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Fiona Thomas: Mental Health at Work, Freedom via Freelancing, and Being Your Own Boss Without Burnout
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This week, I'm talking to Fiona Thomas, a freelance writer based in Birmingham.
Her first book is a mental health memoir called Depression in a Digital Age and her second is a guide to freelancing called Out of Office (available to pre-order now!).
In this episode, we dig deep on how to navigate the world of work when you have mental health issues - or even if you’re just a normal, living, breathing, emotional human! - and how and why so many women have finally decided that being their own boss is preferable to office politics and business burnout.
We talked about:
- Fiona’s journey from being signed off with depression and burnout at work, to finding a new career online and making a living as a writer and course creator
- How adulthood is so often about “unlearning” everything we thought we were “supposed” to be doing
- How to be yourself at work - or, how to start a new career in freelancing, even if you feel as though you’re not good enough, not ready, or not qualified
- How to show up as yourself online, and how being honest helps others to live their purpose too
- Giving yourself permission to dream big
- The problem with “toxic positivity” and why we all need to learn to just “feel our feelings”
- Learning to know yourself, whether you’re introverted or extroverted or somewhere in between
And how to make your work work for you...and not the other way around!
Show Notes: References and links mentioned in this episode
- Fiona’s books: Depression in a Digital Age and Out of Office
- Quote from Anais Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
- The book Mad Girl, by Bryony Gordon
- The book Ctrl; Alt; Delete, by Emma Gannon
- Trigger Publishing, Fiona’s publisher
- The book Quiet by Susan Cain
Find out more about Fiona:
- Website: Fionalikestoblog.com
- Instagram: @fionalikestoblog
Enjoying this podcast?
The best way to support us is to leave a good rating + review wherever you're listening, and share it on Instagram.
Take a screenshot of your listening, or share your favourite takeaway and DM and tag me at @breathelikeabadass .
Sharing + reviewing helps even more like-minded people to discover the show - which is awesome, because this stuff always feels easier when you know others who get it too.
Can't wait to see you there!
Thanks for listening, Hannah x
39 episodios
Manage episode 262396574 series 2607247
This week, I'm talking to Fiona Thomas, a freelance writer based in Birmingham.
Her first book is a mental health memoir called Depression in a Digital Age and her second is a guide to freelancing called Out of Office (available to pre-order now!).
In this episode, we dig deep on how to navigate the world of work when you have mental health issues - or even if you’re just a normal, living, breathing, emotional human! - and how and why so many women have finally decided that being their own boss is preferable to office politics and business burnout.
We talked about:
- Fiona’s journey from being signed off with depression and burnout at work, to finding a new career online and making a living as a writer and course creator
- How adulthood is so often about “unlearning” everything we thought we were “supposed” to be doing
- How to be yourself at work - or, how to start a new career in freelancing, even if you feel as though you’re not good enough, not ready, or not qualified
- How to show up as yourself online, and how being honest helps others to live their purpose too
- Giving yourself permission to dream big
- The problem with “toxic positivity” and why we all need to learn to just “feel our feelings”
- Learning to know yourself, whether you’re introverted or extroverted or somewhere in between
And how to make your work work for you...and not the other way around!
Show Notes: References and links mentioned in this episode
- Fiona’s books: Depression in a Digital Age and Out of Office
- Quote from Anais Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
- The book Mad Girl, by Bryony Gordon
- The book Ctrl; Alt; Delete, by Emma Gannon
- Trigger Publishing, Fiona’s publisher
- The book Quiet by Susan Cain
Find out more about Fiona:
- Website: Fionalikestoblog.com
- Instagram: @fionalikestoblog
Enjoying this podcast?
The best way to support us is to leave a good rating + review wherever you're listening, and share it on Instagram.
Take a screenshot of your listening, or share your favourite takeaway and DM and tag me at @breathelikeabadass .
Sharing + reviewing helps even more like-minded people to discover the show - which is awesome, because this stuff always feels easier when you know others who get it too.
Can't wait to see you there!
Thanks for listening, Hannah x
39 episodios
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