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It Takes Courage to Strut Your Stuff

Maryanne Pope
3 min readMay 17, 2024

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Taking the Stage Wearing Nothing But a Trench Coat & Undies

“You’re meant to respect, nurture, and strut your youness as unapologetically as Prince strutted his.”

– Jen Sincero, “You Are a Badass at Making Money”

Whether you were a Prince fan or not, you gotta admit the guy had courage.

Here is a hilarious passage about Prince from Jen Sincero’s brilliant book, “You Are a Badass at Making Money; Master the Mindset of Wealth”:

“Way back in the early 1980’s, Prince, who was not a huge somebody at the time, was invited to warm up for the Rolling Stones, who were extremely huge somebodies at the time. It was a big break for him and I imagine he was superexcited about it, but when he took to the stage wearing nothing but a trench coat and tight black bikini undies, he got booed. Like real loudly. And a lot. A lot, as in they didn’t stop booing until he left the stage…

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Maryanne Pope
Maryanne Pope

Written by Maryanne Pope

Maryanne writes blogs, books, screenplays & play scripts. She is CEO of Pink Gazelle Productions & Co-Founder of the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund.

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