Hi, I'mRachel.Storyteller, founder,and now, author.
I've made films, built companies, and written books about love, legacy, and the beautifully loud ADHD brain. I also advise on insurance, which proves the universe has a sense of humour and I have range.
✦A slightly unusual CV,
if we're being honest.
I left school at fourteen, trained as a hairdresser, and have since worked in bars, fashion, theatre, film, television, corporate insurance, and enough commercials that one casting director told me my face had been "too seen." (Still the nicest insult of my life.)
I have ADHD, diagnosed at forty-nine, which means my career path looks less like a ladder and more like a pinball machine. It has, however, been one hell of a ride.
Today I run two companies about the things that last, and I've written three books about the road that got me here.
Crying Shame.The Memoir
Crying Shame is named after a band, my dad's band. He died when I was a teenager, and I've spent the decades since figuring out what he left behind: the music, the loss, and the lessons I didn't know I was learning.
This is a memoir about growing up in Auckland, losing a father too soon, and then spending years shapeshifting, becoming whoever I needed to be to be loved, to be kept, to not be left. It's about Sydney, early motherhood, two marriages, a film career I built from scratch, and the moment, much later than I'd like to admit, when I finally stopped auditioning for my own life.
It's funny in places it probably shouldn't be. It's honest in places that made me wince writing it. And at its heart, it's about one hard-won truth: you can't be chosen by anyone else until you've chosen yourself.
If you've ever bent yourself out of shape to keep someone close, this book was written for you.
Big Love,No Brakes.Stories about loving, living, and working with an ADHD tempo.
A memoir-ish collection about showing up too loud, caring too much, and building a life that keeps pace with a brain that refuses to idle. For anyone who's ever loved hard, worked weird, and wondered why the rest of the world seems to be driving the speed limit.
My BrainWalks Intoa Bar.Honest thoughts, raw confessions, zero filter, extra olives.
Sometimes the only thing that makes sense is a good drink and a better story. A short, sharp, unfiltered read for anyone whose brain refuses to close the tab.
(Yes, the ADHD is very much the point.)
Windows Down,Music Up.The Complete Collection. All three books, one download.
Crying Shame, Big Love, No Brakes, and My Brain Walks Into a Bar, bundled together for one price. PDF + EPUB for every book.
Two companies aboutthe things thatactually last.
Bonded Ceremony
Another way to commit.
A global commitment register. Purchase a bond, and your promise is archived forever.
Bonded Legacy
The love you leave behind.
A digital family time capsule. Video messages, voice notes, letters, photo albums and life stories, held safely and delivered to the people you love on the days that matter most.
More books,brewing.
Crying Shame
A memoir about building a life the long way round.
Big Love, No Brakes
Stories about loving, living, and working with an ADHD tempo.
My Brain Walks Into a Bar
Honest thoughts, raw confessions, zero filter, extra olives.
Notes from the register
Stories from the commitments people quietly make when no one's watching.
Come alongfor the ride.
Occasional letters when the book lands, a new project goes live, or I've written something I think you'd like. No noise.