Hashtag Authentic - for creatives, entrepreneurs & dreamers online Sara Tasker

Lisa Francesca Nand is a broadcast travel journalist and podcaster who juggles a multi-faceted career, unexpected professional twists and turns, motherhood, and personal heartbreak, with humour and creativity. Our chat felt like pulling back the velvet curtains, a rare insight into the “real” life of a glamorous travel journalist.

I learnt at a young age life is short. I’ve carried that with me and made it my mission to tell people what they mean to me. I even do that with my clients. - Susan Mar

Susan Mar is a branding specialist: a creative for creatives. The way she understands aesthetics, the creative process, and even Instagram makes her really unique. She’s one of the loveliest humans, she overflows with love and appreciation and can really see the magic in others.

She’s also a member of my newest group programme - Sell Your Sh*t! In this episode we talk about creativity, selling your shit and the power of story.

“The aim is not to be viral, but to be high-value” - Sophia Smith Galer

Sophie Smith Galer is a senior news reporter at Vice World News, author of the new book Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century, and a TikTok content-creator extraordinaire.

We all know that journalism pre-dates social media, and has been weakened by it in some places, but Sophia has found a way to bridge the two, and is blazing a new path. She recently received a British Journalism Award on “Innovation of the Year” for her use of social media in reporting.

"Sometimes the best stories are the ones we don't set out to tell"

Much has changed for Farrah Storr since the last time she joined me on the podcast. A former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, and editor-in-chief of Elle, Farrah now writes "Things Worth Knowing" on Substack, a tech newsletter platform that she calls "A personal media channel for the individual."

We had a wonderful conversation about storytelling, the return of long-form content, and the pleasures of writing in community, rather than one-way broadcasting.

Farrah is also a wealth of information if you'd like to try Substack for yourself!

Full show notes to follow soon.

“Maybe being able to earn your goodness and your worth is the true delusion.” - Jamie Varon

Jamie Varon is truly multi-hatted: she's a writer, designer, digital course creator, creative consultant, and author of the wonderfully-radical new book, Radically Content: being satisfied in an endlessly dissatisfied world. We had a fabulous, meaty conversation about the true things that drive us, where we find motivation, and the path to actual - rather than simply Instagrammable - contentment.