Two names sit at the head of this audiobook listing, and they do not belong to the same book. The author field reads Nick Foles. The narrator field reads Jamie Kern Lima. The description underneath tells the story of a struggling waitress who founded IT Cosmetics, sold the company for over a billion dollars, and became the first female CEO of a brand in L'Oréal's hundred-year history. All five written responses are about that book. The genre column, meanwhile, files the title under Sports and Outdoors.
A Closer Look at Believe It
Jamie Kern Lima's memoir is what this page actually describes, and the description is not shy about the terms: rejection, self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, down to her last few dollars, and being told that nobody was going to buy makeup from someone with her body. She found out in her twenties that she had been adopted, and the copy says the reverberations reached every part of her life. The promised takeaways run to nine bullet points, from overcoming self-doubt to handling the rejection, the haters and the mean girls. The copy also introduces its writer as the author of Worthy, a title the author field on this page connects to nobody at all.
Simon and Schuster Audio dated the release to February 23, 2021, at nine hours and thirteen minutes. Jamie Kern Lima occupies the narrator slot, which on a memoir normally means the author reading her own life aloud. Here it means the person named as narrator and the person named as author are two different people with two unrelated careers, and just one of the two appears anywhere in the description. That is the kind of mismatch a buyer should resolve before spending money rather than after.
Kristine Coronado wrote the longest response on the page, and it explains why this sort of book travels. After witnessing a speech at the BuiltHow Conference, the reviewer was compelled to go find the story, and reports that the book exceeded expectations in every way. The review describes a chronicle of countless rejections, disappointments and moments of self-doubt, told candidly and heartfeltly, and then the text simply stops, mid-word, in the middle of an appreciation. It is a conversion narrative about a conversion narrative, which is precisely the mechanism this genre runs on and the reason its readers hand it to each other. Someone who has already heard the speech is not buying information here, but more of a voice they have decided to trust.
Glennon Doyle and Sara Blakely supply the endorsements above the description, calling the book game-changing and authentic, raw and real and powerful, filled with vulnerability and grit, and both frame it as something every woman needs. The responses underneath match that framing almost word for word. A reader in Canada calls Lima a force of nature and says to give the book to your girls. Another describes feeling as though the two of them were sitting in a living room chatting like old friends.
Nothing in the review column mentions football, a stadium, a season or a quarterback. Five people wrote about a cosmetics founder, a speech at a business conference, an inventor's daughter working to revolutionize the building industry, and a message about self-worth aimed squarely at women. Religious is the tag sitting underneath, and the description supports that one easily enough, since it speaks of God-doubt and of being created for more. The Sports and Outdoors category has nothing whatsoever in the text to attach itself to. Anyone browsing by category is being routed here for reasons the description cannot support.
Things to Know Before Starting Believe It
Sports and Outdoors sits in the genre column beside biographies and memoirs, and it is the one label pointing somewhere this description never goes. Whatever produced it did not come from the text summarized on this page. Two books published under the same title appear to have had their fields folded into a single listing, and no field here admits it. Confirm what the file contains before you buy, because the description and the author line are each describing a different product.
Four ratings, says the counter, above five written responses. Every visible grade is a five, while the figure displayed is 4.8, so those fields do not reconcile with each other under any one reading. Nothing dramatic follows from it, since small samples produce untidy counters constantly. It is simply one more place where this page disagrees with itself, and it is worth knowing before anyone treats 4.8 as the settled judgment of a crowd rather than the output of four clicks. The gap also runs the unusual way round, with more people writing than the counter admits exist.
Every response here is a testimonial rather than a review. They describe what the book did to the reader: a parallel felt by an inventor's daughter, a decision to hand it to a daughter, an anticipation not felt since the last Harry Potter book arrived. Two arrived from abroad, one in Australia and one in Canada. One carries the release date itself, which means a full write-up existed the day the file went on sale. What holds them together is that they are all describing the same book, which is more than this listing manages.
Who Nick Foles Is Writing For
Buyers who already know Jamie Kern Lima's story from a stage or a conference are the people this page is written for, and they will get the book they expect provided the file matches the description. Listeners who want the mechanics of building and selling a beauty company will find them, though the copy treats the business story as evidence for a self-belief argument rather than as the subject in its own right. Anyone who responds to the language of God-doubt and being created for more will find that register held steadily across all nine hours. Nine bullet points of promised lessons is fair warning that the structure is prescriptive as well as narrative.
Pass on it if the genre's cadence wears you out, since the description signs off by firing four questions at you in a row without pausing. Anyone drawn in by the sports category should check the file first, and anyone hoping for a business case study should expect testimony instead of analysis. A listener drawn specifically to the adoption material should know it arrives as one thread among many rather than as the spine. Whichever Believe It you meant to buy, this page describes only one of them, and the description is the field to trust.
Whose Believe It is this audiobook?
The description, the narrator credit and all five written responses belong to Jamie Kern Lima's memoir about founding IT Cosmetics. The author field names Nick Foles, and the genre column includes Sports and Outdoors. Two books share this title, and the fields on this page have been mixed, so verify the file before buying.
Is the audiobook read by its own author?
That depends which author you mean. Jamie Kern Lima is the person credited as narrator, and the life the description recounts is hers, so on that reading it is a self-narrated memoir. The author field names somebody else entirely, and nothing anywhere on the page resolves the contradiction between the two.
How long is the Believe It audiobook, and who published it?
Nine hours and thirteen minutes, from Simon and Schuster Audio, dated February 23, 2021. One of the five responses carries that same date, which means a full write-up appeared the day the recording became available. Two of the others were posted years later, from Australia and from Canada respectively.
