about
Hello + welcome! Thank you so much for being here!
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I am a single Mum of 2 grown up sons, living on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Alongside a lovely day job, I write and am a freelance creative.
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In June 2022 when I was 57, a childhood dream came true when my best selling book Stand Up Paddleboarding in Great Britain - Beautiful Places to Paddleboard in England, Scotland and Wales was published by award winning publishers Vertebrate Publishing to a wonderful welcome. You can buy it here.
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My second book about beautiful places to paddleboard in the Lake District will be published in spring 2024 again with Vertebrate Publishing.
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In the summer of 2019, aged 54, I became the first woman to stand up paddleboard coast to coast, 162 miles from Liverpool to Goole, picking up litter + fundraising for The Wave Project and 2MinuteBeachClean Foundation. You can watch a film about this adventure: Brave Enough - A Journey Home to Joy
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I love to write and am honoured to have been invited to speak at prestigious adventure festivals, wellbeing events + on many wonderful podcsasts. My story has been featured in the national press, on the radio + TV.
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To share my joyful message, I also make tiny, award winning films about joy, adventure + finding your purpose. My podcast The Joy of SUP - the Paddleboarding Sunshine Podcast launched with my first guest on Christmas Eve 2020.
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"I can't change the world, but I can change the little bit around me."
However, life was not always so happy.
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In May 2013, I found myself sobbing in the biscuit aisle of Tesco's, looking at the chocolate Hob Nobs and wondering how my life had come to this. I was 48, a busy working Mum, flying solo with my boys.
Both my parents were undergoing chemotherapy at the time and I was overwhelmed, anxious and desperate for a good night's sleep. What I didn't realise was that I was going through the early stages of the perimenopause at the time.
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A friend lent me an old indoor rowing machine suggesting exercise might help. Within two weeks I was sleeping and life was so much brighter.
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In 2014, I rowed a million metres and marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of my Mum, completing the challenge on the 1st anniversary of her death and 5 days before my 50th birthday. We raised £10,000.00.
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I returned to the hills + sea which I had loved as a child, body boarding, wild swimming and hiking.
In September 2016, I took my first paddleboard lesson. I loved it from the minute I stood up.
"You're never too old to do something wild and it's never too late to make a difference."
Now approaching 60 and happily post menopause, my goal is to share the joy of ageing well, solo adventures, being brave enough for fresh starts and caring for the oceans.
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I'm a proud ambassador for Seaful Charity and Patron of The National Women's Register. I am a friend of the Canal and River Trust and 2 Minute Foundation.
I believe: We are never too old and it's never too late to have an adventure, create a fresh start or make a difference.
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I hope you'll join me on this wild + precious adventure....
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Jo x Instagram @jomoseley Facebook Jo Moseley X @healthyhappy50
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PS I would love to speak to your organisation about the joy of adventure, ageing well, fresh starts and making a difference. Please see my Speaker page for details. Thank you!
