About Joanna Young

I'm a 40-something freelance writer, writing coach and blogger.  I live in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland, but work with people all over the world.

In times gone by I've:

• run a community health project
• volunteered as a teacher of English as a second language
• lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for 3 months
• worked as a senior civil servant for the government in Scotland
• written a book of short walks on Skye
• trained as a life coach and NLP practitioner
• taught adult learners with the Open University

... and much more besides.

More on my professional experience and qualifications here, or you might enjoy some of these (random) background pieces about where I live, how I work, and things that are important to me.

That's some of the fun stuff.  There is a more serious message too.  It goes something like this:

I believe that we all have a powerful voice inside of us.  The Internet has given us an unprecedented possibility to make use of it. 

My aim is to wake us up to the power of our own words, to take responsibility for what we write and the impact that we make, learning how to write with confidence - because our words count.

Joanna Young, The Confident Writing Coach
Because our words count