by Rachel | Nov 15, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Personal, Writing for Business
November 1st, 2014. 6pm. Annual Dia de Los Muertos — Day of the Dead — festival. Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hollywood, California. Only a few feet away, the woman with the blue-feathered headdress waves her torch through the twilit air, trailing thick...
by Rachel | Oct 14, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
Early morning. Casa del Mar hotel. Book BlastOff client Michele Brown writes her first on-the-spot timed exercise. It’s such an honor to witness that kind of concentration, creative flow…and trust. Personal story is truly the most intimate act — to...
by Rachel | Oct 8, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Writing for Business
Confidence. She appears on the Playa, the outer limits — just after I visit a foul-smelling blue-plastic Porta Potty. Perfect intersection of Sacred and Profane. She towers over me, both clumsy and gorgeous in giant platform boots and Bond Girl/Mad Max bikini,...
by Rachel | Sep 8, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
Here I am on a giant bicycle. If I didn’t ask Pete from Playa Bike Repair to take the shot, I might not’ve believed I climbed that bike. Nor remembered how gargantuan it was, how slippery and treacherous. Nor how elated I felt once I was up there, perched...
by Rachel | Aug 19, 2014 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Personal, Writing for Business
…because I’m going to Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada, again. Round Two. Thanks to the business I’ve built this past year — I’ve upgraded. No More Tent! This time, you will not see me lose my mind on the Playa from lack of sleep,...
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