Since quitting my job, I don’t have the work water cooler talk or morning catch up with collegues when I arrive at work. That’s why I have loved interacting and “meeting” so many new people on Substack!
While there are so many interesting people on Substack, sometimes it’s hard to find and be found by “your people”.
So I today, I’m introducing a new monthly series on musings by mika called: Find your tribe! 🔍 - Where you can introduce yourself and spark new connections!
Every month, we will have a new discussion thread and a new opportunity to find and be found by “your people”.
Hi! I’m Mika, I live in New Zealand. I’m a mum of 4 big kids. I recently left my 9-5 as a graphic designer.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Empowering children to take an unconventional schooling path to keep their self-worth in tact.
2. ADHD in women and how it effects motherhood
3. The importance of knowing your cycle and the secret of slowing down to speed up
4. Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre adaptations and why the BBC series constantly knock it out of the park!
5. It’s never too late to make new friendships as an adult (and extroverted introvert)
musings by mika (https://musingsbymika.substack.com) is all about discovering life beyond the comfort zone - moving past perfectionism, people-pleasing and playing safe and smallI. ✨
I also include my monthly Substack diaries to guide fellow newbies. 📖
It’s a slice of life where I reflect on the heavy and the light. Recently I have started sharing playlist every Friday to bring back the joy of sharing and discovering music pre-algorithms ruling our lives.
5. Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 (I’m a community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association)
I write Be Astonished -- where I discuss big-picture questions about the mind, society, and the nature of our existence. Current topics include consciousness, our collective disillusionment, and the power of journaling. Would love to connect!
Hi! I'm Cassandra and I live with a chronic illness on the west coast of Canada with my husband and our dog, Chewie. I work as a Virtual Assistant, and when I'm not working I'm usually reading!
❓ 5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Bullet journaling
2. Cystic Fibrosis
3. Virtual Assistant work
4. Reading/books
5. Self-advocacy in healthcare
🔗 Notes from a Kindred Spirit (cassandrabumpus.substack.com) is a bi-weekly newsletter about embracing curiosity, exploring hobbies, living with chronic illness, and finding contentment in the everyday.
Love this idea Mika! ❤️ So fun and a great way to meet others!!
So my 5 topics are:
• Exercise/Fitness - my goal is to age fiercely!
• Habits/Change in habits
• Productivity - not that I excel in it, but because I know I'd function better with more of it!
• Developing self-worth through mindfulness practices - i need all the help I can get! 😆
• Cooking because I love to make yummy food
and maybe I can talk about books - I have at least 10 on my nightstand right now 😬
My 'stack is Working on becoming... (https://amcostanzo.substack.com/) and I write about working on becoming... whatever it is that brings you joy. Simple, yet really difficult to actually do all the time!
I have two boys, a great husband who is incredibly supportive as I experiment my way through Substack, and two kitties who keep me company. Love connecting with other writers!
Hello new friends. I'm Steph, UK based, neurospicy-hormonal-disabled, journalist, mother, wife and friend. I write about health mental & physical, as well as some motherhood moments. I also swear a lot, in my writing and my spoken words.
Hey, that's me! I did start a chat this month! 😅 I am looking forward to finding my tribe! I live in the Bay Area with two tweens and a tech-obsessed husband.
My five 30-minute-0-prep topics are probably:
1. Teaching reading to elementary-aged kids
2. Teaching writing to elementary-aged kids
3. Parenting a kiddo with ADHD
4. New York City
5. Musical Theater
My newsletter Living the In-Between Times (marikapaezwiesen.substack.com) a series of playful experience to unhook from toxic perfectionist and productivity mindsets, and uncover the delight, awe and worth-full-ness that might be available in life's in between times.
Hello friends. My name is Zarin and I am the writer behind the substact “ Sweet Serenity”. I am a mother of 4 grown children - 8 months ago we lost our firstborn suddenly, while she was at work.
5 topics I can talk about:
1. Loss and grief
2. Sibling rivalry
3. Coaching
4. My mother
5. My big family - I am one of 14 children (Jael - you and I will have to exchange stories 😉)
Hey Mika, thank for creating this space :) I’m really struggling to find my people on this platform!!
I’m Baibin (bay-bin) I’m based in Bristol, UK. I’m a graphic designer, art director and potter who has recently rediscovered my love of writing after being creatively stilted by the education system 😅
My 5 topics are:
1: The shi*t show of Women’s healthcare and medical misogyny
2: Hormones, mental health and being Neurospicy
3: bell hooks The Will To Change
4: The Wellness > Far Right pipeline
5: 17th Century Witch Trials (my current hyper-focus=OBSESSED)
I’m Aastha, a 17 year old Indian writer and aspiring poet. I am currently a high school junior and I am interested in pursuing English and Economics in college.
My 5 topics are:
1. Fight Club (the movie) and directing it through cinematic and philosophical lenses
2. The Handmaid’s Tale & 1984 — both of them are such brilliant books
3. Language and knowledge and how it’s distortion and restriction effect our freedom of thought
4. Feminism, colonialism and India
5. Writing and books and the beauty of poetry, novels and literature
I write Soliloquy (https://bluegreywrites.substack.com/) - my small cozy place on the internet where I write about books, art, literature, language and society. I have also been writing personal essays lately that I am very proud of:
Such a great initiative Mika, so excited to take part in it every month!
Hi to everyone else, I am Mansi and I live in India. I work in corporate full time, also study full time and run my newsletter Unwind on the side.
5 things I can talk about for 30 minutes without prep:
1. Travelling as a means to fulfil your soul.
2. The incorrect notion of "rest is unproductive."
3. My actuarial journey. (The road to becoming a qualified Actuary is very very tough)
4. The power of building self-awareness. (It's life changing)
5. Everything food related.
My newsletter Unwind (https://unwindblog.substack.com) is all about the meaningful things in life, from self-care to intentionally building a life beyond a 9-5 job.
Hi :) I'm Leanne and I'm in Western Australia - I don't write on Substack (yet) but I do blog at https://www.crestingthehill.com.au if anyone wants to pop over to visit.
I'm not sure I could talk for 30 mins about anything these days but I do love chatting about:
1. Being Unbusy and intentional in how I live
2. Nora Roberts and JD Robb novels
3. Learning new things from podcasts, youtube, blogs etc
4. Blogging
5. Finally finding "me" in the second half of life.
4. How big my family is. My great-grandparents had 17 children.
5. Food
I write on 4Buckets, where I basically talk about the things in my head --food, life, books, and television/pop culture. https://4buckets.substack.com/
Hi everyone! I'm Kristine, writer (of notebooks, newsletters, and novels) and mom of three kids in middle childhood -- one on the brink of teendom -- whom I've been teaching at home since 2020. Between that pivot and the novel planted in my heart a couple years before that, the last half of my fourth decade might be entitled "NEVER SAY NEVER."
