I appreciate my vantage point and what I am able to read, listen to, email and absorb in this job. It's a fascinating position to be in. Natasha Chilingerian and I receive editorial, op-ed and story pitches on a daily basis. We get those pitches, mainly by email, from those deep inside the credit union world. And, as I've mentioned before, we carefully go through each one. Then there are the days when we get the pitches that aren't all the way tied into credit unions, but could lead to a story idea. It's these pitches that can be pretty interesting and sometimes, just offensive. Such as:

Puerto Rico real estate – how Americans can capitalize on the island's downward trend.
The Executive Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom.
How immigrants are both good and bad for banking.
Red flags that indicate a real estate market crash.
Using AI and ML to fight bank fraud.
Whistleblower laws, the U.S. Labor Department and the financial markets.

And then quite often I'm just on the wrong email distribution list and get story pitches that have nothing to do with credit unions (yet, I don't unsubscribe from these lists because they are fun to read). These are some of those pitches I've received in the past 10 days:

Lessons learned from the Frontier Airlines Fiasco.
Speak with Victoria Loke of CRAZY RICH ASIANS.
The Awakened Woman's Guide to Everlasting Love.
Drake rolls out an epic #InMyFeelings video.

One day I will take up one of these public relations people on their pitch and ask Drake, "Where do you do your banking?"

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