The Blog

But yesterday I had a biz meeting with my amazing friend, let’s call her Katherine. It’s her name so this works – and of course like everyone else is was a hot topic of conversation. We talked about our friends who have lost income and had improv and acting gigs cancelled. She sighed and said – well ‘I guess we need to look at the positives.’ And she is completely right.

Quite often in our careers we feel the need to be more then we are.  To say we know more than we do, it is this underlying need we get to want to feel accepted.  Jemimah and I spoke about this and how we all need to accept and embrace “our lane” in life.  This doesn’t mean that that is where you are going to have to stay or “drive” forever but being authentic with yourself and your audience is key.

It’s been one year since my marriage ended and to be honest, this has been one of the absolute best but equally one of the worst years of my life. This polarity has made for a real rollercoaster which included a night so fun that I now have a lifetime ban from the Viper Room in Los Angeles. But, I’ve also ugly cried in the bread section in Coles. See? Rollercoaster.

So I’m in Queensland and I’m sleeping on a friends blow up mattress. It’s been raining and its humid and my hair look like a woolly alpaca and it’s the best thing I could have done for myself.

I’m a country girl, through and through and like most of Australia, I’m feeling absolutely helpless this month watching my country be ravaged by fire.

Like most people around Australia, it’s been hard to sit and know you can’t help and I’ve seen dozens of conflicting messages about needing help.

Before you go on to read this blog, let me start by saying this was hard to write and this is some fucking truth bombs from me. This isn’t a feel good piece. These are the HARD lessons.

I have spent the last six months travelling around the world and living out of a suitcase.  I took this trip for a few reasons, but it was mostly that I could fall in love with life and myself again. I wanted an adventure and it was exactly what I got! I spend 6 months largely without a plan, only one suitcase and an open mind.

I want to talk about the end of the decade. Seriously. We are WEEKS AWAY from this happening. At the start of any new year – I ask myself one question – what do I want from the coming year? This year, I’m asking what I want from the coming decade.

It’s one year today since my first ever book, Position Me, went to #1 and to be honest, it feels like a lot longer. Or maybe a lot has happened? Perhaps two things can be true.

One year ago my book was at #1 in 26 countries and I was nursing a bit of a hangover after one hell of a party. We old THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of books in the first 34 hours. We maintained #1 for weeks.

I have three dozen emails that need attention and the Wifi keeps cutting in and out so I’m settling on what I’ve been avoiding – writing a blog.