🪩 Welcome, Wander Woman!
Solo travel, longevity and wellness culture for women just getting started.
Adventures in journalism from a genXy writer and wanderer. Your weekly hit of optimism and grit.
Hiya 🤗
I'm Nika — travel journalist, wanderer, work in progress.
Bold Types explores solo travel, longevity and wellness culture for women just getting started.
Indie journalism with soul to help you live well and feel your best.
How do we make the second half of life healthier, more adventurous and more connected?
Curious about everything and trying to figure out ‘what is a life worth living?’ What gives me meaning, purpose and joy? The journey we're all on.
I’ll be raving till the grave. Music, dancing, coming together - collective joy.
I’ve been writing online since 1999, self-employed since 2005, and building here on Substack for six years.
For the scenic, more rugged route (my 30-year career) pour a glass and go here.
Nika 🍸
🪩 Project Longevity: without the vampire vibes.
I’ve set myself a challenge for this year — new experiences and daily rituals that feed my body, soul, and wanderlust. St Leonards and beyond.
Working alfresco, longevity raves, HRT, neurosurfing, nootropics, superfoods, shamanism, wellness retreats, circular fashion. Using AI to help us live better for longer.
That’s the best way to see the world: in our bodies - Beat poet Gary Snyder.
Why now? Because we’re living through a fascinating shift — from treating illness to investing in health. For the first time, we can shape how we age. It’s not about living forever, but making the most our healthspan (disease-free years) so we can enjoy life.
We can all participate in collective longevity science, not just biohackers and billionaires.
Trying my best to get my RA into remission, and my mum is going through health challenges with breast cancer and CLL, so I want to help her through that.
My daughter Julieta is in her first year at uni so I’m a free bird empty nester for now ;) Time to live out of my suitcase for a bit.
Figuring out how I can work, wander, AND keep a home base as J needs that. “I still want my own room!” she said the other day. Roots and wings are the greatest gifts we can give our kids (and ourselves).
A home you can be part of, fly off from, and come back to.
It starts with us listening to each other’s stories. Join us?
☕️ Longevity Lounge
Part salon, part Viennese coffee house, part wellness retreat. A space for curious humans who love travel and adventure. Time to reconnect and reset.
Inside you’ll find:
🪩 Wellness discoveries, inspiring people, longevity experiments, events and travel stories.
☕️ Subscriber chat, book club and occasional virtual coffees + meetups as the community grows. Connect with fellow wander women.
Special thanks to long-time founding member Nige Cook for his support — working on his first book about quantum physics, which I’m about to edit. Go Nige!
Free subscribers get:
💌 Public posts
✍️ Hastings Writers’ Café (coworking club)
✨ Whenever you’re ready, I’d love you to come and play.
However you help me - THANK YOU.
Gold star for reading this far! 🤩
If any of this resonates with you, let’s have a chat about ways to work together. See my services.
Email nika@nikatalbot.io or call +44 7758 621106 to speak to a real human.
Wall of Love
I was impressed with how much you connected to people and the place when you were here. You’ve got a gift for it. Not everybody is comfortable striking up conversations with strangers. — Marianne Lehnis, Founder, The Green Techpreneur
A really helpful newsletter for the intersection of writing, the digital world and entrepreneurship, which can be a lonely place for many of us. — Ann-Marie McQueen, Founder, Hotflash Inc.
Nika Talbot is a hidden gem on Substack — writing about the business of writing, and writing and AI — in a way that no one else is. — Sarah Fay, Founder, Substack Writers at Work.
Made in St Leonards magic ✨
