If you’re anything like me, you might still be learning to prioritize your own needs and desires in your daily life. With work, family, adult responsibilities– it’s easy to let our creative dreams and aspirations fall on the back burner. Choosing ourselves is something that we have to do over and over again.

Making the decision to start your book journey isn’t a light one. So many of you have been thinking about starting this process for years. In the case of this week’s Bound + Determined guest, Vasavi Kumar, the timing was so important that you could call it divine. She started a book proposal years ago at a time when she was still in the depths of her pain. Last year she came to me to work on her book proposal within my Book Proposal Blueprint program. She was ready to choose herself all over again.

Over the past 10 years, Vasavi has helped thousands of women overcome major life obstacles to create new heights of success.  She’s a licensed therapist, mindset coach, business strategist, and founder of the Real Rich membership community, and the host of the Being Human with Vasavi podcast. She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, FOX, and VH1.

Vasavi believes that when you cultivate a solid relationship with yourself, you can be, do, and create anything you want.