A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

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• The Death of Patience: Why you suddenly can’t wait for anything anymore

  October 25, 2026 · 19 min

  Every time you can’t wait, a billionaire gets richer. You make a Thursday 9pm impulse buy. Why not, it’s basically the weekend. It’s been a tough week. You deserve it. Five minutes pass and you’ve refreshed the tracker twice. It tells you…

• I’m 41. If You’re Approaching Midlife, Read This.

  October 15, 2026 · 26 min

  Aging causes problems. But one of the positive things about getting older is we also get wiser. This is the case for me. I even have a Staff of Wisdom stick I like to grasp during my moments of clarity. I’ve experienced my own fair share…

• Skills are the new currency and most people are broke

  October 8, 2026 · 18 min

  I make my own laundry detergent out of conkers I forage from the park. I do this because every time I learn to make, do or grow something myself, I feel high. Like flying all the way to Jupiter high. It started with a tomato. The day I…

• The Pound Project Live: Leyla Kazim x Natalie Lue

  May 3, 2026 · 54 min

  On Wednesday 25th March, JP Watson, founder of independent publishers The Pound Project, interviewed myself and Natalie Lue about our powerful titles from 2025: Pathways and Let Go. We discussed the origins of our books, how a pitch and…

• Why I'm leaving the only life I've known

  May 11, 2025 · 41 min

  An interview with Leyla Kazim as part of Rosie Birkett's Kitchen Hang series. We talk about the potency of herbal remedies, conscious community farming, DIY domestic flour mills (and more of Leyla's niche kitchen gadgets), the art of…

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