The Joy of Uber Driving: A Wild Ride to Self-Love

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Uber ridesharing has become the #1 form of local transportation in over 600 cities and 78 countries worldwide. There are 3 million Uber drivers worldwide (updated 6/22/18)
19% of Uber drivers worldwide are women (trending toward 30% in the US)
4 billion Uber rides were given in 2017.
13% of our population are women fifty and over who have never been married. This percentage does not include women who are divorced and not remarried.
It is estimated that one in four millennials will not be married by age 50. Women in America are breaking away from the tradition of marriage and pursuing careers and a life that allows them to be independent and more fully expressed.

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2020 International Book Awards Finalist in Spirituality: Inspirational "A heartwarming and entertaining peek into the heart and soul of an Uber driver. Funny, poignant, and refreshingly honest, Yamini Redewill has made certain that we will never take a ride from someone in quite the same way!"
--Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times best-selling author of Calling in "The One"

"The Joy of Uber Driving is a wild, nostalgic 'soul retrieval' road trip that weaves true tales from Yamini Redewill's Uber driving experience (at age seventy-eight!) blended with her life-review-in-the-rearview-mirror stories. It skillfully blends humor, warmth, pathos, insight, and inspiration . . . and, at the very least, will give you an enormous respect for your next Uber driver."
--Kelly Sullivan Walden, dream expert and best-selling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and Premonitions

"Uber drivers and passengers will enjoy Yamini Redewill's escapades as riders reveal their deep inner longings in the back seat of her Prius. Sometimes 'therapist' and sometimes 'cheerleader, ' Redewill touches hearts as she shares stories from the lives of her passengers along with her own roller coaster journey to fulfillment."
--Randy Peyser, author of Crappy to Happy

"Yamini Redewill takes us on an insightful ride into her creative world, interweaving life experiences with those of her passengers. A must-read!"
--Judith Morton Fraser, MFT, author of What's So Good About "Bad" Feelings and Grandmas Never Die

"Yamini Redewill has turned up the volume on her extraordinary life. You'll be riveted by this memoir. Her storytelling is at times intensely raw and insightful, and at other times unexpectedly hilarious, as she weaves in meaningful Uber stories with her own personal stories."
--Jill Lublin, international speaker, publicity strategist, and four-time best-selling author

"The evolution from victim-hood to self love is highlighted in this story of a 79 year old woman who loves spreading joy and conscious awareness through her daily service as an Uber driver. In The Joy of Uber Driving, Yamini pays tribute to each of her riders by relating their stories along with her own humor and compassion."
--Marci Shimoff, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

"This is a portrait of one woman's journey into self love that will reach to the very core of every woman's heart. The raw honesty and insight Yamini shares with us through her challenges and interactions ignites the spark of hope in all us. You'll be taken over by her unexpected humor and her lightheartedness. Take the joyful ride and read this book, it will delight you!"
--Agapi Stassinopoulos, Wake Up to the Joy Of You

"In The Joy of Uber Driving, Yamini Redewill shares the wisdom that comes from living a full life of heart-centered passion, as well as the self-awareness that has allowed her to be the happy, confident, creative, and young 'old broad' she now finds herself to be. . . . A deftly written, thought provoking, and inherently fascinating read from cover to cover."
--Midwest Book Review

Author Bio

Born Frances Hamilton Redewill in 1939 in Oakland, CA, Yamini Redewill was given the name Ma Veet Yamini, meaning going beyond the night, by Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh in India in 1981. Redewill attended UC Berkeley and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1964. After first pursuing a career in acting and singing, she later rose to prominence as the head of wardrobe at CBS-TV and later as a freelance costumer and designer at various Hollywood studios. She later became a photographer and womens empowerment advocate who created a new niche in photography with her Natural Goddess portraits of women over forty in nature. In 2014, Redewill compiled her best goddess portraits into a self-published book called The Natural Goddess: Portraits of True Beauty in Women Over 40, which included portraits of Diane Ladd, Connie Stevens, Marla Maples, and Stephanie Powers, along with such notable authors as Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ariel Ford, Lynn Andrews and others.