Namaste Motherf*ckers

Cally Beaton has walked the walk, and there is no-one better to talk the talk. This will be advice from the very best, and funniest, source possible.'' Richard Osman>

Préface

A no bullsh*t handbook for midlife female reinvention where the worlds of comedy, boardrooms, self-help and womanhood collide.

Auteur

Cally Beaton is a comedian, keynote speaker, awards host, business leader, podcaster, writer and entrepreneur. She has held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world. Early in her career she headed an independent television production company that was bought by ITV and became the youngest and only female member on the board. She left to set up an award-winning creative consultancy, Road Trip Media, and went on to do a ten-year stint as Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS. If you want someone to blame for bringing South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants to the world, you need look no further.

Cally was nudged into the sphere of performance after a chance conversation with the late, great Joan Rivers, then 81, and so it was that as a 45-year-old single parent, she first took to the stage. She made her debut appearance on the BBC's Live at the Apollo at the age of 53, cementing her position as one of the most exciting stand-ups in the country.

Cally is a regular panellist on BBC2's QI and The Apprentice: You're Fired, as well as featuring on Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Richard Osman's House of Games, Pointless Celebrities and The Blame Game. Cally is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, Times Radio, Scala Radio and BBC London. She has written for The Guardian and The Financial Times and has a Masters in Neuro Linguistic Programming.

In 2021 she launched her hit podcast 'Namaste Motherf*ckers' with a star-studded roster of celebrity guests. including Miriam Margolyes, Sir Grayson Perry, Sally Phillips, Deborah Meaden, Kirsty Wark, Omid Djalili, Susie Dent, Esther Rantzen and the Reverend Richard Coles.

Her popular Instagram reels have amassed over 100 million views and counting.

Résumé

PRAISE FOR CALLY BEATON:

'Properly funny' - Sandi Toksvig

'Cally is a comedy queen - fiery, intelligent and totally original' - Sara Pascoe

'Cally Beaton has walked the walk, and there is no-one better to talk the talk. This will be advice from the very best, and funniest, source possible.' - Richard Osman

Part memoir, part stereotype-defying manifesto, Namaste Motherf*ckers is a funny, empowering, practical book that takes an irreverent look at the author's own story of radical midlife reinvention - taking her from meetings in the boardroom to becoming a stand-up comedian - thanks to a chance conversation with the late, great Joan Rivers encouraging her to make change happen.

Sharing stories and experiences from her career, alongside lessons learned from the many celebrities and experts that have guested on her hit podcast of the same name, Cally challenges at every turn the age-old narrative that women become invisible when they cease to be fertile.

It's also a book about defying the bullshit expectation that midlife women at best maintain (looks, career, relationships), at worst decline. With ambitious thinking and personal development takeouts from her time as a coach, Cally debunks many of the myths surrounding the female of the species and gives a fresh, funny and life-affirming look at what it means to be a middle-aged woman who is willing to take a chance, put herself out there and who is also willing to fail.