Back to the beginning
Welcome to my newsletter! Thanks for being here and spending some of your valuable attention here today, I appreciate it 😊
I called this newsletter ‘Misfit Multipreneur’ to describe my current and aspiring states.
After the past 12-18 months of some not-so-great mental health, family and life difficulties, I feel like I’m still in the rebuilding process. I feel like I am a misfit, in many aspects of my life: personally and professionally. I am single in my mid-30s, not that interested at the moment in having children.
I’ve always struggled to fit into any given professional role and stood out (even if for what looked like positive reasons), doing things differently to everyone else without understanding why.
I tried to build my career based on a varied, ‘generalist’ skillset and found the most broad, vague area to thrive in startup ‘operations’ roles. Which actually worked surprisingly well.
And so, I claim the word ‘misfit’ as part of my identity, as a positive thing that I like about myself. I believe it also holds the key to rebuilding my life and career back in the way that feels authentic to me.
Looking to the future, I know I want to create and build. I love the process of building businesses and new ventures. I have accepted I am entrepreneurial at heart.
I have many varied interests and skills, which has made my career challenging at times. I have figured out that it doesn’t work for me to do one thing. Even one main ‘job’ with a ‘side-hustle’ just won’t cut it.
So I want to build multiple entrepreneurial things, portfolio-career-style, and make it work for me. I’ve recently followed Greg Isenberg and been inspired by some of his thoughts on 'multipreneurship'.
Not every project should be a business. Having worked across startups, corporates and charities, I am also interested in building endeavours around areas I care about, finding the most appropriate (and potentially new/innovative) structure to do so. Hence my subtitle building many ‘things’. They may not look the same.
I’ll write soon about my interest areas and what I’m working on next.
My goal with this newsletter is to get better at thinking, explore my interest areas in more depth, and improve my writing skills. Marc Zao-Sanders, often (always) referenced this Harvard Business Review article about how writing helps one’s thinking when I worked with him at Filtered. And he writes really well, so his profile and this article is where I went first when I thought about starting this newsletter.
As a general career goal, I want to get better at ‘the internet’, which I think is the key to building any business, project or venture in today’s world.
What I mean by the internet is this general collection of essential skills that I see people using to build brands: sales, marketing and content creation. In particular, things like: copywriting, SEO, scriptwriting, filming video content, animation, design, audio and video editing and idea generation.
And so, I’m embarking on a mission to learn more of these skills, write about things I care about, and endeavour to make a living along the way. This will be where I share the journey, and any tools, articles, products etc. that I come across that help me along the way.
I know there are others in my network, communities I am part of and in the world who feel similar things and have similar ambitions. Despite the world not seeming to be set up for either.
I am lucky to have a writing buddy in Alex Huhn, who is on a similar writing journey with similar motivations (check out his Substack Never Entrepreneur Alone). I think it’s really important to feel supported, especially in the polarised world we live in today and for that I’m really grateful.
I can’t remember the inspirational quote right now but someone definitely said something at some point about doing things together makes the journey less lonely.
If you’re writing or building and feel like either a misfit or multipreneur (current or aspiring) I would love to connect over a virtual coffee (or real-life one in London or Brighton UK).
