Like me, Maria Hanley began her career as a teacher. Over the past few years she found herself making a big change due to an “unplanned, pandemic-induced transition” and now absolutely considers herself to be a writer.

In this episode, we talk about giving yourself permission to become a writer, honouring the ideas when they come and listening to whispers.

Have you ever found yourself to be an ‘Ideas volcano’ where you can’t stop coming up with (and spewing) new ideas? Maria mentions this piece of mine during our conversation and so I’ve linked to it here in case anyone didn’t see it when I first wrote it back in September.

Maria has a Substack page of her own: Dream Big (click the link to check it out and subscribe!)

I hope you find listening to Maria’s writing journey to be as inspiring as I did!

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