#375 Farrah Storr: Are Newsletters the New Magazines?

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Come and say hello to Farrah and I on my Substack The Hyphen'! https://thehyphen.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-farrah-storr?s=w

Today we are talking about writing, career changes, magazines and Substack newsletters! Some exciting news also that I have launched my very own SUBSTACK newsletter! Check it out here: https://thehyphen.substack.com/ If you sign up, Every month, you’ll receive my Hyphen round-up for free, and for paying subscribers, you’ll gain access to the full archive, a monthly book recommendation that we can all read together, a regular Q&A instalment and book giveaways. You’ll also be supporting all the work I do and give away for free! :)

My guest today is Farrah Storr, the new Head of UK writer partnerships at Substack. She is the former editor in chief of Cosmopolitan & Elle UK and the author of the book The Discomfort Zone: How to Get What You Want by Living Fearlessly. I interviewed her for this podcast back in 2018 and I’m excited to invite her back on to discuss what’s changed, what she is up to, including her new role at Substack. She also has her own newsletter: Things Worth Knowing where she covers a wealth of different topics from friendship to love to career - which lots of wisdom in there. We talk about why she left magazines, the current landscape for creators, the power of newsletters and having paying subscribers, and how to navigating an evolving digital world. Hope you enjoy!

My Substack! https://thehyphen.substack.com/

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Farrah's book: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780349415376

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0:00.7	This episode of Control or Delete is sponsored by King Fischer, the company behind
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0:53.0	roles. Thank you so much to King Fischer for sponsoring this podcast.
0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. My guest today is Farah Store, the former editor-in-chief
1:03.6	of Cosmopolitan and L.U.K. and the author of the book The Discomfort Zone, which I really enjoyed.
1:10.2	I interviewed her for this podcast back in 2018, and I'm really excited to have her back on to
1:15.2	discuss what's changed in that time, what she's been up to, including a new role at the New
1:19.6	Zeta platform, Substack, as its first head of U.K. writer partnerships, which we talk all about.
1:25.4	Excitingly, since this episode was recorded, I've actually gone and launched my own Substack,
1:31.0	called the hyphen, and some of you may have known that I've had a new Zeta for a very long time,
1:35.9	but I'm over on Substack now. I absolutely love it, and I can't wait to do more on there.
1:41.4	If you're a fan of this show and you like my writing or my books, then that is the place to go
1:46.4	and sign up, because I'm really loving it on there. There's a sense of community. I love that I
1:51.6	can talk to everyone, but also put all of my stuff on there. The link is in the show notes below.
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