Book Review
Comprised of 25 lessons, The Emotional Entrepreneur by Scout Sobel will guide Millennial and Gen Z women through the emotional challenges of launching, running, and scaling a business such as fear, risk, uncertainty, and anxiety. Each of the lessons outlined are inspired by Scout Sobel's healing journey from living with bipolar disorder.
As Scout Sobel, author of The Emotional Entrepreneur, found entrepreneurship running Scout's Agency and co-hosting Okay Sis Podcast, she quickly realized that her entrepreneurial success was attributed to her ability to handle the emotional waves of starting her own business. With her intense passion for the intersection of mental health and entrepreneurship and wanting every woman to step into their personal power to architect their dream life, The Emotional Entrepreneur provides a place of strength for those who are ready to create. Lessons include the importance of cultivating emotional independence, reframing your relationship with anxiety, uncertainty, and risk, understanding your ROI on pain, and how to believe in yourself when the world doubts you.
Scout also called on twenty-five female entrepreneurs that she admires and has interviewed on Okay Sis to impart their wisdom around the emotional journey of running their own business - whether that is a YouTube channel, social media agency, or apparel business. The Emotional Entrepreneur is for the woman who wants to feel safe in her emotions so that she can get back to building the business of her dreams. She says: ”As emotional entrepreneurs, we know that our ability to navigate our feelings is what is going to bring our ideas into this world successfully. It is my biggest wish for you and, I hope, my biggest gift with this book-that you wake up each and every day and know in your bones that no matter what life throws at you today, you are ready, willing, and open because you fundamentally believe that you are safe in your emotions and you know that this lifetime is the one where your dreams are destined to become a reality."
Author Quotes
There is one thing that kept me going, getting me out of bed each day, and painting my life with purpose and passion - and that is entrepreneurship.
I found that entrepreneurship was the biggest personal development game one could play - it will highlight your shadows, your weaknesses, and your deepest insecurities while simultaneously putting your strengths, your vision, and your zone of genius on full display.
All my entrepreneurial successes came from my superpower - being able to navigate my emotions.
Navigating the birth, creation, and management of your business, whether it’s an Etsy shop, a You Tube channel, a direct-to-consumer product, or a service-based agency, is highly emotional.
About the author
Scout Sobel is the founder of Scout's Agency and the co-host of the popular Okay Sis Podcast. She is a trailblazer in the media industry for utilizing podcasts as a powerful form of PR. After starting Okay Sis, which focuses on female guests, Scout fell in love with spreading women's stories and identified the rising popularity and influence of podcasting. She started Scout’s Agency with an emphasis in podcast PR for women entrepreneurs, podcasters, and brands. Within a year and a half of starting Scout’s Agency, she had run podcast tours for high-profile women like Catt Sadler, Kelley Baker, and Rebecca Minkoff and booked major celebrities on her clients’ podcasts as guests such as Brian Grazer, Colbie Caillat, Sophia Amoruso, and Jillian Michaels - all with no prior connections. She also landed brands like Bala and Kelley Baker Brows in publications like Marie Claire, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, PEOPLE, WhoWhatWear, Essence, Forbes, amongst others. Prior to her work on Okay Sis and Scout’s Agency, Scout started her own magazine which was sold in Barnes & Noble and newsstands nationwide. Musician Halsey graced the cover of the third edition. Her magazine led to her being brought on as the Director of Operations to help launch the popular women’s mentorship media site, entitymag.com. Scout’s success did not come without trials and tribulations. She has been living with a severe case of bipolar disorder for 15 years. She was once unable to hold a job, go to college, or function in today's society. With a lot of self-development work, Scout manages her bipolar disorder successfully and uses her mental strength to fuel her entrepreneurial dreams. She uses her mental health journey to inspire other women to feel safe in their emotions and follow their entrepreneurial calling with her solo-podcast, SCOUT. And now that she has gotten to a place where she feels safe in her emotions and is not able to only function in society but thrive as an entrepreneur, she is putting all of her emotional tools, learnings, and wisdom into her debut book, The Emotional Entrepreneur, a 25 lesson book for millennial women who want to build out the dreams in their head into a business, whether that is a podcast, product, agency, or blog. Each lesson is inspired by Scout’s mental health journey living with bipolar disorder. As she began to grow her agency, she realized that the emotional mindset tools that she had garnered up in her healing were the ones that were making her successful as an entrepreneur.
Why LoA loves it…
Building a business is stressful at the best of times, and it can take its emotional toll on any women entrepreneur. Managing good mental health and maintaining a balanced emotional mindset while on a business building journey is key. In her new book, The Emotional Entrepreneur, Scout Sobel takes us on a very personal journey to taking care of her own mental health, harnessing her experiences and learnings to ultimately bring her success in life and in business. This is a powerful and really great read for any woman entrepreneur who is trying to get the emotional balance right. — Melanie Hawken, founder & ceo, Lionesses of Africa