141: She Thinks Big: The Experience of Writing a Book for the First Time

Do you ever pause to reflect on something you’ve done for the first time?

Lots of people have a dream of writing a book one day. Maybe you’re one of them and would appreciate an inside view from someone else’s experience writing a book for the first time.

Well, my book She Thinks Big hits the shelves on September 26. It’s been more than a year in the making, and I want to walk you through and pick apart my journey as a first-time writer.

In this episode of Time to Level Up, you’ll get some insights from the experience of writing a book for the first time. I’ll talk about both the good and the bad parts, including overcoming challenges in first-time book writing.

What’s Covered in This Episode About Writing a Book for the First Time

2:58 - The nudge to write the book..and the guilt that came with it

5:54 - When the sinking feeling of fear kicked in

8:52 - My favorite way to face fear and get over the uncomfortable

10:28 - Creating big belief and facing your “frenemy”

13:10 - How I had to narrow down to power up

15:51 - The pieces to forming big plans for big results

18:44 - How to identify big results and the big results I expect from She Thinks Big

22:45 - Why writing this book was big work worth doing

Mentioned In She Thinks Big: The Experience of Writing a Book for the First Time

She Thinks Big by Andrea Liebross

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Quotes from this Episode of Time to Level Up

“Writing this book would be not just a great way to serve my clients but also serve myself, in the sense that it would push me into unfamiliar territory.” - Andrea Liebross

“For me, book writing is a business. In writing this book, I was like a new entrepreneur because I had never written a book. ” - Andrea Liebross

“New opportunities create new challenges. If you have big thinking, you're ready for them because success does not have to be a threat.” - Andrea Liebross

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