unfinishing is the podcast about projects that are unfinished, abandoned, or not public. It’s presented by Emily Anderson and the artwork is by Graham Oakes. If you have an unfinished or private project you’d like to talk about, please email unfinishing.pod@gmail.com, contact Em on Instagram @unfinishingpod or on Twitter  @TrueBagglerag.

My guest this week is Jo Moseley, who is a beach cleaner, joy encourager & midlife adventurer. Alongside her lovely day job, she is also a speaker, writer and podcast host. She’s a single mum of two sons, aged 26 and 22, and she lives on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. In August 2019, Jo became the first woman to SUP (stand up paddleboard) coast-to-coast 162 miles along the Leeds Liverpool Canal, picking up litter, fundraising for the Wave Project and the 2 Minute Beach Clean Foundation, and raising awareness of the problems of single use plastic. Jo worked with filmmaker Frit Tam to make a film about her journey called Brave Enough - A Journey Home to Joy.

We speak about Jo’s second book on Paddleboarding, which she took the very brave and unusual decision not to publish (despite having spent months working on it!) Jo tells me why she made that decision, and the process she went through to (very kindly) explain it to all the people who had helped in its creation.

Jo also explains to me the experiences she’s had with miscarriage, and why the grief of that feels to her like it will always be unfinished, as well as telling me how she’s still in an ongoing process of exploring her own dreams and ambitions – which she wasn’t able to realise in her 30s and 40s.

In June 2022, Jo’s first book Stand Up Paddleboarding in Great Britain - Beautiful Places to Paddleboard in England, Scotland and Wales was published by award winning Vertebrate Publishing. 

Two of Jo’s films Finding Joy and ⁠Found at Sea⁠have both won awards.

You can find out more at: www.jomoseley.com and Jo's column in Stand-Up Paddleboarding Magazine is here: ⁠https://standuppaddlemag.co.uk/paddleboarding-for-good/⁠

Follow Jo on Instagram (⁠https://www.instagram.com/jomoseley/⁠) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/Healthyhappy50).