Great advice. Real talk. No bullsh*t. — Hi folks, Sarah here. WHAT. A. YEAR. I know everything sucked in 2020 and much of it continues to suck right up unto this very day, but I’m hoping to alleviate a teeny-tiny bit of your anxiety, angst, and/or ennui with my latest venture: The No F*cks Given Podcast. Yup…

Advice from a bestselling self-help author who is just as anxious as you are — Hey guys, I give advice for a living. I am also a human who is CHOCK FULL OF ANXIETY, so I thought I’d share some strategies that are helping me rein it in these days and that might help you, too. BONUS: My tips are not exclusive to global pandemics…

No is an acceptable answer. It’s time to start using it. — Why is it so fucking hard to say no? How did the act of uttering one little word become more difficult than all the stuff we wind up doing because we couldn’t, wouldn’t, or felt we shouldn’t . . . just politely decline? What makes us pack our calendars full…

The struggle is real enough — let’s not invent more reasons to drive ourselves crazy. — If you’ve written a book, there is no rest for the weary. Now you have to promote it! But not too much. Or at least not too often. Or, like, often, but in sneaky ways that don’t seem like you’re promoting it. And make sure you apologize to your followers…

Congrats! Here’s how to do it without losing your goddamn mind. — Recently, the New York Times and Publishers Marketplace reported on the latest crisis facing the book industry — a paper, labor, and facility shortage that forced publishers to scramble to print enough hardcover books to meet demand, and even to push out the pub dates of some January 2019 books…

Yes, you. — Hey guys. I really hope you’re doing well, but I didn’t become an internationally-bestselling anti-guru by not having my finger on the pulse of my readership, and I am telling you: it’s crazy out there. The world is on fire, the rent is due, your boss is mercurial, your dog…

And three, and four, and five, and six, and seven, and eight… — Imagine you are eleven years old and sitting in the back of a car with your friend in a mall parking lot while her mother runs in to return something at J.C. Penney. You’re chatting about innocent, eleven-year-old type stuff — maybe what hilarious gag Dr. …

Here are 5 tips on how you can get there too — So I did a TEDx* talk, and I’m sharing it here along with five tips for anyone who finds themselves in the same position I did nearly a year ago when the idea of speaking for ten minutes in front of 1,000 strangers was a) purely theoretical and b) moderately…