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Ksenia Anske

November 10, 2017

My consulting rates! Yes, you can afford to use my brain...

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Ksenia Kopalova

Illustration by Ksenia Kopalova

Illustration by Ksenia Kopalova

Illustration by Ksenia Kopalova

...and no, you don't need to part with those gold bricks you stashed under your bed. You don't even need to break your piggy bank. All you need to do is decide which one of your organs you can let me harvest, your liver or your kidney...I'M KIDDING! 

You don't need to do even that. I swear.

Here is how this works. 

Thanks to a question from one of you beloved hamsters who watched my very first Facebook LIVE VIDEO on how I got from making $3.40 per hour to $300 per hour in 10 months as a full-time writer, I finally got motivated to write out the rates for my marketing/selling/brain-transplanting sessions on how to sell your art/books/mismatched socks and to make money (later I'll put these up here on my site, finally, together with your testimonials and pictures of you being quartered then skinned and boiled in a ginormous pot of borscht and...FOOLED YA!).

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TAGS: rates, marketing, consulting, make money, get paid for your art, I BELIEVE IN YOU, let's do this together


November 6, 2015

Coming into your own power

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Ruben Ireland

Illustration by Ruben Ireland

Illustration by Ruben Ireland

Illustration by Ruben Ireland

To have power you have to believe you can have it, and for that you have to know you're worth it, and for that you have to love yourself. The amount of self-love is proportionate to what we harness in childhood. How much have we been given, how much have we retained, how much of it was beaten out of us by parents, well-meaning strangers, institutions. At one point in our adult lives we face this dilemma for the first time: the first time we get dumped, get fired, have someone die on us, suffer an irreparable loss. In these times we look to those in power and wish we were like them. "If only I had that kind of money," we think, "if only I had that kind of a family," "if only my health was that good," "if only I were that pretty," and so it goes, ad infinitum.

We keep looking in all the wrong places until some kind soul tells us to look inside our grief-stricken chests. Some of us were lucky enough to have been told this early enough in life to have had the time to dig through the crap and get rid of most of it. But those of us who weren't as lucky, those of us who got very little love growing up have the hardest time and sadly sometimes never find it, that path to the power (which is paved with shit-bricks, by the way).

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TAGS: power, writing, love, self-love, I BELIEVE IN YOU, No one reads these tags anyway, FUCK, That got your attention