My 5 topics for 30 minutes with no prep are:
1. Vincent van Gogh’s life and work
2. how to come alive (and stay sane) at Walt Disney World
3. the wild ride of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
4. the magic of New York City and the places I've left bits of myself, every visit
5. the journey of (still?) unexpectedly homeschooling
I live in Franklin, TN, just south of Nashville, by way of the East Coast more than half my life ago. I write My Pen in the Air: an at-least monthly if not bi-monthly Substack on all matters of writing, life, and what comes to me when "I happen to be standing just outside my door, with my notebook open," and "listen" with "my pen in the air." (borrowed from Mary Oliver)
Hello! I’m Vanessa, I live in rural Somerset (SW England). I’m a photographer, potter, gardener and Substack writer. I have two gorgeous adult daughters, six bantams, a shaggy lurcher called Gertie and an emotionally absent husband.
Five things I can talk about 🤔 -
• Highs and lows of International relocation
• The benefits of Volunteering
• The failings of the UK asylum system
• Self Doubt
• Learning about Neurodiversity
I write The Post House Chronicles, a weekly rambling of my creative life in the countryside. Putting my fingers to the keyboard somehow helps me figure out what I’m thinking and feeling about life, and if it resonates with others it pleases me immeasurably.
Hi I'm Karen a food scientist with a $16K food safety Substack. I'm also an accidental Substack expert + mum of two gorgeous young adults, living in Sydney Australia.
I could talk for 30 mins about:
- Substack and how to use it to create $$ and freedom (I am literally writing a book on it)
- Food safety and Food Fraud prevention
- Windsurfing (lifelong sufferer!)
- Aussie bush camping
- nothing more... I usually prefer to listen than talk...
Hi, I’m Bex! I live just outside Stockholm, Sweden and moved here from San Francisco.
Five things I can talk about for 30 mins with zero prep
Moving overseas
lgbtq relationships
Infertiilty / Loss
Cooking mashup California/Swedish dishes
Dealing with anxiety and coping with change
I write about lessons learned from living abroad, finding your identity and purpose - even at an older age, becoming a parent late in life, books I am reading and food I am eating/cooking. My long term hope is to grow a community of like-minded people searching for a sense of belonging, together.
Hi! Such a great idea, Mika. Thanks for facilitating this space! I'm Ginger and I live in Mississippi. I own a boutique and teach yoga.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 min with 0 prep:
1. Yoga
2. Journaling
3. Books I'm reading or have read
4. Personal growth and mindset
5. How my life has changed since I became more intentional and purpose-filled
At The Possibility Project, I share stories about learning to live with intention and purpose. I'm a newbie to Substack and to putting my writing out in the world. Would love to connect!
Hi! I'm Daria. I live in Louisiana. I'm leaving a 40-year career as an environmental lawyer at the end of 2024. I'm also a health and wellness coach for women 50+, a personal trainer, and explorer of all things health and wellness.
My 5 topics I could talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1. The importance of movement, balance and flexibility as we age.
I write the Wellgevity Warrior, which includes information and inspiration on living your best life as you age. That can cover a lot of topics. I'm very new to substack, and I've written about never being too old to change and habit stacking for yoga.
Hi! I'm Jackie, I co-write our substack page with my sister, Gabby! I recently had a baby and am focusing most of my time and energy into being his mama right now!
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Dog behaviors and what they mean
2. Biophilia - humans inherent desire to connect with nature
3. Friends - any character, any episode
4. Struggles of a new parent
5. Taylor Swift easter eggs
Mishmosh is all about sharing openly and honestly, and creating a space where others feel comforted to know what they're feeling or experience is shared among a larger group. We love to talk about relationships, self-discovery, and personal growth!
Hello! I'm Sarah, I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am a Sex, Love and Relationship Coach and a Wardrobe Stylist, so I live at the intersection (innersextion?) of Sex & Style.
The five topics I could talk about without any prep:
1. Mormon feminism and the systematic devaluing of women's voices
2. Female orgasm
3. 30Rock
4. Flamenco dance as a form of deep and sensual embodiment
5. Pleasure as medicine
I write at http://sarahwardco.substack.com on the topics of sensuality, embodiment, sexuality and style. Pleasure to meet you all!
Hi, I am Sophie, I live in the UK, recently got married to my best friend of 11 years and we have a son together (who is autistic and has ADHD) and our dog, Kaveah (she is rescued from Romania, and we kept her name).
5 topics I can talk about with 0 prep are:
1. Autism/ADHD
2. Having a child with SEN needs and finding your tribe
3. The long and terrible journey to a diagnosis
4. Running and discovering the benefits of exercise later in life
5. TV - I love TV
I am quite new to Substack and still finding my feet but communities like this certainly help so thank you!
Previously I had a successful blog called Bad Mum and I turned it into a printed publication with no experience at all, which I was proud of and now I am here writing Bolt. I write honestly about life, parenting, autism, death and hope to make some of you laugh on the way!
Sorry I have met many people yet but Mika you are a star, thank you! Hope to make lots of new friends along the way.
What are 5 topics you can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep?
1. Witchy wisdom
2. Dysautonomia/POTS
3. Environmental Justice/Sustainability
4. White supremacy and systemic racism
5. Grief and healing through brain retraining, mindfulness, nature, and witchy wisdom
I write Willow and The Witch, where I'm currently writing on each of the five stages of grief through a witchy lens. My most recent post was on how Tarot saved my life.
Would love to connect with others especially anyone in the witchy community who can look at it with an intersectional lens. I'm starting to unpack a lot of the problematic areas. Also interested in collaborating on some environmental/sustainability topics!
Hi!👋 I’m Crystal from Ontario Canada. I’m an artist and illustrator and fine arts educator for over 25 years.
My 5 TOPICS
1. How much I love my daughter Charlotte (graduated last year from uni)
2. Misophonia
3. Pugs
4. The importance of integrating art into the everyday
5. How art and nature intertwine and give us gentle lessons on how to live.
I began THE ARTIST’S EYE https://crystalbeshara.substack.com/about last December. Artful ways to help cultivate more POSITIVITY, more GRATITUDE and explore deeper CONNECTION through not only art but every day life.
Hi, I’m Sonya and live in Suffolk, England with my partner Darren and our two Beagles; Dizzee & Rascal.
I’m a Home Stylist (interior designer) although have recently gone back into full time following redundancy where I works for the sports brand ASICS for over 11 year.
