Insecure Ad Girl
Melissa WithornField notes on creative liberation and career redesign. Insecure attachment style, obviously.
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Agentic Diplomacy
There is a phrase I can’t stop turning over in my head this week, while I watch the news from Iran and feel the particular nausea of watching a thing you imagined would go badly go very, very badly.
The phrase is agentic diplomacy, and I m...
In Between
I’ve been grasping for a word to sum up 2025 and I keep coming back to ‘in between.’ A sense that something has ended but the next thing hasn’t quite begun.
For those of you who have been following my writing for a bit…thank you. And I’m s...
The Packaging Paradox
I've decided I hate my Apple Watch.
I realize, as an elder millennial from the creative world, this is probably akin to blasphemy. But I recently (albeit accidentally) spent two full weeks without that little slab of dopamine strapped to m...
Join my new subscriber chat
Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: Insecure Ad Girl subscriber chat.
This is a conversation space exclusively for subscribers—kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll post questions and updates tha...
Shame & Work
"It's probably because I'm terrible at what I do. It's probably because I was wrong and don't actually have the right answers so I'll defer to them. I don't want to rock the boat. It's better to just stay in my lane. Maybe I am reading to...
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Nice to meet you, I'm Melissa. I talk about the juicy stuff that lies at the intersection of creativity, commerce and desire. You can find me creative directing the next cult.
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