Shonda Rhimes is an award-winning television creator, producer, author, and CEO of global media company Shondaland. She is the first woman to create three television dramas—Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, and Scandal—that achieved the 100-episode milestone. For five seasons, Shondaland shows dominated ABC's Thursday night lineup, creating the powerful TGIT brand. In 2017, Rhimes shifted the entertainment industry's business model by leaving network television for an exclusive Netflix partnership. Bridgerton, her first Netflix series, became a worldwide franchise with seasons holding two of Netflix's top ten English-language spots. She also created Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, Inventing Anna, and executive produced The Residence and documentaries Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker and Black Barbie. She founded The Rhimes Foundation supporting arts, education, and activism, and serves on boards including the American Film Institute, Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Dartmouth College, Lincoln Center, and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She also serves on special committees for the USC Film Council and Obama Foundation. A three-time Time 100 honoree, Rhimes has been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire as well as inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
'There’s real value in the experiences Rhimes shares… When, for
example, she discusses learning to take better care of herself, the
memoir feels honest, raw and revelatory.'
*Washington Post*
'Revealing and delightful.'
*New York Daily News*
'If you enjoy the rapid-fire dialogue of her characters, reading
this book will feel like home. Rhimes opens up, and inspires,
discussing her personal experiences as a sister, daughter, mother,
friend and boss tempered with biting insights on societal
expectations of women…[a] blend of biography and badassery.'
*ebony.com*
'Rhimes is, unsurprisingly, a fantastic memoirist: her writing is
conversational and witty and lyrical, inflected with the supple
human breathiness you might expect from a person who spends her
days writing dialogue. It features lots of great punchlines… [It]
is also in many ways a side-door self-help book…[with] pieces of
advice that concern not just Rhimes’s readers, but everyone…Year of
Yes is, like Shondaland itself, making a statement. It is
insisting that it is time for the people who used to be invisible
to come forward and be seen.'
*Atlantic.com*
'A sincere and inspiring account of saying yes to life…Rhimes tells
us all about it in the speedy, smart style of her much-loved TV
shows. She's warm, eminently relatable, and funny… Like a cashmere
shawl you pack just in case, Year of Yes is well worth
the purse space, and it would make an equally great gift. Rhimes
said "yes" to sharing her insights . Following her may not land you
on the cover of a magazine, but you'll be glad you did.'
*Kirkus Reviews*
'Rhimes guides the reader through her transformative year-long
experiment, each chapter dealing with a different personal
challenge for herself, and she lets us deep inside her brain,
carefully laying out all of her fears and self-doubt…candid and
friendly, almost as if the two of you were catching up over
drinks.'
*Slate.com*
'A self-help book dressed in casual clothes, lessons for living a
better life told through relatable personal essays from the woman
who set out to, in the course of a year, make her own better… Never
do you feel preached at while reading Rhimes’s book. This woman of
huge fame and fortune is speaking directly to you, and she’s doing
it with familiarity, humour, and earned wisdom…Year of Yes is
an awakening as much as it is a reckoning. Recognise the power of
what you’ve been doing. Do more of it.'
*Daily Beast*
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