My 5 topics are:
1: Interiors, particularly anything linked with warm, earthy tones
2: Running, currently training for my first marathon
3: The challenges of being a multi-hyphenate
4: My personal manifestation journey (by the way I was manifesting many years before it became all “trendy” I definitely missed out on that one 🤣
5: Being brave and reaching out to make new connections, the worse that will ever happen is nothing changes, you can only gain from the experience 😉
At the start of this year I reviewed my Substack and what I was offering (particularly for my paid subscribers£, this post shares the new direction for 2024 if you’re interested in learning more:
Hello everyone! I am Cherie Lee and I live in Flagstaff, Arizona. I am a recent retiree and first time grandma-to-be.
Five things I can talk about for 30 mins without prep:
1. My friends and family
2. Books I love
3. Scrapbooking
4. Health related issues
5. Municipal Courts
I am fairly new to Substack and write at Just a Blink - https://justablink.substack.com/ - about the passage of time, aging, health, mortality, retirement, life transitions, and other random things I'm thinking about.
Thanks, Mika, for providing this opportunity. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and finding my tribe!
Hi everyone! I’m Amanda and I live in California. Last year I quit my 9-5 with no backup, solo traveled abroad for a couple of months, and recently started my own business as a meditation teacher!
Hello everyone, my name is J.R. and I live in Pittsburgh, PA with my husband and daughter.
I've had several careers, but my current and last one (wishful thinking) is as an author.
Five topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with 0 prep:
1. How "gracefully aging" is not all it's cracked up to be (yes, you read that right. As Cher so succinctly put it, "getting old sucks")
2. The joys and challenges older parents face raising young children—I survived, mine is now 18
3. Anything related to movies, acting, and modeling
4. Building boats and renovating houses
5. Starting over in life (The only time it's too late is when you're dead)
My substack (http://jrroessl.substack.com) currently acts as a monthly newsletter, which I send out to my book subscribers, keeping them informed of any future appearances or events, and giving them a sneak peek of my current WIP. Now that I have the newsletter figured out, I will be covering all the topics above and anything else that occurs to me in my Out of Step life. Wishing you all much success and growth with your Substacks. I love this platform.
Hello--I'm Margaret Ann, I live in the PNW, and I have six kids (two adults, two teens, and two little ones). I've been writing all my life, but Substack is the first place I've really shared anything for many years (and I love it!).
5 topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1. Thrift store shopping
2. Neurodivergence
3. Children's & YA lit
4. Libby/audiobooks
5. eating disorders, sadly
My substack (https://margaretannsilver.substack.com) is me writing poems and posting them (currently five days a week). Sometimes the poems are from my college or grad school, some are from five years ago, and many of them are recently written. I write about parenting, marriage, our hard journey with my daughters' eating disorders, and other stuff :).
Hi! I'm Michelle, I'm based in Brighton on the South Coast of the UK. I home educate my autistic son, and work (very) part-time as an Ayurveda Lifestyle Coach, yoga teacher and sound therapist.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Ayurveda! (That's traditional Indian medicine)
2. Women's health (I used to be a specialist nurse in women's health but now I work Ayurvedically using diet and lifestyle)
3. Buddhist philosophy
4. 90s indie music
5. Witty and often slightly horrifying anecdotes from my time in the NHS!
Inner Alchemy is my Substack on Ayurveda for women's health https://inneralchemy.substack.com/ i try to demystify the complexity of Ayurveda, plus we have "plant of the month" with recipes, and Dinacharya Club - a new monthly self-care practice or ritual.
Hi! I'm Nic, a rather shy-about-my-poetry poet who has been making an effort over the past year and a half to be much less shy about it now that I'm somewhere in that mid-thirties zone. It's going well!
Okay, 5 topics I could talk about with zero prep, as proven on a recent new friend hike date: 1) Forest Therapy or forest school or why time in the forest is amazing and deeply beneficial; 2) wanting to make so much more space and welcome for trans folk of all ages in our communities; 3) why working as a cleaner is the perfect job for a poet; 4) how f-ing hard it can be to be a parent; 5) religious deconstruction
I write poems and release soundtracked, audio versions of them (okay, only one so far but working on more!) at wordsperperson.substack.com
Thanks for reading and thanks for the chance to do this Mika!
Hey there. I’m Teyani , many friends call me Tey. I live in the PAC NW with my large tom cat named Jose and love it here. I’ve mostly retired from my private practice in counseling. And I’m enjoying writing poetry and a book.
My five topics that could keep me talking effortlessly are:
1. Counseling and all the things I’ve learned over the last 30 years
2. Fabulous recipes
3. Cerebral Spinal Fluid leaks, how debilitating they are and how few doctors know how to treat them let alone test for them.
4. Coping with Rapid shifts in personal mobility and loss of independence brought on by serious illness
5. Grief and loss
My Substack is called Staying Together - it’s the beginning chapters of my book, as well as my random musings along the walk through life.
Deep breath. Hi, I’m Tara, former English teacher turned writer and mum to two neurospicy grown-up children. I’m also an introvert who loves nothing more than spending time thinking. My five topics would be:
1. Craft of writing
2. Literature
3. Slowing down for healing and happiness
4. Psychology of stories
5. Neurospicy family life (something like 8 out of 10 of my mum’s grandchildren are neurospicy which probably means most of us are 😆)
Hi! I'm Monique and I live in Perth, Western Australia. My 9-5 is events officer and I write in the gaps of life. I dream of bigger gaps to write in!
5 Topics I can Talk About for 30 minutes with 0 prep:
1. Food - the preparation of and the eating
2. Writing/my writing journey
3. The despair and grief I feel about our world at times
4. The hope I have that collectively, we can find a better way
5. Little things I think are extraordinary
At La Muse (https://moniquemulligan.substack.com/) I write about reconnecting with the “little girl” inside who sees the beauty in the extraordinary ordinary. And I'm loving exploring short, creative essay formats.
Hi all, my name is Christoph, I live in Nevada City, California. I'm a single dad of two daughters age 6 and 14. who writes, plays guitar, and is still figuring things out.
5 Topics I can riff on for 30 minutes:
1. meditation
2. creativity as a path of healing
3. woodworking
4. wisdom of the Tao
5. intentional and effective interaction with entheogenic plants
Miracle Soup (miraclesoup.substack.com) is a podcast and blog I created to help alchemize suffering into healthy creative expression. I write about this journey, documenting the wild ride of this life. Pleased to meet you all!
Hey! I'm Anna, I live in Hertfordshire in the UK (formerly a Londoner). I don't have kids, albeit giving it a big effort to. I live with my husband and my dog, a border terrier named Dotty. I'm new to Substack and am finding it equal parts cathartic and friendly.
What are 5 topics you can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep?
- skincare; I have become a bit of a product junkie
- shopping abroad (particularly the US and France)
- interiors and all things homeware
- crime documentaries on Netflix
- as I'm rapidly approaching 40; being ready for a new decade
Mika! This is such a wonderful idea! Everyone here is so fascinating! Hi humans! I love you all!
