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Part tell-all memoir and part entrepreneur crash course, the founder of The RealReal offers an emboldening story of perspective and triumph When she was 52, a recruiter told Julie Wainwright that her failure as CEO of Pets.com made her unemployable. But she proved him—and Silicon Valley—wrong and built her company from an idea into the world’s largest resource for authenticated luxury resale. Since its launch in 2011, The RealReal has changed the world of fashion forever, making luxury items more accessible and sustainable. Time to Get Real spills the tea on the entrepreneurial journey from a woman’s perspective and includes all the lessons learned and mistakes made along the way to a billion-dollar business and public company. This is the book Julie wished she had when she was in the trenches—one that shares the whole exhilarating, stressful, glorious, messy truth about success. Time to Get Real isn’t just about Julie’s wild ride through Silicon Valley; it will also show you how to: Build a business from the ground up Hire for startups while avoiding common oversights Overcome workplace bias and adversity Be a shark—and create a unicorn With Julie’s inspirational story and hard-earned wisdom, this is the perfect read for anyone who has ever imagined starting a company, loves fashion, or wants an uncensored glimpse behind the scenes from a woman who succeeded in spite of it all.

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The hard part just got easy. You know how to sell—that's your job, after all—but getting CEOs and VIPs to call you back is the tricky part. You're in luck: That impossible-to-reach person isn't so impossible to reach after all.Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke discovered that he could get past traditional gatekeepers to reach those elusive executives by thinking outside the box and using personalized approaches he calls ""Contact Campaigns."" Including presidents, a prime minister, celebrities, countless CEOs, and even the Danish model who became his wife, Heinecke found that getting meetings with previously unreachable people was easier than ever. Now he shares his tactics and tips in this essential guide for anyone who needs to make contact. Featuring expanded content and brand new chapters, this updated edition of How to Get a Meeting with Anyone explains how you can use your own creative Contact Campaigns to get those critical conversations. He divulges methods he's developed after years of experience and from studying the secrets of others who've had similar breakthrough results—results that other marketers considered impossible, with response rates as high as 100 percent. Through real-life success stories, Heinecke lays out 20 categories of Contact Campaigns that anyone can research and execute. Tactics range from running a contact letter as a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal to unorthodox uses of the phone, social media, email, and snail mail to using personalized cartoons to make connections. He also packs in plenty of tips on how to determine your targets, develop pitches, and gain allies in your contact's circle of influence. How to Get a Meeting with Anyone provides you with a new toolkit you can put to work right away so you can make the connections that are essential to your success."

Curate your sexual reality and disrupt everything you think you know about sex with this bewitching guidebook for better intimacy Learning how to tap into your sexual power first requires an undoing. From New York Times bestselling author Dr. Luara Berman, Sex Magic shows readers how to challenge their beliefs about their sexuality, their self-worth, and their potential for healing, meaningful intimacy. In this innovative, ultra-modern guide, Dr. Berman reveals a refreshing new way of approaching pleasure. Combining metaphysical wisdom with practical tips, Sex Magic will gently steer readers to bring excitement back into the bedroom. From deepening your orgasmic potential to building a sexual connection with your partner, Dr. Berman uses her 30+ years of experience as a sex therapist to empower readers to stop settling for “good enough” sex. You have the power to create the sex life you’ve always wanted. In Sex Magic, Dr. Berman shares techniques and exercises that teach you how to: Connect to your energetic body to master the pleasure that is available to you Confidently create deeper arousal and pleasure in yourself and your partner Build more sexual energy and desire within and between you and another Apply accessible strategies for improving emotional and physical intimacy Remove the blocks of trauma and inhibition standing in the way of maximum pleasure Move pleasurable sensations throughout your body to achieve mind-blowing orgasms Use ancient techniques for sexual healing and manifesting your dreams Are you ready for your sexual awakening? Call beautiful, sensual love into your life, turn up the sexual intensity in your relationship, and create the reality you desire—in and out of the bedroom.