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Conversations By The Sea

Ellen Kate Boyle

Ellen Forster and Craig Boyle of Content By The Sea discuss how to stay sane while running a creative business. ellenforster.substack.com

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8:00

For when you feel powerless

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/05/15

Content warnings: This piece contains talk about the genocide in Gaza, I’m back after a week off. Unfortunately, not even the iron gates of Center Parcs could protect me from the ✨state of things✨.I thought a lot about what I wanted to write about this year and how this newsletter could continue to serve as a personal journal while also proving useful to the growing subscriber base. One thing I keep coming back to is how hopeless I feel. If you live in the UK, then you’ll know that this week’s news

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5:50

The Bonnie Blue problem

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/05/01

Content warnings: This piece contains talk of adult content and revenge porn.I keep watching videos about Bonnie Blue.About her. Not her actual content, obviously.For those who are less chronically online than I (and therefore probably happier in general), Bonnie Blue is an adult content creator who makes a significant living from OnlyFans subscriptions. If that were all there was to it, then I wouldn’t care.What’s problematic about Bonnie is that she specifically targets young men (aged 18/19) for

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9:41

Is music finally political again?

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/04/24

Coachella is finally over. It now takes place over two weekends, where acts play the same sets to the largest number of people possible. Groundhog Day in the desert is well-known for attracting one of the shittest crowds of any festival - throwback to Blur’s Damon Albarn shouting: “You’re never seeing us again, so you might as well f*****g sing it,” to a particularly lethargic crowd back in 2024.It’s essentially a fashion show for influencers and celebrities against the backdrop of a music fest. But

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6:55

Saving faces

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/04/17

Your favourite celebrity reporter is back.Joking, obviously, but two things are happening this week in the world of pop culture… and they have a lot in common.Firstly, White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood was parodied in an SNL skit over the weekend. Personally, I don’t think SNL has been funny for decades, but I digress.The skit takes a low blow at Aimee’s teeth, the most iconic part of her appearance. Throughout the airing of the most recent season of Mike White’s epic show, Aimee’s teeth have

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5:00

Small things like these

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/04/10

I think there’s a common misconception that goals are achieved through greatness.But, to me, it’s the opposite.The greatest progress is made in the mundane moments.Initially, I was thinking about this in the context of parenting. What does it mean to be a good parent? It’s about reliability, care, and love. You can only do this by being consistent. One big day out will not make you a good parent. It might make a great day, which is always nice… but being a good parent is more than just great days

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6:38

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/04/03

I was never really that sure about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Although I do remember mentioning that I really enjoyed writing during the interview for a part-time role at McDonald’s in my teens. The store manager chuckled and asked: “What do you write?” but I decided mentioning my burgeoning collection of obscure French film reviews would be unlikely to help me in my mission to get a job serving Extra Value Meals.I ended up working at McDonald’s for 10 months, but that’s a newsletter for

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9:07

"He probably has a little crush"

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/03/20

The topic of toxic masculinity in young boys has been sitting in my drafts for months. I have felt intimidated by even starting to explore the subject matter… but then a new show forced this into the limelight. So, here it goes…Everyone is watching Adolescence on Netflix. The four-part one-shot drama was written by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, and tells the story of a 13-year-old boy who is accused of murdering a female classmate. The show is far more than a murder mystery (that’s answered in the

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5:49

I've been writing for five years

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/03/13

This newsletter is five years old!I started writing this weekly email as a creative outlet but also a cathartic one, as it was the start of the first lockdown, and I had so many things I wanted to write about… but nowhere to put them.I sent my first email on 18th March 2020 to 10 subscribers. It was about the ethical dilemma of continuing to market your business during a global pandemic and how to do so without feeling icky.Conversations By The Sea started out as more of an industry commentary

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6:37

Fighting my corner

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/03/06

I took an impromptu week off last week as I was in Bucharest on a long weekend— more on that in Touching Grass. This week’s newsletter talks of my mam’s passing, so this is a trigger warning for parental death and cancer. “I wanted to say sorry about the other day; I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.”My year 9 art teacher said to me after pulling me out of my maths class to talk in the corridor.A few days earlier, she had torn apart my collage because she thought I could “do better than this” and

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4:52

She's lost control again

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/02/20

CONTROL FREAK noun [ C ] - informal disapproving - someone who is determined to make things happen in exactly the way they want and who tries to make other people do what they want (Cambridge Dictionary)Many times in my life, I’ve been called a ‘control freak.’ Understandably, I’ve always found this quite upsetting, as it’s an inherently negative label. But is it really my fault?The more I think about it, the more I realise this ‘control freakery’ probably started in childhood. My own mother was

