

Replace the bucolic Florentine countryside with a fast-paced social networking site the ten carefree Italian youths with fifty ambitious, hard charging women lawyers, and The Decameron may look a lot like #Networked, the first book of its kind to emerge from the COVID-19 global pandemic. It turns out, she had my back all along.If Giovanni Boccaccio Zoomed into 2020, was a lawyer instead of a writer, and spent copious amounts of time writing posts on Linkedin rather than writing Italian Renaissance literature, The Decameron may have looked a lot different. Fusing the worlds of business, marketing, and entertainment to ultimately create the life of my dreams. It was so I could achieve a level of independence and freedom many artists never reach. I was bitter for a time when I was younger that I never made it as a singer, but now I see exactly why. Much better to have this acumen myself than to be another sorry artist who got taken advantage of by the industry. I was born to be a performer, I just happened to stumble across business along the way. That's where this all started, with my music back in the day, and I sense that's also where it all ends. My business is practically self-sustaining at this point, allowing me more time to just get on camera and be the talent. I also plan to do more and more acting, singing, and entertaining. The first one is in September and will be live marketing training, also with an emphasis on public speaking and speech writing specifically which I'm excited for. Shay: Yes! I will be doing live events which I look forward to. I used to look for sexism, I used to assume I'd be a victim of it, and I found it everywhere. Sadly, I have noticed that most people would rather blame their lack of progress and success on something outside of themselves, than to take responsibility and see their own part in it. However, it took lots of deep healing work to get here. I think being a woman is phenomenal, and I wouldn't change it for anything anymore. I don't have that belief anymore, and now my reality looks much different. However, I eventually realized the reason I had attracted sexist business partners and investors in the first place, is because of the belief I already had that people were going to discriminate against me due to my gender. I myself experienced rampant sexism and double standards in my first business, it's part of the reason I left. And let's be honest, there are problems that come exclusively from being a woman. I used to be a hard core feminist who blamed all my problems on men.

Shay: I don't get down with all that PC virtue signalling stuff.
