Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Amoruso (born April 20, 1984, in San Diego, California) is the founder and owner of Nasty Gal, which sells women's fashion including modern and vintage clothing, shoes and accessories for young women which can all be found on the brand's website. It was called one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Magazine in 2012. After being diagnosed with depression and attention deficit disorder (ADD), she dropped out of school and began homeschooling. She had many jobs as a teenager, her first ever job being in Subway. After discovering she had a hernia in her groin, she realized that she needed to get a job with health insurance to pay for the required medical treatments. At this job, which was checking student's ID at the lobby of a school, Amoruso found her passion in Myspace and eBay. That is when she sold her first item on her eBay shop, called Nasty Gal Vintage, a stolen book.

As a young adult, she spent her time hitchhiking near West Coast, dumpster diving and stealing. The first ever object she sold on her online eBay shop was a stolen book. Since she had little money, she took stealing very seriously and stole almost everything from bras to oil pastels. In 2003, while living in Portland, Oregon, Amoruso got caught stealing and decided to stop stealing permanently. She didn't want to have a criminal record, therefore after getting caught, she admitted to customer service that she has stole from them. Loss-prevention fined her and that was the end of her stealing from then on because she believed that stealing was a way that was "killing my [her] inner #GIRLBOSS" and how glad she was to be alive.

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Lewis Howes

Lewis Howes is an American author, entrepreneur, and former professional Arena League football player. He hosts The School of Greatness, a talk show distributed as a podcast.

He is on the advisory board of the non-profit Pencils of Promise.

Sports

Howes attended Principia College and Capital University and was an All-American football player and decathlete. He is the former NCAA record holder for the most receiving yards in a single game, having caught 17 passes for 418 yards in a 2002 game against Martin Luther College. He left college early to pursue professional football. However, two games into his first Arena League season he collided with a wall while diving to make a catch and snapped his wrist. He played the rest of the season with a broken wrist, and after the last game he underwent corrective surgery that ended his football career.

In 2012, Howes moved to New York City to play team handball for the New York Team Handball Club. He currently plays for the USA Men's National team.

How to Be

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Plot

Art (Pattinson) is not talented, but aspires to be a musician. He has a dead-end job at a supermarket, despite having a degree (which he doesn't seem to value much). His girlfriend ends their relationship. Art is then forced to move back home with his cold and neglectful parents (played by Pidgeon and Michael Irving). Art buys a book titled, It's Not Your Fault. Upon reading it, he tries to follow the self-help book's advice. He decides to use inheritance money to first buy a car, and then pay for a Canadian therapist, Dr. Levi Ellington (Jones), the book's author, to come to his home in England and help Art get his life on track, about which his parents are less than thrilled.