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Rare Breed

Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger

Turn rebellion, audacity, and obsession into strengths that challenge convention and fuel extraordinary success.

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Rare Breed

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What's it about?

Rare Breed (2018) celebrates the traits that often get people into trouble but can also make them successful, such as being rebellious, audacious, provocative, and unconventional. Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger share stories of entrepreneurs and leaders who turned their differences into strengths, and show readers how to use their own unusual qualities to build a bold career or business.

Key ideas

  • Traits that often get people into trouble, like being rebellious or provocative, can also be the source of their success.
  • Rare Breed celebrates being audacious and unconventional instead of treating those qualities as flaws to hide.
  • The authors share stories of entrepreneurs and leaders who turned their differences into real strengths.
  • Readers are shown how to use their own unusual qualities to build a bold career or business.

About the author

Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger are American entrepreneurs, authors, and branding experts who co-founded Motto, a brand strategy agency that works with leading companies. Friends since childhood, they built their business by embracing their own unconventional style. Rare Breed is their first book.

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What is Rare Breed about?

Rare Breed (2018) argues that rebellious, audacious, provocative and unconventional traits can become strengths. Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger back this with stories of entrepreneurs and leaders who turned their differences into success.

Who is Rare Breed for?

It suits entrepreneurs, professionals and anyone who feels their unusual qualities hold them back at work. It shows how those same qualities can help build a bold career or business.

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