Ep.82 Overcoming obstacles to build a life that works for you - with Angela Kirwin

Show notes

After over a decade in social care in prisons, Angela left England and ran away to the European mountains. Burnt out & with no idea what to do next, she started to write, publishing her first book with Orion, Hachette in 2022. Now in Italy and in the process of renovating a collapsing farmhouse to create a community space & home, she writes full-time. She works with clients to build their brand through storytelling, and her latest manuscript focuses on ADHD & neurodiversity, something she understands all too well. To find out more about the renovating journey, living with ADHD or how to build your brand through storytelling, all her links are HERE

In this episode, you will learn:

• about obstacles like imposter syndrome and how to overcome them
• why it is okay if people call you crazy
• How to create a life you love and the efforts
• Angela is sharing how her life changed when she accepted having ADHD

Quotes:

"So I have not always worked as a writer, but I have always used writing ever since I was five years old. I think journaling, and keeping a diary has been a part of my life forever. And it's a way of working through my emotions, figuring out what's going on in the world."

"I don't focus on kind of the social media side of things, but I help. Businesses with their more like long-form content, their newsletter posts, their about the parts of their website or their online courses, and really, really help get their personality through with language."

"The obstacle was my ability to call myself a writer. I didn't, even after I could see my book in, you know, real bookshops, um, I felt really uncomfortable calling myself a writer because. I felt like people from my background don't do things like that."

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