About this episode

Rachel Elimelech reflects on her journey of proving doubters wrong while realizing that the audience she aimed to impress was never watching.

Is there a face behind what you are building? Not a goal. Not a vision. A face. Someone from your past who said something. Who decided something about you. Who wrote you off or doubted you or made you feel like you had something to prove. And you have been quietly, relentlessly - proving them wrong ever since. In this solo episode Rachel shares something she has never spoken about on this podcast before. The particular exhaustion of driving yourself for years - through study, through qualification, through achievement after achievement - only to lift your head one day and realise that the audience you have been performing for left the building a long time ago. Rachel became a single mother at 18. She was written off by the people around her - told she was just another statistic, that this was the end of her road. What followed was years of relentless building. College. University. A law degree. Qualification as a solicitor. Higher Rights of Advocacy in both criminal and civil law within her first year of qualifying. Representing clients from the police station to the Crown Court. All of it happening while she was also carrying things most people will never know about. A second…

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