Jane Kelly Online

03/10/2026

If you have ever said to me, “I love the way you write” or enjoyed one of the stories I have shared, I want to tell you about something that has had a huge influence on how I do it.

On Monday, Susan Payton is starting her free five-day Business of Stories Challenge, and you can sign up now.

Joining Susan’s world is genuinely one of the best things I have done for my business. I have learnt how to find the stories in everyday life, tell them in a way that connects with people, and use them to talk about what I do without everything feeling like a sales pitch.

I am using storytelling more and more as I build the next chapter of my business, write Jane’s Journal and get my own stories out into the world. Next month, I will even be joining Susan on her podcast!

There is another benefit I was not expecting either: the community. It is full of coaches, entrepreneurs and small business owners who understand what it is like to build something of your own. A few of my own customers have already joined Susan’s community after I recommended it to them, and they are loving it too.

So if you run a business and know you have stories to tell but are not quite sure how to turn them into content, come and join us for the free five-day challenge.

It starts Monday, and you can sign up now:

https://thebusinessofstories.com/5daychallenge/?affiliate=janekelly1970

Just for transparency, I am a Susan affiliate. The challenge is completely free, but if you later decide to join one of Susan’s paid programmes, such as the Mastery programme I am part of, I may receive a commission. I would be recommending Susan regardless because I genuinely love what she does.

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25/09/2026

A few weeks ago, a free health check here in France picked up an abnormal ECG. A week later, I got a phone call telling me not to do any strenuous exercise until I had seen a cardiologist. That scared the 💩 out of me. I had just started pushing myself more with walking, dancing and fitness, and suddenly every time I got out of breath I was thinking, Is this okay?

Appointments locally were months away, and I refused to just sit and wait. I widened my search, looked further afield and found a cancellation in Bordeaux for the following Tuesday. I booked it and got on the train.

Three weeks after all this started, I was finally sitting in front of the cardiologist. He looked at me, looked at my report, looked back at me, then went through all my blood results. He had this almost bemused look on his face as if he could not quite understand what all the fuss was about. He did another ECG and told me it was perfectly normal.

The relief was incredible, but then I felt something that surprised me. I felt immensely proud.

The photo below was taken at my 50th birthday, just over six years ago. I was four stone overweight and so unhappy with how I looked that I cropped this very photo so nobody could see my body. Since then I have lost the weight, completely changed how I eat and how I look after myself. Menopause did come along, and I put a stone back on, but as of yesterday I have lost that stone again.

Sitting in that cardiologist's office, I realised that over the last six years I have done everything I possibly can to become the best version of myself. I am still on that journey, but for once I stopped and felt really proud of how far I have come.

This is a snapshot of a story in my Jane's Journal (my newsletter) last week. We cannot control everything that happens to us, but we can do something about the things we can control. I refused to wait months worrying about my heart, just as six years ago I decided I was not going to carry on feeling the way I did.
Sometimes you have just got to get on the train!

07/09/2026

Five and a half years ago today, I met Colin at our little local market.

So much had changed in my life before that day, and now we share our dreams, plans and adventures, and still encourage each other to be the best versions of ourselves.

I’m really looking forward to sharing the whole story in The Perfect Fit. Not just how we met, but everything that led me there.

Happy five and a half years to us. ✨😍

06/09/2026

I was working on parts of 'The Perfect Fit' today and sharing my desk with Puds, because he hurt his paw and I’m giving him a break from being a conehead.

I’ve just got to the bit about this little bedside cabinet. After my previous relationship ended, I painted it, put it next to the bed and actually said out loud:

“And this is for you, Mr Right.”

Obviously, I told absolutely no one. It still makes me laugh!

Even funnier, when I eventually told Colin, he said there’s actually something very similar in The Secret. I’d never even read it!

Colin still uses the cabinet. Although it’s currently been moved because we’re renovating… which, funnily enough, was on my list too.

I’m sharing more behind the scenes, including the bits that aren't making it into the book.
Come along for the journey: https://janekellyonline.com/the-perfect-fit/

05/09/2026

I’m working on the last chapter of my new book, The Perfect Fit: Unlocking Love at 50 📖💕

After turning 50, I decided I did not want to make the same mistakes in love again. So I got very clear about what I wanted, wrote a four-page Mr Right list and even wrote down how and where I imagined we would meet.

