Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes wrote a book a couple of years ago.

It's called The Year of Yes.

And the reason she wrote this book, she was looking at her own life and she said that she was constantly saying no to so many things and meanwhile, life was passing her by.

Her daughter had asked her to play with her and she said no.

for me probably is not saying yes to everything.

That is, I read Shonda Rhimes' book, The Year of Yes, and that really opened my, yeah, that really opened my eyes to that whole mentality.

It was just like a reverse engineering of my whole entire psyche when it came to that.

So, cause I was really bad to the point where I was like being a doormat.

Yeah.

just ready to say no or anything it's more just leaning in and saying yes I think I read a book by Shonda Rhimes that was called The Year of Yes and how it led to fantastic things for her so kind of maybe taking that on and going with it like it's just awesome there have been yeah this has been such a good year so far yeah I love it.

Yeah, it's been amazing.

And I feel like I mean, just like the like the podcast itself and the little community that we've grown and like all the amazing people that we are now in our orbit who listen in weekly and have like come to the table with what they're challenged by this week, what they're like leaning into.

Yeah.

Shonda Rhimes wrote a book, The Year of Yes, Her Year of Yes.

And that encouraged me.

I need to be reminded of that more often.

so i see you've got a a tiktok quickly flicked on that you got loads of TikToks there so you got wow I got loads on there

there's a video

so yeah I'll play with that later and watch you in action so yeah but yeah I see you on LinkedIn I see you on Instagram Facebook YouTube and TikTok so yeah I'll put those in the show notes so people can connect with you Well, it's been absolutely fascinating to get to know you and I've really enjoyed our conversation.

Yeah.

the last four.

But also the nonfiction of 2015 crushes the nonfiction of 202- so I don't know if there's a supply and demand thing, and the one that really jumped out to me is that the year of Yes Please by Amy Poehler.

What is she doing now?

Oh.

She's hosting a huge podcast.

She's doing a podcast, yeah, or like The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes is in that zone.

Totally.

It's Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic.

I want to talk about now that you've got the product, what led you to now go on Dragon's Den? So

I'm an avid reader and I had read a book by Shonda Rhimes called The Year of Yes.

And in that book, she spoke about the importance of opening yourself up to as many opportunities as possible.

Right.

and one of the things that i used to do was for example oh i can't go on dragon's den they won't accept my application so i'm not even gonna bother submit it as opposed to you know what yeah i'll do it and so just finish reading the book watching dragon's den as you do shouting at the tv as you do and at the end of the series you know it comes on if you're a founder why don't you submit your application and i was like you know what yeah right let me let me do that i'll do that and so i submitted my application not hopeful um not despondent but it was just like okay what happens happens we'll see and didn't really expect anything got a call um which was the first stage which was amazing by one of the producers spoke to them about the brand And then it was like, OK, well, we'll see if we'll take you to the next stage.

Then I got a call back saying, actually, the producer wants to meet you.

So you got to come to Manchester.