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What is the favorite book you remember as a child?
I was a Stephen King and Dean Koontz junkie. I don’t have a favorite book, I loved it all! Haha!
What is your favorite book today?
My favorite book is The Secret.
Tell us about your current book in 10 words.
The book that I have written is: No one is coming to save you, learn to save yourself. (Sorry, that is 11!)
What are you reading right now?
Currently I am reading Think and Grow Rich. I’ve got some money blocks and I feel like this will finally release me from the ideas of the people around me. Our influence creates our subconscious, I haven’t had a good financial presence in my life so this book is my current obsession.
Do you have any bad book habits?
I do have bad book habits. I buy more than one at a time, but I have a habit of only submersing myself into one for a few weeks or months, so the other ones collect dust.
E-Reader or print? and why?
I am all about print. I work a business on my phone and usually have Christmas movies playing on the background of my iPad. I don’t want either of these devices near me when I’m reading a book. However, when it comes to my bedtime habit, my phone is on the charger playing some audiobook I’m obsessed with at the moment. This month it is Think and Grow Rich.
One book at a time or multiples?
I am a one book at a time girl. I’m a fast reader so it only takes me a few hours. Fiction, I am a one series at a time. If there are six books in the series, I will read them within six days.
Dog-ear or bookmark? (don't worry—Librarian Judith won't hold it against you—much)
Does laying them open to the page face down on the table or floor count? This is usually what happens.
Favorite book to recommend?
Is it weird to say I recommend my own Once Upon a Time, Bitches for self-help? If that’s weird then I say read The Secret.
How do you keep your books organized?
What is this organization you speak of? I have books on every shelf in every room and every floor and bag you can imagine in this house. Haha! I keep most of them until I get in a crazy declutter mood -situation than they are given away... only the fiction. I will always keep the non-fiction.
However, besides being a wife, mom to six kids (plus others with fur), coach and business owner, Branden is the author of the new book, Once Upon a Time, Bitches. It’s a fast paced, in your face, expletive laced, nothing held back message to women everywhere: There is no magic fairytale, but if YOU work at it enough you can come pretty close to creating your version with a happily ever after.
But first, no more whining and no more damsel locked in a tower, bullsh*t. Is it possible to design a fairytale life? Control your destiny? Be the hero in your story? Branden thinks there is and she wants to help you.
By saying adios to the man who’d refused to be a fifty-fifty partner in our relationship and support my goals and dreams as well as his own, I created what science calls a vacuum—not the Hoover-kind, of course, but the science-kind: a space, an emptiness, a void. (Who says you’ll never use the stuff you learned in school?)
Until I’d left, with my life as crazy as it was, engulfed in the plethora of problems I’d created for myself, there was no room for solutions. No room for help. No room for a prince.
I was like one of those motels you pass on the highway at night, with my neon vacancy light burning brightly like a beacon in darkness. I’d created a vacancy.
I’d made room for a Prince Charming to arrive and from my lips to God’s ear, that’s exactly what happened.
That said, I can guarantee you this: The chances of solutions showing up for any problem you might have in your life are greatly reduced if you don’t make room for them.
But if you do make room for them, you’ll find that my 11th grade science teacher was right: Nature really does abhor a vacuum.
It’s important to realize it’s not Prince Charming’s job to come and save you—it’s your job to be worthy of being saved. Someone who doesn’t even need to be saved.
Ironic, huh?
Becoming a person who doesn’t need saving—being someone capable of saving themselves—is what draws your prince into your life. And not just a prince, but the right prince. Back to Cinderella.
If there ever was a strong-ass bitch who didn’t need saving, it was Cinderella. Yes, her circumstances sucked. And if it were me in that situation, I might have tossed that evil-ass stepmother in the f-ing fire (and the whiny-ass sisters, too). But she’s a better person than I am. Better than most of us.
Cinderella not only took their sh*t, she did it with grace and remained kind to others in spite of the daily cruelty being dished on her. Maybe that’s why she got saved, huh?
Because even though she clearly was a victim, she never acted like one. She kept her chiseled little chin held high. She didn’t beg to be saved. She was simply someone who was worthy of being saved.
Finally, Branden decided that she wanted something different for her life, and realized no one was going to do it for her. Prince charming wasn’t coming to save her—she’d have to save herself.
Step by step, decision by decision, through major trials and tribulations that would stop most people in their tracks, Branden learned how to turn heartbreak into happiness and self-judgement into inner joy.
Today, Branden LaNette is an entrepreneur, coach, speaker, wife, and stay-at-home Mom to six C-section babies (ages 1-16) and way too many f-ing pets. Somehow, however, she manages to juggle all of this effortlessly (a blatant lie) while pushing her way through the kinds of fear and self-doubts that whisper within all of us (totally true) to achieve her goals. Her most recent dream come true is this book, one that is destined to have a major impact on millions of women across the globe (or at least nine people in Michigan.)
Through it all, she has found her happiness, her joy, and more importantly, her voice.
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