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10 Ways You Can Be A Total GIRLBOSS

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Ten habits, one mindset: how TheThings Celebrity breaks down what it actually means to be a “Girlboss.”

The word “Girlboss” had already worked its way from a book title into everyday vocabulary by late 2016, and TheThings Celebrity’s video ’10 Ways You Can Be A Total GIRLBOSS’ takes that shorthand and turns it into a checklist. Rather than framing the term as a corner-office fantasy, the video treats it as a set of daily habits — how you handle your calendar, your friendships, your bank account, and your own mistakes. It’s less about titles and more about running your own life like you’d run a business you actually care about.

• The term traces back to entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, founder of Nasty Gal, who coined “Girlboss” in her 2014 memoir ‘#GIRLBOSS.’
• The video lists ten concrete habits, from setting short- and long-term goals to practicing financial responsibility and self-care.
• It reframes conflict resolution and female friendship as core Girlboss traits — favoring direct conversation over gossip and support over competition.

Origins of the Term

“Girlboss” didn’t start as internet slang — it started as a book. Sophia Amoruso built Nasty Gal from an eBay vintage-clothing side hustle into a nine-figure fashion brand, then wrote ‘#GIRLBOSS’ in 2014, a memoir that became a bestseller and handed an entire generation of young women a label for the specific mix of hustle, independence, and self-possession she was describing. By the time TheThings Celebrity put together its own version two years later, the word had already outgrown Amoruso’s origin story and become shorthand for any woman running her own show, whether that’s a company or just her own schedule.

The Habits the Video Actually Recommends

The video’s ten tips split roughly into three buckets: discipline, boundaries, and self-respect. On the discipline side, it pushes setting clear short- and long-term goals and holding yourself accountable to them, plus taking financial responsibility instead of treating money as an afterthought. On boundaries, it’s blunt — learn to say “no,” make decisions independently instead of outsourcing them to whoever’s loudest in the room, and handle conflicts directly rather than letting them fester into gossip.

The self-respect column is where the video gets more personal: practicing self-care, developing a personal style that’s actually yours instead of borrowed, and adopting a growth mindset toward failure instead of treating every setback as proof you don’t belong. None of these are framed as one-time fixes — the video presents them as habits you keep returning to, which is the whole point of calling it a mindset instead of a milestone.

Learn to say “no,” make your own calls, and deal with conflict head-on instead of letting it turn into gossip.

Friendship Over Competition

The last habit on the list is arguably the sharpest one: building supportive female friendships instead of falling into competitive dynamics. It’s a direct rebuttal to the old cliché that ambitious women can’t get along with each other, and it lines up with the way plenty of famous friendships have played out in public — some holding steady, some not, the way celebs who started out friends and ended up enemies can attest. The video’s argument is that the Girlboss identity isn’t a solo act; it’s built partly on who you choose to have in your corner, the same logic behind stories about celebs you’d never guess knew each other in college and stuck together long after.

Ten habits, one video, and zero mention of a corner office — that’s the whole pitch. TheThings Celebrity isn’t selling a promotion, it’s selling a to-do list you can start on before you finish watching, which is probably why a four-minute listicle about saying “no” and paying your own bills on time landed harder with viewers than another lecture about leaning in.