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Dream First, Details Later
- How to Quit Overthinking & Make It Happen!
- Narrated by: Ellen Bennett
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"Ellen Bennett is the platonic form of a go-getter who inspires go-getter after go-getter to become a better go-getter." (Zooey Deschanel, actor and musician)
You’ll never know where to start...until you start. This gutsy guidebook will help anyone who's procrastinating on a goal, career change, or business idea stop the obsessive worrying and leap into action.
As a 24-year-old line cook, Ellen Marie Bennett couldn't stand the kitchen staff’s poorly designed, cheaply made aprons. So when her head chef announced he was ordering a new batch, she blurted out, “Chef, I have an apron company” - even though she had no company, no business plan - just a glimmer of a design idea and a business license. Through hustle and a willingness to leap into the unknown, time and time again, she built that first order into a multi-million-dollar company called Hedley & Bennett, making aprons and kitchen gear worn by many of the world’s best chefs and home cooks everywhere.
Dream First, Details Later shares Ellen's journey and her forged-in-the-fire personal playbook for starting before you stop yourself. If you've ever imagined doing something and immediately thought, "that's impossible", or "I wouldn't even know where to start", or "I'm not qualified to do that", in these book, you'll learn how to shove aside your inner worrier and launch into action. This honest and bold book will be like having Ellen - your personal hype woman - there with you, all the while yelling, "Don't stop! You got this!" She'll share hard-won advice on:
- Squashing doubts and reservations about venturing outside your comfort zone. (These doubts masquerade as rational, but they’re more likely coming from a place of fear.)
- Saying screw it to the perfect plan and using creative problem-solving - and heart and guts - to conquer the shit storms as they come.
- Eventually transitioning from the "flying by the seat of your pants" stage to the "well-oiled machine" stage.
You don't need to have all the answers to make your dream a reality. You just need to start before you're ready.
Critic Reviews
“Full of passion and color, highly motivating and aspirational. That is Ellen Bennett and H&B to a T! It is also the perfect description of what her debut book is. Ellen gives us a rare, honest and occasionally blood pressure-raising first account of how a successful business gets built and the traps you might (will!) fall into along the way. Dream First, Details Later is the best guidebook, pep talk and cheerleader to anyone who is at the base of the mountain of their next big dream.” (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, actor and author of the cookbook Food Between Friends)
"I love, love, love this book! The true story of a true heroine for our times - bold, brash, and entirely honest about the downs and ups of making dreams come true." (Angela Duckworth, New York Times best-selling author of Grit)
“Ellen Bennett’s infectiously inspiring story of grit and entrepreneurial spirit, Dream First, Details Later is a powerfully honest and colorful account of her wild journey from line cook to business owner. In it, she gives license to break free from self-doubt and to seize the wheel for your own journey to success.” (Danny Meyer, author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)