I’m Kelsey. I currently live in Florida with my husband and 2 Doberman puppies Zumi and Tashi. I write Find Your Awesome with Kelsey Abbott at kelseyabbott.substack.com. My mission is to help people remember who they really are, empower them to be brave enough to be the weirdo their soul wants them to be and increase the amount of joy in the world.
1. Human Design
2. The 7 levels of energy and how we always have the power to choose which energy level we’re viewing the world from
3. Plant-based nutrition and cooking
4. Camper living (my husband and I traveled around the U.S. in a small camper for 16 months)
5. Triathlon (I’ve been training and competing for almost 20 years)
Hi 👋 I'm Bella, I live in London with my husband my adopted corgi, Winston.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Corgis
2. Sex And The City (or Desperate Housewives)
3. Social media (+ how to get the best out of it w/out it taking over)
4. Podcasts (I listen to SO many)
5. How to be a good sister to someone neurodivergent
Making Time is a celebration of juggling multiple creative pursuits at once because life's too short not to do (or at least try!) all the things we dream of. A freelance marketing consultant who is also writing a novel, building a niche website, and re-learning the piano, I write about how I make time for these various pursuits (as well as sharing the real-time progress, challenges, highs and lows of each of them!).
Hello, I'm Shannon and I live in (the rural, farmland part of) New Jersey with my husband and two adult children. I've had a travel blog for 13 years, but I'm transitioning to writing more about weight loss and getting/staying STRONG as we age.
5 topics I can talk about:
1. Fitness, exercise, nutrition
2. Homeschooling
3. Toxins in foods / finding local, organic food sources
4. Traveling in the US (esp hiking and skiing)
5. TV (and traveling to TV filming locations)
My substack is "The Year I Really Tried" and follows my journey of being consistent for one year. I'm sharing my weight loss struggles and successes, health and fitness inspiration, information on natural medicine and holistic living, and reviews of the many things I’ve “tried.” https://shannonentin.substack.com
5 Topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1) Internal Family Systems
2) Self and spiritual growth
3) Mindfulness and presence
4) Nature and Connection
5) Breast cancer and trauma healing
I am new here. So far, I've been posting little snippets of writings from my experience with advanced stage breast cancer, diagnosed at age 34. I am now in remission at age 39 from stage iiic, and as of March 1, 2024 will be beating my statistical odds for survival for those diagnosed at my age with similar characteristics, treatment protocol, etc. Writing has been a huge 'part' of what's helped in my healing journey during and post-active cancer.https://healingvoyage.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=2v1uc1
Hello 👋🏼 my name is Johanna, I am French but never lived there 😀 I have traveled a lot and now we have decided to take a one year break to visit Europe with tour camper van 🚐
5 topics 👌🏽
1. Aliens 👽 and the truth about that !
2. Ancestors work and lineage
3. Ceremonial cacao
5. Awakening and the rabbit hole
What I share on my Substack (in French, but I guess you have a translation option), are teachings about ancestral healing, cacao ceremonies, our travel and nomad life, and general spirituality.
Hi! I’m Mika, I live in New Zealand. I’m a mum of 4 big kids. I recently left my 9-5 as a graphic designer.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Empowering children to take an unconventional schooling path to keep their self-worth in tact.
2. ADHD in women and how it effects motherhood
3. The importance of knowing your cycle and the secret of slowing down to speed up
4. Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre adaptations and why the BBC series constantly knock it out of the park!
5. It’s never too late to make new friendships as an adult (and extroverted introvert)
musings by mika (https://musingsbymika.substack.com) is all about discovering life beyond the comfort zone - moving past perfectionism, people-pleasing and playing safe and smallI. ✨
I also include my monthly Substack diaries to guide fellow newbies. 📖
Nice to meet you! 👋
Hi everyone! I’m Jenny and I live in Brooklyn.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 min without prep:
1. Music
2. Grief
3. New York
4. Succession
5. Boundaries
I write over at Still Processing (https://imstillprocessing.substack.com/)
It’s a slice of life where I reflect on the heavy and the light. Recently I have started sharing playlist every Friday to bring back the joy of sharing and discovering music pre-algorithms ruling our lives.
Hi, everybody! I’m Rose 😊
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins =
1. Social psychology
2. Higher education
3. Lincoln-Douglas debate (huge debate nerd 🤓)
4. Paris
5. Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 (I’m a community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association)
I write Be Astonished -- where I discuss big-picture questions about the mind, society, and the nature of our existence. Current topics include consciousness, our collective disillusionment, and the power of journaling. Would love to connect!
Hi! I'm Cassandra and I live with a chronic illness on the west coast of Canada with my husband and our dog, Chewie. I work as a Virtual Assistant, and when I'm not working I'm usually reading!
❓ 5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Bullet journaling
2. Cystic Fibrosis
3. Virtual Assistant work
4. Reading/books
5. Self-advocacy in healthcare
🔗 Notes from a Kindred Spirit (cassandrabumpus.substack.com) is a bi-weekly newsletter about embracing curiosity, exploring hobbies, living with chronic illness, and finding contentment in the everyday.
Thanks for hosting this, Mika! 😊
Love this idea Mika! ❤️ So fun and a great way to meet others!!
So my 5 topics are:
• Exercise/Fitness - my goal is to age fiercely!
• Habits/Change in habits
• Productivity - not that I excel in it, but because I know I'd function better with more of it!
• Developing self-worth through mindfulness practices - i need all the help I can get! 😆
• Cooking because I love to make yummy food
and maybe I can talk about books - I have at least 10 on my nightstand right now 😬
My 'stack is Working on becoming... (https://amcostanzo.substack.com/) and I write about working on becoming... whatever it is that brings you joy. Simple, yet really difficult to actually do all the time!
I have two boys, a great husband who is incredibly supportive as I experiment my way through Substack, and two kitties who keep me company. Love connecting with other writers!
Thanks Mika!!
Hey there!
My name is Kaylen and I am from San Diego.
My 5 topics:
1. Books on personal development
2. The CHAOS of Human Resources
3. My 3 y/o son, August
4. Cats
5. FRIENDS - pick any cast member. Phoebe is my forever favorite.
I write Dear People Pleasers, a free newsletter about learning to leverage EQ to practice self-care.
I’ve been leaning into laughing this year. I like jokes and dry humor. I am so excited to make some connections!
Find me at: kaylenalexandra.substack.com
I hope to be restocking your letters soon!
Hello new friends. I'm Steph, UK based, neurospicy-hormonal-disabled, journalist, mother, wife and friend. I write about health mental & physical, as well as some motherhood moments. I also swear a lot, in my writing and my spoken words.
