Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst

This hilarious collection of full-body cringe, watch-through-your-fingers, coming-of-age stories, from an award-winning TV writer gives readers permission to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately 100% themselves.
"Laura Belgray is often introduced on podcasts as "one of the funniest people I know," and her journey offers a LOT of hope to anyone who feels like they haven't quite figured out what they want to do in life. She grew up in grungy New York City when Studio 54 still existed but was no longer cool, doing really cringe-y things to fit in but those things were, more often than not, ill-conceived and humiliating. We're constantly told that we're supposed to live our purpose, dare greatly, attract the life wewant, wash our face. But let's face it: we're all tired of shame spiraling about being told what to do when we know we're not going to do that. What does a different path to success look like if you say tough titties to society's expectations? What if you are lazy, desperately approval-seeking, make poor romantic choices, and are chronically stuck? As Laura shows through her own unconventional path to success and happiness, you can live your best life...even if you're the f-ing worst. Beyond being very funny, this book gives readers permission to be themselves -and to feel better about themselves --by sharing Laura's own often embarrassing and awkward coming of age stories as a very late bloomer. It isn't "self help" or even "anti-self help" nor is it a whiny book. It's how to be more of yourself through reassuring "I've been there" stories. As the founder of her own marketing and content company, Talking Shrimp, Laura knows how to get media attention and promote herself and will use the same marketing capabilities that she used to build her one woman company and apply them to selling her book. She will engage her dedicated and growing following of 55K+ on Instagram and 23K+ newsletter subscribers who love her snarky, brutally honest personal developmentcontent"--
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER From award-winning TV writer Laura Belgray, a hilarious collection of full-body-cringe, watch-through-your-fingers life lessons her own husband calls “loser Sex and the City.” What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn’t know. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early ‘90s at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying “tough titties” to the supposed-to’s in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.  Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care” and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks, Tough Titties will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Let’s face it: we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we know we’re not going to do any of it.Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties. “Nobody makes me laugh like Laura Belgray. She’s got a one-of-a kind knack for taking the shame out of life’s most humiliating moments. Tough Titties is a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you.” — Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable