Session Synopsis
Deepa Purushothoman has become a bestselling author, a TED and SXSW speaker, and has been featured across multiple publications including TIME, PBS, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review. Her TED Talks have over 1M views.
How did she do it?
She followed her passion and wrote a book, The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Are Redefining Power in Corporate America. And that book changed the global conversation.
She was so blocked she almost hired a ghostwriter.
Then, she came to Gateless and once her stories started pouring out, she had a domain-changing book that sold to her dream publisher.
In this incredible hour, find out:
- When should you hire a ghostwriter?
- What to do if you’ve signed an NDA and want to write about work.
- When to know if you are definitely ready to quit your day job.
- How to cold call famous people and get them to appear in your book.
- What’s it like when Kamala and Oprah come calling.
- Why the right writing community can be the difference in your writing career (and how to find them!).
- Launching like a pro, when to let go, and when to keep going.