Chrissy’s Review: #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso

#GIRLBOSS
written by Sophia Amoruso
published by Portfolio, 2015

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Did I enjoy this book? I really did. It was another great professional development book.

I enjoyed reading Ms. Amoruso’s story. She built an incredibly successful business, and it was amazing to read how she did it. Sure, her beginnings were not like most entrepeneurs’. And her approach to starting a business was out of the ordinary. But she worked hard and learned and continues to learn. I loved that she wasn’t afraid to ask questions as the CEO of her business. I also liked a lot of the advice she gave throughout the book. One thing that really had me nodding my head was that you have to work for it. It’s not going to just happen, you have to put in the work to make your business successful.

As with any professional development book, read it and take from it what will work for you and your business. You can learn from others’ experiences and advice. You don’t have to do everything in exactly the same way, and you can’t do that, but you can definitely learn and apply what you feel will work best for you. And I think that different pieces of advice will work at different stages of your career. It is definitely a book that I will pick up again.

 

 

Would I recommend it? I would recommend it for any girlboss out there and anybody in business. I know it is a book I will revisit often.
 

 
About the book – from Goodreads: In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called “Lean In for misfits,” Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.

Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—
a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.

Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers.

#GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college
or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.

 

 

 

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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on February 6, 2019.