If “yes” is your default and your bucket feels full of holes, this conversation will help. On The Author’s Mic™, Bryan White—author of Get Selfish: Filling Your Own Bucket First—lays out a straight-talk approach to ending people-pleasing and leading your creative life with clarity. We dig into values, non-negotiables, and what it means to remove everyone else’s expectations from your “bucket” so your energy serves your writing and readers.

Bryan shares the phases he worked through while writing the book and how reflection prompts can move you from vague frustration to specific change. We talk about saying no without apology, setting one boundary sentence you can reuse, and protecting a daily writing window so you stop creating from fumes. The goal isn’t isolation; it’s serving from a full bucket.

Watch/listen on YouTube: htt ps://youtu.be/glsq8RQo_cs

Be a guest on The Author’s Mic™: https://brightheadedpublishing.com/be-a-guest 

Free 44-page guide: https://brightheadedpublishing.com 

Indie Reader Society (join or pitch): https://brightheadedpublishing.com 

Bryan’s shows: The Return Project — https://instagram.com/thereturnprojectpodcast 

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