"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
I wrote this book of easy, short stories because I feel like we all need a spot of something effortless in an unrelenting world.
Like we could really use a soft, bright corner where we can find a bit of calm, a cookie and some tea.
Come. Sit. Let me show you what I see.
Dushka Zapata
Dushka Zapata has worked in communications for over twenty years, running agencies (such as Edelman and Ogilvy) and working with companies to develop their corporate strategy.
During this time she specialized in executive equity and media and presentation training. She helped people communicate better through key message refinement and consistency and coached them to smoothly manage difficult interviews with press during times of crisis.
Dushka is an executive coach and public speaker who imparts workshops about personal brand development. She has been hired for strategic alignment hiring, to coach and mentor high potential individuals, improve upon new business pitches, refine existing processes and galvanize a company’s communication efforts.
She recently built and ran the communications team at Zendesk; then became head of communications for Forte, a start up that believes games can unlock new economic opportunities for billions of people.
She now runs executive communications for Game7, a DAO formed to accelerate the adoption of Web3 Gaming.
Dushka is the author of fifteen books: “How to be Ferociously Happy”, “Amateur: an inexpert, inexperienced, unauthoritative, enamored view of life”, “A Spectacular Catastrophe and other things I recommend”, “Your Seat Cushion is a Flotation Device and other buoyant short stories”, “Someone Destroyed My Rocket Ship and other havoc I have witnessed at the office”, “How to Build a Pillow Fort and other valuable life lessons”, “You Belong Everywhere and other things you’ll have to see for yourself”, “Love Yourself and other insurgent acts that recast everything”, “Feelings Are Fickle and other things I wish someone had told me”, “How to Draw Your Boundaries and why no one else can save you”, “The Love of Your Life Is You: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Loving Yourself”, “ Demote Yourself and other ways to show your ego who’s boss”, “For All I Know: a shebang of checklists for life”, “Please Don’t Blame Love: a relationship handbook”, and the one you have in your hands.
Dushka was named one of the top 25 innovators in her industry by The Holmes Report and regularly contributes to Quora, the question and answer site, where she has nearly 300 million views.
