Author, Speaker, Coach Barbara Sher passed away on May 10, 2020.
Read Barbara’s obituary here. Barbara’s Club and all its programs continue in the hands of those she trained.
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The Dare to Soar Telesummit Recordings
All of the mini-workshops at our September 13, 2025 Telesummit were recorded, and you can listen to all of them for free.
Thinking Through Refuse to Choose: 101 things every Scanner should know
Are you a Scanner? These are people with a different (and often misunderstood) type of mindset: they’re curious and smart, always happiest when learning something new. But no matter how promising a path may appear, Scanners can never give up their love of exploring. And therein lies the problem: despite their passionate engagement with the world and their love of life, Scanners are unable to decide on one path, and they’re often afraid that there’s something horribly wrong with them. It’s usually forgotten that such people were once admired for their wide range of knowledge, even called Renaissance thinkers. Now they’re often labeled as immature, lazy dilettantes by a culture that prizes specialization above all else. I wrote this 99-cent Kindle book (with two great helpers) to highlight the top 101 takeaways from my book, Refuse to Choose! Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams. Use it as an introduction or as a reminder after you read the book. Purchase this Kindle book here.
Find a Success Team or Become a Sher Success Teams Leader
Isolation is the dream killer. Find your people in a Sher Success Team and learn how to identify and achieve your dreams in Barbara’s 8-Week Workshop for new teams. We always need more Sher Success Teams leaders, so if helping others go after their dreams is your dream, there’s a business in a kit waiting for you, a Leader’s Kit with everything you need to run that same workshop.
Members of ongoing book clubs should contact webmaster@barbarasclub.com for assistance.
I am posting this comment on the Barbara’s Club Courses page and WriteSpeak page to let everyone interested know. We’re postponing the start of the next WriteSpeak year until March of 2018, so Barbara and I can visit our grandkids this fall. Registration will open on February 10, 2018. If you join us, we’ll be celebrating the launch of your book and your speaking career on February 9, 2019.
Hello,
I am SO excited to read about the WriteSpeak program. Could you please confirm that I have to wait until September 9th to register? I can’t wait!! Or can I be put on a waiting list before that?
I am sure I know the answer, but I’m so excited I thought I’d ask!
Thank you so much
Carol
Carol, we all go through the program in a group, supporting each other, for a full year, so you cannot join now, but I’m thrilled you’re looking forward to it. If you’re interested in becoming a WriteSpeaker, I urge you to join us for the Telesummit (http://barbarasclub.com/telesummit) on September 9th, where you can hear from many of the wonderful writers and speakers just finishing up the year. On that page I just linked to, you can hear last year’s grads. Very soon, we’ll be featuring on that same page the grads launching their careers as authors and speakers this year. Be sure you’re on Barbara’s mailing list (sign up right below her photo on almost any page), and we’ll keep you updated on the Telesummit and WriteSpeak.
Thanks Patty! x
Your name came into my mind as I was meditating.I read your books years ago and so glad to connect again.
Hi
I want to register for scanners book club
But I’m late please help me .
I’m so sorry, but we really do close the doors at the announced time, Elnaz.
It says it will “begin” registration on June 1, how am I late? The scene in the Wizard of Oz when they’re trying to get past the guard at the gate of the Emerald City just came to me…..please, I must get in to see the Wonderful Wizard of Oz so I can get home! 🙂 no really, open the door a smidge.
Registration began then and ended on June 14th with a very full house. We are not able to admit any more. Our next book club will be taking registrations from Sept 21 – October 4. I hope you’ll join us then, Dee — or for Hanging Out, which will be taking new registrations from July 8 – 23.
I did it in 2015. Guessing it’s fully price to do it again?
Yes, it is, Katrina.
Yes, I am very interested
Can my teen age girls join in too?
Yes, they can, Maria.
Hi Barbara, I love your teamworks idea & just ordered the book used. I’m thinking I might like to start a teamworks group sometime. I tried to login & create a password on this site, but got the message that I needed to buy something. Where do I go to buy something?
Thank you & Happy New Year!
Hi, Marilyn. The only time you’ll need to log in is if you’re part of Hanging Out (which should begin registration again around March 11th), one of our book clubs (the next one, reading I Could Do Anything, should begin registration in February), WriteSpeak (which will begin registration during the Telesummit on September 9th) or one of the new programs and courses due to begin this year. To learn about them all, sign up for Barbara’s mailing list at the bottom of the page or on BarbaraSher.com.
And do take a look at the Sher Success Teams website, because Teamworks is a do-it-yourself text, while the Success Teams Leader Kit is Barbara’s own workbook and audio recordings for running teams.
Dear Barbara I wonder if your course 8-Week Success Teams Workshop is still available.
Looking forward to your reply.
All the best.
Patricia
Barbara’s 8-Week Success Teams Workshop is still available, offered all over the US and around the world by independent Success Teams leaders. Please see http://shersuccessteams.com or email me at director[at]shersuccessteams[dot]com.
I just finished watching Barbara’s YouTube video on the Refuse to Choose book club on my phone. I don’t see anything on the video relayed to the year, so I’m assuming it’s for November 2016? Actually I’m hoping!
For some reason I have not received updates in my email about Barbara’s upcoming events – most likely because of my own doing! I have several emails for various projects! Such a scanner thing! Thank you!
Look for Barbara’s photo on this page (http://barbarasclub.com/courses/) and enter your email address right below the photo to add your favorite email address to her mailing list. Not sure which event you’re asking for a date on, but WriteSpeak registration is open right now through Oct 20, 2016, our next book club registration will open on or about Oct 13, 2016, and Hanging Out registration will open on or about Oct 30, 2016.
Hi Patty,
Thank you for responding. I’m interested in the next Refuse to Choose Book Club.
The next Refuse to Choose book club should begin in June, Marlisa.
Signing up for the telesummit but wonder if my signing up for the *club* newsletter is different from being on the barbarasher.com mailing list.
Also, wonder if there is any scholarship assistance for WriteSpeak? Thanks.
Check the telesummit prize list for a WriteSpeak pass prize.
And it’s all one list.