I want to put down the practical part of the first year, because these accounts always cut from the courtroom to the corner office and the cut is a lie.

I did not work for four months.

Not by choice, exactly.

I had left the boutique in 2019 to consult independently, which had been fine while I was married to a man with a company, and which turned out to be a very exposed position for a woman in the middle of a fraud investigation involving her ex-husband.

Two clients paused me in the first quarter.

Neither said why.