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8:27

The whitest of knights are see-through

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/02/13

TW: sexual assault allegations, #MeToo, coercive controlEarlier in the week, I listened to disgraced actor Armie Hammer on the Louis Theroux podcast. I was expecting some funny snippets, but not the gotcha moment it turned into. Theroux is an expert at getting people to unintentionally reveal their true selves, and this episode is a throwback to his ‘90s Weird Weekends. Hammer was outed by an ex-girlfriend (who he cheated on his wife with) in 2021 for a whole host of abuse allegations, many of which

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6:01

That's cringe

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/02/06

As you likely all know by now, I am a big fan of the Blindboy Podcast. I often find his hot takes inspiring these newsletters, especially as I listen while running or walking the dogs, typically when I get my best ideas.Recently, Blindboy has been talking a lot about cringe.The specific type of cringe that comes when you launch a creative project and share it with the world. This is so relatable to me because even though this newsletter is about to reach its 5th birthday, I still squirm at the idea

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4:56

Find what sticks

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/01/23

Over the years, I’ve had so many ideas that have come to nothing.I wanted to help people write their CVs.I wanted to start a seasonal supper club (despite having no formal chef experience).I wanted to write a book (I still might!).I wanted to sell illustrations.There are so many other ventures I probably pondered before they turned into exactly… nothing. But I don’t really see that as a bad thing now? Previously, I would look at these lapsed domain names and empty social pages

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9:45

A half marathon of memories

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/01/16

TW: Parental deathI’ve lived in the North East of England for most of my life. Even when studying in Hull, then travelling South East Asia and living in Australia, Tyneside remained my home.It was only when I started running that I really noticed the places around me, and the memories they hold. So, let’s go on a run.I leave my house, run over a big roundabout, and towards the local Metro Station. This is next to our local Sainsbury’s and a few other shops where we get our ‘bits’.I continue along a

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5:48

Fear is the mind killer

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/01/09

Not a day goes by without a new post, email, or news article about how AI is stealing our jobs.This is a fear for many people in all sorts of industries, but I can only write from my own perspective as the co-owner of a copywriting, content strategy, and web design company. We work with clients to determine how online content can help them achieve their goals (lead generation, improve Google rankings, launch a new product, etc.) and then deliver the content; this could be anything from web copy to

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3:14

In, out, shake it all about.

Conversations By The Sea ·

2025/01/02

Last year, I dedicated the whole month of January to my "New Year, Same Me” series, in which I encouraged people to share things they loved about themselves during this time of often-forced change.If you want to know more about the whole concept of New Year’s resolutions and why I think they are mostly b******t, you can read my post from this time last year.I still stand by that concept, and I don’t intend to change anything drastic about myself this year. I actually think the secret to a positive

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6:53

It's a bottle episode 2.0 & 2024 favourites

Conversations By The Sea ·

2024/12/19

Another wild year of sending this newsletter. Last year, I published It’s a bottle episode, a summary of everything I’ve written and enjoyed in 2023. I’m back again with more of the same. In this email, you’ll find some newsletter stats, top posts, and, most importantly, an absolutely huge Touching Grass edition that includes all of my favourite books, TV shows, films, and other media from throughout the year.This email is very long, so if you’re reading in your inbox, you might need to visit it in

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5:10

Deck the halls, not each other

Conversations By The Sea ·

2024/12/12

Last year, I listened to this great podcast episode from No Worries If Not about ‘problematic family.’ The episode is framed in the context of the festive period, and how many of us are faced with family members with different, often problematic, opinions. Sprouts with a side of bigotryI don’t know about you, but it takes a lot out of me to sit and listen to people talk about subjects I am passionate about, especially when misinformation is being spread. However, I also recognise that Christmas

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4:00

“Are you all sorted for Christmas?”

Conversations By The Sea ·

2024/12/05

There's one question that people ask at this time of year, and it drives me nuts. “Are you all sorted for Christmas?”Am I all sorted with Christmas presents for my loved ones? No.Am I all sorted for the additional mental load of remembering Christmas photoshoots, PJ day, Christmas dinner day and other childcare-related festivities? No.Am I all sorted for the inevitable burnout when my autistic brain can’t deal with the change in routine? No.Am I all sorted for the small talk? No.Am I all sorted to

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8:43

We've got to talk about podcasters

Conversations By The Sea ·

2024/11/28

I’ve always been so curious about how historians will look back on this generation. If the internet is still around in thousands of years, then they will be able to paint a pretty insane picture of what we were doing in the 2020s. Maybe they’ll reframe YouTube boxing as jousting for honour or Elon Musk as the modern-day Oliver Cromwell, a puppet master of the masses. Or maybe there will be a Great Reset and all digital information will be lost, and historians will be left scrabbling to translate

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