Hey Reader! A couple months ago, I met with a long-term client for a little check-in. I mentioned something in passing about my podcast, and her response shocked me. "Oh, since when do you have a podcast?" Wait a hotdang minute! Don't I talk about my podcast so much that everyone wants me to shut up about it already? (Ahem... replace podcast with your offers/opinions/passions/business-in-general, and I bet you've had that very thought a million times before) This client of mine follows me on...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! As I write this, it's the fourth day of Passover, a holiday that largely gets a bad rap because of all the matzah it involves. (In case you don't know, we don't eat bread on Passover, and instead, eat cardboard-tasting crackers called matzah for a full week). But, matzah aside, I love Passover because of what it represents: Freedom. Without giving a whole history lesson, Passover is about the Jewish people's transition from enslavement in Egypt to freedom as a nation that can live...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! There's this thing that happens the moment you open a blank caption box or an email draft. You sit down to write, and somewhere between clicking "new post" and typing your first word, you become a completely different person. Suddenly you're using words like leverage and value proposition and writing sentences you'd never say out loud to anyone you actually like. I've been watching this happen more and more because, frankly, AI is making this problem so much worse. This week's...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! "How are you so confident?" A young woman early in her career asked me this not too long ago, and I couldn't help but laugh. Rachel from 5 years ago, or even 3 years ago, would never believe you if you told her she exuded so much confidence that others would ask her for advice on building that. That Rachel was unsure of herself, terrified to try anything she might not be "ready" for. You know how I got from there to here? I felt the fear and did it anyway. And I continue to do...
28 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! I posted a reel on Instagram a week or so ago, and upon watching it back and seeing how bad my hair looked in it, I spent a genuinely embarrassing amount of time wondering if I should take it down and repost. But I went against that instinct and left it up. Guess what? Nobody said a word. Not one person. And if anyone noticed, they'd already moved on before I even started having my little internal crisis about it. This week's Bold Bite is about exactly this concept: the spotlight...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! I built a resource back in December. I spent a good amount of time on it, felt pretty proud of what I'd created. And then I opened it the next day to "just tweak one thing" ...and here we are three months later with it still sitting in my Canva folder collecting digital dust. I recorded a short episode this week because I needed to say this out loud to myself as much as anyone: perfectionism is a filthy liar. It feels like you're being thorough and responsible, but what it's...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! It was drilled into most of us from the moment we could talk: Always say thank you. We write the cards. We send the texts. We tag people in our Instagram stories. We scribble in our gratitude journals. We know, deeply, that acknowledgment matters. That when someone shows up for you, you show up back. And then someone fills out a form on our website and we basically shove them out the back door. "Thanks for subscribing!" ✌️ No warmth. No next step. No personality. Just a sad little...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! Please tell me I'm not alone in finding 95% of my Facebook memories cringy as hell 🫣🤣 2010 Rachel was so unsure about herself. She tried wayyyy too hard to be liked, posted albums of 238 pictures every time she went on a trip (as though everyone needed to see every single one 🤣), and honestly, she was kind of preachy and annoying. (I will say, the nice thing about those posts is seeing how much I've grown in the last 15 or so years 🥰) Every once in a while, though, a memory will...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader! So I'm wrapping up a quick trip to LA with Tzvi, and the other day I hopped in a Lyft that turned into quite an experience. As soon as I got in the car, my driver told me she's a clinical hypnotherapist. She described herself as "clairsentient" and "claircognizant" (terms I'd never heard, but you learn something new every day!). She was radiating this calm, centered energy, talking about living your truth and being in alignment. ...And then she missed a turn. Instantly, the zen...
2 months ago • 1 min read