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,...
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...
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