If you’re looking for simple, practical strategies for living your best life—delivered in a fun, no-nonsense style—then you’ve come to the right place.

Overbooked, overdrawn, and overwhelmed?

I can help you get your priorities straight and then set and enforce boundaries to protect them.

So mired in everything you have to do that you’ve got no time or energy left for what you want to do?

I can help you be more efficient and productive to handle the annoying stuff and free yourself up to enjoy all the rest.

Worry too much (and drive yourself crazy) over things you can’t control?

I’ll help you focus on what you can control, so you can stop freaking out and move on with your life.

And if it’s a little bit of all of that…and maybe more?

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Since 2015, I’ve been writing, speaking, and podcasting about universal issues like work, relationships, finances, and mental health in a candid and accessible way. I’ve helped millions of people around the world (yes, actual millions!) figure out what they want and how to get it—and now I’m bringing it all to Substack.

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• Fun regular emails containing practical strategies for improving your life, from the daily grind to the big picture. Like this or this.

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My suggestions for no-fucks-given best-life-livin’ are fun to take, easy to implement, and effective AF. Come for the naughty words and stay for the truly life-changing advice!

I mean, I don’t want to sprain anything patting myself on the back, but there’s a reason my sweary self-help books have been on bestseller lists all over the world, my podcast hit #1 on the Apple Education charts, and my TEDx Talk has more than 10 million views.

My tips? THEY WORK.

When you subscribe, you’ll get the best hacks and strategies delivered in bite-sized form directly to your inbox. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Setting boundaries and banishing guilt

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More about me:

The books and journals in my No F*cks Given® Guides series have sold more than 3 million copies and are published in more than 30 languages. But even if you’ve never heard of them, you may know me from that TEDx Talk I mentioned, “The Magic of Not Giving a F*ck.” (I have a lot more hair now, but I swear it’s me on your YouTubes.)

Before I became an unlikely self-help “anti-guru” (the Observer magazine called me that when I published The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck, and I embrace it), I graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and American Literature & Language. I moved to New York City in 2000 and worked at a comedy website, a bookstore, and a literary agency before finding my groove as an editorial assistant at the venerable Scribner Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

I spent fifteen years in the publishing industry, editing critically acclaimed and bestselling authors such as Gillian Flynn, Jessica Knoll, Emily Nagoski, Jay Rayner, James Lee Burke, Chris Cleave, and many more.

Then I had a bit of a…crisis.

I realized that although I loved discovering new voices and collaborating with writers and the actual nitty-gritty work of editing a manuscript, I did NOT love working in a corporate environment—even though I was very good at it, it was like death by a thousand paper cuts, every single day.

So, in 2015, after a lot of red wine and a lot of tears (and a year of saving and planning), I quit my Senior Editor position to go freelance; by 2016 I’d published my first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck, and moved from Brooklyn to a small beach town in the Dominican Republic where I still live with my husband, my cats (Gladys Knight and Mister Stussy), and a shitload of lizards.

You can find out more at SarahKnight.com or—better yet—subscribe to No F*cks Given® and get to know me here on Substack.

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