![]() ![]() Suddenly, she's learning the real lessons of Rock and Roll High School, including the danger of trusting a record company executive who ties a ponytail in his goatee, and the ten telltale signs your bass player is living in your practice space. But while reveling in free tequila shots, autograph hunters, and other perks of minor stardom, Jenny realizes with a shock that 60-Foot Queenie is poised to become even bigger than she imagined. ![]() Meet musicians.Ĥ) Cash in pension and buy kickass guitar amp.ĥ) Team up with sex-crazed guitar genius/best friend Lucy Stover Hanover II.Īfter auditioning every musician in the greater Los Angeles area-including the deluded, deranged, and underaged-Jenny finds the perfect lineup, and 60-Foot Queenie is born. Items on her new to-do list include:ġ) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.Ģ) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.ģ) Hang out in skanky bars. Instead of running way from the big, awesome, terrifying idea that pops into my head, I run towards it.At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. For the past five years, I’ve been leaping into the void on a regular basis, so I guess that’s how I recognize it. You can’t change your life by doing the same things that got you where you presently are, so you have to change it up and leap into the void. I’m a big believer that if you say you want to change your life and you aren’t a little bit scared by what you’re about to do, you’re doing something wrong. I got over my money issues and started making six figures coaching people, which is something I love doing, I started traveling the world on a regular basis, moved to the beach, started hanging out with other people who are kicking ass too, understood that I could really do anything I set my mind to. But as far as stepping it up to a place where I constantly face my fears and blast past them to new levels of reality, I’d say the past five years have been really rocking. I may have been broke-ass or dating someone who lived in his car, but I always made art, always wrote, made music, had great friends, was kind to animals, was generally happy, said thank you a lot, etc. If I may be so bold, I will say I think I’ve always led an awesome life. When did you start living an awesome life? How did you recognize that it had arrived? I knew I could be doing waaaaaaay better, I just couldn’t get out of my own way to make it happen. ![]() I existed on about $20K a year for more years than I care to think about, scraping by, living in fairly crappy, tiny places, driving rickety cars, always worrying about how I was going to make enough to survive, that kind of thing. What things or incidents would you cite as some of your loser-est moments?Īs far as my loseriest moments go, I guess it would have to be the large chunk of time I was so losery about making money. ![]() She’ll be at Book Soup on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Jen Sincero may have written the sassiest self-help book of 2013: “ You Are a Badass - How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.” Sincero is a former Angeleno, rock musician and sex advice columnist whose previous books are “Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer” and “The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping With Chicks.” She’s frank, funny and sometimes outrageous, and admits that she went through a period of being a loser before finding her inner you-know-what. ![]()
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