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I AMAZE MYSELF
Cass Warner has joined forces with Kay McConaughey (Matthew’s mother) in collaborating with her on her book, I Amaze Myself, a set of Kay’s personal stories and insights, each themed to inspire the reader to acknowledge and validate their own amazing journey and actions.
I Amaze Myself – an irreverent, funny and inspiring memoir that shows by example how to enjoy life, learn to laugh, and be the best that one can be. Told in a spirited voice that is as rich in experience as it is in truth, the author and her collaborator have fashioned a funny, tell-all handbook that’s illustrated with photos from the family album, pulls no punches and makes no apologies for the hard-won life lessons it contains.
The mission of this book is to make sure women remember and fully realize their own abilities to truly amaze themselves. Organized around some 50 “insights,” (“No Whining Allowed;” “Some People Deserve to Be Pissed On;” “One Jill & Five Jocks Equals a Scramble”), this book uses the no-holds-barred stories from the author’s own life to inspire possibility, make it contagious, and harness its power.
The book, the first for Kay McConaughey, and the second for Cass Warner (Hollywood Be They Name, The Warner Brothers Story, University of Kentucky Press, 1993, now in its sixth printing), results from their collective conviction that the responsibilities of the media world in which they have each logged a lifetime of experience, both in their own right, but also as mothers of successful working actors must be to educate, entertain, and enlighten (the original motto of the Warner Bros.).
I Amaze Myself is not only a collection of stories that draws upon Kay’s often funny, often moving, always colorful and instructive approach to life and family, but a handbook that serves to inspire “every day folks leading every day lives” to take notice of all the ways they can, and do, amaze themselves.
I Amaze Myself has its roots in a favorite saying of Kay’s. Whenever she accomplished something that was particularly challenging, she would say out loud, “Sometimes I amaze myself.” A friend had the saying printed onto a bumper sticker and eventually Kay applied it to her golf bag, her license plate and any place where she felt she could use a good reminding. Other women would ask her about it. “I do amaze myself,” was Kay’s reply. “Don’t you? We all do. You just haven’t had the chance to admit it to yourself.”
Along with the book, I Amaze Myself, Cass and her company, Warner Sisters, is ensuring that the book provides the backbone of a grass roots I Amaze Myself movement starting with an internet club or community in order to reach women everywhere with the I Amaze Myself philosophy.
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