by AnnSheybani | Mar 16, 2026 | Writing
She walks into our first call with a story that could stop traffic. I’m not going to share the details here because they’re hers, but trust me when I say she’s lived something that most people only read about — and survived it, came out looking like...
by AnnSheybani | Mar 9, 2026 | Writing
I have a client — well, sort of a client — who I’ve been talking to since last September. And when I say talking, I don’t mean a quick 20-minute Zoom. I mean long, sprawling two-hour conversations that kicked off in the fall, meandered through the...
by AnnSheybani | Mar 2, 2026 | Reading, Writing
I’d heard about Careless People long before I finally cracked it open in the airport. It had been sitting in my Kindle alongside all the other fantastic books I swore I’d eventually get to. But once I started the memoir, I couldn’t put it down. Which was...
by AnnSheybani | Feb 18, 2026 | Life, Writing
When we lived in Ireland, a neighbor advertised his wood-cutting services with a hand-painted sign along the road. He’d bring a cord of wood over, and instead of dumping it on the lawn and driving away like any self-respecting American contractor, he’d...
by AnnSheybani | Feb 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
I was at a conference last year, listening to a guy talk about his ridiculously short journey from broke to billionaire. You know the type—slick slides, perfectly rehearsed pauses with tilted head, the whole “I was eating ramen and now I own a jet”...
