by Rachel | May 27, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“Creating a relationship with the daughter I abandoned is the most meaningful thing I’ve done in my life.” The brightly lit lecture hall falls silent. You can cut through the air with a kitchen knife. This man — let’s call him Adam to...
by Rachel | Feb 26, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
“What’s scarier than hillbillies on ice?” Mary Gauthier pauses between songs. Hand resting lightly on the frets of her beloved 1952 Gibson guitar. Harmonica strapped to her neck. She beams from the stool where she sits amidst vintage dresses, rows of...
by Rachel | Feb 8, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“When was your last relationship?” I sip water, stall for time. The man sitting across from me leans in. So close I can feel his breath graze my cheek. We are at a high-end restaurant, tucked into a prime beachside location. The kind of joint where...
by Rachel | Jan 30, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
“I was twelve when I started panhandling.” Mary sits across from me, bright-eyed and cheerful in a hot pink stretchy shirt. She tells me she, too, went hungry as a kid. She too had a mother who was suicidal. Who checked out from her motherly duties. Who...
by Rachel | Dec 31, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
STOP BEING SELFISH! That’s my New Year’s resolution for you. I just got off the phone with a brilliantly talented woman who worked with me five years ago. Then she quit. You have gifts. They’re not yours. They’re the world’s. Since then,...
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