Reading time: 4.33 1,081 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Today I wanted to share Kenda Macdonald’s book story. Kenda is an incredible marketer and wonderful human, and I had the pleasure of working with her on her book Hack the Buyer Brain a few years ago. It’s a remarkable book, and you should read it. Here’s her story in her words. “I’d started writing my book – then I hit a wall…” I had started writing my book, Hack The Buyer Brain, and I’d hit a wall. I wasn’t sure if...
3 days ago • 5 min read
Reading time: 1.34 369 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, The inside of my head is like a hailstorm: bazillions of thoughts, ideas, and random snippets smash through my skull and bounce around in there. Sometimes I dream of a quiet brain — apparently there are people out there who just have goldfish swimming around serenely inside their heads but I cannot imagine that… Mostly, though, I love my fast noisy brain because it means I never run out of ideas. I can’t always motivate...
4 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 2.57 699 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, For approximately 759 years now, I’ve been trying to do the splits. It feels like I’ve been working on my splits flexibility since I was born, and will continue to do so until the heat death of the universe. Sometimes I post my progress on social media, and then I get questions about it. Like: “Are you doing that splits in 4 weeks programme?” Absolutely NOT. Questions like this make me cringe because those challenges...
5 days ago • 3 min read
Reading time: 1.18 318 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, If you leave me perched on a rock on a beach watching the tide coming in, then come back a couple of hours later, I’ll almost certainly be in the same position. Joe will stand with me for a few minutes, then get bored and wander off. He’s been known to go to the pub and eat an entire meal while I’ve been standing more-or-less in the same spot for hours. Tide-peeping is one of my favourite things to do. Marloes Beach,...
6 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 5.45 1,368 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, A fun feature of having an AuDHD brain is object permanence issues. If I can’t see it, it shortly ceases to be. It’s why we tend to lose things a lot, get lost, and — you know — upset our friends and family and clients and acquaintances by forgetting they actually exist. This upsets me too, because I love my friends and family and clients and acquaintances very much indeed, and when something happens to remind me that...
9 days ago • 6 min read
Reading time: 1.46 418 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, If I see one more productivity book by a rich white dude with a wife-wife and a work-wife and an underpaid VA in the Philippines, I swear to all that is bro-ly that I will flip a fucking table. Do you know what is MUCH more interesting than a guy with plenty of time and money telling us we all have the same 24 hours in a day and we just have to use it better? A single mum with two dogs, two businesses, and ADHD, who is...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 2.01 477 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Have you ever ruined a perfect moment by screaming at it? I have. Just last week in fact. I was swimming out of the Witches’ Cauldron sea cave on the Pembrokeshire coast with Joe and my friends, when a seal popped its head up a few metres behind us to watch. My reaction? To scream like a twat and accelerate out of there. To be fair, the seal wasn’t fazed at all. It just bobbed there and watched us weird bipedals...
12 days ago • 2 min read
Reading time: 0.58 230 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, I’m in that weird post-holiday marshmallow-brain state of what day is it and what am I doing here. This is not helped by the fact that it’s 29C today and I just want to read my book in the sunshine and admire my new ankle bracelet made from silver and sea glass and little silver starfish that I bought from St David’s market. I was on the hunt for bits and bobs for my journal and I found, among the surfer stickers and...
13 days ago • 1 min read
Reading time: 3.43 884 words Read this email in your browser. Hey Reader, Say it with me: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. You cannot tell me that the algorithm isn’t literally (and I do mean literally) damaging our brains. I open up Instagram and LinkedIn (and I don’t even go near TikTok) to see the following in this order: “I asked ChatGPT” Frogs doing frog things Wars Ads for plastic shit from Temu Sabrina Carpenter opinions (at the same intensity as wars) Manufactured outrage about a vulnerable...
16 days ago • 4 min read