YOU DESERVE THE TRUTH

A Brene Brown for a new generation, Erica Williams Simon shows readers how to find their truth: and how to live it to its fullest.

Erica Williams Simon, content creator at Snapchat and proud millennial, breaks down the narratives that are holding Gen Y back in order to help them cultivate authentic and joyful livesto pause, press the reset button, and build a life based on their own truth.

It's time for millennials to take back their narrative. Erica Williams Simon is here to show them how.

Just a few years ago, Erica Williams Simon felt a huge amount of pressure to be perfect: to have the perfect relationship, the perfect career, to get more and do more and be more, all the while struggling with student debt, feeling underpaid, and unhappy in her job. So she got to thinking: Why do I feel this way? What has gotten me to a place where my life no longer feels authentically me?

So Erica quit her job and did some thinking. And this book is the result.

Gen Y has been studied, characterized and market-tested to death. No other generation has lived in a time where social media dictates their lives: what they should look like, what they should be buying, what they should be able to afford. Combine that with the pressure from family, friends, and peers, and millennials find themselves leading lives that are shaped by everyone but themselves.

In Better Than This, Erica breaks down the stories that are holding millennials back in order to find lives that are truly theirs. By closely examining the four types of narratives that shape their lives--internal, firsthand, consumed, and cultural--they can rework them in order to create a story that supports our own desires, beliefs, and what they want for their future. Told with anecdotes from her own life, Erica gives readers the tools they need in order to break free from the narratives holding them back to start an exciting new chapter in a beautiful life.

Erica Williams Simon is an award winning content creator, educator, media personality and social critic. The former political-strategist and advocate, once named one of Politico's Top 50 Politicos to Watch, is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and the youngest appointed member of the Global Agenda Council on Social Media. She is the Creative Director and Editor at Upworthy.com and has appeared on MTV, BET, CNN, PBS, NPR, MTV & HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Huffington Post and ESSENCE magazine