Jamie

Varon

Bestselling Non-Fiction Author

Executive Producer, Course Creator, & Branding Expert

Travels from: Los Angeles, CA

“I’ve fallen in love with Jamie’s words and how she so effortlessly can make us feel united with them. She has a true gift of helping us realize that all of our ‘human’ moments are what make us so special. She is a real light in this world.” ― Lucy Hale, Award-Winning Actress from “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Hating Game,” and more

Jamie Varon is a bestselling non-fiction author, executive producer, novelist, course creator, designer, branding expert, and writer whose work has been read by millions. She is a multi-passionate creative who follows her curiosity wherever it leads. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Her first nonfiction book, Radically Content was published April 12th, 2022 with Quarto Books. The journal companion, titled Radically Content: The Journal released spring 2023.

A feature film based on Radically Content is currently in progress with Malta-based film studio Lovely Mila LTD. She will be the Executive Producer and consultant on the film. Joanna Quraishi (Family Guy) is adapting the script.

Her debut novel, Main Character Energy, was published fall 2023 with HarperCollins’ imprint, Park Row.

She created a digital course called Live with Intention that has helped over 1,200 people live more intentional lives.

Jamie’s writing has been featured on Huffington Post, Fusion, Complex, Medium, Thought Catalog, GOOD, Teen Vogue, The Liberty Project, and SF Weekly.

In 2009, Jamie was on CNN Live and featured in Fortune for creating a viral website called Twitter Should Hire Me (they didn’t hire her). In 2013, she co-created an online branding course called Brandgasm 101 with copywriter and creative genius Ash Ambirge. In 2014, she built an iOS app called Paper’d that was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first week and a half. From May 2014-May 2015, she was a Senior Writer for Thought Catalog where her writing was read by over 21 million people in just a year.

Since then, she’s built a thriving community of like-minded people on Instagram and Facebook with a combined reach of over 350,000 people.

Jamie's Featured Titles

Main Character Energy: A Novel

Park Row |

September 5, 2023

Women’s Fiction

It’s your story, but are you the main character of it?

Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she’s ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece’s dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches.

But all of Poppy’s beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise—a trip to her villa in the French Riviera. There, she learns her aunt intends to leave her stunning villa and secretive writer’s residency to Poppy—if she can finish her novel in six months.

When the writing countdown begins, Poppy realizes she has more to confront than her writer’s block. Family drama, complicated romances and self-doubt all threaten to throw her off course. In this fun and heartwarming debut, Poppy must decide if she can live up to her aunt’s—and her own—desire to be the main character in her own life.

Comedy & Humor, Fiction, Romance & Romantacy

Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

Rock Point |

April 12, 2022

Non-Fiction/Self Help

Blending memoir, sharp social insights, and unique practical tools, author Jamie Varon is your guide to radical contentment—a satisfied life outside the bounds of societal expectations.

Too many of us are waiting for our lives to begin, putting our happiness on layaway for some future version where it all lines up, when we’ve accomplished it all, when we have the perfect career, bodies, partners, and when our lives finally feel “good enough.” But what is good enough? Who gets to decide? And when do we ever reach it?

Jamie takes a sharp, incisive look at the industries that are constantly telling us to do more, be more, and keep striving, pushing, and hustling—and shows you how to radically opt out of societal conditioning.

We’ve learned to be terrified of contentment, thinking it will lead us to complacency. Yet, being content in a world that profits off our dissatisfaction is not complacency. It’s revolutionary.

Radically Content makes the case for a new framework of living. Exploring themes like guilt, I’ll be happy when…, anxiety, settling, control, healing, shame, self-trust, and being our own worst enemies—not only will you unlearn the dogma of that discontent, but learn practical tools to create a more satisfied life for yourself, including:

Cultivating real self-trust
Defining your own version of “success”
Living with intention
Rewriting your personal narrative
Creating consistent and healing rituals

Packed with revelatory insights, Radically Content is an exhale. A respite from the chaos of our current world. A calm place to land when you’ve had enough with trying to be enough.

Health & Wellness, Nonfiction

How to become the main character in your own life

What does it really mean to have main character energy? To me, it’s about caring about your own desires, what you need, and what delights you. It’s about putting yourself first and not letting what you want languish in the background of someone else’s story. It’s about loving yourself through action. It’s about being bold and brave in your own life. It’s about finding what lights YOU up and knowing that you deserve to have that as much as you want.

