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whojackmann.com is the online portfolio of Jack Mann, the Yorkshire raised, thirty-something writer, online coach and personal trainer with a penchant for people, poetry and performance.
A bit about me
I had three aims as a writer prior to lockdown: get a poetry collection printed, regularly perform live spoken word with session musicians and drum machines and, if I could, make enough money from it all to pay my bills.
Well, I achieved two of the three, and then, for a while…nothing.
I doubled down on my career in SEO when the venues closed. I earned my PT qualifications while the gyms were closed. And then as things were opening up again, I was soul-drawn to Sheffield to live in a block of flats that inspired my first poem printed in a proper anthology. And all of the creativity that had felt stifled by the need for a stable income burst through and culminated in my own second poetry collection: Proceed Only With Authority, self-published in 2022.
Later that year, I was made redundant from my day job and then coaching became the thing. And you know what? I properly love it.
Really. I adore this moment I’m in of working as a coach.
i write all the time – it’s just not always “poetry”
As an English literature graduate with a Masters in Psychology, I relish the opportunities I get every day to use words that get into people’s heads and help them be kinder to themselves or commit to working harder than they ever have before or even just make them laugh if they’re struggling. And in doing so, I hopefully get to be the person that I would have wanted in each of those moments.
In January 2024, I set up a Substack newsletter, Fitness & Thinking Fridays, to communicate and consolidate over three years now as an online and in-person health and fitness coach. Initially, it was peppered with pieces on food, films, gigs and even album reviews to make it more filling/palatable. Since then, it’s become simply Fitness & Thinking, representing a shift to a podcast with guests and a written 1,000 words a week interested in six specific aspects of wellbeing: our physical, mental, social, spiritual, emotional and financial states.
If you’re interested in getting fitter, whatever that looks like to you, you can find F&T now on Substack, Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts.
What are you up to?
But why are you here? What are your aims for the next month, season, or year? If you’re looking to work on your brand, your writing and performance, or your health and fitness, why not get in touch to see how we could work together on your next project? I look forward to catching up.
whojackmann | writer, collaborator, coach 