Sarah Brouner is an award-winning tutor and entrepreneur who loves problem solving and helping neurodivergent students embrace science and maths. She shares her journey on my Have You Thought About podcast. Listen here: pod.fo/e/36ffed

The difference in how you see yourself compared to how others see you… open.substack.com/pub/haveyout...

@aaronblaiseart.bsky.social is an award-winning animator but what lesson has his latest hand-drawn release Snow Bear taught him about the world in which we live? Find out on Have You Thought About - available wherever you listen to podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

"We don't go to green spaces to connect with nature. We're in it. We are nature. We are animals." My latest guest for my Have You Thought About podcast is Dr Jacqui Wilmshurst who shares how she ended up in a career in conservation after trying out many other paths first pod.fo/e/36803d

“But TV is a meritocracy!!!” 🙄🤦‍♂️😵‍💫 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It's quiet and then all the buses come at once open.substack.com/pub/haveyout...

The latest edition of Have You Thought About features Hamid Ibrahim, the CEO and Co-Founder of @kugalimedia.bsky.social discussing mentoring, business and putting African storytelling at the forefront. pod.fo/e/3636c8

In case you missed it, catch up on a conversation I had with the amazing @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social about her book The Whispers of Rock, the state of nature writing today and embracing the art of disruption. Have You Thought About is available wherever you listen to podcasts or here: pod.fo/e/35ef01

Trying to do my little bit to tackle food waste... with this piece in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Why is it some relationships are so messy and others so stable? Took to Substack and created my latest Have You Thought About posting to figure it all out. Also some updates on adventures and obscure opportunities. open.substack.com/pub/haveyout...

Some thoughts haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/the-bbc-is...

Tentatively planning Season Six of my Have You Thought About podcast... and now to go through the list of hopeful guests and make sure it's evenly spread... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

An absolute win to get my first book review in the @newscientist.com and it's for @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social's The Whispers of Rock! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

I went to review Scenes from The Climate Era this week and also grew a lot of tomatoes... haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/getting-cl...

In print and online but a first person from me in The Guardian on learning to trust strangers (and also travel) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Finally found some time to write about how nature seeps into everything. I guess you just have to tell the universe about the path you are on sometimes. haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/nature-boo...

Putting it out there

Was inspired by all the conversations happening at the Truth Tellers Summit organised by @sirharrysummit.bsky.social that I finally got round to this month's Substack newsletter! haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/immersed-i...

I put a note out saying that I needed more paid work and fewer offers to work for free. And I still got messages asking me to work for free for exposure.

Oopsie to being an autistic poet. haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/my-autisti...

Philippa Larbi is a cake designer but how does her past career in opera and law help her with her entrepreneur journey? Philippa is the final guest on Season Five of my Have You Thought About podcast focusing on those with interdisciplinary lives. podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

New newsletter focuses on the idea of being in a betwixt space open.substack.com/pub/haveyout...

Dr Alina Patelli is a responsible AI enthusiast who grew up in post-Communist Romania. She is also a member of the @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social and here we discuss how she is she taking her data and using it in health and other spheres. Listen to Have You Thought About: podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

Poet and brand strategist @betarish.bsky.social is skilled at playing with words but influences his creativity? Listen to our conversation with top takeaways at Have You Thought About. Available wherever you listen to podcasts. podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

Finland's the happiest country in the world. Again. It's not that surprising that it's now hitting the upcoming destination lists for travellers. I went not so long ago and wrote about how my mood was lifted for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

First episode of Season Five of my Have You Thought About podcast involves a conversation with spatial enthusiast and academic Tina Samie. We discuss growing up in Iran, her passion for architecture, connected environments and the internet of things and much more. podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

Dropped the trailer for Season Five of Have You Thought About. Have listen and subscribe for the upcoming episodes podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

Thinking a lot about life shifts and taking ownership of stories. A few jottings. But the pandemic was a life-shifter. I interviewed so many people whose loved ones died and those legacies, those conversations have never left me. haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/how-did-th...

It feels good when you've had eight people ask where they can buy your poetry book. Now to make sure I have enough poems to submit to call outs and publishers..

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

What a mess. International relations?

Kept a lot of my spoken word secret for a while as I used to be in spaces where the poetry I was surrounded by filled conventional rules and I never felt quite good enough. But now am sharing in spaces where people have diverse histories and the reception has been so positive.

Adventures in science for the @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social when we took part in the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social Annual General Assembly. ukyoungacademy.org/blog/buildin...

It's been a tough start to the year work-wise. More rejections than successes so far. I'm always happy to show up and keep going. If people like what I do, then I also have a Ko-Fi patron account which does help me keep going in what's been a colder climate than I had hoped. ko-fi.com/dhrutishah

What is Englishness? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"This is digital genocide: populations of vulnerable people are being deleted. Data on transgender men and women are being deleted. We are also losing data on maternal mortality. These populations will suffer now and for decades to come." Important read. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Today my book was flagged up as a useful resource to a stranger. I was tagged in the post. I gave a few more details and it resulted in the stranger buying a copy of my book. And this is allyship and sponsorship in action. And I appreciate it.

Disappointed a book review I'd spent some time on can't be published due to editor changes at the publication, so now to find another home for the writing. But happy I've now got over 20 poems in the collection I started writing. A few more and maybe I'll be able to query.

I solve problems that much is true. But how do you share with the world and get in front of people for that emotional connection. We’re in a world where there is so much isolation and mistrust. Emotions are key. My Have You Thought About newsletter open.substack.com/pub/haveyout...

To the nine people who took my book out of the library in the past few months. I love you. I love that it's helping you. If Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms is helping even just one person with financial literacy, then the job is done. And libraries are cool.

Wonderful to get to talk about Oulu and my first time in Finland for my first travel feature in @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Brown Girl Noise! Is Back!!! 4 brown girls meet at an audition for Priti Patel’s biopic and realise despite the big bucks, they’d prefer to tell their own stories, from their take on The Wizard of Oz, Love Island: South Asia and Aunt-enborough! Tickets 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/vault...

Someone is selling a second hand copy of my book for £75 on ebay. It's not a signed copy. It sells new for under £10. Bear Markets and Beyond: A Bestiary of Business Terms is supposed to be an accessible financial literacy book. I'm flattered but wow. This seller is clearly out to make a profit.

Veronica has always been cool. 13thdimension.com/13-classic-c...

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

It was a pleasure not only to speak to the Museum of Colour, but also to be in the same podcast space as Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, talking about the very topic that got me reading @indexoncensorship.org in the first place - the cancellation of Behzti.

It's always wonderful to start a new year having to chase payments from large international organisations that haven't paid you within 30 days. Honestly when you complete a service as a freelancer, I don't understand why you can't get paid straight away.

I've joined the Society of Environmental Authors and Journalists. It feels cool to take ownership of the environmental work I've been doing. Articles, an award-winning bestiary; studying nature based solutions, public speaking too. I brought my chair to the table. environmentalwriters.org