Where language liberates, stories unite, and courageous truth inspires harmony beyond our differences.

Hot Mess Goddess

Reclaim our words. Break their spells. Tell the stories that set us free.

We are the unapologetic love child of heartfelt truth and messy magic… a living, breathing rebellion against the tired scripts we’ve been handed for centuries.

We know with every fibre of our being that language is the operating system of our lives. Every word you swallow, every label you wear, every story you tell yourself builds the world you live in.

Change your words, and you don’t just change your story. You change everything.

At Hot Mess Goddess, we believe in words the way some believe in miracles, because to us, they are miracles. Sacred little grenades that can blow the hinges off a prison door or open the window to a life you never thought you could have.

We believe in the beauty of the unpolished, the wild, the hot mess. For us, perfection is a sedative, but intentional truth with integrity will set us free. So we will speak it, write it, and wear it, even if it flips a few tables along the way.

We believe your story is a revolution waiting to happen, and it just might be the match that sets the world on fire.

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We’re building a global movement to dismantle the language that caged us… reclaiming our words, our stories, and our worth, one spell-breaking sentence at a time.

Under the crown of Hot Mess Goddess, you’ll find:

WHAT WE DO

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The Hot Mess Goddess Podcast — Unfiltered conversations with changemakers, visionaries, and creatives rewriting their worlds in the glorious chaos of being human.

Hot Mess Goddess Press — The publishing heart of our empire that unapologetically feeds our reading and stationery addiction. Home to the books that carry our wild, spell-breaking words into the world, journals, planners, and notebooks. We also help rebellious women write and publish books that don’t just sit pretty — they start revolutions..

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The Spellbreaker’s Library — A curated collection of courses, downloads, and resources to help you reclaim your words, break their spells., and tell the stories that set you free... Oh and a really cool quiz to find your writing style and help you to write your aligned AF way.

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Giving Back — Empowering books, journals, and resources for women in shelters and rural communities, putting powerful words into the hands of those who need them most. Founder SJ said, “One book changed my life. Imagine that times a thousand and the magic that ripples throughout our communities.”

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The Goddess Community — a powerful community for storytellers, creatives, and women rewriting their self-talk, recoding their reality, and activating their highest expression. A space to connect, co-create, celebrate, and support one another, even on the days we’re a hot mess.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

  1. Language shapes reality.
    Change your words, change your life. Every syllable holds power to wound, to heal, or to transform.

  2. Messy is magic.
    Perfection is boring. Real stories, raw edges, and unfiltered truth are where the real power lives.

  3. Truth is love in action.
    We speak it, write it, and wear it, even when it rattles cages.

  4. Your story is a revolution.
    One voice can spark a movement. Yours might be the one that sets the world on fire.

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About Our Founder, Sally Jane Friday

TL;DR: Author, Hot Mess Goddess, Recovering Journalist

Words... my thing

Writing... my therapist

Chocolate... my drug of choice

Exposing Word Magic... my f*cking obsession

But of course theres a long version!

I’ve been called a lot of things, but the one that struck me was from a co author in Woman Rise:

“She’s all about the metamorphosis from intangible thoughts to physical expressions that change minds, create movements, and open hearts.”

It’s not just what I do. It’s what I live for.

I’ve been immersed in stories since I was old enough to escape into their wonder. The sort of intuitive writing that makes a six year old scribble cheeky prose under the kitchen table, that can only be refined, not learned.

And refined it has been. In the tragedy-filled pages of a scruffy journal, to the newsroom in commercial radio.

The drunken poetic scrawl on napkins & beer coasters in the far reaches of the outback.

The tear-smudged ink to my best friend after watching her die. And in the train wreck that followed.

The wild child abandon, where I completely abandoned myself.

I’ve spent the rest of my life reclaiming every piece of myself since. A million courses, deep trauma therapy, career moves… until eventually I faced it, wrote it, felt it all, and with nothing left to lose, I published it.

I’ve since shared poetry in front of spoken word legend Adam Roa, deep dived with the linguistically electric Laurel Airica, and studied under a neuroscientist to understand how story shapes the brain, the body, and the beliefs that bind us.

With more books brewing and a publishing company, I also help others rewrite their world, right alongside me in this messy magical journey we’re on.

More of SJ's Word Magic

Building a global movement to dismantle the language that caged us… reclaiming our words, our stories, and our worth, one spell-breaking sentence at a time.

Messy is holy, truth is love, and your words are the most beautiful — and powerful — magic you will ever hold.

Welcome to the revolution.

Now let’s rewrite your world.

#RewriteYourWorld

#BreakTheSpell

#RewriteYourWorld #BreakTheSpell

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