B is for Book Coach

10:17

All or Nothing (and What's in Between)

B is for Book Coach ·

2026/01/06

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for constraints.We’ve been talking a lot about releasing external obligations, and for good reason. Especially now, at the start of the year, they’re loud, they’re pushy, and they’re often unrelated to what we actually want and need.But I find that internal pressure is much more difficult to release.- Unhelpful brain stories - The Cynefin Framework- Governing and enabling constraints- How to emerge from the chaosThanks for creating this

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14:53

You Don't *Need* to Have a Book, Even When You're...

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/12/15

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for relief.A well-respected leader in a niche industry sent out an email recently that had me yelling and drawing out charts like I had missed my calling as a sports commentator. The same message hit a friend of mine via a podcast just days before, and my authors tell me they hear it all the time. It’s everywhere.- The sales messaging formula that stresses us all out about our books- A truer version to translate it to whenever it crops

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9:19

The Ocean Workbook: Reimagine Your Next Steps

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/12/08

Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Reimagine Your Next Steps.To get the rest of the workbook right away, look for You Don’t Get to the Ocean by

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13:44

Guided 5 Minute Outline: What's On the Other Side?

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/12/05

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.- Why I don't believe in writer's block- One kind of block many of us do face- 5 Minute Outline (If you’re new to 5 Minute Outlines, you can click through to an introduction.)- What are you going to do with this book?- Why are you writing?- What might feel unshareable?- What will it take for you to write through the unwritable?- What will happen when you do?The B is for Book Coach space is one way I create

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8:05

What a Year of Posting on Substack Taught Me

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/11/24

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for growth.One year and one month of posting on Substack has taught me that when you’re in the right place, you can create one year and one month of content.That’s it.And it’s everything.- What I've learned about growth in the content space- What I've learned about myself in the content space- What it takes to grow beyond the content spaceThe B is for Book Coach space is one way I create direct support for authors as they bring their

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9:47

Willpower Alone Can't Carry Your Book

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/11/10

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for mobility.I have hyper mobile joints—or, as we might have called it in the ‘90s, “stupid human tricks.” Without any real awareness of this imbalance, I couldn’t put any intention toward rectifying it. So my body did what bodies do best: it contorted itself, according to its overriding command to survive at all costs. This came to mind earlier this past week, when a friend and client sent me an article about why creatives aren’t

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5:12

The Ocean Workbook: Your Idea

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/11/03

Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Your Idea.Previous workbook

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22:44

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Structuring for Complexity

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/10/27

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.When you are writing for something more than the transaction of it all, the bigness of the work is twofold.There’s the complexity of constructing a book, and then there’s the complexity of leading change in your corner of the world.So when I say “start with the small,” I don’t mean that we’re going to shrink that bigness down at all.The complexity stays. It has to.This is a structure that can hold it.You

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11:33

How Productivity Steals Our Power

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/10/20

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for momentum.From time to time, I have to pause to look up definitions of very basic words, because I’ve realized my neurodivergent self isn’t using them quite the same way dominant society does.- Checking our definitions around productivity- Checking our assumptions around our own productivity- Checking the societal expectations that keep us from progressingHey, thanks for creating this space with me today. The B is for Book Coach space

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9:46

Sometimes, the Weeds Win

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/10/13

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for weeds.Do you remember last spring, when I landed in the middle of a tangled mess of roots in my garden bed—one that I decided could serve as a metaphor for my life?It started with an attempt to clear surface level weeds from a garden bed tucked alongside my house, journeyed through the pit of despair that was the realization that those roots ran deep, and ended with the hope that the medicinal plants gifted to me by a friend would

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6:44

The Ocean Workbook: Your Reader

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/10/06

Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Your Reader.The B is for Book Coach space is one way I create direct support for authors as they bring their

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18:44

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Paper Has More Patience Than...

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2025/09/29

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.Over the last few weeks, I’ve been immersed in Anne Frank’s world. It started because Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic, is one of my favorite authors, and I needed a new audiobook to listen to at night. Her most recent, When We Flew Away, happened to be a fictionalized prequel to Anne Frank’s diary.First things first: If you read fiction, I highly recommend this book. I also know it’s a tough time to

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8:23

How to Beat Simon Sinek

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2025/09/15

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for finishing…or not.A few years ago, a client came to me with a beautiful book idea and a not-so-pretty anxiety. Time was getting away from him.- The pain of an unfinished project.- The marketing bros who exploit that pain.- How to heal that pain even before the project is finished.The B is for Book Coach space is one way I create direct support for authors as they bring their books to life.If you’d like to expand that space for someone

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7:07

How Obligation Overwhelm Steals Our Stories

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2025/09/08

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space without obligation.“I guess everyone wants to write a book at some point, right?”I hear this so often it’s hard not to roll my eyes—not at you, the person I’ve probably only just met face to face and am so glad to hear from. But at the messaging that has so heavily influenced our world.- The overwhelming messaging that "you need a book."- How that builds into "you need...everything else."- How obligation overwhelm pulls our focus- How to

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5:57

The Ocean Workbook: Your Author-ity

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/09/01

Welcome back to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m reading through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: Your Author-ity.To get the rest of the workbook right away, look for You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident on

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25:24

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Morpheus Mode

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/08/28

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.The most effective nonfiction masterclass I’ve ever experienced was not in a workshop or conference. It wasn’t paywalled behind a subscription fee, and it didn’t end in a sales pitch.It was—and is—the “red dress” scene from the movie The Matrix: https://youtu.be/IJrjcHx9nDA?si=Gp_DzUstvMBJLV0rThe brilliance is in a real message, communicated well.For this exercise, I want you to stop trying to posture as a

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12:03

Who's Allowed in Your Writer's Room?

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/08/18

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space without intruders.I manage a birthing room like I manage the writer’s room in your head.…maybe I should back up and explain a few things.- Birth as a parallel to writing- Writing rooms as internal spaces - Who gets to be in the space and how it's managed- Recovering your energy after an intrusionHey, thanks for creating this space with me today.Whether or not you’re ready to dive into writing just yet, remember that the best authors show

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9:44

What We Name, We Transform

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/08/11

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for names.I have a unique name. My very first self-branded copy was this:Hey, there!I'm Brannan.You can call me B.You're also likely to call me Brannon, Branan, Brennan, Brandon, Brandy, Brenda, Britney, Brianna...You can call me anything, as long as you call me when you're stuck.It’s true that I’ve been called all of those things (and more)—and it’s just as true that I’m not particularly bothered by it. What does get me, however, is

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5:08

The Ocean Workbook: The Project

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/08/05

Welcome to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m going to read through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: The Project.To get the rest of the workbook right away, look for You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident on

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21:00

Guided 5 Minute Outline (Which Is Rarely Just 5 Minutes)

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/07/28

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a Guided 5 Minute Outline.I often hear that a 5 minute outline recording or episode helped someone, followed quickly by the acknowledgement that it took 15 minutes or more to get through.I think my record 5 minute outline was 45 minutes long.The thing is, the “5 minutes” part of the outline isn’t a gimmick that never comes through. It’s actually a really important constraint to the exercise.- Why we need a direct way in- Task

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