Up" — RSD & ADHD in Life, Marriage, & Friendships
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: I Am Still Terrified Of Friendship Rejection. Here's How I Cope.
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Marina Iakovleva: "Buzzfeed Stole My Idea And Went Viral", Growing To 675K+ Subscribers, Dating Abroad, + More
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Tracy Otsuka: "ADHDers feel more emotion" & the Brain Science of Rejection
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Jason Silver: Crashing A Startup & The Science of Enjoyment at Work
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: Uncertainty Is a Portal, Not a Punishment
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May 28, 2025 |
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MY BEST FRIEND: On Burnout, People-Pleasing, Suicide And Reinvention
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May 21, 2025 |
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Jodi Wellman: Death Is the Best Motivator You’re Not Using
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May 14, 2025 |
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Nicole Kalil: I Was Promoted And I Was Miserable. I Had to Rethink Everything.
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May 08, 2025 |
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Confidence Expert: “Poop Soup” and the Pain of Not Knowing What's Next
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May 01, 2025 |
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Iman Hariri-Kia: On Rewriting the Shame Teen Magazines Sold Us
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: Regret Minimization during Uncertain Times
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Whitney Goodman: Toxic Positivity and the Pain of Being Misunderstood Online
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: Visibility is Vulnerable. Here’s How I Deal With It
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Success Mentor: Women’s Rejection Sensitivity Is Wired Into Survival
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Hannah Brencher: Friendship Rejections &The Dark Side of Oversharing Online
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Listener Favorite: Jason VanRuler on Rejection in Relationships
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Jamie Varon: The Fork In The Road—Do You Trust Yourself or Let Rejection Define You?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Chrissy King: Thinness Is Back! How To Stop Rejecting Our Bodies
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Alice Draper: When Life Rejects Your Plans
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Psychologist Guy Winch: How To Heal A Broken Heart
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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ADHD Expert: Meredith Carder On RSD and Why ADHDers Struggle With Rejection
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Grant Faulkner: The Brain Science of Rejection & How to Beat the Odds
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Book Deal Veteran: The Long Game—Secrets To Thriving Before And AFTER The Book Deal
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Generational Healer: Breaking the Chains of Family Conditioning
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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The 5 BEST Rejection Insights From 2024's Interviews (Mashup)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Listener Favorite: "The NYT Trashed My Book!" Geraldine DeRuiter on Rejection
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Alice Draper: The 100 Rejection Challenge That Changed My Life
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Non-Obvious Thinker: The ONE Question That Will Transform Networking, Book Publishing Secrets & More
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Alice Draper: I Feel Like An Imposter! Winning A Podcast Award Reflections
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Hybrid Publisher: Our Authors Keep 90% Of Royalties. This Is NOT Normal In Traditional Publishing
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Literary Agent: "To land a nonfiction book deal you need 1 of these 3 things"
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Ayodeji Awosika: “I studied 3-star Amazon reviews!” Reaching millions through self-publishing
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Alice Draper: "Rejection threatens our ability to survive."
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Alice Draper: "Losing my father to dementia is the worst and best thing that happened to me"
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Tina Wells: “No one looked like me when I started my business in 1996”
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Kimberly Brown: "It is never too late to change careers"
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Jason VanRuler: "I didn't know how to have a secure relationship"
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Fremantle: "Getting expelled from school at 15 drove my ambition"
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Jill Mansell: “I'm on book 37, and I still get anxious”
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Haley Jakobson: “I got 40+ rejections for Old Enough”
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Paulette Perhach: “I feel like a hypocrite for being the F*ck-Off Fund girl”
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Neil Patel: “Rejection doesn’t need to sting”
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Nokuhle Kumalo: “I’m A Realistic Delulu Person”
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Gay Hendricks: “No editor cared about my book, and I’d spent the quarter of a million dollars advance”
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Geraldine DeRuiter: “I’m a rejection-avoidant bestselling author”
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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INTRODUCING "My Rejection Story" with Alice Draper. Coming September 3
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Aug 30, 2024 |