Permission Slip

Hi Reader, My year is accelerating. Big time. For the last couple of weeks it's felt like January is just moments away. So to celebrate time speeding up, I've been slowing down. October was a busy month of travel, and I'm no good to anyone running on fumes. The last few days have been filled with space. Working slowly instead of under pressure. Plenty of rest between calls. And in that slower pace, I've been looking back. This time of year is a natural moment to check in on the goals you set...

Hi Reader, We’d spent months planning our exit to warmer waters. At the beginning of the year, a move abroad felt like the right decision. Every part of me agreed. And yet October ultimately culminated in my husband and I receiving our permanent residency in the UK! Let me back up. October was an interesting month. So much shifted beneath my feet I could hardly plant them down long enough to see what direction I was walking. The month was full of hotel stays, writing, hiking, and exploring...

Hi Reader, A few days ago I stood outside a hotel in Shoreditch, on the phone to my husband, filled with rage. I'd just spent an entire day in a room full of women I admire. Founders. Authors. Women running businesses far bigger than mine, all of them generous with what they knew. And I left furious. It took me a while to work out what the anger was actually about. It wasn't them. It was me, sitting in the audience as a consumer, when I know I could be the one on that stage. Then came dinner....

Hi Reader, Back in my WWF days, a colleague of mine was picking up award after award for her conservation work. Genuinely deserved. She was the real thing. I remember one afternoon, she turned to me and said, "Amanda, you're going to get so many awards for your work. It's all coming." I was in my mid-twenties. I didn't really know what she meant. I didn't know how you got the awards, or when, or what for. But I held onto those words like a small quiet promise. And for years afterward, every...

Hi Reader, The Psychic Salon is a little less than one week away — and I've been waiting to tell you who's joining me on stage at The Century Club. Two of the most gifted psychics I know are flying in for this. One from Ibiza. One from Chicago. Both spending an evening with us in one intimate room in Soho. Saskia Nefkens — psychic medium, psychologist, and co-founder of Not Your Average Psychic — is flying in from Ibiza. Saskia has a grounded, ancient, earthy quality to her — she speaks...