KATHERINE GOUGEON
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CONNECTING UNRELATED THINGS
IN UNEXPECTED WAYS
About Me
I am a Toronto-based writer who combines an award-winning background in marketing and communications with a journalistic instinct for irresistible ideas and original perspectives. Whether writing for national news and lifestyle publications or my personal blog, capturing your attention and imagination with compelling concepts and unexpected news angles is what I love doing and what I do best.
Cover Stories + Features
The unexpected rise of sober curious
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Inside the social movement that invites us to consider the quietly revolutionary possibility of never waking up hungover again.
#MeFirst: can our newfound sisterhood survive the 9-5?
While the #metoo movement inspires solidarity, here's what needs to happen for women to really start supporting one another in success.
Are you the right kind of curious?
How consciously pursuing the right kind of curiosity can make your life better and bigger.
Spirituality 2.0: what's in it for you?
While modern spirituality can smack of superficiality and ‘spa-ishness’, the cultural forces urging us to create made-to-measure belief systems are anything but frivolous.
The dark yet life-affirming magic of self-deception
It's conventional wisdom that lying to ourselves is a character flaw, but is there an upside to avoiding the truth?
The problem with outrage
What if, the angrier we get about everything, the less we care about anything?
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Subjects of Fascination
In the name of a good story, I have checked into North America’s only civilian boot camp; delved into the secret lives of cowboys at an Alberta cattle ranch; weighed the pros and cons of being stranded on a Chilean island with nothing but a piece of Gucci luggage, and witnessed an island wedding at which the groom was the surprised guest.
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I've also had the privilege of interviewing such luminaries as Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don’t Get Fat), British humorist Stephen Clarke (A Year in the Merde), David Rogier (CEO + Founder of MasterClass), JP Delhomme (The Cultivated Life), marketing provocateur Ryan Holiday (Trust Me, I’m Lying), American entrepreneur Peter Shankman and murderous socialite Patrizia Gucci.
INTERVIEW WITH MIREILLE GUILIANO GLOBE & MAIL
PROFILE OF JP DEL HOMME
FOR ELLE CANADA
Yes, I blog.
I blog about whatever (or whomever) is turning heads and making headlines right now.
My mission: to explore media, cultural and political moments that pack an outsized punch.
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