about
Hello and welcome! Thank you so much for being here!
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I am a single Mum of 2 grown up sons, living9 in an old fisherman’s cottage on the Yorkshire coast. I care for my 91 year old father, write and am a freelance creative.
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In June 2022 when I was 57, a childhood dream came true when my best selling book Stand Up Paddleboarding in Great Britain - Beautiful Places to Paddleboard in England, Scotland and Wales was published by award winning publishers Vertebrate Publishing to a wonderful welcome. You can buy it here.
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My second book Stand Up Paddleboarding in the Lake District - Beautiful Places to Paddleboard in Cumbria was published in spring 2024 again with Vertebrate Publishing.
It has recently been longlisted for the Lakeland Book Awards,
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In the summer of 2019, aged 54, I became the first woman to stand up paddleboard coast to coast, 162 miles from Liverpool to Goole, picking up litter + fundraising for The Wave Project and 2MinuteBeachClean Foundation. You can watch a film about this adventure: Brave Enough - A Journey Home to Joy
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I love to write and am honoured to have been invited to speak at prestigious adventure festivals, wellbeing events + on many wonderful podcsasts. My story has been featured in the national press, on the radio + TV.
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To share my joyful message, I also make tiny, award winning films about joy, adventure + finding your purpose. My podcast The Joy of SUP - the Paddleboarding Sunshine Podcast launched with my first guest on Christmas Eve 2020.
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"I can't change the world, but I can change the little bit around me."
However, life was not always so happy.
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In May 2013, I found myself sobbing in the biscuit aisle of Tesco's, looking at the chocolate Hob Nobs and wondering how my life had come to this. I was 48, a busy working Mum, flying solo with my boys.
Both my parents were undergoing chemotherapy at the time and I was overwhelmed, anxious and desperate for a good night's sleep. What I didn't realise was that I was going through the early stages of the perimenopause at the time.
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A friend lent me an old indoor rowing machine suggesting exercise might help. Within two weeks I was sleeping and life was so much brighter.
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In 2014, I rowed a million metres and marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of my Mum, completing the challenge on the 1st anniversary of her death and 5 days before my 50th birthday. We raised £10,000.00.
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I returned to the hills and sea which I had loved as a child, body boarding, wild swimming and hiking.
In September 2016, I took my first paddleboard lesson. I loved it from the minute I stood up.
"You're never too old to do something wild and it's never too late to make a difference."
Now 60 and happily post menopause, my goal is to share the joy of this new chapter, how the outdoors can help us feel good and age well and how we can make a positive difference.
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I'm a proud ambassador for Seaful Charity and Patron of The National Women's Register. I am a friend of the Canal and River Trust and 2 Minute Foundation.
I believe: We are never too old and it's never too late to build a joyful, creative and adventurous life on our terms.
I hope you'll join me on this wild and precious adventure....
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Let's live life to the full together!
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Jo x Instagram @jomoseley Facebook Jo Moseley X @healthyhappy50
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PS I would love to speak to your organisation about the joy of adventure, ageing well and making a positive difference. Please see my Speaker page for details. Thank you!
