"Breaking the rules just for fun is too easy-- the real challenges lie in perfecting the art of knowing which rules to accept and which to rewrite."
Meet Sophia Amoruso, founder and CEO of NASTY GAL, an global online-based shopping destination of fashion clothing, shoes and accessories for young women. Sophia is a badass; a really smart one. The story of how she went from being a high-school drop out; rejected hippie young shoplifter to one of the richest women to have been listed on Inc. Magazine's 30 under 30 is awe- inspiring. She definitely has marked her print in the new age of female-empowerment.
The cover of the book
she wrote, published May this year
When I put down this book after reading it quite a
while ago, I swear I could not wait to get my shit together and get working on
whatever I should be doing.
Sophia Amoruso is a badass; a really smart one. I
chose her because I can relate to her story quite a lot. And hopefully someday
I will be someone who inspires a lot of young women too.
Who is #GIRLBOSS?
According to Sophia, A #GIRLBOSS is someone who is:
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in charge of her own life
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She gets what she wants she wants because she works for it.
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She takes control and accepts responsibility
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A fighter – who knows when to throw punches and when to roll with them
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She knows where she’s going, but can’t
do it without having some fun along the way
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She takes her life seriously, but don’t take herself too seriously
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She values honesty over perfection
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She asks questions
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She’s going to take over the world, and change it in the process.
Beyonce is a definite example of a #GIRLBOSS.
Cinderella Story
Since childhood, Sophia has always been different. She grew up hating school and having to change to new places (schools) a lot because it was difficult fot her to find a place to fit in. She left home at 17 after her parents divorced, intending on a life of anarchy and getting by for free in Olympia, Washington. A community college drop-out, she developed a hernia and so started work as a security guard checking IDs at an art school - a job she took for the health insurance it provided.
She shoplifted to support her life since she had this belief that everything in the nature should be free and that she did not want to ‘fooled’ by giant corporates which made ‘too much, profit. It all changed when she was caught shoptlifting in 2003. That incident became a wake-up call for her, making her realized that from then on she should live her life as an adult. From there, a #GIRLBOSS was born. She started a simple eBay store selling vintage items in 2006, naming it Nasty Gal Vintage, after a song and album by the jazz singer Betty Davis, second wife of the legendary Miles Davis.
Her early mistakes helped her in building Nasty Gal from a simple eBay store selling vintage items in 2006 to a $100m (£60m) business with more than 350 employees selling cool, quirky new and used clothing items to millions of women around the world now.
She pioneered the idea of styling outfits from head to toe and mixing old and new, expensive and cheap and made sure that Nasty Gal wasn't just a retail website, but a lifestyle that could appeal to a certain type of woman.
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She proves that the school path isn’t for everyone. You don’t need a
prestigious college/university degree to be successful.
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She makes good use of all her past experience to where she is staying right
now.
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She finds creativity in everything, even in making Subway sandwiches&
cookies (one of her past jobs)
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She’s hardworking and doesn’t let anything constrain her from her goals.
I believe if I took her words of wisdom and apply them in everything I do, I can be a successful figure too someday. So I am going to get my things done, and I'm going to compete with no one but myself.
Signing off with love,
a new #GIRLBOSS
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