A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

2 weeks ago | leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim

Hi! This is Leyla from A Day Well Spent, a newsletter about purposeful living. What subscribers received recently:'I create poetry no one will ever read' — an interviewWe are completely responsible for our own lives9 books that literally changed my lifeYou can subscribe with your email to ensure you never miss my posts:I was still in the thick of my little Pathways book tour two weeks ago, so didn’t get a chance to pause and properly register the moment.

3 weeks ago | leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim

Hi! This is Leyla from A Day Well Spent, a newsletter about purposeful living. What subscribers received recently:We are completely responsible for our own lives9 books that literally changed my life'I don't have a book in me'You can subscribe with your email to ensure you never miss my posts:There is so much to say about Asma Khan that I don’t really know where to begin or how I will possibly fit it all into my self-imposed three paragraph introduction. But I’ll try my damdest.

1 month ago | leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim

You have 7 days left to purchase my limited edition debut special Pathways, until 27th May. Then it’s gone 🎈That people read and resonate with them. I have found the most impactful books in my life have been the ones that have left me feeling empowered and validated the way I think, when I had previously felt cautious about sharing my viewpoints beyond the safety of close friends and family. They are books that gave me the confidence to have conviction in what I believe.

1 month ago | leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim

🎧 You can catch me presenting this week’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme called From York to Dubai: The Rise of Chocolate. It’s not hard to argue most books we connect with change our lives to some degree, even if only small. I think this fact often slips us by; we don’t always trace back the new and enlightening conversation we’re having to that book we read last summer. But other times, it’s really obvious.

1 month ago | leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim

I had no intention to even write a book, at least not now. Pathways had not been conceived, had never been talked about and wasn’t even a kernel of an idea in the depths of my psyche. The book was not a thing in my life in any sense of the word. A few months before, in April 2024, my friend and bestselling author sent me a WhatsApp.