Very useful and helpful book for entrepreneurs. I will recommend this book for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.

I really enjoyed this book a great deal, it offered lots of insight into how to be an "organized creative" and it was a fun read, to boot. I would recommend this to any other creative spirit or "content creator". Very well done, hightly readable, lots of valuable stories and, overall, a very positive experience for me as a reader.

How can you be creative and organized? This book gives the answers on building a business and keep your creativity up. I like the structure of 33 short chapters that have a piece of advice in each based on author's experience. What else can help better than evidence from someone who went through some things and can tell you what worked better? The book is to the point and consise. It was easy to read and even "yes" to many things for me.

I am sure Saudia is a great person, but there are many things that annoyed me about this book. For one, just because something worked for you, doesn't mean that it is an absolute truth, and thus it will work for everyone. The book has strong ableist undertones (especially how to organise your workplace, how to design your workplace) and assumes that people who are creative entrepreneurs have already funds to fall back on because a lot of the stuff mentions requires money. I acknowledge that the author is not required to write a book that works for everyone, absolutely not, but it really is a memoir of how brilliantly she handled her career rather than a book of advice a lot of people can implement.

Saudia Davis sounds like a really fun person to have lunch with. This volume is chatty and as much memoir as collection of advice, which, while engaging, has some pitfalls. The organization of the chapters bugged me, as well as the extreme CV jargon of the first and last. I was most especially annoyed, as a creative entrepreneur with ADHD (as well as other disabilities) that she appears to say that creative people don't have ADHD and to imply that people with ADHD cannot be entrepreneurs. "Scattered" thinking is an impediment, from her perspective, as well as a messy desk. Which, um. Sounds pretty hardline proscriptive and ableist from my pov, but then my brain clearly works differently from hers.

Pitfalls aside, I liked that she gives time to self-care issues like sleep, grounding, and doing the kind of meditation that allows new ideas to flow. I also appreciated that she encourages people to identify their strengths and outsource their weaknesses to people who can do those things better. (I wish there were a way to outsource networking.) What I found most helpful about this book though was its motivational impact. I remembered the lessons of small business entrepreneurship I learned back in high school. I still have those skills, even though the world is very different now. I'm glad for this book's encouragement to think about what I want to do, given the givens, and to embrace interests in as many different fields as I want.

(ARC from NetGalley)