About

Oh, hayyy! I’m Rachel Wilkerson and this is my blog.

(That is my face. At the top of the page are my legs. Great. Now we’re friends.)

What’s my blog about? Well, it’s a blog about getting it.

It’s about satisfying basic human needs and not settling on things I love: good real food, social media and technology, sexing, products that you never knew you always wanted, and workouts that make you say “Oh!”

It’s about “getting it.” Getting the joke, getting the guy, getting everything you’ve ever wanted.

It’s about “owning it” — not asking for permission, not seeking approval, and not feeling so damn guilty all the time. It’s about saying “Sorry I’m not sorry” for who you are, what you do, and what you want.

I love life and I love learning lessons — those moments when a light bulb goes off and suddenly everything makes sense. It might be a new way to motivate myself to work out or it might be a new gadget I can’t live without. I figure that if those lessons help me, they could help other people too. I like being the girl people can trust to give them a straight, no-BS answer. Yes, you should buy a Magic Bullet. No, you should not gobble diet pills in an effort to get a boyfriend. You should totally fly across the country when you think you’re in love with a guy you’ve never actually met in person. Stuff like that. Those lessons are what I love sharing and what I share here.

It’s about being ridiculous…without being ridiculous.

On my 25th birthday in August 2010, I moved to Houston, TX. For a guy I had just met. Now I live in sin with said guy (Eric) and our two puppies and I really am quite happy.

I work as the social media and marketing chick for a start-up website, a panelist for U by Kotex Real Answers, a freelance writer, and as a life coach.

I lead a healthy, delicious life.

You’ll see that I just can’t help myself from being ridiculous. But I just can’t help myself – I love helping other people too.

It took me a little while to get here though. This is actually my third blog. (We won’t count the OpenDiary experiment during my teen-angst years or the short-lived vegan blog I started after reading “Skinny Bitch.”) I’ve been blogging since 2005. Back then, no one knew what a blog even was. No one had a .blogspot after their name. We didn’t have YouTube for videos; we barely knew how to use pictures.

But blogging has come a long way and so have I.

My first real blog was called The Spartanette, which I started when I was a journalism student and fledgling sorostitute at Michigan State University. I had been doing stand-up comedy for a couple years (which has now manifested itself into my videos page) and was ready to take my routine to print, but, unfortunately, the State News wasn’t interested in a funny and sexy social column. I, however, was very interested in being a sexy social. Post-high school, I stopped being an emo theater kid and eating my feelings and had a major 70-pound weight loss. (You can read my weight loss story and see the awesome before and after pics!) Once my inner slut was enabled by my outer beauty, I was off…and so was The Spartanette. It documented three years of me becoming the frattiest sorostitute. I spent a lot of time being That Girl.

After graduating from MSU, I went to New York City and worked at ELLE Magazine. After a year in the fashion closet — some good days, some very bad — I was not any closer to my goal of being a writer. Unfortunately, I spent my days getting super important pairs of shoes from Milan to the U.S. in time for photo shoots. It had its perks, don’t get me wrong, but it sucked the life out of me because it just wasn’t my passion. What I do here, on this blog, is what I am passionate about.

So I decided to PTFO and move back to Michigan to work on my writing and social media career. I became a certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor (a struggling writer needs a day job) and started writing a new blog, Shedding It & Getting It, while building a freelance writing and social media career.

Shedding It & Getting It eventually became a blog for girls gone wild…gone healthy. As I grew in that community, I became even more worked up about encouraging others to make the most of their health blogs. I founded and edit Hollaback Health, a bloggers’ blog, where my ragtag team of awesome bloggers and I post about all things related to writing a great blog. Still, as much as I loved Shedding It, I was starting to feel limited on what I could write about. There’s more to me than health and fitness and I wanted to reach an audience that I knew was interested in more than just what I ate for breakfast. So I brought all the content from Shedding It to this new blog — you can watch the video explanation of the changeover here.

And so here we are!

I’m pretty excited about it.

Anything else you want to know? HOLLER. I seriously love my readers and love hearing from people. Don’t lurk…get at me with comments, come hang out with me on Twitter, and stalk me on the FB! If you have questions or comments, don’t hesitate to e-mail me!

And if you’re interested in my work (social media coaching, life coaching, public speaking, writing) please get in touch! I am always looking for new opportunities and I love, love, LOVE all I can do with the blessed internet.

Love you mean it ~ Rachel