My 5 topics
1. Disability
2. Reproductive Mental health/ female hormones.
3. Motherhood.
4. Books.
5. Trauma
I’m Kate, I live in SW London with my teen daughter. I’m a therapist, silversmith and…. a Substack writer!
Five things I can talk about for 30 mins with zero prep:
1. Psychotherapy
2. Creative business
3. Grief
4. Writing
5. Long Covid
I write Letters from Therapy with ideas for improved self awareness, acceptance and meaningful living. https://lettersfromtherapy.substack.com/ ✨💛✨
Thanks Mika!
Hey, that's me! I did start a chat this month! 😅 I am looking forward to finding my tribe! I live in the Bay Area with two tweens and a tech-obsessed husband.
My five 30-minute-0-prep topics are probably:
1. Teaching reading to elementary-aged kids
2. Teaching writing to elementary-aged kids
3. Parenting a kiddo with ADHD
4. New York City
5. Musical Theater
My newsletter Living the In-Between Times (marikapaezwiesen.substack.com) a series of playful experience to unhook from toxic perfectionist and productivity mindsets, and uncover the delight, awe and worth-full-ness that might be available in life's in between times.
Fellow experimenteers welcome!
Hi, everyone. I live in Philadelphia, PA. My five topics are:
1. My dog
2. Comedy
3. Addiction and recovery
4. Mental health
5. Marketing
I write humorous essays and other humor pieces at my Substack: https://chrisstanton.substack.com. Looking forward to checking out yours!
Hello friends. My name is Zarin and I am the writer behind the substact “ Sweet Serenity”. I am a mother of 4 grown children - 8 months ago we lost our firstborn suddenly, while she was at work.
5 topics I can talk about:
1. Loss and grief
2. Sibling rivalry
3. Coaching
4. My mother
5. My big family - I am one of 14 children (Jael - you and I will have to exchange stories 😉)
Hey Mika, thank for creating this space :) I’m really struggling to find my people on this platform!!
I’m Baibin (bay-bin) I’m based in Bristol, UK. I’m a graphic designer, art director and potter who has recently rediscovered my love of writing after being creatively stilted by the education system 😅
My 5 topics are:
1: The shi*t show of Women’s healthcare and medical misogyny
2: Hormones, mental health and being Neurospicy
3: bell hooks The Will To Change
4: The Wellness > Far Right pipeline
5: 17th Century Witch Trials (my current hyper-focus=OBSESSED)
I’ve recently started adding to my substack ‘the void’ and although I have literally no subscribers I’m really enjoying finding my feet and my voice. My welcome post (inspired by Mika!!!) is a good place to start if you think my interests sound up your street :) https://open.substack.com/pub/baibin/p/welcome-to-the-void?r=4b7z7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hi, really great to meet you all!
I’m Aastha, a 17 year old Indian writer and aspiring poet. I am currently a high school junior and I am interested in pursuing English and Economics in college.
My 5 topics are:
1. Fight Club (the movie) and directing it through cinematic and philosophical lenses
2. The Handmaid’s Tale & 1984 — both of them are such brilliant books
3. Language and knowledge and how it’s distortion and restriction effect our freedom of thought
4. Feminism, colonialism and India
5. Writing and books and the beauty of poetry, novels and literature
I write Soliloquy (https://bluegreywrites.substack.com/) - my small cozy place on the internet where I write about books, art, literature, language and society. I have also been writing personal essays lately that I am very proud of:
- on self censorship and love (https://bluegreywrites.substack.com/p/2024-self-censorship-confidence-and)
- on turning/ being 17 (https://bluegreywrites.substack.com/p/17)
Also, thank you Mika for this wonderful initiative! I'm really looking forward to reading all of your wonderful writing!
Such a great initiative Mika, so excited to take part in it every month!
Hi to everyone else, I am Mansi and I live in India. I work in corporate full time, also study full time and run my newsletter Unwind on the side.
5 things I can talk about for 30 minutes without prep:
1. Travelling as a means to fulfil your soul.
2. The incorrect notion of "rest is unproductive."
3. My actuarial journey. (The road to becoming a qualified Actuary is very very tough)
4. The power of building self-awareness. (It's life changing)
5. Everything food related.
My newsletter Unwind (https://unwindblog.substack.com) is all about the meaningful things in life, from self-care to intentionally building a life beyond a 9-5 job.
So excited to connect with like minded folks!✨
Hi! I’m Pawan! I work in tech as a product manager
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Anime specifically one piece and naruto
2. Harry potter and Books - I read a lot hence by book newsletter!
3. Product growth (😅) - how different products grow
4. Pop culture and memes - current trending memes and how they came about
5. Space/universe
product snacks by pawan (https://productsnacks.substack.com/) - weekly thoughts and interesting finds on product and design
Nice to meet you! 👋
Hi :) I'm Leanne and I'm in Western Australia - I don't write on Substack (yet) but I do blog at https://www.crestingthehill.com.au if anyone wants to pop over to visit.
I'm not sure I could talk for 30 mins about anything these days but I do love chatting about:
1. Being Unbusy and intentional in how I live
2. Nora Roberts and JD Robb novels
3. Learning new things from podcasts, youtube, blogs etc
4. Blogging
5. Finally finding "me" in the second half of life.
Hi everyone! I'm Jael.
5 topics I can talk about for 30mins
1. The Mets. I'm a long-suffering fan.
2. The highs and lows of freelance work.
3. My love of books.
4. How big my family is. My great-grandparents had 17 children.
5. Food
I write on 4Buckets, where I basically talk about the things in my head --food, life, books, and television/pop culture. https://4buckets.substack.com/
Nice to meet you all.
Hi everyone! I'm Kristine, writer (of notebooks, newsletters, and novels) and mom of three kids in middle childhood -- one on the brink of teendom -- whom I've been teaching at home since 2020. Between that pivot and the novel planted in my heart a couple years before that, the last half of my fourth decade might be entitled "NEVER SAY NEVER."
My 5 topics for 30 minutes with no prep are:
1. Vincent van Gogh’s life and work
2. how to come alive (and stay sane) at Walt Disney World
3. the wild ride of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
4. the magic of New York City and the places I've left bits of myself, every visit
5. the journey of (still?) unexpectedly homeschooling
I live in Franklin, TN, just south of Nashville, by way of the East Coast more than half my life ago. I write My Pen in the Air: an at-least monthly if not bi-monthly Substack on all matters of writing, life, and what comes to me when "I happen to be standing just outside my door, with my notebook open," and "listen" with "my pen in the air." (borrowed from Mary Oliver)
https://kristineneeley.substack.com
Thank you for opening up this space Mika!
Hello everyone! I’m Reid 😊 after living in Los Angeles for 14 years I recently moved to Austin, TX.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 minutes are...