Then, on 7 March 2021, at our little local market in rural France (during Covid), he introduced himself, just as I had written. He turned out to match around 95% of my list.

In the book, I share my story of how I redesigned different areas of my life and made room for the right relationship.

If you want to follow the story or are interested in writing and self-publishing your own book, come and join me behind the scenes as I get ready to launch.

👉 https://janekellyonline.com/the-perfect-fit/

13/08/2026

We were asked last night how we met. 🥰

I LOVE sharing our story and watching the astonished look on people’s faces as I reveal each moment leading up to that day… and, of course, what actually happened when we met.

I am not quite sure which bit blew their minds the most…

The fact that I printed a picture from Google the night before of a man who looked remarkably like him?

That I had already written down the date and how we would meet?

That 98% of my ridiculously detailed ‘Mr Right’ list came true?

That we met during Covid?

Or that, long before he appeared, I had started redesigning my life to be ready for the life and relationship I actually wanted? 😉

Every time I tell the story, it adds a little more fuel to my fire to finish The Perfect Fit.

Because underneath the slightly bonkers coincidences is something
I really want to share: I did not just go looking for Mr Right. I had to work out what right for me actually meant.

And I know that part of my journey can help other women on their own journey to finding their Perfect Fit. ❤️

You can follow the book journey and support The Perfect Fit here:
https://janekellyonline.com/the-perfect-fit-by-jane-kelly/

Piccy is from one of our first dates.

20/07/2026

"Feeling lost is not failure. It is often the first sign that you are ready for a different chapter."

This week in Jane's Journal...

Midlife isn't always about changing everything. Sometimes it's about recognising the areas of life that need a little more attention.

For me, that was my health, my fitness and the direction I wanted to take my work.

Giving myself space to slow down helped me see that more clearly.

If you have ever felt as though your life no longer fits, I think this one might resonate with you.

Join to read this week's Jane's Journal here:
👉 https://janekellyonline.com/join-janes-journal/

15/07/2026

We are off again... Extra legroom and hot choc order delivered for after take off 😁👍

12/07/2026

One step at a time... 😍

Today I'm celebrating a milestone on my Project 28 journey. I've lost my first 8lb 🎉

Not because everything has been perfect.
It hasn't.

There have been good days, difficult days, holidays, menopause moments, late meals and times when the scales have gone the wrong way.

But I've kept going.

It's about refusing to drift too far away from the life you want.

Every day I reconnect with my goals.
Every week I check my progress.
If life gets in the way, I don't give up.
I reset.

That simple approach helped me lose four stone in the past, and it's helping me again now.

It's also become the foundation of The D.E.S.I.G.N. Method™, the framework I'm now developing to help others redesign different areas of their lives.

This isn't just about health.

It's about creating a life you love living.

✨ If you'd like to follow Project 28, read my weekly reflections and be the first to hear about my new journal, I'd love you to join Jane's Journal.
👉 https://janekellyonline.com/join-janes-journal/

11/07/2026

Flying to a Room Full of People Who 'Get It'

A few week's ago I flew from France to England for a one-day workshop with the wonderful Business of Stories community.

It was the first in-person event run by Susan Payton, and I have a feeling it won't be the last.

There's something incredibly powerful about sitting in a room with people who are walking a similar path. Different businesses. Different lives. Different stories. Yet so many of the same hopes, fears, doubts and dreams.

Because the workshop centred around our stories, the conversations went far deeper than the usual networking event. People shared real experiences, real challenges and real reasons behind the work they do.

One exercise really stayed with me.

We each spoke about what we are creating and why it matters. Then our small group reflected what they saw in us.

It was fascinating.

Sometimes other people can see strengths, qualities and themes that are almost invisible to us because we have lived with them for so long.

It reminded me how valuable it is to occasionally step outside your own head and let others hold up a mirror.

I came home feeling inspired, energised and even more certain about the direction I'm taking.

Sometimes one day away can save you months of second-guessing yourself.

PS. I was also called 'glamorous' because of the piccy I posted in our group just before boarding 😍😂

It was the quickest picture taken ever before my feet got stuck to the tarmac! I was sooooo hot waiting to board 😱♨️