HEDP
The term "professional" has come to have different meanings in common english usage:
a. If you are known as a professional thingy it could mean that you make your living by being a thingy but you may not be very good at it.
b. If you are known as a professional thingy it could mean that you are a really, really good thingy but you don't have to get paid to be a thingy.
Seems Rachael falls into the second meaning. Well done, Rachael.