I feel like I've reached peak podcast. I would much rather read your postings. And I like the randomness of your postings. However, I know that can be exhausting to not have a "theme" so if I were brain storming with you I'd say: write up some goals for 2025 (your novel for one your interest in community endeavors for another and I'm sure there are more) then spend the year writing about how you are progressing in those goals––how you've approached them, how those approaches have worked for you and how those goals change over the year. It would be a check in for you––an accountability if you will and for us readers an example and a reminder of what we should also be doing in our own lives and communities.
As someone who is also all over the place, let me just say that I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability. I very much enjoy all of your writing, but if I had to pick, I'd say my favorite pieces are the essays on issues pertinent to midlife.
Hi! I was going to ask if you would ever launch another podcast in the EIF FB group. Stiffed was FASCINATING, I learned a ton (love reading about legacy media, I used to work at Real Simple etc...) and I'm really glad to hear you're into a new project. Can't wait for it to drop. Thanks for all you do and what you bring to us.
All of the above! However if I had to choose: midlife, middle age, post-50, and aging/ambition (or letting go of ambition). I've loved letting go of striving (mostly, I'm only human!) - to be young, relevant, hip, attractive, etc. Whether it's a shopping guide or essay or whatever, I'm here for it.
I'd read anything you write Jen. I was listening to EIF driving today and your chat about your potential new home made me laugh. Also the return to thin - ugh. So how you live and navigate your life, especially at this stage we find ourselves in, is so interesting and funny and pertinent. People I know are starting to talk about retirement and I'm thinking WT!? I am more interested in what is the third act because who wants to go gently into the night. I love a good skincare/makeup/treatment recommendation - the degradation of the jaw line is real. I think consistent posts would be the way to go, for me at least - something to look forward to. I'd totally listen to another podcast.
You should do whatever you want based on your goals for having your substack. I make this recommendation to everyone in case you need breathing room: there's nothing wrong with a short post once in awhile. People are tired!
Definitely all of the above for me! I am glad you mentioned ADHD advice because you are open about that and as one of the gazillion women who was diagnosed later in lafe (47 yo) I am interested in how you navigate that. I love EIF and Ambition Monster is incredible. I look forward to more of your singular style in 2025!
First, thanks for inviting feedback in such a generous way! I feel like I'd love to read everything that you described, although I'm not quite as interested in the nuts-and-bolts writing and publishing stuff. (You're great at that, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot of other writers in that space doing only writing-related stuff, i.e., Jami Attenberg.) As a fellow parent of an only (surly) teenage child, I'd love some more parenting-of-teens content--if your kid is good with it, that is. Always love a shopping guide, always love cultural recommendations . . . Anyway, thanks again!
I'd love to see more on mid-life style & beauty and essays on mid-life. ..although I'm less interested in shopping guides, and more interested in how-to-wear-the-thing-I-already-have guides. (I like when you talk on the show about how you wear stuff and what you wear to events, whether an outfit worked and why. Looking cool yet being comfortable at our age is an art form for sure).
Content on publishing/writing is not really relevant to me, but more general creativity is.
Consistency in posting is key. I'm not yet a paid subscriber but probably will jump soon. Substack subscriptions add up, so I'm choosy. It definitely bugs me when I pay for a sub and then the posts dry up.
What has been most insightful/inspiring/revelatory with your stories, and everything you get behind, is how to do life without a blueprint. As a fellow child of teenagers, I’ve had to fight/fumble/fuckitallup to make my life, and there’s always that persistent, naggy feeling of getting/doing it wrong. By sharing and being brutally truthful about those parts of yourself, it makes me feel less less-than. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want to be a vacuous liege woman—but some modicum of how-to and a bit of ease would have been lovely. So my ask is to keep telling those stories, telling the truth. Please, and thank you. 🙏🏻
Hello! I would like to hear/read more about your adult onset ADHD diagnosis. When you started to suspect, how it affected your day to day life, the decision to take meds, etc.
My favorite thing about your parties, online or off, has been the ease with which you welcome everyone and everything in. Not to say it’s easy—and I understand the urge to focus—but it is a gift. Or maybe more accurately, you are the gift. The multitudes you contain help us see our own.
I'm here for ALL of your content, whatever that may be. I find a lot of value in your musings, be it on parenting, marriage, ambition/the workplace, beauty, fashion, current events, etc. I may not always agree but isn't that the beauty of hearing disparate views-it makes me think. Keep being your authentic self and I will happily continue to support the party.
