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It’s going to be a real Magazine of Stuff Inside My Head. My friend Dawn was worried the title sounds a bit ‘wellnessy’, but I promise you I will be featuring exactly zero conversations about steamed vaginas. Kale is fine on occasion but I don’t want to talk about that. I promise you this much.
No. My Goodness is about all the stuff that cheers me, interests me, inspires me and so, I hope it will you, too. It will quite possibly be like the nights out I have with my friends where we can’t get the thoughts in our heads out quick enough and we don’t quite know how we started talking about our husbands and five minutes later having a furious argument about whether or not we should still wear thong underwear*.
Here’s a small flavour of what I’ll be getting into:
CAREER LEAPS WITHOUT A PARACHUTE
I’ve just quit a brilliant job with a big salary and so far no concrete plans. I’ll be exploring here why I’ve done that and I’ll be really honest with you about all the ensuing emotions - from elation to sheer terror. I want to explore what motivates me (us), how to get the best out of our work lives that adds meaning to our personal lives. And hopefully you will hold my hand on the days the whole thing really fucking scares me.
Paid subscribers will have the chance to join me in group career workshops, hosted a few times throughout the year, where we can get together and talk through any issues that you think I might be able to help with.
UNCOVERING MAGAZINES - FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS
I think a lot of you will find this interesting. I have a *lot* of thoughts on the state of magazines, their current relevance or lack thereof, how they got here and where they should go now.
Paid subscribers will get to read my explorations of the mechanics of magazines. Why editors make the decisions they do. The cold hard realities of things like, how the celebrity system works, the complicated hierarchies involving fashion houses, advertisers. I’m going to be brutally honest about all of it, because I see so many commentators in this area who really haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about and I’m over it.
But I have a lot of very funny stories from my magazine days too. It’ll be fun.
ASK ME ANYTHING
Paid subscribers will have access to regular Q&A sessions with me, where you can ask me anything. Whether it’s career advice, or just random trivia you want to discuss. Hit me up.
IS IT JUST ME?
I’ll be discussing the podcast I co-host with James Williams, Is It Just Me?
We have so much fun discussing all the frankly mental thoughts that plague our heads - everything from weird gym changing room scenarios to toilet paper phobia. And we always have brilliant celebrities on hand to add their personal paranoias to the mix. All will be discussed here. You’ll also be able to click on and listen to our podcasts from here too.
FASHION - AND OF COURSE #CLOTHESMYHUSBANDHATES
I’ll be sharing all the outfits I have fun putting together, a look at how that hashtag above became a mini movement - popular in some quarters, disapproved of in others.
I’ll be sharing my philosophies on how to dress with confidence, at any age.
You’ll also get to see more of my #weekonawall inspirations - the organisational game changer that is transforming my mornings. It’s like batch-cooking on Sundays, but for clothes.
Paid subscribers will soon have access to video content where I will be filming inside the closets of some of my favourite, stylish people to uncover the stories behind their style and which outfits their other halves also hate.
This is just for starters. I promise to bring you inspiring, interesting, uplifting, funny and cheering content right here. I’ll be pulling in all my fabulous friends to weigh in with their expertise across every area.
Oh my goodness… there’s going to be so much goodness!
I hope you’ll join me.
*Apparently it is just me who still does this, if M&S stop making them I will cry.