Chapter 34 – The Pep Talk, Part 2 (Build Your Own Future)
by Leesa Dean
So. As promised, the Rollo Pep Talk.
We met at a tiny Turkish restaurant/bar in the East Village. Ordered cocktails (I sure needed one after spending time visiting my friend in Bellevue) and Rollo started talking.
He had hit rock bottom professionally. His deal, which was tenuous at best, had finally fallen apart. It was an enormous blow to his ego. I mean, this was a guy who ten, fifteen years earlier had been a player. Maybe not a huge one, but a player nonetheless. But time had partially eroded his connections and unless you’re active doing stuff that people know about, you’re dead to them, professionally.