Hello & welcome! I’m Rae Ritchie, a freelance writer, researcher and speaker offering a range of services to individuals, publications and organisations.
Know what you’re after or wondering if I have the right skills to meet your needs? Check out the tabs across the top for more about my experience and expertise in each area of my work and what I bring to every event, commission or project.
Want to know more about how I ended up doing what I’m doing? Read on.
Age eight, I took part in my first public speaking competition: reciting a poem then reading an unseen passage at a local Festival of Arts. Twelve months later, a teacher entered my short story, “An Alien on the Rockery”, into a short story competition at the same festival and I won first prize. (A rockery is a garden feature made up of large stones and plants that was particularly popular in the UK when I was growing up).
Thirty-odd years later, I’m doing the same things for a living: speaking and writing, adding research into the mix along the way thanks to a PhD in History from the University of Manchester. (You can read that here if you’re interested!).
I help people to tell their stories, whether that story is about what a loved one meant to them or showcasing their business’s strengths in a specific field, whether at a funeral or in a white paper.
I also help people to figure out what their own story is. How do we make sense of ourselves in the world we live in? My search for answers has led to another increasingly pressing question: how can we all live and work in ways that better support people and planet? I’ve spent much of the last decade exploring the answer and sharing my findings, including regular columns in Woman&Home, Metro and Sainsbury’s Magazine.
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