Write Your Own Damn Story
Building a Legacy Without PermissionBy Dee Yates
Length5h 25m
About this audiobook
Write Your Own Damn Story is part memoir, part battle plan from a woman who failed English multiple times, lost everything in foreclosure, and rebuilt from zero to own multiple publications and businesses. Dee Yates turned a $600 camera into a photography empire, bought and ran HERLIFE Magazine, acquired the Legacy Publication, Ropers Sports News, and published Cowgirl Culture, California—all without a degree or anyone's permission. Every chapter delivers a hard-earned lesson and a challenge that pushes readers to act. This isn't business theory from a classroom. It's what actually works, from someone who actually did it. Raw, real, and sometimes profane, this book is for women entrepreneurs, creatives, and anyone who's been told they're not qualified to chase their dreams. Fair warning: there will be grammatical errors. There will not be excuses.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Education and Learning
Length5 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
11Sell it To Me
2California Girl
12AirBNB Wave
3Costco Camera
13Having Something to Say
4Hungry to Learn
14Bent Knee
5Stockton
15Coming Home
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6Before the Fall
16Cowgirl Project
7Where We Went to Die
17Roping Bible
8Dog-Eared
18On the Road
9Pine Street
19And Then He Died
10Paint on the Canvas
20Permission Granted
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