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

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the entire year

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

She’s the creator and manufacturer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic heroes live boldly and speak their minds. So who would believe that about Yr of Yes: How exactly to Dance It Out, Stand In sunlight and Be Your Personal Person Shonda Rhimes can be an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could prevent public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews?

With three children in the home and three hit tv shows, it was possible for Shonda to state she was way too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered a thing that was both a wake up and a contact to hands: You under no circumstances say yes to anything. Shonda knew she had to embrace the task: for one year, she’d state YES to anything 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 reserve chronicles her existence after her Season of Yes experienced begun-when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage; when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest personal. Yes.

“Honest, uncooked, and revelatory” (The Washington Post), this wildly candid and compulsively readable reserve reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes finally achieved badassery worth a Shondaland character. Best of all, she “might help motivate also the most determined homebody to obtain out and try something brand-new” (Chicago Tribune).