Why I'm here

I studied journalism. Then I barely used it.

Not because I stopped caring about words, but because life took me somewhere else - sales, targets, growth, all the things that come with a corporate career that worked out better than I expected.

But something stayed dormant. The part that wants to tell stories rather than close them.

I did use it briefly. I was a reporter at the BBC in the Channel Islands - breaking the hard-hitting stories that only Guernsey could offer. Hedge veg disputes. Planning permission controversies. The occasional rogue seagull incident. War correspondence it was not.

Then I pivoted to sales. Turns out closing deals and chasing stories have more in common than you’d think.

So here I am now. Building a running brand for our community called Journey Arc, as a passion project. Training for a second marathon. Playing guitar badly. Looking after our lovely rescue dog. Living a life that looks nothing like the broadcast journalist I thought I’d become at 22, and feeling mostly okay about that.

No agenda. No niche. Just writing about the things that are actually on my mind.

You’re welcome to come along.