Every industry has its myths—stories insiders repeat until they sound like truth. But behind the slogans and the spin are unspoken (and sometimes unnoticed) realities – we asked some of the wisest folks we know to share what lies they’ve noticed in their industries.
Kelli Redmond-Bagby
That wellness is a finished product. The industry loves a before-and-after story. It thrives on polished branding, one-size-fits-all routines, and the illusion that healing is linear. But real wellness is often messy and layered, and it doesn’t always come in glass bottles or curated rituals. Sometimes it looks like grief. Sometimes stillness. Read more>>
Chloe Ball
There is a persistent narrative that has baffled me for nearly 20 years. It asserts that there is little money to be made in education. I have not found this to be the case. None of my friends in education have either. Read more>>
Diana Elizabeth Clarke
Literary agents and the big publishers, otherwise known as the Big 5 (including Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, etc.), will say you cannot have success as an author if you don’t have thousands of followers on social media. I know many authors who were rejected by agents or were told to resubmit in year since they had less than 5,000 followers. Read more>>
