You Got This!
Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World
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Publisher Description
Everyone is talking about the entrepreneur, animator, eco-designer, and girls’ rights activist Maya Penn. Her TEDWomen Talk has been viewed over 1,200,000 million times (and is one of the top 15 TEDWomen Talks of all time). Now this amazing teenager has written an inspirational handbook for teens and young adults to help them discover their passions and maximize their full potential for a creative, successful life.
Maya Penn is a remarkable teen entrepreneur who has given three TED Talks, created her own eco-friendly fashion line, developed animated films, and appeared on The View with Whoopi Goldberg. She has even been name-checked by bestselling authors Gabrielle Bernstein, Steve Harvey, and Eve Ensler. All while still in middle school!
Although Maya is extraordinary in many ways, and her success is a testament to her own creativity, passion, and fearlessness—these are traits that can be cultivated in all of us.
In You Got This! Maya shares her incredible journey to becoming an artist, designer, philanthropist, and business owner. She provides a creative blueprint for teens and young adults, along with the tools she used to build an authentic, exciting, and connected life, and offers creative prompts for cultivating success. So let your creativity and passion flow freely and watch as your world transforms—it all starts with you!
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Penn, a 15-year-old entrepreneur who has given three TED Talks, uses her early successes to inspire others. Over three sections, Penn urges readers to embrace their creativity and interests, and to consider how doing something they love might lead to unexpected opportunities. Mixed in are autobiographical passages in which Penn explains how she launched the eco-friendly clothing company Maya's Ideas and the nonprofit organization Maya's Ideas 4 the Planet. Though her firmly upbeat tone can come on strong ("Fast-forward to age seven or eight, and I had decided to take that positivity to the next level. I was ready to create my own dream board,' filled with uplifting fortunes, drawings, illustrations, and quotes"), ambitious and motivated readers should find her can-do attitude contagious. Ages 8 14.
