Year Of Yes: How To Dance It Out, Stand In The Sun And Be Your Own Person

  • Author: Shonda Rhimes
  • Narrator: Shonda Rhimes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 7:04:08
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Synopsis

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).

She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews?

With three children at home and three hit television shows, it was easy for Shonda to say she was simply too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. Shonda knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her.

This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life before her Year of Yes—from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. The book chronicles her life after her Year of Yes had begun—when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage; when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest self. Yes.

“Honest, raw, and revelatory” (The Washington Post), this wildly candid and compulsively readable book reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes finally achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland character. Best of all, she “can help motivate even the most determined homebody to get out and try something new” (Chicago Tribune).

Chapters

  • YearOfYes 01 Title

    Duration: 34s
  • YearOfYes 02 Introduction

    Duration: 16min
  • YearOfYes 03 Prologue

    Duration: 01min
  • YearOfYes 04 Ch1

    Duration: 15min
  • YearOfYes 05 Ch2

    Duration: 18min
  • YearOfYes 06 Ch3

    Duration: 10min
  • YearOfYes 07 Ch4

    Duration: 34min
  • YearOfYes 08 Ch5

    Duration: 38min
  • YearOfYes 09 Ch6

    Duration: 31min
  • YearOfYes 10 Ch7

    Duration: 24min
  • YearOfYes 11 Ch8

    Duration: 46min
  • YearOfYes 12 Ch9

    Duration: 10min
  • YearOfYes 13 Ch10

    Duration: 44min
  • YearOfYes 14 Ch11

    Duration: 27min
  • YearOfYes 15 Ch12

    Duration: 14min
  • YearOfYes 16 Ch13

    Duration: 28min
  • YearOfYes 17 Ch14

    Duration: 39min
  • YearOfYes 18 Ch15

    Duration: 18min
  • YearOfYes 19 Credits

    Duration: 01min