Book Details Title: Bow Down: Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want | |
Book DescriptionReview “Lindsay Goldwert goes where many of us haven’t gone before! After reading her lively, funny, thoughtful channeling of wisdom from BDSM workers across the nation, your life will be a little less vanilla. Gentle reader, prepare for armchair travel at its naughtiest and most illuminating. And get ready to have a hell of a lot of fun.” —Sara Benincasa, author of Agorafabulous! Dispatches from My Bedroom and Real Artists Have Day Jobs”If you’re like me and consider yourself a total prude, this book will make you realize how much you’ve been missing. Whether your fantasies lie in the bedroom or the boardroom, Lindsay will give you the courage to go forth and dominate.” —Sarah Cooper, author of How to Be Successful without Hurting Men’s Feelings Read more About the Author Lindsay Goldwert is a journalist and former editorial director of the personal finance app Stash. She also created the podcasts Teach Me How to Money, a top 100 Business Apple podcast, and SPENT, a podcast for the financially challenged that has been featured in The Atlantic, The A.V. Club, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), and others. She has worked as a journalist for more than fifteen years at Glamour, Redbook, CourtTV, ABC News, CBS News, and Daily News (New York). Her writing has appeared in Quartz, AdWeek, Refinery29, Fast Company, Slate, and others. She’s also a stand-up comic who performs all over New York City and has appeared on multiple panels as a speaker and moderator on women and finance, financial education, and more. Read more Customers Review: Don’t let the titillating cover art and kinky subject matter fool you: This is a book about power. Goldwert shows women how to shake off societal expectations of being “nice” and how to avoid the cultural tendency to apologize for existing. She shows the reader how to replace asking for permission to want something with making statements that are assertive, empathetic, and crystal clear. We all want to be heard—Bow Down shows us how to communicate effectively and assures us it’s ok to walk away if something or someone is not serving your needs. |