1. Morning Practice
2. Kundalini Yoga & meditation
3. Acting & filmmaking
4. Eating disorder recovery
5. Love & relationships
You can read my newsletter here. https://reidcox.substack.com/
Hello! I’m Vanessa, I live in rural Somerset (SW England). I’m a photographer, potter, gardener and Substack writer. I have two gorgeous adult daughters, six bantams, a shaggy lurcher called Gertie and an emotionally absent husband.
Five things I can talk about 🤔 -
• Highs and lows of International relocation
• The benefits of Volunteering
• The failings of the UK asylum system
• Self Doubt
• Learning about Neurodiversity
I write The Post House Chronicles, a weekly rambling of my creative life in the countryside. Putting my fingers to the keyboard somehow helps me figure out what I’m thinking and feeling about life, and if it resonates with others it pleases me immeasurably.
Hi I'm Karen a food scientist with a $16K food safety Substack. I'm also an accidental Substack expert + mum of two gorgeous young adults, living in Sydney Australia.
I could talk for 30 mins about:
- Substack and how to use it to create $$ and freedom (I am literally writing a book on it)
- Food safety and Food Fraud prevention
- Windsurfing (lifelong sufferer!)
- Aussie bush camping
- nothing more... I usually prefer to listen than talk...
Here's my free Substack publication (where I share stuff I've learned during my 2.5 years on the platform): https://pubstacksuccess.substack.com/
Hi Leanne from @Crestingthehill I love your 'Unbusy and intentional' life theme, and I'm heading to your publication to say hi there.
Hey there! I’m a writer, bookworm, and hope to finish up my first children’s book manuscript this year. I’m also newly married and a stepmom. ☺️
5 random topics I can go on about:
1. Classical ballet technique
2. Living with chronic illnesses
3. Growing up Japanese American
4. Identifying spiritual abuse
5. Places to visit in Atlanta, GA
I explore my curiosities and write personal essays that include a splash of the above at erikatovi.substack.com.
Would love to meet several new faces and chat with some of you! 👋🏼
Hi, I’m Bex! I live just outside Stockholm, Sweden and moved here from San Francisco.
Five things I can talk about for 30 mins with zero prep
Moving overseas
lgbtq relationships
Infertiilty / Loss
Cooking mashup California/Swedish dishes
Dealing with anxiety and coping with change
I write about lessons learned from living abroad, finding your identity and purpose - even at an older age, becoming a parent late in life, books I am reading and food I am eating/cooking. My long term hope is to grow a community of like-minded people searching for a sense of belonging, together.
Hello there! Thanks for putting this together, Mika, and for sharing your journey. Keep going!
I’m a father, founder, coach, and healer. Dreaming big and working to make the world a kinder, more harmonious place.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Consciousness
2. AI, Blockchain, and Decentralization
3. Health and lifehacking
4. Love and family
5. All things geek: games, books, comics. science
Here’s my substack, Poets’ Corner. Exploring topics both big and small like above and more. Happy to connect!
https://poetx.substack.com/
Hi! Such a great idea, Mika. Thanks for facilitating this space! I'm Ginger and I live in Mississippi. I own a boutique and teach yoga.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 min with 0 prep:
1. Yoga
2. Journaling
3. Books I'm reading or have read
4. Personal growth and mindset
5. How my life has changed since I became more intentional and purpose-filled
At The Possibility Project, I share stories about learning to live with intention and purpose. I'm a newbie to Substack and to putting my writing out in the world. Would love to connect!
Hi! I'm Daria. I live in Louisiana. I'm leaving a 40-year career as an environmental lawyer at the end of 2024. I'm also a health and wellness coach for women 50+, a personal trainer, and explorer of all things health and wellness.
My 5 topics I could talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1. The importance of movement, balance and flexibility as we age.
2. Books I've read and am reading.
3. The importance of purpose in our lives.
4. Mindfulness and self-compassion.
5. My cats.
https://dlbdiaz.substack.com/
I write the Wellgevity Warrior, which includes information and inspiration on living your best life as you age. That can cover a lot of topics. I'm very new to substack, and I've written about never being too old to change and habit stacking for yoga.
Love this!
Hi! I'm Jackie, I co-write our substack page with my sister, Gabby! I recently had a baby and am focusing most of my time and energy into being his mama right now!
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Dog behaviors and what they mean
2. Biophilia - humans inherent desire to connect with nature
3. Friends - any character, any episode
4. Struggles of a new parent
5. Taylor Swift easter eggs
Mishmosh is all about sharing openly and honestly, and creating a space where others feel comforted to know what they're feeling or experience is shared among a larger group. We love to talk about relationships, self-discovery, and personal growth!
Check us out: https://mishmosh.substack.com/
Can't wait to meet you!
Hello! I'm Sarah, I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I am a Sex, Love and Relationship Coach and a Wardrobe Stylist, so I live at the intersection (innersextion?) of Sex & Style.
The five topics I could talk about without any prep:
1. Mormon feminism and the systematic devaluing of women's voices
2. Female orgasm
3. 30Rock
4. Flamenco dance as a form of deep and sensual embodiment
5. Pleasure as medicine
I write at http://sarahwardco.substack.com on the topics of sensuality, embodiment, sexuality and style. Pleasure to meet you all!
Hey tribe! I am a very new Substacker. I am a writer, journalist, advocate for mental and women's health issues, eater of ideas and food obsessed.
5 topics I can ramble on about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
- Food
- Love, sexual wellbeing, and dating (I'm putting an umbrella over this one)
- Mental health healing
- Body talk
- The importance of trying new things as an adult
Here is my new newsletter: I've started therapy - A candid invitation to a mental health conversation. https://georgiacadoret.substack.com/
By bringing an honest dialogue of my experience to the table, I hope to do my bit to normalise the conversation around therapy and mental health. <3
Lush to meet you, beautiful community.
Hi, I am Sophie, I live in the UK, recently got married to my best friend of 11 years and we have a son together (who is autistic and has ADHD) and our dog, Kaveah (she is rescued from Romania, and we kept her name).
5 topics I can talk about with 0 prep are:
1. Autism/ADHD
2. Having a child with SEN needs and finding your tribe
3. The long and terrible journey to a diagnosis
4. Running and discovering the benefits of exercise later in life
5. TV - I love TV
I am quite new to Substack and still finding my feet but communities like this certainly help so thank you!
Previously I had a successful blog called Bad Mum and I turned it into a printed publication with no experience at all, which I was proud of and now I am here writing Bolt. I write honestly about life, parenting, autism, death and hope to make some of you laugh on the way!
Sorry I have met many people yet but Mika you are a star, thank you! Hope to make lots of new friends along the way.
Hi there, I'm Catherine
What are 5 topics you can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep?
