Desperately Seeking

Today I’m chatting with Emma ( you can find her substack here ) about how social media affected our spending habits - as consumers and creators - and how our spending habits have changed over the years. This episode is also available as a YouTube video: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikhila.substack.com/subscri...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com This is a tale of two halves, partly about what happened, partly about how I’ve learned to forgive myself decades later.

This week I am desperately seeking some grace , ahead of what could be a very tricky topic to cover. Straight out of the gate, I think Ed Sheeran (whether we’re saying it’s his ‘team’ or him) handled this past week terribly. In not backing Macklemore, he made a statement, whether he wanted to or not, and in the days since, he seems to only be digging a deeper hole for himself. As a tiny influencer...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com I promised my arrest story on Monday but something has been percolating in my brain and I can’t wait until next week to get it out. Yesterday, my husband said something to me. It was a joke, I’m fairly sure, but it’s been hovering ever since and I couldn’t help but wonder (forgive me) if it was true. We were talking...

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. 21 years and 6 days ago, I had a baby. I was 19, I still lived at home, I’d had a full time job since I left school at 16 but I’d been nowhere, I’d done nothing. I hadn’t lived. I talk about the impact that having children so young had on me often. I sometimes think it’s a little much, but there’s nothing else that has shaped me in the same way. While...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Today’s episode is brought to you by my instagram feed constantly serving me content that evokes a strong response.. I’m sure there’d a word for that. In other news, IT’S SEPTEMBER!! YAY! My routine will soon return to normal and the 2 episodes a week will be BACK.. just in time for my to go n holiday and lose it ag...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com This was originally on the docket as a chatty, entirely-unscripted, vlog. During my tenure as a chronic over-sharer with a camera and a YouTube account, I’ve pegged myself as a verbal processor. Where many may see someone giving strangers way too much personal information, I see a free therapy session. Of course the...

When Chat GPT first popped in to my world I thought it was magic. I’m a creative person with a million ideas but I’m often bogged down in the admin of running creative businesses and find myself with less and less time to actually create. This was a tool that allowed me to outsource the boring stuff. I could feed it masses of data and ask it to summarise what would take me hours of research and le...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Today’s episode is another ‘Couples Therapy’ with Lee. Today we’re talking about why some couples grow apart and others grow together over time. I saw a clip from ‘relationship experts, Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman that really made me think.. because I am guilty of turning away recently, and I wanted to s...

I filmed this for YouTube last week and thought it lent itself well to a podcast episode too. The response I received made me feel like I wasn’t totally alone in feeling I will never be free of the impulses I’m trying to control, but I can do what I can to mitigate triggers. Ultimately, it’s a daily exercise in making better choices for the life I want, rather than succumbing to those inner urges....

Apologies for those who missed the podcast this week! I’ve been off work and thought I’d have SO much time. When will I learn that when everyone is home, I get nothing done? I roped Lee in to a chat about his obsession with all things Disney, since we were sitting in the car to charge anyway , and we went LONG, so hopefully this makes up for the delay in posting. I was always a ‘Disney person’, bu...

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Today’s episode is a BUMPER LENGTH - possibly record breaking - chat with my friend Charl ( @gingergirlsays ) about social media icks, over analysing how we’re perceived and a little prequel to dating. I am absolutely going to wrangle her in to a follow up, so stay tuned for some calls for questions on insta! This w...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com If you haven’t already taken the quiz, I really recommend it, and if you can get other people in your life to take part, all the better! https://love-language.co/ and, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, this is the Key and Peele Sketch I was referencing

In today’s episode I will mostly be MELTING in a hot car while covering an even HOTTER topic - influencer businesses. Having run a (somewhat successful) candle shop for 3 years, I’m embarking on a new venture and I’m having all of the same wobbles I did the first time around. Let’s talk about it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Well there WAS video component to this but I’ve been trying to upload it for TWO DAYS and this is the message substack is giving me

today’s episode is a chat about the current wave of Taylor Swift hate and what I think it’s really about. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikhila.substack.com/subscribe

Sources mentioned in today’s episode Stylist Magazine article: https://www.stylist.co.uk/beauty/nail-technicians-support-mental-health-wellbeing/659807 Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Nails/comments/1m6opsk/how_to_break_up_with_your_nail_tech/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikhila.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com On this HOTTEST day, I chose to tackle a particularly spicy issue.. but, honestly? It doesn’t feel spicy to me at all. It feels like common sense.

‘Harry Styles is the Alka Seltzer of Music’ was the alternative title for this one.. the original being, ‘should we let FOMO run our lives?’ I think the one I landed on is the most honest and the least misleading, based on the very random conversation we had outside Wembley on Saturday night, after leaving the Harry Styles concert. For someone who only downloaded an abum of his a few weeks ago and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Today’s episode is sleepy - but not sleepy enough to sleep. We’re talking about my recent reaction to meds, how stress can affect more than your mood and why my difficulty balancing my want to be offline with my need to maintain a social presence led me to ANOTHER altercation with a troll this week.

I’ve been a creator on Youtube for 16 years, and a consumer of Youtube for 1 day more. I was looking for inspiration on google ahead a hair appointment in April 2010. I was having a pink streak in my hair and found an image that turned out to be a thumbnail and led me to a tutorial from someone called Zoeebella - not to be confused with Zoella. I lost an hour to her videos about makeup and style b...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikhila.substack.com Today’s episode has been on the list for a few weeks but I kept putting it off. Of course, once I decided to record it, I had no notes - so here’s my rambly, one-take chat about my early experience with ADHD meds after being diagnosed TWICE and looking forward to that magical fix-it-all pill I’d read about for years...

A friend of mind has been on a bit of a reflective journey recently and we’ve had lots of conversations about childhood and parenting. How we wish things had been, how we would be different, what worked and what didn’t. How much comparison is fair, given we’re literally living in a whole new world now, and how much we should just let go of because, ‘it’s their first time on earth too’. This is a p...

I was laughing at Emma in Monday’s episode when she was saying she’s always starting things and then tapering off... but let’s be real. That’s me all over, isn’t it? I was talking to a friend recently about a guy she just started seeing. He was consistently letting her down and arriving late or not at all. I said, ‘I am absolutely on your side... we think this guy is a jerk and he’s messing you ar...