{"product_id":"write-your-own-damn-story-dee-yates-9798218907518","title":"Write Your Own Damn Story: Building an Empire Without Permisson","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe failed English. Multiple times. She grew up poor in a town you've never heard of, in a family where nothing was handed to you and everything had to be earned the hard way. Nobody gave her a roadmap, a trust fund, or permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe built it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWrite Your Own Damn Story\u003c\/em\u003e is the raw, real, and sometimes profane memoir-meets-battle-plan from Dee Yates - lifelong entrepreneur, photographer, publisher, author, and speaker. Over decades, Dee built multiple businesses from the ground up, turned a $600 Costco camera into a photography career, launched and ran a successful women's magazine, published \u003cem\u003eCowgirl Culture, California\u003c\/em\u003e - a fine art book preserving Western heritage - and acquired Ropers Sports News, a 58-year-old legacy publication known as \"The Roping Bible,\" transforming it into a glossy magazine while going toe-to-toe with a good old boys' club that never wanted her there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of it came easy. She lost everything and rebuilt from zero. She walked into rooms where she wasn't welcome and made them make space. She bought businesses without business degrees and created doors when every other one was slammed shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the companion to Dee's motivational keynote - part memoir, part tactical roadmap. Every chapter delivers a hard-earned lesson and a challenge designed to push you to act. There's no theory here, no corporate fluff, no hand-holding. This is what actually works, from someone who has actually done it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're a woman building something in an industry that wasn't built for you - if you're done waiting for permission that's never coming, done playing small to make other people comfortable, done asking for validation from people who never built a damn thing - this book is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody is coming to save you. Nobody is going to hand you the life you want. The permission you've been waiting for doesn't exist, so stop waiting and start building. Your story won't write itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFair warning: there will be grammatical errors. There will not be excuses.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dee Yates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218907518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dee Yates California Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Dee Yates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852768686335,"sku":"9798218907518","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/write-your-own-damn-story-dee-yates-9798218907518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}