Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: The Messy Middle, subscriber chat.

This is a conversation space exclusively for subscribers—kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll post questions and updates that come my way, and you can jump into the discussion.

It's a greater way to ask questions about topics I’ve shared on the podcast, or request a topic for me to cover. I’ll share links to books or articles I’m reading and I’d love to hear what your loving and learning about. You’ll also get to meet some of the other amazing, clever people that I've had the privilege of connecting with through Potential Psychology.

Earlier this year I resigned from my job. My fulfilling, secure employment of three and a half years.

I left a team of people I love, and work that brought me joy, satisfaction and a sense of purpose. I said goodbye to a role that saw me through the tumult of the pandemic and helped me forge a community that I may not have found in any other way.

It was sad.

It was difficult.

It was a long time coming, yet happened in an instant.

Regular listeners of the Potential Psychology Podcast would know that in 2023 I published very few podcast episodes, because life and all of the messy ‘middle-ness’ that I was feeling, which may have been a post-pandemic adjustment situation or may have been something else, meant that I didn’t find the time or the focus for podcasting.

There was something else at play too. After five years and over 100 episodes, almost entirely interviews with experts in being human and human experience, I felt the poddie needed a little refresh.