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217 How to Write Your Book with Kathryn Britton

The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Release Date: 11/03/2022

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Announcing the return of new episodes of The PurposeGirl Podcast -- and a live event in November! It's been a while -- a little over a year, actually! -- but I'm back!!! There are lots of changes coming to the podcast with its return, but I wanted to let you know about a live weekend event taking place in Philadelphia in November, and you are NOT gonna want to miss this! Listen to learn more, or go to .

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

It’s been over 4 years of weekly podcasts, and I’m doing something I’ve never done… I’m taking a break! It’s going to be a short break for part of the summer, and when I come back, get ready for some big changes! The name PurposeGirl is going away… The girl is a WOMAN, and the refreshed podcast is going to reflect that! So, if you aren’t already subscribed, please make sure you subscribe so you keep getting the new episodes under the new name! I am SO excited about all the amazing things coming your way when we return!   In the meantime, if you haven’t already, please...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

In honor of Pride month here in the US, I wanted to bring you a genuine conversation with a number of dear friends of mine about our own discoveries about our places in the LGBTQIA+ universe. We’re having a frank, open discussion about our experiences, our joys, our struggles, and so much more. Regardless of how you (or those in your lives) identify, these issues touch all of us, and I want to help bring greater understanding to my community and to all those whose lives you touch. I’m joined by three amazing guests – not “experts” per se, simply real people: Kelly Mahalak, Cassandra...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Play comes naturally to most children, but as we get older, playfulness, zest, tends to diminish. We get stuck in responsibilities, or maybe you feel like play is frivolous. But then you also end up feeling unhappy and depressed and play is a way out of it. The power of play can really help us live more enjoyable, fulfilling, and even productive lives. My two guests today, Elaine O’Brien and Andrea Seydel, are not only dear friends of mine, but they just coauthored a book on this, and I am so thrilled to have them share their wisdom with you! Today we’re discussing: Why we lose our sense...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

Today I’m dropping the first in a new series, called Ways of WOMAN, or WOW! These are bite-sized, supremely actionable tools for you to use to live as the powerful woman you were born to be. Join me as I talk all about: The two little words that hold so many women back The trauma of the powerful woman Positive What-If-ing Negativity bias I know you're going to love this new series! Please send us a note at and let us know what you think! And make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss a single WOW! We’re changing the world one woman at a time. Go to Apple Podcasts and...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

I grew up the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. My grandparents fled Europe and came to the United States with nothing, and their experiences understandably left them with concerns about money and scarcity. Some of this rubbed off on me, along with my own experiences growing up around people who had far more money than I did (not that I wanted for anything). And as a result, I ended up with my own set of issues around money. Today’s episode is a bit of a departure for me, since I rarely focus on money, but that’s what we’re diving into today. Join me as I talk all about: Power leaks...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

You ever have that feeling that you should be happier than you are? Maybe you think that in general, things are going pretty OK in your life, and for sure a lot of people have it worse than you do, and yet you feel like you should be happier? You wonder what’s wrong with you? I’ll out myself and say that yes, I’ve been there many times in my life. If this at all resonates for you, then I’ve got the best guest for you! Today I’m sitting down with Dominique Velasquez to talk about: The guilt that comes from feeling that you have no good reason to be anxious or unhappy The search for...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

I didn’t build my business on social media - I built it by speaking on stages. My big dream was to be impactful like Oprah, and though I had no mentor, I figured it out. I spoke at AVON and for Victoria’s Secret execs. For Capital One and at Women’s conferences.  I LOVED IT! I made an impact, I made money, AND, nearly every time I spoke, I got clients! But then… I kept seeing all of these other coaches making $1 Million in 6 months! I felt so inadequate. Ads started screaming at me on Facebook: Get 10,000 followers! Get my cash coach system! My brain start obsessing about social...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

After I divorced years ago, I had a series of relationships over a number of years, some for a short time and some that lasted a while, but for too much of that time I wasn’t really clear on what I wanted out of these relationships, let alone how to go about getting it. Looking back on it now, I wish I had had someone in my life like today’s guest to help me navigate all of this. Today we’re talking with Jamie Simkins, expert in all things dating, relationships, love and sex, and it is SUCH a fabulous, juicy conversation! Join us as we talk all about: Some of the common struggles so...

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The PurposeGirl Podcast: Empowering women to live their purpose with courage, joy, and fierce self-love.

I recently got back from leading my Wild Woman Retreat in Puerto Rico, and I’m just gonna own it… It was AMAZING! I really do lead the best women’s retreats! Together we embraced the wild parts of ourselves, those parts that the patriarchy tries to suppress because our raw power threatens and scares them. Because uncovering and embracing these deeper parts of ourselves is critical to our own happiness. I’m on the verge of a major transformation right now, one in which I’m moving away from PurposeGirl and moving towards something bigger and bolder: Teaching women to be wise, wild...

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So many people I know have a book inside them that they want to get out. I know it’s been true for me for so many years! And yet, getting that book done can be so intimidating!  In today’s episode, Kathryn and I discuss what it takes to write and publish a book, and how she helps authors do just that. Kathryn talks about:

  • Why it doesn’t matter if your first draft is crap.
  • The playfulness and creativity of writing.
  • Shifting between a top-down and a bottom-up approach to writing.
  • Writing in 30-minute chunks versus several-hour blocks
  • Her 3-step process for writing: Sit – Write – Share
  • The WOOP Method
  • Keeping track of story seeds
  • The role of curating in writing

To learn more about and follow Kathryn:

sitwriteshare.com
facebook.com/sitwriteshare
twitter.com/kathrynbritton
www.instagram.com/sitwriteshare/

And you can get a copy of her new book, Sit Write Share: Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience Into Content that Matters, here: https://books2read.com/u/bz1Vxq

About Kathryn Britton

Kathryn Britton’s clients call her the midwife of words. She has helped hundreds of people complete writing projects, big and small. Her own publications include books and articles about computer science, coaching, and applied positive psychology. She has been an English major, a software engineer, an inventor, an editor, an executive coach, and one of the first practitioners of applied positive psychology. Now she writes, edits, and coaches writers. More than 3000 pieces of writing have been reviewed in her writers’ workshops. Sit Write Share emerged from her experiences helping authors find their authentic writing voices, build confidence, and produce writing that can change the world.

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