I think, for women, this is an especially interesting topic to explore.

Self-love beyond the face masks

I love a good face mask like anyone else, but what does it mean to truly love yourself? Well, I think it’s about trusting yourself above all. It’s hard to love someone you don’t trust, and that means yourself, too. It means showing up for yourself in ways that are maybe not fit for an ~aesthetic~ TikTok. Doing the daily work of caring for yourself that makes you FEEL loved.

Having the nerve to write

We wait so long to be “good enough” to write that we forget that all we need is the nerve, and consistent action as much as possible toward the novel. I’m not sure if talks about writing are encouraged but I’d have plenty of talks for accessing creativity, being consistent with writing, and my own method for writing drafts of books after YEARS of self-doubt and writer’s block!

“We hosted Jamie Varon to speak with our company during Mental Health Awareness month. Jamie talked on mental health topics such as burnout, imposter syndrome, listening to yourself in a world full of opinions and more. The conversation was amazing and our organization truly resonated with all that she talked about. We were so grateful for Jamie’s fresh perspectives and her authenticity. Jamie was so wonderful at explaining things and being compassionate. We are incredibly thankful for her visit. You are welcome back anytime, Jamie!!!” — VelocityEHS, 2024

“Sparkling fiction debut… Varon crafts fully realized protagonists whose authorial ambitions and frustrations will resonate with bookish readers. The plot takes many satisfying turns, and the beautiful French backdrop will appeal to armchair travelers. Varon has a promising career in fiction in front of her.” — Publishers Weekly

“[Varon] deftly captures how it feels to be of a certain age without possessing the life one had hoped for, and descriptions of the sun-soaked French Riviera are rich and vivid. A heartfelt debut.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Main Character Energy absolutely dazzled me from the opening scene until the very last page. Poppy Banks is an immensely relatable and likable heroine on a journey of self-discovery with the potential to achieve her dreams and live her very best life in the French Riviera. Needless to say, I was hooked! I read this wonderful novel compulsively and with great joy. Highly recommend!” — Jenn McKinlay, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading

“Main Character Energy embraces the best and worst parts of writing with candor and heart. Poppy is bright and complicated and utterly enchanting in Jamie Varon’s debut.” — Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics

“Jamie explores the joy and peace we find when we stop struggling to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice within us.” ― Kate Baer, #1 New York Times Best-Selling Author of What Kind of Woman & I Hope This Finds You Well

“Radically Content is the permission slip we’ve all been waiting for: to throw away the societal cages that have left us unfulfilled and live the life we actually desire. With unwavering conviction and deep compassion, Jamie has written a revolutionary manifesto for finding the parts of ourselves we unconsciously gave away and the courage to reclaim them. Get ready to unlock what’s holding you back and start living the life you’ve always wanted.” ― Amanda Crew, Actress from “Silicon Valley,” “Charlie St. Cloud,” and more

“I devoured Jamie’s book. Her words are a soothing balm for this weary overachiever’s soul… a permission slip I didn’t know I needed that allowed me to exhale. Radically Content provided me with answers to questions I didn’t even know to ask. It’s the best type of book—one that is filled with wisdom and insight of someone who has made it to the other side and supports you in creating your own unique path. I am positive it will do the same for others.” ― Amanda White, LPC, Creator of @therapyforwomen, and Author of Not Drinking Tonight

“Radically Content asks us to exhale, be present, and step out of the endless rat-race. If we’re brave enough to opt for something different, Varon illustrates how that will finally get us exactly what we want – happiness, acceptance, and a feeling of being enough. It’s thought provoking, honest, and the permission slip you didn’t know you needed.” ― Whitney Goodman, Creator of @sitwithwhit and Author of Toxic Positivity

“If you’ve spent the last couple years untangling yourself from Hustle Culture, and trying to find who you are outside of your achievements and productivity, then we’ve got just the book for you. Fans of Untamed, this is your next favorite read.” ― POPSUGAR

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Honors, Awards & Recognition

Radically Content was an instant Barnes & Noble bestseller and Amazon bestseller in multiple categories

Media clips

Publishers Weekly | Main Character Energy

Kirkus | MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY

POPSUGAR | Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Radically Content, a Revolutionary Memoir Arriving This Spring

Media Kit

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