1. Witchy wisdom
2. Dysautonomia/POTS
3. Environmental Justice/Sustainability
4. White supremacy and systemic racism
5. Grief and healing through brain retraining, mindfulness, nature, and witchy wisdom
I write Willow and The Witch, where I'm currently writing on each of the five stages of grief through a witchy lens. My most recent post was on how Tarot saved my life.
Would love to connect with others especially anyone in the witchy community who can look at it with an intersectional lens. I'm starting to unpack a lot of the problematic areas. Also interested in collaborating on some environmental/sustainability topics!
https://catieshine.substack.com/?fbclid=PAAaYX1eoTrOrZ7hmqw6MX5-wOsg--rjVcRnmRtPdRKDdF9iDF4q5esWaXXZ4_aem_AShAM5V0-wvDlgWYcquPbATPrKQIMyqSX55VPD6DKSLP86COc81TEAdDeteEZEgWEn4
Hi!👋 I’m Crystal from Ontario Canada. I’m an artist and illustrator and fine arts educator for over 25 years.
My 5 TOPICS
1. How much I love my daughter Charlotte (graduated last year from uni)
2. Misophonia
3. Pugs
4. The importance of integrating art into the everyday
5. How art and nature intertwine and give us gentle lessons on how to live.
I began THE ARTIST’S EYE https://crystalbeshara.substack.com/about last December. Artful ways to help cultivate more POSITIVITY, more GRATITUDE and explore deeper CONNECTION through not only art but every day life.
Hi, I’m Sonya and live in Suffolk, England with my partner Darren and our two Beagles; Dizzee & Rascal.
I’m a Home Stylist (interior designer) although have recently gone back into full time following redundancy where I works for the sports brand ASICS for over 11 year.
My 5 topics are:
1: Interiors, particularly anything linked with warm, earthy tones
2: Running, currently training for my first marathon
3: The challenges of being a multi-hyphenate
4: My personal manifestation journey (by the way I was manifesting many years before it became all “trendy” I definitely missed out on that one 🤣
5: Being brave and reaching out to make new connections, the worse that will ever happen is nothing changes, you can only gain from the experience 😉
Sharing Home Styling and Inspiration tips:
https://sonyamallett.substack.com/
At the start of this year I reviewed my Substack and what I was offering (particularly for my paid subscribers£, this post shares the new direction for 2024 if you’re interested in learning more:
https://sonyamallett..com/p/mixing-things-up-for-2024
It’s lovely to be here and I look forward to getting to know some new people, I’m here for the connections and putting the social back into social 🤎
Hello everyone! I am Cherie Lee and I live in Flagstaff, Arizona. I am a recent retiree and first time grandma-to-be.
Five things I can talk about for 30 mins without prep:
1. My friends and family
2. Books I love
3. Scrapbooking
4. Health related issues
5. Municipal Courts
I am fairly new to Substack and write at Just a Blink - https://justablink.substack.com/ - about the passage of time, aging, health, mortality, retirement, life transitions, and other random things I'm thinking about.
Thanks, Mika, for providing this opportunity. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and finding my tribe!
Hi everyone! I’m Amanda and I live in California. Last year I quit my 9-5 with no backup, solo traveled abroad for a couple of months, and recently started my own business as a meditation teacher!
5 topics I can talk about with 0 prep:
- Meditation
- Slow + mindful living
- Solo traveling
- Journaling
- Literature, poetry, and prose
I’m new to Substack (https://illuminationswithamanda.substack.com/) and just published my first piece on navigating grief yesterday! (https://illuminationswithamanda.substack.com/p/mornings-in-my-garden) I’ll be exploring the topics mentioned above and more, all centered around finding and reconnecting to ourselves.
So excited to connect!
Hi Mika! Love that you are doing this. Thank you.
Hello everyone, my name is J.R. and I live in Pittsburgh, PA with my husband and daughter.
I've had several careers, but my current and last one (wishful thinking) is as an author.
Five topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with 0 prep:
1. How "gracefully aging" is not all it's cracked up to be (yes, you read that right. As Cher so succinctly put it, "getting old sucks")
2. The joys and challenges older parents face raising young children—I survived, mine is now 18
3. Anything related to movies, acting, and modeling
4. Building boats and renovating houses
5. Starting over in life (The only time it's too late is when you're dead)
My substack (http://jrroessl.substack.com) currently acts as a monthly newsletter, which I send out to my book subscribers, keeping them informed of any future appearances or events, and giving them a sneak peek of my current WIP. Now that I have the newsletter figured out, I will be covering all the topics above and anything else that occurs to me in my Out of Step life. Wishing you all much success and growth with your Substacks. I love this platform.
Hello--I'm Margaret Ann, I live in the PNW, and I have six kids (two adults, two teens, and two little ones). I've been writing all my life, but Substack is the first place I've really shared anything for many years (and I love it!).
5 topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1. Thrift store shopping
2. Neurodivergence
3. Children's & YA lit
4. Libby/audiobooks
5. eating disorders, sadly
My substack (https://margaretannsilver.substack.com) is me writing poems and posting them (currently five days a week). Sometimes the poems are from my college or grad school, some are from five years ago, and many of them are recently written. I write about parenting, marriage, our hard journey with my daughters' eating disorders, and other stuff :).
Hi! I'm Michelle, I'm based in Brighton on the South Coast of the UK. I home educate my autistic son, and work (very) part-time as an Ayurveda Lifestyle Coach, yoga teacher and sound therapist.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Ayurveda! (That's traditional Indian medicine)
2. Women's health (I used to be a specialist nurse in women's health but now I work Ayurvedically using diet and lifestyle)
3. Buddhist philosophy
4. 90s indie music
5. Witty and often slightly horrifying anecdotes from my time in the NHS!
Inner Alchemy is my Substack on Ayurveda for women's health https://inneralchemy.substack.com/ i try to demystify the complexity of Ayurveda, plus we have "plant of the month" with recipes, and Dinacharya Club - a new monthly self-care practice or ritual.
Good to be here! 🌹
Hi! I'm Nic, a rather shy-about-my-poetry poet who has been making an effort over the past year and a half to be much less shy about it now that I'm somewhere in that mid-thirties zone. It's going well!
Okay, 5 topics I could talk about with zero prep, as proven on a recent new friend hike date: 1) Forest Therapy or forest school or why time in the forest is amazing and deeply beneficial; 2) wanting to make so much more space and welcome for trans folk of all ages in our communities; 3) why working as a cleaner is the perfect job for a poet; 4) how f-ing hard it can be to be a parent; 5) religious deconstruction
I write poems and release soundtracked, audio versions of them (okay, only one so far but working on more!) at wordsperperson.substack.com
Thanks for reading and thanks for the chance to do this Mika!
