Social media allows us to fake it, never make it … yet still earn millions. Laura Hunter-Thomas Insta-scams her way to success…
Swapping my flats for a pair of heels, I hop out of my chauffeured BMW. I’m at a barristers’ office in Birmingham where I’m due to give a major presentation about female empowerment to a room filled with legal professionals. The company has been keen to get more female speakers in to talk and, as the CEO of Minority Report Consulting, a female-empowerment consulting company, I’ve been booked for the evening.
Except when I enter the building and make my way towards the conference room, there is no audience. Instead, there is a male photographer who sits cross-legged on one of the empty plastic chairs, scrolling through his iPhone.
He helps me load my presentation onto the screen, and then I step up to the lectern.
He looks at me, mildly bemused. ‘Are you, erm, ready then?’ he asks, placing his camera lens towards me.
I smooth down my skirt, take a deep breath and begin…
This story is from the August 2019 edition of Cosmopolitan - South Africa.
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