Archive - Aly Walansky's Newsletter

Wednesday: The 90-Minute Office

How to get real work done when your desk today is a hotel lobby, a coffee shop, an Uber, and a healthy dose of anxiety.

Jun 17 • Aly Walansky

Tuesday: The confidence gap. (Why the actual experts in their field always question themselves and everyone else does not.)

The most confident person I've met all week was my dental hygienist explaining journalism to me.

Jun 16 • Aly Walansky

Monday: If it still bites, it still works.

The danger of deciding something is obsolete just because you expected it to be.

Jun 15 • Aly Walansky

Friday: Maybe it's not a no. Maybe it's a not yet. (Plus sourcing for several new pending stories!)

Sometimes the best opportunities don't arrive on your timeline.

Jun 12 • Aly Walansky

Thursday: LOTS of pending assignments wrapping up - send your pitches asap, please :)

Jun 11 • Aly Walansky

Wednesday: A reminder that today, you should try to be someone's Nobu

The most valuable thing you can offer is consistency.

Jun 10 • Aly Walansky

Tuesday: The roux comes first! What my search for a great bowl of gumbo reminded me about PR

A conversation in a car from the New Orleans airport reminded me why the best results can't be rushed.

Jun 9 • Aly Walansky

Monday: I don't know basketball, but I know this feeling. The Knicks, PR, and the longest game ever played

.What a decades-long championship drought can teach us about visibility, persistence, and believing your efforts matter before anyone else does.

Jun 8 • Aly Walansky

Friday: Lots of new sourcing requests, newly published content, plus travel updates!

Jun 5 • Aly Walansky

Thursday: This is the one word in your email header that is sure to turn me off immediately -- here's why.

Jun 4 • Aly Walansky

Wednesday: I spoke at Google yesterday about hospitality, media, and why relationships still matter most. Here's some of my biggest…

Notes from the NYSRA Women in Hospitality Conference keynote panel — and the biggest takeaways I think every hospitality brand, PR pro, and creator…

Jun 3 • Aly Walansky

Tuesday: The funniest networking trend is pretending you’re fully caught up (performative familiarity is SUCH a thing, you guys!)

I promise, you don’t have to pretend you read my newsletter.

Jun 2 • Aly Walansky