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Support yourself and build a successful, sustainable business with this no-fluff workbook from Dr. Faith G. Harper and Joe Biel. 

You might even change the world while you’re at it.

About the Book

Do you want to start a business? Or does your existing business feel stuck? Either way, this workbook will walk you through the steps of planning and troubleshooting your enterprise. 

It’s hard to not get in your own way when starting a business. Doubt creeps in, the paperwork never ends, and capitalism makes everything about profit. But it doesn’t have to be this way! Ditch the idea that you have to be cut-throat and greedy to be successful, and use this workbook full of reflections, worksheets, and other guidance to create the life (and world) you want to see.

Publisher Joe Biel and bestselling author Dr. Faith G. Harper, co-authors of Unfuck Your Business, reunite to help you make your business idea viable, find your niche, and evaluate your growth and success. 

Even if you've never run a business before, you can succeed with the right tools. Work out your dreams on the page and then watch your hard work, critical thinking, and belief in your meaning and purpose make them come true!

Inside you’ll find useful tips for captaining your ship, like-

• Reflections on what you want out of your business, and what you want to put into the world
• Worksheets to make sure the money adds up (even if you aren’t a numbers person)
• Ways to hone your leadership skills and build your team
• The markers of impostor syndrome and self-sabotage and how to avoid them
• Exercises to help you plan your growth strategy
• Prompts for reframing failure as a learning experience
• …and more!

About the Rewards

Here's a look at what's available at the various reward levels:

• Unfuck Your Business: Using Math and Brain Science to Run a Successful Business- If you've ever dreamed of starting a small business, or if you currently run a business and want to strengthen it for long term success, this practical guide by Dr. Faith and Joe Biel cuts through the jargon and teaches you the skills you need to enjoy facing the challenges and surprises every day in business brings. 
• A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up-  Drawing on 24 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe Biel has written the most accessible and comprehensive guide to running a successful publishing business.
• Make a Zine!: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution- Part history lesson, part how-to guide, this book by Joe Biel is a call to arms, an ecstatic, positive rally cry in the face of TV show book clubs and bestsellers by celebrity chefs.
• How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!- Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses.
• Creative, Not Famous Activity Book: An Interactive Idea Generator for Small Potatoes & Others Who Want to Get Their Ayuss in Gear- This playful workbook by Ayun Halliday is designed to help adults with years of creative experience explore unconsidered art forms, amp up your creative approach, and wrangle your personal triumphs into a sustained and fulfilling practice.
• Punk Rock Entrepreneur: Running a Business Without Losing Your Values- Do you have an idea for something that you want to share with the world but don’t know where to start? Want to make a living without selling your soul? This book by Caroline Moore is for you. 
• Quit Your Day Job Workbook: Building the DIY Project, Life, and Business of Your Dreams- A practical guide and comprehensive workbook  from Eleanor Whitney for starting a creative business. For anyone who dreams of turning your hobby, craft, art, or passion project into a fulfilling, sustainable career.
• Unf*ck Your Worth Workbook: Manage Your Money, Value Your Own Labor, and Stop Financial Freakouts in a Capitalist Hellscape- Untangle your emotions and expectations about money so that you can live your best financial life in this workbook from Dr. Faith Harper. 
• How to Be Accountable Workbook: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, & Relationships- Whether you want to quit smoking, stop lying, or figure out how to build the stable life, career, and relationships that have always seemed out of reach, you'll find these step-by-step tools from Joe Biel and Dr. Faith eye-opening and practical.
• Owning the Means of Production: Pocket Lessons for Your Own Worker Co-op!- Allen Killian-Moore helps you find out what it takes and gives you the tools you need to run a worker-owned co-op in this zine.
   

About the Author

Dr. Faith G. Harper, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and is proud to be a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, boundaries and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.

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About the Publisher

Microcosm Publishing & Distribution is an independent book publishing house and distributor headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Since 1996, we've been bringing you tools you can use to change your life and then the world—whether that means trauma recovery, growing vegetables in your tiny apartment, starting a music scene in your town, fixing up old bikes, making your own zines, or sparking a revolution. At any given moment, various members of our staff of 25 can be found organizing documents and spreadsheets, moving boxes in our warehouse, shipping your orders, protesting in the streets, reading books, having uncomfortable conversations, and getting excited about making the world a better place. You can stay in touch with us via our weekly email newsletter.