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This Was My Mum-Life Crisis: now a book!

June 15, 2016 by Katie Lee

I made you a present and it only took me 100 hours!

And you didn’t even ask me to do it!

Yes, I turned my popular ecourse into an ebook! Download it for free here!

This Was My Mum-Life Crisis by Katie Lee

This Was My Mum-Life Crisis by Katie Lee

In a final push to get this off my to do list and onto the internet, I forced myself to only spend 30 minutes making this cover. And then I spent another 2 hours this afternoon titting about with minor edits in the book that normal humans won’t notice (en dashes are important, dammit!)

But here it is!

This Was My Mum-Life Crisis by Katie Lee Download PDF

This Was My Mum-Life Crisis by Katie Lee Download epub (Kobo etc) 

This Was My Mum-Life Crisis by Katie Lee Download for Kindle 

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Do let me know if you spot any typos etc won’t you.

This book was the thing that kicked off my screenwriting career, so I am forever grateful to it. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

“Yes, but WHAT ELSE have you been doing?” I hear you ask.

When I’m not spending way too long composing my 10 Commandments for Email, or creating infographics for clients even though I’m not a designer and the client didn’t even ask for an infographic and would have been happy with a few bullet points, or adding even more hobbies to my already brimming hobby list, or working on a sitcom (yes, really) and a novel (yes, really), I like to neglect all housework and make things for YOU.

Mum-Life Crisis Audiobook

Since I’ve done it as an ebook, I figured I’d record it as an audiobook at the same time. But I forgot to record the name of the book and the author. So now I need to work up the energy to open Garageband on my wheezing old Mac and set my mic up to record a sentence. I’ll no doubt take at least another 6 months to get round to it.

More LEAP Podcasts

I’ve also got three more amazing podcasts recorded, including one with the marvellous, sweary Joanne Mallon. I recorded them all last year. LAST YEAR! It took me about the same length of time to edit the last lot, so at least I’m consistent. Stay tuned!

Filed Under: About Me, ecourse Tagged With: Ebook, ecourse, Mum-Life Crisis

Here’s what I remember about going back to work properly after having my first daughter.

May 12, 2015 by Katie Lee

    1. I felt weird, lumpy and my centre of gravity had shifted thanks to giant, milk-filled mammaries and a recently acquired excess layer of cake-based flabbage.
    2. I was in constant fear of not just leaking a bit of milk, but actually flooding the local area.
    3. My vagina still hurt. 

Katie Lee CecilyI’d barely had a full night’s sleep in nine months and whenever I did sleep, I ground my teeth so much I literally shattered my front tooth (hello, sexy mouthguard!). So you can imagine I went into those early client meetings feeling serene, relaxed, in control and ready to take on the world.

I was back! I was still fabulous! I was… wait a second, is that dried biscuit or poo on my top?

The first big meeting I had with a potential new client was like a bad episode of Ally McBeal. It was a farce of epic proportions. And prat-falling her way through the whole thing like a lactating Bridget Jones was me.

I thought I was meeting a friend of a friend for an informal coffee, but as I left the house, it occurred to me for the first time that the person had referred to another person and a booked meeting room. Two people and a room. Then I remembered that she’d mentioned her boss was trying to make it. Two people, a room and a BOSS?

That’s not an informal coffee that’s a 20-minute PowerPoint and “any questions?”

I didn’t have a PowerPoint! Even worse, I didn’t have a laptop, having dropped and killed mine the night before while working on it as I walked down the stairs (that old story).

As I pondered this with increasing alarm, it dawned on me that I was going to be late. I’d left the house at the time I should have been getting on a train. That meant I’d be at least 10 minutes late. For the boss. I would have run to the train station, but there was no way I’d catch the earlier train before my vagina fell out. 

At Elephant & Castle I panicked, thinking I could jump on a magic new tube I’d just invented in my hysterical mind that would get me there 10 minutes faster than the one I always take. I got lost in the concrete maze of Elephant & Castle’s underbelly. I decided just to get on the next train. Then I changed my mind and got off. Then, at the last minute, I changed it back again, jumped onto the train as the doors shut, caught my foot on the edge of the tube, fell forwards and landed in a sprawled heap of hair and shame at the feet of a carriage full of London commuters. 

“Hi!” I said, looking up at them all with (I thought) considerable aplomb. One person laughed. Everyone else stared a London stare. The shits.

