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Basic Info about YOU-NICORN
- Full Title: YOU-NICORN: 30 days to find your inner unicorn and live the life you love
- Release Date: April 30, 2018
- Author: Danielle A. Vincent (the "A" is for "Awesome"... no, not really. It's for "Amelie")
- Publisher: Happily Ever After Press
- Availability: Through Amazon and select booksellers and gift shops (to be announced - click here if you want to be one)
- Genre: Self-help / Personal Transformation
- ISBN: 978-0-9994392-5-8
- Pages: 274
- Price: $16.95
Fun facts!
- In November, Danielle and Happily Ever After Press did a Kickstarter for the limited edition workbook version of the book and exceeded our goal by nearly 300%!
- Danielle drew all the illustrations herself (she is not a professional illustrator... think Allie Brosh).
- YOU-NICORN is Danielle's first book. In her other careers, she owns Outlaw Soaps and does consulting work for Mozilla.
- Danielle is an expert on Naked Mole Rats, the hive-dwelling, under-earth mammal. No, really. She knows everything (don't get her started).
- She had lunch with Oprah Winfrey and yes, she totally is as wonderful as you would expect. Even more so.
- Her natural hair color is blue. (ok, this one's a bit of a fib)
Less fun, but still pertinent, facts
- Danielle is based in Grass Valley, California (in Gold Country, between Sacramento and Reno).
- The book will be available in print, Audible, and digital form (after April 30)
- YOU-NICORN's social media hashtag is #younicorn.
- Danielle is forming coaching groups to help people get through the book together.
- YOU-NICORN is roughly 275 pages long and includes about 150 illustrations.
- All the illustrations, as well as excerpts from the book and high res cover shots, are available for you to use.
- Free advance review copies are available upon request (form is at the bottom of the page).
Book overview
YOU-NICORN book synopsis
YOU-NICORN is an illustrated self-help book, organized into 30 sequential exercises, intended to be completed at a rate of one per day. The book is in four parts, with six days of action steps, and one rest day per week.
The book is written in a playful manner, while tackling (sometimes) challenging topics. Many people have reported life-changing effects from the book.
Part 1: YOU-NICORN
You'll re-embark on the adventure of a lifetime: YOUR LIFE (already in progress). In the first week, we'll look at how strong you are, evaluate what success means to you, as well as check out some habits that may be holding you back.
Part 2: It's an inside job
In the second week, we'll deep dive into some attitudes and limiting beliefs that are probably stopping you from living your fullest life. And then we'll --BLAMMO-- break those suckers down.
Part 3: Relationships
In the third week, we'll learn "The Angry Person's Forgiveness" (don't worry, it's pretty fun!) and build our team of supremely awesome unicorns!
Part 4: The tool kit
In the final week, we'll do some fun goal-setting exercises so you can identify the next steps in achieving them! And we'll add to your tool kit with meditation and journaling.
Sound fun and interesting?
Pull quotes
Excerpts for press use
If you'd like more, or would like a PDF of the whole book, please reach out using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
“Life can be so much more than surviving. And damn it, I think you deserve so much more than just survival. I want you to look that trauma in the eye, and say, ‘I survived. I’m still here.’”
“Life can be a full-on rainbow dance of celebration through what we can only assume is a finite and ever-diminishing span of our lives. We must not just walk forward, we must dance forward!”
“You deserve to thrive. You deserve to dance.”
“You aren’t a messy person. You aren’t a drama queen. You aren’t a loser. You aren’t an alcoholic. You aren’t a lawyer. You aren’t broke. You aren’t any one thing.
You can do things, and you can repeatedly do things. But that doesn’t make you those things.”
“When we stop caring what other people think and start pursuing our own happiness, we give other people something really solid about ourselves to get to know: We give them us.”
“There are only two places to go from here: forward, or backward. And you don’t want to go backward.”
Illustrations from the book
Danielle loves podcasts
Self-Employed Happy Hour
When Danielle Vincent left her job at Oprah to start a soap-making business with her new husband, more than a few folks thought she was, well, crazy. Six years later, Outlaw Soaps is a success, propelled largely by Danielle’s high-level marketing chops and time management skills. She has just written a new book, “You-Nicorn: 30 Days to Find Your Inner Unicorn and Live the Life You Love.” Peri talks with Danielle about forging her own path and her passion for targeted, data-driven marketing.
Indie Business Network
Danielle sells her products on her branded website, and also at Whole Foods Markets. She has also invested considerable resources in selling on Amazon. This episode treats you to a behind-the-scenes look at how Danielle and Russ, her business partner husband, keep things humming in their business. It's also chock full of resources and tips you can use on your own entrepreneurial journey. Enjoy my interview with Danielle NOW!
Creative Entrepreneurs Online with Christine Laureano
I love Danielle’s brand (and I love her sudsy creations Hair of the Dog may be one of my faves.)
And, I LOVE that she embraces goals the way she does. You ll hear in our conversation that creatives don't always go the goal route it's more like flying by the seat of your pants.
Danielle proves all us creative wrong you absolutely CAN create goals that don't make you feel pinned down, out of integrity, or like you're headed into corporate culture mindset.