Welcome to Living Big

Living Big is a Substack community run by writer, podcaster and author Alison Perry. That’s me! 👋 I started off in 2000 as a teen and women’s magazine writer interviewing Busted, Girls Aloud and Sugababes, writing and editing articles about how to get that bloke to ask you out, how to get your fake tan to last and - at more! magazine - the mighty Position of the Fortnight.

In 2011, as a new mum, I started blogging at Not Another Mummy Blog and in 2017 I launched one of the first parenting podcasts (hard to believe there weren’t really ANY back then!) Not Another Mummy Podcast. It quickly hit the number one spot on Apple Podcasts and has had over a million downloads, with guests like Philippa Perry, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Myleene Klass, Emma Bunton and more.

So I started writing about fake tan and pop stars in my 20s, moved onto tantrums and lack of sleep in my 30s, and now in my 40s, I create content about:

• Losing - and trying to find - my confidence

• Perimenopause and menopause

• Dressing for joy

• Body confidence and diet culture

• Identity and imposter-syndrome

• Being brave and pushing myself out of my comfort zone

• Interviewing clever people with insight into the above - and more

So… welcome to Living Big, where I’ll be writing about all of this.

How does this work?

You can subscribe for free and, right now, access all of my writing free-of-charge.

At some point, I’ll activate paid memberships and you become a paying member (for around £1.50 a week) you can get full access to Living Big content - newsletters, articles, podcasts, threads and publication archives.