I feel like I've reached peak podcast. I would much rather read your postings. And I like the randomness of your postings. However, I know that can be exhausting to not have a "theme" so if I were brain storming with you I'd say: write up some goals for 2025 (your novel for one your interest in community endeavors for another and I'm sure there are more) then spend the year writing about how you are progressing in those goals––how you've approached them, how those approaches have worked for you and how those goals change over the year. It would be a check in for you––an accountability if you will and for us readers an example and a reminder of what we should also be doing in our own lives and communities.
this is so useful, CW x
I don't care what you post. I just support you and love the para-relationship of "knowing" you. :-D
I personally like your mid life essays, career creative endeavors. I think we get so much movie and book reviews. And you cover that on your podcast.
As someone who is also all over the place, let me just say that I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability. I very much enjoy all of your writing, but if I had to pick, I'd say my favorite pieces are the essays on issues pertinent to midlife.
Hi! I was going to ask if you would ever launch another podcast in the EIF FB group. Stiffed was FASCINATING, I learned a ton (love reading about legacy media, I used to work at Real Simple etc...) and I'm really glad to hear you're into a new project. Can't wait for it to drop. Thanks for all you do and what you bring to us.
All of the above! However if I had to choose: midlife, middle age, post-50, and aging/ambition (or letting go of ambition). I've loved letting go of striving (mostly, I'm only human!) - to be young, relevant, hip, attractive, etc. Whether it's a shopping guide or essay or whatever, I'm here for it.
I'd read anything you write Jen. I was listening to EIF driving today and your chat about your potential new home made me laugh. Also the return to thin - ugh. So how you live and navigate your life, especially at this stage we find ourselves in, is so interesting and funny and pertinent. People I know are starting to talk about retirement and I'm thinking WT!? I am more interested in what is the third act because who wants to go gently into the night. I love a good skincare/makeup/treatment recommendation - the degradation of the jaw line is real. I think consistent posts would be the way to go, for me at least - something to look forward to. I'd totally listen to another podcast.
You should do whatever you want based on your goals for having your substack. I make this recommendation to everyone in case you need breathing room: there's nothing wrong with a short post once in awhile. People are tired!
Definitely all of the above for me! I am glad you mentioned ADHD advice because you are open about that and as one of the gazillion women who was diagnosed later in lafe (47 yo) I am interested in how you navigate that. I love EIF and Ambition Monster is incredible. I look forward to more of your singular style in 2025!
First, thanks for inviting feedback in such a generous way! I feel like I'd love to read everything that you described, although I'm not quite as interested in the nuts-and-bolts writing and publishing stuff. (You're great at that, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot of other writers in that space doing only writing-related stuff, i.e., Jami Attenberg.) As a fellow parent of an only (surly) teenage child, I'd love some more parenting-of-teens content--if your kid is good with it, that is. Always love a shopping guide, always love cultural recommendations . . . Anyway, thanks again!
I'd love to see more on mid-life style & beauty and essays on mid-life. ..although I'm less interested in shopping guides, and more interested in how-to-wear-the-thing-I-already-have guides. (I like when you talk on the show about how you wear stuff and what you wear to events, whether an outfit worked and why. Looking cool yet being comfortable at our age is an art form for sure).
Content on publishing/writing is not really relevant to me, but more general creativity is.
Consistency in posting is key. I'm not yet a paid subscriber but probably will jump soon. Substack subscriptions add up, so I'm choosy. It definitely bugs me when I pay for a sub and then the posts dry up.
Useful! Thank you!
What has been most insightful/inspiring/revelatory with your stories, and everything you get behind, is how to do life without a blueprint. As a fellow child of teenagers, I’ve had to fight/fumble/fuckitallup to make my life, and there’s always that persistent, naggy feeling of getting/doing it wrong. By sharing and being brutally truthful about those parts of yourself, it makes me feel less less-than. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want to be a vacuous liege woman—but some modicum of how-to and a bit of ease would have been lovely. So my ask is to keep telling those stories, telling the truth. Please, and thank you. 🙏🏻
I buy everything you recommend. *Covers eyes and blushes*
So obviously, I love the recs. : )
haha I love you!
Hello! I would like to hear/read more about your adult onset ADHD diagnosis. When you started to suspect, how it affected your day to day life, the decision to take meds, etc.
Yes to this!!!
My favorite thing about your parties, online or off, has been the ease with which you welcome everyone and everything in. Not to say it’s easy—and I understand the urge to focus—but it is a gift. Or maybe more accurately, you are the gift. The multitudes you contain help us see our own.
i love you xoxoxo
I'm here for ALL of your content, whatever that may be. I find a lot of value in your musings, be it on parenting, marriage, ambition/the workplace, beauty, fashion, current events, etc. I may not always agree but isn't that the beauty of hearing disparate views-it makes me think. Keep being your authentic self and I will happily continue to support the party.