Rachel Browne

Toronto

Reporter and Producer at Freelance

Contributing Writer at The Walrus Magazine

investigative journalist & producer | contributing writer @TheWalrus | former @VICENews | rep'd by @carlywatters | LET US PLAY (MAY 2025) for @BeaconPressBks

Articles

Too Many Ideas, Not Enough Focus? Here’s How to Find the Thread.

1 week ago | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

If you’re the kind of person whose brain is constantly firing off new ideas, I get it. It’s exciting. It’s intoxicating. It’s also a nightmare when you actually need to do something with them. Instead of feeling inspired, you feel stuck. Pulled in a thousand directions. Unsure where to start. You want to move forward, but the sheer volume of ideas keeps you paralyzed. And honestly? It’s exhausting. But here’s the thing: your problem isn’t having “too many ideas.” It’s not knowing how they fit together.
Beyond the Modality: Finding Your Life’s Work in Wellness & Transformation

1 month ago | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

Your life’s work isn’t just a job, a business, or a set of skills you’ve learned—it’s the unique expression of your purpose through the work you do. It’s the integration of your personal transformation, your deepest wisdom, and your desire to serve others. For wellness and transformation professionals, your work is a direct reflection of your own journey. The healing, breakthroughs, and evolution you’ve experienced become the foundation for how you help others.
Opinion: What my trans brother’s coming-out taught me about being a better ally

1 month ago | theglobeandmail.com | Rachel Browne
“Is Your Blood Clean?”: The Paranoid Pastor Who Turned His Church into a Violent Cult

1 month ago | thewalrus.ca | Rachel Browne

On the evening of October 17, 2021, a thirty-nine-year-old woman named Taneka Gardner pulled a suitcase through the gates of a church in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She had been introduced to Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries years earlier by her aunt, and Gardner had been attending often—captivated by the sermons of the church’s charismatic founder and pastor, Kevin Smith.
Exclusive: Robert Land Academy Is Closing for Good

2 months ago | thewalrus.ca | Rachel Browne

R obert Land Academy, Canada’s only military-style private boarding school for boys, founded in 1978, is shutting down, eight months after an investigation by The Walrus revealed decades of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse at the school. The school faces numerous multi-million-dollar lawsuits by former students. RLA leadership informed school staff today that it would be closing at the end of the academic year this June.
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: Why You’re More Qualified Than You Think

2 months ago | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

If you’ve ever thought, Who am I to say this? What if I’m wrong? What if I’m not enough?—you’re not alone. Even the most “qualified” people I know wrestle with impostor syndrome. It doesn’t matter how many accolades or accomplishments they’ve stacked up; the quiet, insistent voice of doubt still finds them. Impostor syndrome whispers that your voice doesn’t matter, that you’re unworthy of visibility, you are not the expert others believe you to be.
The Perfectionism Trap: Why Waiting to Feel ‘Ready’ Silences Your Voice

Mar 21, 2025 | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

Most things in life aren’t about arriving at perfection; they’re a practice, a process, a messy evolution. So waiting to feel “ready” before you begin a new project, task, or adventure is like seeking gold at the end of a rainbow—a fantasy. Readiness isn’t real; it’s a fictional ideal we chase because the pursuit of a place to start frees us from having to ever start at all. I’ve always thrown myself into things before I felt ready because I understood that starting was the only way to grow.
Six False Voices Sabotaging Your Creativity

Feb 21, 2025 | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

“Blocks are the price of avoiding surrender, surrender is not defeat but rather the key to opening into a world of delight and nonstop creation.”—Stephen NachmanovitchWe’ve been sold a lie about the creative process—that it should be clean, predictable, and effortless. But the truth is much wilder, much messier than we could ever know. Creativity, like nature itself, is turbulent, untamable, and full of contradictions.
Allegations of Abuse at Robert Land Academy Go Right to the Top

Feb 1, 2025 | inkl.com | Rachel Browne

Robert Land Academy / YouTube L ast summer, The Walrus published an exclusive investigation by contributing writer Rachel Browne into allegations of physical and sexual abuse, humiliation, and degradation at a private, military-style boarding school in Southern Ontario.
Why Do I Never Feel Fully Self-Expressed?

Jan 17, 2025 | goodmenproject.com | Rachel Browne

Being human means living in constant evolution—a perpetual unfolding that only ceases the day we die. This means we’ll never feel fully self-expressed, at least not how we imagine. If we aren’t careful, we can waste our lives chasing a fantasy, searching for the “right” configuration that feels perfect in all the right ways—believing, mistakenly, that such a thing exists.