Hey, team.
I’m Alexa Shoen, bestselling author of #ENTRYLEVELBOSS: How To Get Any Job You Want (St Martins Press) and all-around internet personality on TikTok and Instagram. If you want to know more about me, I’m sure there’s an outdated bio on my website. I also appreciate a good LinkedIn stalk, personally.
What is Selfish & Thoughtful?
Since 2015, I have been documenting my career and life, in real time, on the internet. Selfish & Thoughtful is the next evolution of my life’s work. It’s about the next chapter of a woman (me) who's very ready to turn the page.
I can’t tell you where it’s all headed–the newsletter or the plotline–but I do know that I think better when I have hands on the keyboard. You can expect weekly-ish notes from my selfish and thoughtful life as I navigate whatever comes next.
Nearly 8,000 readers subscribe (including TikTokkers, authors, entrepreneurs) and other creative types from around the world. Come join us.
Why become a paid subscriber?
You won’t find any ads in here. I write this newsletter as a labor of love and as an act of self-documentation. I share it widely in hopes that, by reflecting on my own life’s experiences, they might create a magical ripple effect for someone else out there.
The weekly-ish Selfish & Thoughtful email will always be free for everyone, and for $6/month or $60/year, paid subscribers also get:
The monthly Selfish Advice column
Once a month, I open up the metaphorical phone lines and write down my selfish & thoughtful responses to whatever it is you’re out there wondering about. From job search advice to my own feelings on love to allowing yourself to dream bigger: I tackle it all. Anyone is welcome to submit questions anonymously here.My immense gratitude
Publishing on Substack means that I can easily offer you the opportunity to directly and radically support my work. Creative endeavors do not come packaged neatly with a steady paycheck and a matching employer 401K. Your support affords me the stability I need to put this work into the world.Full archives
Becoming a paid subscriber, even just for one month, gives you access to hundreds of hours of reading my back catalog. (The Instagram Airport Question Time archives, for example, are being uploaded in batches as we speak!)Special “in-the-know” stuff
You’ll be the first to know about the big stuff: events, new books, life updates.
Thanks for being here.
As always, and forever…
I’m rooting for me. And rooting for you, too.
Big love. We’ll talk soon.
Alexa
