Wellmania author Brigid Delaney quits Albanese government for side hustles
The ex-columnist at Guardian Australia and co-creator of the Netflix comedy drama Wellmania officially left the employ of the federal government on Tuesday, where she worked for finance minister Katy Gallagher before Plibersek.
The former Herald trainee has four (count 'em) projects on the go: a consultancy business, a hybrid novel-memoir about stoicism, a demi-semi-autobiographical comic novel. Oh and a Substack, natch.
The Substack, called The Chaos Era with Brigid Delaney, should have launched by now, unless Delaney left her laptop at a station, or got trapped on a train in Wynyard tunnel, or slipped while bushwalking on an island, triggering a rescue by the coastguard, or suffered any of her many trademark real life snafus she will doubtless be writing about.
Meanwhile, her hybrid book, The Seeker and the Sage, billed as 'a stoic conversation to hold you together in a fractured world' is due out in September. Delaney hit a jackpot with her previous stoicism book, Reasons Not To Worry, which sold in 22 territories and was translated into 19 languages.
It followed on from Wellmania, her book which investigated the wellness industry, which was turned into a Netflix series starring Celeste Barber.
In addition, Delaney has just launched her Stoic Solutions consultancy, which translates the timeless teachings of the ancient stoics Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus for the modern corporate audience so they can retool their bandwidth, tie a bow around it, resolve hanging issues and crush their KPIs.
But wait. Delaney is planning a novel, which will supercharge the real-life adventures (see above) she chronicled in her diary column for Guardian Australia.
Creatures across the journalistic/literary/entertainment/political blob will have only one question on their minds when they learn of its existence: am I going to be in this thing?
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