Hey there. I’m Teyani , many friends call me Tey. I live in the PAC NW with my large tom cat named Jose and love it here. I’ve mostly retired from my private practice in counseling. And I’m enjoying writing poetry and a book.
My five topics that could keep me talking effortlessly are:
1. Counseling and all the things I’ve learned over the last 30 years
2. Fabulous recipes
3. Cerebral Spinal Fluid leaks, how debilitating they are and how few doctors know how to treat them let alone test for them.
4. Coping with Rapid shifts in personal mobility and loss of independence brought on by serious illness
5. Grief and loss
My Substack is called Staying Together - it’s the beginning chapters of my book, as well as my random musings along the walk through life.
Deep breath. Hi, I’m Tara, former English teacher turned writer and mum to two neurospicy grown-up children. I’m also an introvert who loves nothing more than spending time thinking. My five topics would be:
1. Craft of writing
2. Literature
3. Slowing down for healing and happiness
4. Psychology of stories
5. Neurospicy family life (something like 8 out of 10 of my mum’s grandchildren are neurospicy which probably means most of us are 😆)
Hi! I'm Monique and I live in Perth, Western Australia. My 9-5 is events officer and I write in the gaps of life. I dream of bigger gaps to write in!
5 Topics I can Talk About for 30 minutes with 0 prep:
1. Food - the preparation of and the eating
2. Writing/my writing journey
3. The despair and grief I feel about our world at times
4. The hope I have that collectively, we can find a better way
5. Little things I think are extraordinary
At La Muse (https://moniquemulligan.substack.com/) I write about reconnecting with the “little girl” inside who sees the beauty in the extraordinary ordinary. And I'm loving exploring short, creative essay formats.
Hello!
Hi all, my name is Christoph, I live in Nevada City, California. I'm a single dad of two daughters age 6 and 14. who writes, plays guitar, and is still figuring things out.
5 Topics I can riff on for 30 minutes:
1. meditation
2. creativity as a path of healing
3. woodworking
4. wisdom of the Tao
5. intentional and effective interaction with entheogenic plants
Miracle Soup (miraclesoup.substack.com) is a podcast and blog I created to help alchemize suffering into healthy creative expression. I write about this journey, documenting the wild ride of this life. Pleased to meet you all!
Hey! I'm Anna, I live in Hertfordshire in the UK (formerly a Londoner). I don't have kids, albeit giving it a big effort to. I live with my husband and my dog, a border terrier named Dotty. I'm new to Substack and am finding it equal parts cathartic and friendly.
What are 5 topics you can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep?
- skincare; I have become a bit of a product junkie
- shopping abroad (particularly the US and France)
- interiors and all things homeware
- crime documentaries on Netflix
- as I'm rapidly approaching 40; being ready for a new decade
My substack is called Not Another Substack and can be found here: https://www.annaelerihart.substack.com (I talk about all the above things)
Mika! This is such a wonderful idea! Everyone here is so fascinating! Hi humans! I love you all!
I’m Kelsey. I currently live in Florida with my husband and 2 Doberman puppies Zumi and Tashi. I write Find Your Awesome with Kelsey Abbott at kelseyabbott.substack.com. My mission is to help people remember who they really are, empower them to be brave enough to be the weirdo their soul wants them to be and increase the amount of joy in the world.
1. Human Design
2. The 7 levels of energy and how we always have the power to choose which energy level we’re viewing the world from
3. Plant-based nutrition and cooking
4. Camper living (my husband and I traveled around the U.S. in a small camper for 16 months)
5. Triathlon (I’ve been training and competing for almost 20 years)
Hi, I'm Jasmine; I live on the East Coast in the U.S. I'm a former English Teacher and a current Technical Writer.
5 things I could talk about with zero prep:
1. Ballet and Modern Dance (Obsessed with The Royal Ballet YouTube channel)
2. English Literature
3. Beyonce sharing the same zodiac sign as me :)
4. Pop Culture and Fashion
5. Healing and Wellness
My newsletter https://jumpatdasun.substack.com/ is where I share my thoughts on Wellness, Slow Living, Literature, personal growth, and healing.♡
Hi everyone, this was so fun 😊
Hi 👋 I'm Bella, I live in London with my husband my adopted corgi, Winston.
5 topics I can talk about for 30 mins with 0 prep:
1. Corgis
2. Sex And The City (or Desperate Housewives)
3. Social media (+ how to get the best out of it w/out it taking over)
4. Podcasts (I listen to SO many)
5. How to be a good sister to someone neurodivergent
Making Time is a celebration of juggling multiple creative pursuits at once because life's too short not to do (or at least try!) all the things we dream of. A freelance marketing consultant who is also writing a novel, building a niche website, and re-learning the piano, I write about how I make time for these various pursuits (as well as sharing the real-time progress, challenges, highs and lows of each of them!).
https://bellafoxwell.substack.com/
This is a fabulous idea, Mika! Thank you x
Hello, I'm Shannon and I live in (the rural, farmland part of) New Jersey with my husband and two adult children. I've had a travel blog for 13 years, but I'm transitioning to writing more about weight loss and getting/staying STRONG as we age.
5 topics I can talk about:
1. Fitness, exercise, nutrition
2. Homeschooling
3. Toxins in foods / finding local, organic food sources
4. Traveling in the US (esp hiking and skiing)
5. TV (and traveling to TV filming locations)
My substack is "The Year I Really Tried" and follows my journey of being consistent for one year. I'm sharing my weight loss struggles and successes, health and fitness inspiration, information on natural medicine and holistic living, and reviews of the many things I’ve “tried.” https://shannonentin.substack.com
Hello! I am Stephanie!
5 Topics I can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep:
1) Internal Family Systems
2) Self and spiritual growth
3) Mindfulness and presence
4) Nature and Connection
5) Breast cancer and trauma healing
I am new here. So far, I've been posting little snippets of writings from my experience with advanced stage breast cancer, diagnosed at age 34. I am now in remission at age 39 from stage iiic, and as of March 1, 2024 will be beating my statistical odds for survival for those diagnosed at my age with similar characteristics, treatment protocol, etc. Writing has been a huge 'part' of what's helped in my healing journey during and post-active cancer.https://healingvoyage.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=2v1uc1
Hello 👋🏼 my name is Johanna, I am French but never lived there 😀 I have traveled a lot and now we have decided to take a one year break to visit Europe with tour camper van 🚐
5 topics 👌🏽
1. Aliens 👽 and the truth about that !
2. Ancestors work and lineage
3. Ceremonial cacao
5. Awakening and the rabbit hole
What I share on my Substack (in French, but I guess you have a translation option), are teachings about ancestral healing, cacao ceremonies, our travel and nomad life, and general spirituality.
Nice to meet youuuu 🪶