Bounce, Don't Break: Brande's Guide to Life, Love, and Success

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Overview

Brande Roderick, former Playmate of The Year and star of Celebrity Apprentice Season 2, is your advisor, confidante, and stand in best friend in this fun, comprehensive guide to getting the best out of life from someone who knows how to live it!

Bounce, Don't Break has something for every age-from the young woman unsure of what lies ahead to the seasoned career woman who is looking to sharpen her game. Brande offers the straight-talking advice that women need the most (and don't always get)-words of wisdom she has shared with and received from her closest and most successful friends.

Inside you'll find 8 keys to success, including tools to help YOU: assess and improve your self-reliance and self-esteem; identify personal and professional goals; strategize financially to reach short and long term aims; navigate dating and your search for Mr. Right; and much more. Brande convinces you that personal resilience, hard work, and clear-cut goals are the means to realizing your dreams.

Packed with fun and informative quizzes, useful tips and tricks, as well as personal anecdotes and 30 color photographs, Bounce, Don't Break will have you well on your way to enjoying the same level of success as Brande herself.

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Publishers Weekly

Playboy Playmate of the Year, 2001, and an actress on Baywatch Hawaii, Roderick has parlayed her childhood dream into reality star fame, appearing on Celebrity Apprentice and The Surreal Life. But readers expecting the usual titillating tidbits should look elsewhere. The anecdotes that Roderick, also a businesswoman, wife, and mother, shares about her life might dip a toe into the tricks of the trade (there's a chapter entitled "T&A Won't Get You Ahead"), but they ultimately remain firmly rooted in practicality: save your money, invest, work hard, and never stop learning. Even Roderick's take on finding Mr. Right is less sexy than self-help. Readers may not share Roderick's earnest point-of-view, or be able to call on mentors like Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump for advice (both of whom weigh in here), but perhaps there's comfort to be found in learning that even Heff's bunnies encounter the challenges of the "average" woman. (July)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762439027
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 7/13/2010
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Brande Roderick

Brande Roderick is an actress, model, entrepreneur, reality star, and Playmate of The Year 2001. She has starred in movies such as Starsky & Hutch and The Nanny Diaries and on television in Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Season 2, Baywatch Hawaii, and The Surreal Life. She is also a professional businesswoman who owns and operates three companies. She lives in San Diego, CA with her husband, former NFL player Glenn Cadrez.

Liz Topp has co-written two books, Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual and The Stress-Free Pregnancy Guide, with her mother, OB-GYN Dr. Carol Livoti.

Introduction 8

Numero Uno (The Only Person You Can Truly Count On) 10

Don't Hate the Playmate (Or Yourself) 34

Working Your Way to the Top (Emphasis on Working) 55

T & A Won't Get You Ahead (But They Can Get You A Nice Car) 78

Smart Girls Finish First (And Retire Comfortably) 97

Finding Mr. Right (While Enjoying All The Mr. Right Nows) 123

I'm No Dumb Blonde (Even If Joan Rivers Thinks So) 148

Everything Happens for a Reason (If I Had a Dollar For Every Time I Heard That) 170

Afterword 198

Acknowledgments 199

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SageDR

Posted October 9, 2010

Keep this by your bed!

This book is a book you give as a gift to all the women in your life as well as keeping one for yourself. It's about a womans dream and how she got there. It's helpful to young women and their goals in life. It has examples and short stories of her own struggles and triumphs along the way. There are behind the scene stories of some of the shows and people she worked with. But most of all, this book is something you will constantly keep close so that you can open it now and then and refer back to it when you are struggling to reach your goal, you will know there is a possibility you will reach it soon. It will give you hope and teach you as well. Enjoyed it thoroughly, Can't wait for another one Brande.
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