Category: Don’t Try This at Home
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By Ken Hollow, unwilling event planner and professional scapegoat Corporate retreats are already a nightmare. Trust falls, awkward icebreakers, and “vision alignment workshops” designed to make you cry in a hotel ballroom. But now? Add a fox spirit influencer with a flair for theatrics, and you get the kind of chaos that makes HR spontaneously…
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By Ken Hollow, part-time diplomat, full-time liar-for-hire Here’s the first rule of freelancing: every client needs to feel like they are your one and only. The Beyoncé of your roster. The sun around which your entire creative orbit revolves. And here’s the second rule: that is a complete and utter fabrication. In reality, you are…
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By Ken Hollow, digitally exhausted and financially underwhelmed Let me preface this by saying I did everything “right.” I followed the gurus. I watched the webinars. I took notes in Notion like my life depended on it (because, in a way, it did). And then I did the thing every creator is told to do:…
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By Ken Hollow, survivor, barely So you’ve landed a glamorous new client. She’s mysterious. She’s radiant. She insists on being paid in gold coins and occasionally howls at the moon. Congratulations.You’ve got yourself a fox spirit. Now before you blame the mushrooms in your salad or your decision to work in influencer management instead of…