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While her style, her obsession with fake lashes and hair extensions and breast implants and all that hip hop or whatever music and pop culture references and obsession with celebrities and Hollywood and parties is not my cuppa tea, I didn't buy the book for the author so much as for the content (NYT best seller blah blah, I thought I'd give it a chance.) hoping for inspiration and motivation.
Except in this book, you get the author's personality to the last detail, to the last drop and drip, so beware, especially in the Audible version. And she is in-your-face, obnoxious, crude, contradicts herself (she says don't apologize, the title of the book but then she says something terrible and she's going on and on: "I'm sorry but .." ... "Y'all, I'm sorry" ... weird! OR she's mocking the people in the cafe for wasting time on Instagram while she is obviously watching them instead of doing her work so she can have a story to tell, what was the point of all that? ) and most of all, she steals so much content, she steals so many quotes and sometimes she bothers to re-package them, often not even, and there is not a single reference to any of the work to others.
I'm an Iranian-American ex-corporate entrepreneur woman and while I'm not a mom and could anticipate not relating to a ton of mom-stuff, I still wanted to learn from Rachel. And my god she can be inspiring alright. There were moments and sections where I was really drawn in, where she really had me thinking and re-thinking my choices and my habits and my attitude, and as a coach and self-made woman myself, I am big into all of this. She had a way of giving me a kick in the pants that I appreciated.
But then her stuff would get in there.
One thing that I can't stand is when people repeat themselves. OK we heard the full boob story in the book. In the bonus section of the audiobook, it's a section of her Rise Conference, and we have to hear it yet again but she's saying it almost as if she's drunk! It was nauseating. OK so you got fake boobs. Yes, some will judge you for it, but you're okay with that and some won't. Can we move on to more important topics so you can help empower us? Or .... ?
There was a lot of GREAT stuff in this book but she kept using other people's content. I am not an editor, but I'm surprised they did not catch her for flat out plagiarism and forget that, why could she not be more authentic or original or at least credit others? She would put a hip pop culture spin on it and use it as if it were her own.
A lot of the examples about empowering you are around fitness, getting in shape because it's so easy (sorry it isn't and I'm highly motivated and not even a mom!), drinking more water (I was a little offended by that one but I'm a health nut so!) and getting fake boobs or fake lashes or both. She mixes that up with other stories like hitting NYT best-seller list and omg she didn't make it and she looked like a failure in front of everyone but then later she did make it.
Sigh. I lost touch with her a lot and her narration can be so obnoxious but not as obnoxious as her act on the stage, BUT she has her moments of great original inspiration and great kick in the pants ideas (although her 10-10-1 made-up plan still doesn't make sense to me!).
Anyway, I'm really glad I read this book. I'm giving it a 3-star. She's obviously a successful woman and helps a lot of people. But I can only take so much of her. I'm not sure what your style is, and if today's loud obnoxious get-out-of-my-way oh-wait-I-need-your-help I-ll-do-whatever-I-want woman role model speaks to you, then read this book.
Except in this book, you get the author's personality to the last detail, to the last drop and drip, so beware, especially in the Audible version. And she is in-your-face, obnoxious, crude, contradicts herself (she says don't apologize, the title of the book but then she says something terrible and she's going on and on: "I'm sorry but .." ... "Y'all, I'm sorry" ... weird! OR she's mocking the people in the cafe for wasting time on Instagram while she is obviously watching them instead of doing her work so she can have a story to tell, what was the point of all that? ) and most of all, she steals so much content, she steals so many quotes and sometimes she bothers to re-package them, often not even, and there is not a single reference to any of the work to others.
I'm an Iranian-American ex-corporate entrepreneur woman and while I'm not a mom and could anticipate not relating to a ton of mom-stuff, I still wanted to learn from Rachel. And my god she can be inspiring alright. There were moments and sections where I was really drawn in, where she really had me thinking and re-thinking my choices and my habits and my attitude, and as a coach and self-made woman myself, I am big into all of this. She had a way of giving me a kick in the pants that I appreciated.
But then her stuff would get in there.
One thing that I can't stand is when people repeat themselves. OK we heard the full boob story in the book. In the bonus section of the audiobook, it's a section of her Rise Conference, and we have to hear it yet again but she's saying it almost as if she's drunk! It was nauseating. OK so you got fake boobs. Yes, some will judge you for it, but you're okay with that and some won't. Can we move on to more important topics so you can help empower us? Or .... ?
There was a lot of GREAT stuff in this book but she kept using other people's content. I am not an editor, but I'm surprised they did not catch her for flat out plagiarism and forget that, why could she not be more authentic or original or at least credit others? She would put a hip pop culture spin on it and use it as if it were her own.
A lot of the examples about empowering you are around fitness, getting in shape because it's so easy (sorry it isn't and I'm highly motivated and not even a mom!), drinking more water (I was a little offended by that one but I'm a health nut so!) and getting fake boobs or fake lashes or both. She mixes that up with other stories like hitting NYT best-seller list and omg she didn't make it and she looked like a failure in front of everyone but then later she did make it.
Sigh. I lost touch with her a lot and her narration can be so obnoxious but not as obnoxious as her act on the stage, BUT she has her moments of great original inspiration and great kick in the pants ideas (although her 10-10-1 made-up plan still doesn't make sense to me!).
Anyway, I'm really glad I read this book. I'm giving it a 3-star. She's obviously a successful woman and helps a lot of people. But I can only take so much of her. I'm not sure what your style is, and if today's loud obnoxious get-out-of-my-way oh-wait-I-need-your-help I-ll-do-whatever-I-want woman role model speaks to you, then read this book.