💵 Get paid for your real life story & opinion at Metro

Hiya! I’m Lucy from Hype Yourself. I’m rebuilding my archive after this happened. Join to receive A weekly email cheerleading the self-employed in work and life. Creative ways to promote your work. Alternative income for experts. Slightly above average living.

This video is a replay for the paid members with Jess Austin, opinion and real life editor at The Metro

🚩 The live classes are an opportunity to pitch or ask questions. If you can’t attend, you can always submit questions or comments for me to ask on your behalf.

Today’s post contains two useful things:

1. 📺 video replay of our Q&A with Jess

o Find out what she is looking for in a pitch

o How much you can get paid submitting your story

o Buckets loads of dos and don’ts

2. 📚 a few useful takeaways - a few things spoken about on the call and Jess’s contact details

🎁🔗 *BONUS* PDF worksheet of all successful pitch examples from Hype Yourself members who got themselves featured!

P.S. Here is a list of all of the paid readers who have secured this opportunity (that I know about!)

- I want kids to be able to vote whether they are 14 or 4 - My Mum said 5 words and broke my heart
- I’ve seen thousands of vulvas and have a message for all women
- I ate to feel safe but food started to control my life - I refused to cure my headaches out of embarrassment for how I looked
- My £12,000 weight lost surgery worked but I think I wasted the money

2. Useful Takeaways:

📰 Metro’s opinion and first-person section is called Platform — it exists to amplify underrepresented voices, with a mix of real-life stories and strong opinion pieces.

👥 You don’t need to be a journalist to write for Platform. Jess commissions people with lived experience, not necessarily professional writing backgrounds.