We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rachel Sobel. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Rachel below.
Rachel, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
There are so many things in life that can knock you down and we all have different journeys. Between my parents’ divorce, my divorce, a miscarriage, major coparenting challenges, a health scare and so much more, I have dealt with my fair share of gut punches. Through introspection, therapy and an incredible support system, I realized that no matter what takes me down, it’s temporary and I will absolutely get back up again. I always do and I always will. Life is hard. marriage and kids are hard. We have to try our best not to wallow in the negativity and instead lean into the resiliency. Every day is a chance to start fresh.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
I started a blog almost a decade ago having no idea what I was doing or what it would turn into. While it started as an outlet for me, I realized that my social media channels also became an outlet for others. I have spent years building a kickass community of people who crave authenticity and a dose of reality instead of the curated and canned influencer accounts. When sharing personal stories, successes and struggles, I am always humbled to see how many people relate. With all of the ugliness on social media, I am proud to have a safe space to commiserate about parenting, marriage, coparenting, and life.
Every time I share a prompt in my stories – from the wildly popular Wednesday Confessions to major mother in law gripes – I am inundated with responses. It shows me how many people out there who don’t even know each other and will never meet are actually navigating similar life experiences. You are never alone and there is always someone out there who knows exactly what you are going through. Helping people feel seen and validated is one of my biggest personal and professional successes and it never gets old.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Persistence Thick Skin
Authenticity
The parenting space is filled with writers and content creators. There is a lot of noise and there are also people who will steal content to use as their own. It’s a saturated space and there is a ton of crossover in our life experiences, so there is bound to be similar content from many creators floating around.
I used to be slow to block or unfollow someone, but it has actually become one of my biggest tools. If I notice accounts that are mean, aggressive or always making jokes at others’ expenses, I’m out. When people get volatile with me, I block them immediately.
The amount of entitlement on social media is off the charts. People truly feel that they have the right to tell content creators what they should and shouldn’t post. I think once you are living your truth, sharing authentic content and being real, you attract your people and get much more comfortable removing people trying to disrupt your peace.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
As a content creator, I love working with brand partners. I am always open to mutually beneficial relationships, especially long-term ones. I have been fortunate enough to build great rapports with many brands, some of which I have worked with from the beginning.
I am also currently with a literary agency trying to sell my first solo book. It’s always been my dream and I feel it in my bones that it’s going to happen. I am represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Literary Management if there happens to be any publishers interested and brands can reach me directly at rachel@whineandcheezits.com
Contact Info:
- Website: www.whineandcheezits.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/whineandcheezits
- Facebook: www.facebook,com/whineandcheezits
- Other: Tik Tok: Rachel.Sobel.Writes
Image Credits
Defalco Design
