by Rachel Allen | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
A couple of days ago, in the middle of my morning coffee and reading time, I literally gasped and put down my book. I’d heard Running with Scissors was good, but this was exceptional: “As time went on, my parents’ relationship became worse, not better. My father...
by Rachel Allen | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m writing this to you from the back of a taxi. Which is not how I normally like to do things. I henpeck at my phone b/c I am an old person, the autocorrect annoys me relentlessly, and, most importantly, I typically have really good boundaries around my work time and...
by Rachel Allen | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Oh dear god, another fucking cacao ceremony!?” I muttered angrily to myself as I juggled plates and tried to hit the elevator button with my elbow, my office bag weighing down one arm and throwing precariously-balanced cutlery dangerously close to the edge my pile of...
by Rachel Allen | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
I thought I’d go with a more tactical, ripped from the headlines-style post for you this week, because I’ve had a bunch of clients come to me recently struggling to get things finished. (OK, so it’s not *the* headlines, but it’s the headlines of my work life. So...
by Rachel Allen | Sep 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
The first client I worked with outside a content mill, I closed for a 5 figure contract. What nobody else knew was that while I was on the sales call with them, I was Googling the name of the tasks they were asking me to do because I didn’t know what the fuck a...
by Rachel Allen | Jul 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was about five sentences into the conversation that I realized things were going really very wrong. I’m in a bar when this guy comes up to me and asks if he can buy me a drink. Pleasantly surprised, I agree. We trade names, and my pleasant surprise continues when...
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