Anyway, the short version is that I arrived late, which no one seemed to notice (this is London, people are always late for meetings), I got into the tiny meeting room, saw there was no computer or projector, acted all collected and asked if there was a room with a PC, got taken to a board room, located a SlideShare presentation online I’d made for a different client and winged it. They invited me back for another meeting. 

What’s weird about that experience is how it affected me afterwards. Through the years I’ve often felt out of my depth, suffering from the Imposter Syndrome experienced by so many people. But I also know I’m good at busking. And yet, I did not come out of that meeting thinking, “Phew, I totally shat miracles today, I really am a jammy madam.” I just thought, “By golly, what a total shambles! You are like some crazy, wobbly, mum-brained moron. I don’t even know who you are.”

I was shaken. I came home feeling that I would never get another client again and that my years of successfully running businesses had all just been a giant fluke. That one, mildly comical experience led me to make some huge decisions about my life that were totally wrong for me.

It took me a long time to get over it. 

Here’s what I learned along the way.

So what happens next? Sign up to my FREE, funny self-help course for new mothers to find out!
Sign up to receive 8 totally free emails from me! (Free ebook version coming soon with all new updated text and even more swearing)

Filed Under: ecourse Tagged With: ecourse, Katie Lee

She was just a stressed out mom until she discovered this simple trick

April 29, 2015 by Katie Lee

7-DAY EMOTIONAL UPGRADE - (1)…Just kidding. There is no simple trick. Sorry stressed moms (or mums if you will, which I… will). Please just continue drinking wine.

Anyway, I’ve just always wanted to write one of those Upworthy headlines and none of my current clients would be seen dead using an open-loop clickbait headline. They’re too classy, dammit.

The point is that I wrote a short, funny email series and I want you to SIGN UP! It’s FREE!

But is this the right choice for you?

I have prepared a simple flow chart.

…

Actually, scratch that. I spent 5 minutes on www.draw.io trying to build a flow-chart and realised I don’t have enough life for this nonsense.

Instead, if you answer YES to any of these simple questions, you should definitely consider joining me on my free ecourse.

It’s funny (people who don’t even know me have told me so it must be true), hopefully useful, entirely free, and – the best part – only a week long, so if you really hate it you can just ignore me until I go away.

Ask yourself these simple if slightly odd questions.

√ Do I own a uterus?

√ Has it been inhabited?

√ When I gave birth, did I ever think some variation on “hmm, it feels like someone keeps deleting my self-identity to make space for information about nipple thrush.”

√ Do I need more emails even though I sometimes wonder if the time I spend deleting all the emails I get is the time our ancestors spent wandering amongst daffodils composing verse.

√ Have I ever felt guilty about my childcare arrangements, felt stretched at work,  been embarrassed to leave work early, questioned my choices, wanted a pedicure, wondered what happened to that 20-something with the great tits?

√ Do I just want this list of questions to end?

If the answer to any of those questions is YES then SIGN UP NOW! Please join me – I need the validation to keep my ego stoked.

7-Day Emotion Upgrade eCourse – sign up!



NB There is no actual work on this course!

Here’s what people are saying (mainly my friends):

All so timely, relevant and funny, just so helpful in knowing that we all share same feelings and experiences. Thank you, keep ’em coming! ~ Lia

Ha ha ha – this is hilarious. ~ Caroline

This stuff is great, Katie. It’s yoga without the yoga speak. I’m going to pass it on to lots of people. Love stuff like this when it’s written with humour. ~ Ruth

What do you get if you cross the humble wisdom of the Barefoot Doctor with the irreverent wit of Caitlin Moran…Katie Lee! ~ Lia (again – she really likes the course, ok!)

The way you write has me full-on chortling at my desk! Thanks for making me smile today! ~ Tracey

I’ve just finished reading the first bit AND AM ENJOYING IT SO MUCH! Just had to stop and tell you. Especially as I want to read all the others at once.  This is a book. A musical? A film. A new HBO drama. ~ Julia

Why did I write this email series ecourse thingy?

Good question, I’m glad you asked.

For fun. Because I had some excellent guidance from Sue Smith. Because I wanted to write something. Because I wanted to make you laugh. And feel better.

I have no big plans for this course. I am throwing it out into the world and seeing what happens. It’s free and always will be. There’s no upsell. Join us!

PS. Some people have said that any woman would enjoy this course, not just the ones who know what an episiotomy is. You’re welcome to join, but maybe cover your eyes when I talk about vaginas. Again.

Read the full blurbage here.

Filed Under: ecourse, Miramus Tagged With: ecourse, LEAP

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