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Tell Her She's Dreamin' A memoir for ambitious girls

Simone Amelia Jordan

This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as...

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The Breakfast Club

It is a memoir for ambitious girls, discussed on the show by the author herself. The author discussed her journey as a hip-hop journalist and her challenges and triumphs in the industry, including overcoming various obstacles.

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It's about chasing your dreams, even though you get all these doors closed in your face.

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It is a memoir for ambitious girls, discussed on the show by the author herself. The author discussed her journey as a hip-hop journalist and her challenges and triumphs in the industry, including overcoming various obstacles.

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It's about chasing your dreams, even though you get all these doors closed in your face.

It's my love letter to this music genre that I think a lot of people forget has changed the world and it's changed the world in so many ways.

And I've always been very vocal about paying tribute to its black founders. And a lot of people don't do that enough, I think.

So I thought that would be a good place to start on a book journey.

But as I was writing it, I'm like, oh my God, there are a lot of themes here that especially for young women, I'm talking about like racism, classism, sexism, being groomed as a teenager because I wanted to be on radio and I wanted to...

Episode: INTERVIEW: Simone Amelia Jordan Talks Tell Her She...

It is a memoir about chasing dreams despite facing numerous obstacles, including racism, sexism, and classism. The author discusses themes of women's empowerment and the importance of the hip-hop genre.

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It's my love letter to this music genre that I think a lot of people forget has changed the world and it's changed the world in so many ways.

And I've always been very vocal about paying tribute to its black founders. And a lot of people don't do that enough, I think.

I'm talking about like racism, classism, sexism, being groomed as a teenager.

Cause I wanted to be on radio and I wanted to be a journalist so badly getting taken advantage of by like an older guy in the industry who was dangling carrots.

Like these things happen to women in the industry. They're very prevalent.

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