Welcome to Bold Types! ✨
A heart-first community for wander women.
Hiya 🤗
I'm Nika - a travel writer and journo living on the Sussex Riviera (St Leonards on Sea is THE place to be!). Proud mama to Julieta - first year at U of York so a free bird for now ;) and ready for some more solo adventures.
Experiential and cultural travel is my jam—not just seeing places but getting under the skin of them. Walking my way to stories—my feet are wiser than my head—finding deeper connections through the eye of an expert, reporter or local.
And the taste of place: celebrating food culture—our universal language—and preserving heritage.
My mission: Blending journalism and tourism. Travel inspires empathy—tiny steps towards world peace :)
Empowering women to travel solo - it’s the most transformative thing you can do. Connecting YOU with like-minded souls exploring reinvention.
In a nutshell, I love a good story. I believe in the power of writing to connect people and create a more compassionate world.
For the scenic, more rugged route (my 30-year career) pour a glass and go here.
Come on in, the water’s lovely!
Your weekly hit of optimism and grit.
Free and paid readers get the same writings. Paid is for the Boldies who’d like to go deeper, and be patrons of my work.
Club Bold 🌐
If you’re looking for more and to go deeper, I’d love you to join Club Bold.
A global sisterhood of women here to help each other feel fabulous. Friendship and freedom. A home you can be part of, fly off from, and come back to…
Planned serendipity. Monthly Unoffice Hours - community calls, networking. Bit of book talk. An hour to yourself, mostly
Travel through a book. Slow book club - 99 problems but a book ain’t one :) Our March read is The New Tourist by Paige McClanahan
Vitamin Sea! Writers’ Café and aperitivo hour
Biz toolkit and a juicy little archive
However you support me - THANK YOU. It means the world.
Special thanks to long-time founding member: Nige Cook, currently working on his first book about quantum physics. Go Nige!
Why Bold Types?
Bold Types started in 2020 as a letter from Freelance Land (building my writing biz), and that still matters to me…
Because the world is chaotic. Journalism is a struggling industry, and freelance rates have been stagnant for YEARS.
We’re seeing a massive shift in how media gets made and who controls it. No more gatekeepers - the audience decides. The rise of creator journalism, the Substack Motel, platform promiscuity, the rise of AI…
It’s fast, messy, a bit Wild West and also the most exciting and trusted space in journalism right now. People are paying for it. I’m here for all of it.
It’s not ‘Solo Vs Org’ though, it’s what we build between the two. Solo, together.
Gold star for reading this far! 🤩
If any of this resonates with you, let’s have a chat about ways to work together.
I offer 1:1 Unoffice Hours calls on Wednesdays - feel free to book in.
Nika xo
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.
Recommended reading for Workforce Futurists! — Andy Spence, Founder, Workforce Futurist.
Made in St Leonards magic ✨
