Beginner's Pluck

Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now

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It's time to rethink everything you've been told about finding your passion and following your dreams.

"Brave, practical, and true, Liz shares her magical journey for anyone brave enough (and generous enough) to want to go on the journey of a lifetime."--Seth Godin

"Witty and full of brilliant insight, Liz Bohannon delivers a much-needed antidote to a Western mindset careening between youthful entitlement and shame/fear-based inertia. Most of us who dream to be extraordinary have never learned first to be ordinary."--Wm. Paul Young, author of The Shack, Cross Road, and Lies We Believe about God


Start building a life of purpose, passion, and lasting impact today

Hate to break it to you, but you're never going to "find your passion." Why? Because your passion and purpose are something you create--actively--day by day. How? Glad you asked.

In her signature tell-it-like-it-is fashion, entrepreneur Liz Forkin Bohannon shows you how to cultivate the mindsets that will help you live like you were made on purpose and for a purpose. Sharing the hilarious and heartbreaking stories of her own screwups and successes, Liz shows you how to

· embrace your Inner Beginner
· dream small
· choose curiosity over criticism
· own your average
· and so much more

It's within your power to build a life of purpose, passion, and impact. All you need is a little bit of pluck!


Liz Forkin Bohannon is a speaker, an entrepreneur, and the founder of Sseko Designs, a socially conscious fashion brand creating educational and economic opportunity for women across the globe. Recognized by Forbes as a top public speaker and named by John Maxwell as one of the top three transformational leaders in the U.S., Liz and the Sseko story have been featured on Shark Tank, Good Morning America, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vogue magazine, and others. She lives with her husband and company cofounder, Ben, and their two young sons in an intentional community in Portland, Oregon.


Endorsements

"Brave, practical, and true, Liz shares her magical journey for anyone brave enough (and generous enough) to want to go on the journey of a lifetime."

Seth Godin

"I met Liz more than a decade ago in Gulu, Uganda. Beginner's Pluck is a thoughtful book about what Liz has been strategically doing in the world, not merely optimistically hoping for. Her authentic voice is one I trust because I've seen what she's done. As you flip these pages, you won't want to be more like Liz. Instead, you'll want to figure out what your next steps are to release your passions, hopes, and love into a world which is in desperate need of someone just like you to engage it."

Bob Goff, hon. consul for the Republic of Uganda and author New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always

"I am SO VERY GLAD this book exists. We have long needed Liz's expert voice speaking into the minds of dreamers and doers, the ones who have the ideas and want to execute, and the ones who are exhaustedly executing. We want purpose in our day, and Liz does it with her life and teaches it here."

Annie F. Downs, bestselling author of 100 Days to Brave and Remember God

"Witty and full of brilliant insight, Liz Bohannon delivers a much-needed antidote to a Western mindset careening between youthful entitlement and shame/fear-based inertia. Most of us who dream to be extraordinary have never learned first to be ordinary."

Wm Paul Young, author of The Shack, Cross Road, Eve, and Lies We Believe about God

"Liz's words, full of wit and inspiration, felt as though my best girlfriend pulled me in close for a lesson in life. As if she were writing just to me and declaring, 'You are enough.' Liz's honesty and candor about her journey of creating something bigger than herself are inspiring, practical, and life-giving."

Jamie Ivey, host of The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey podcast and author of the bestselling book If You Only Knew: My Unlikely Unavoidable Story of Becoming Free

"Beginner's Pluck is a guide to living with purpose, believing we were created on purpose. Far from the exhausting message of 'hustle harder,' Liz invites us into the winsome adventure of building a life of passion, impact, and living into who we are created to be."

Rebekah Lyons, author of You Are Free

"Beginner's Pluck is the life map I wish I could have read decades ago. Liz is a shining example of the imperfect purpose we all aspire to do and be. WOW, what an authentic example to us all."

Jeff Shinabarger, founder of Plywood People

"Beginner's Pluck is a breath of fresh air for dream chasers and passion people everywhere. Liz has a way of expressing and articulating that make you feel as though you are sitting across from her, enthralled by her raw and tangible insight and life experience. These words are necessary food for the soul for anyone feeling stuck, inadequate, or buried under the necessary pressure to be perfect. Brava, brava."

Arielle Estoria, poet, speaker, and author

"Free-spirited, honest, humble, willing to ask the difficult questions, and insightful, Liz leads by showing her humanity. Looking for a life of purpose and passion? Beginner's Pluck gives tangible directions you can incorporate in your life right now. Liz is a disruptive storyteller whose words just might help you do the work to return home to yourself."

Chidimma Ozor, podcaster, educator, disruptive storyteller, and founder of conscious + aligned

"The transformative force that Liz Forkin Bohannon is fiercely shines on every page of this book. Beginner's Pluck is the catalytic push and heart check we need to boldly choose purpose over popularity and to live our lives not to impress but to make impact--REAL, lasting impact. Liz shares invaluable insights that cleverly disrupt norms so prevalent throughout culture today, exposing stale perceptions of success while freeing us to thrive in purposeful lives built with intention, gut-honest truth, and creativity. Liz's story will no doubt fuel an unleashing of world changers disbanding fear, owning average, and accomplishing the extraordinary."

Kanita Benson, founder of She Saves a Nation


The Author

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    Liz Forkin Bohannon

    Liz Forkin Bohannon is a speaker, an entrepreneur, and the founder of Sseko Designs, an international purpose-driven fashion brand creating employment for women across the globe. Recognized in 2017 by Forbes as a top public speaker and named by John...

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