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How to slow down the passing of time

Jun 1, 2023 • Leyla Kazim

This is Europe’s best kept festival secret

Sep 19, 2024 • Leyla Kazim

Confession: I don't consume any news

Nov 16, 2023 • Leyla Kazim

The rural life of self-sufficiency: why I want it

May 9, 2024 • Leyla Kazim

Opinion

So, I’m officially a winemaker now?

A grape harvest update and - want to help me name our sequel?

7 hrs ago • Leyla Kazim

The unsung art of the convincing bluff

I've just kinda faked my way to buying my first ever car (knowing zero about them)

Dec 11, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

Your ‘time preference’ determines the outcome of your life

This is how you lower it; a practical guide (I've just learnt about it)

Dec 4, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

Yes, I am trying to flog a book before Christmas just like everyone else

But I have 9 damn good reasons why mine specifically deserves your attention

Nov 30, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

12 signs you might be ready for a seismic 'life shift'

Until 30th Nov: my personal story and guide to purposeful living is available for one last time

Nov 23, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

The List

37 truth bombs I'm taking into 2026

If some of these make you uncomfortable, then you probably needed to hear them

Dec 18, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

How to uncover your next 12 months of purposeful direction

in just 30 minutes and without analysis paralysis

Dec 14, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

You get what you think about, whether you want it or not

40 of my favourite quotes from the teachings of Abraham Hicks

Oct 26, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

These common and everyday plants are toxic

And everyone should really know (and also not panic) about them

Oct 5, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

You Can Do This

The secret weapon dentists get fired for sharing

I've been brushing with this for months and it costs pennies

Nov 14, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

How to grow a forest of pea shoots in just 2 weeks

no outside space needed + it's rewarding, fulfilling and empowering

Feb 27, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

How to ferment (pickle) any vegetable

And why you'd want to. Full of flavour & probiotics - you need just 3 things

Oct 3, 2024 • Leyla Kazim

How to grow kilos of raspberries

From just 7 canes in a teeny tiny space

Aug 15, 2024 • Leyla Kazim

Interviews

'I create poetry no one will ever read'

One of the UK's most prominent female chefs, an unstoppable force for social change and now with her own TV show, Asma Khan, shares her day well spent.

Jun 5, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

We are completely responsible for our own lives

No one is coming to save us - why I wrote my book, in 10 questions

May 20, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

41:00

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

The conversation I had with Rosie Birkett this week

May 11, 2025 • Leyla Kazim and Rosie Birkett

'Dance has the power to heal in ways words never can'

Strictly's Argentine tango choreographer, Director of London Tango Academy and TV host, Maria Tsiatsiani, shares her day well spent

Feb 13, 2025 • Leyla Kazim

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