Kyomi Wade - Writer, Storyteller & Lifelong Marketing Brain

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〰️ My debut poetry collection

This debut poetry collection spans seven years of my life, exploring love, loss, growing up, and making sense of the world as a young woman. Divided into three sections (Sadness, Short Bliss, and The Undefined), the poems examine what lies beneath surface emotions: the intensity of love, the weight of grief, and all the feelings we can't quite name.

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I write long-form essays about place, travel, personal transformation, and attempts at a slower life. After many years in the marketing world, you can also find me running paid social campaigns and teaching people what good marketing looks like.

Hi, I'm Kyomi. A writer, storyteller and lifelong marketing brain

〰️ Travel essays and creative nonfiction〰️ Poetry and personal reflections〰️ Work for readers, editors, and agents interested in place-based storytelling and slow living

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wadingwade.com/2018/10/07/a-creative-awakening-in-paris/">In this piece</a>, I delve into the creative reawakening that found me in Paris—a city I once resisted but ultimately returned to for reasons I didn’t yet understand. Between literary walking tours, perfume-making, painting classes, and quiet hours spent at Shakespeare &amp; Co., I rediscovered my ganas—the hunger to create, to feel, to write again. This essay is part travel journal, part personal reckoning: an exploration of how place, art, and chance encounters can reignite something within us that we thought was lost.

A Creative Awakening in Paris

Today I sit down with the Greek-British Lena, co-owner of Vericoco, a place I stayed on a writer’s retreat in early October, in Kefalonia, Greece. Together we explore loss, identity and much more. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wadingwade.com/2020/11/18/loss-identity-building-beauty-lena-kefalonia-greece/">Read on</a> to learn more about Lena and Kefalonia, a place I highly recommend for a relaxing getaway, when the time once more allows.

Exploring loss, identity and building beauty with Lena

Whether staying on a blooming meadow with horses grazing nearby, in the middle of a deep forest filled with the scent of pines, or near a vegetable farm where your gaze wanders wide over endless fields – each trip to one of our Raus cabins is unique. To delve into one of those stories, our friend Kyomi Wade told us about her time at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="sc-569ad697-0 sc-50f240ac-0 lcRCYu" href="https://www.raus.life/journal/a-postcard-from-lodge-am-see">Lodge am See</a>, being her second stint with Raus. In her essay, she explores the value of time spent in nature and the magic of a handmade BBQ.

A Postcard from Lodge am See

In this piece, I explore Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a former airport turned public park that carries the weight of history beneath its open skies. Observing the field on a sweltering summer afternoon, I reflect on how this space transforms from its dark past as the site of Berlin's first concentration camp into a place of refuge, recreation, and renewal. Through sensory observation and historical reckoning, I examine how land remembers trauma, how it offers itself back to life, and what it means for a place to commit itself to freedom after such profound suffering. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wadingwade.com/2021/01/17/tempelhofer-feld-in-summer-nature-writing/">See here</a>.

Tempelhofer Feld in Summer (nature writing)

In this conversation with thoughtful, I reflect on a decade of living across five countries: Spain, Germany, Colombia, and the UK, and what it means to seek belonging while constantly moving. As someone who's built a life untethered from one place, I explore the emotional complexity of living abroad: the freedom of starting over, the loneliness of being between homes, and how slow travel has shaped both my writing and my understanding of what "home" actually means. This piece examines the tension between rootedness and movement, and what we gain—and lose—when we choose a life in motion. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://us9.campaign-archive.com/?u=c25facadacec05eb1b6620743&amp;id=3b21b18fe6">See here</a>.

#11 Girl Seeks Belonging: notes on living abroad

My poetry and essays explore place as emotional terrain—examining how cities hold memory, how movement transforms us, and what surfaces when we slow down long enough to pay attention. Whether writing about Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld carrying the weight of history, or navigating love and loss across seven years of poems, I'm drawn to the spaces between: between sadness and bliss, between past and present, between the places we leave and the ones that leave their mark on us. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://wadingwade.com/category/poetry-other-stories-by-kyomi-wade/">See here</a>.

Poetry & Other Stories

Have a read of my favourite pieces.

Notebook work with statistics on sofa business

I'm a growth marketer and writer who left the treadmill to build a life—and work—that feels more intentional. After 13+ years in fast-paced marketing roles, I decided to step back and figure out what work could look like when it wasn't tied to hustle.So I decided to go freelance and work for myself! These days, I split my time between running paid social campaigns for brands I align with, teaching marketing to people, and writing narrative essays about place, travel, and transformation.

Join me on my latest journey

Slow down with me over on Youtube. In this video, something has called me away from the big city to Landau...a place that's earned a place in my heart as a place of rest, nature and warmth. Here's a day in the life of how I'm spending my time in-between freelancing and 'just being'.

Paid social strategy (Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn), consulting, and workshops. Advanced marketing made simple and getting you to focus on what actually works.

Peruse long-form narrative essays, travel writing, and poetry exploring place, character, and nature.

Want to work together or pitch me an editorial project? Let's talk.

〰️ Commissioned writing for travel publications, lifestyle brands, and editorial outlets〰️ Speaking or guest writing on marketing, freelancing and slow travel〰️ Creative collaborations that sit at the intersection of travel, place, and storytelling

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Kyomi here. I write long-form narrative pieces that explore place, character, and transformation. My work focuses on slow travel, the emotional geography of cities and landscapes, and what happens when we stop rushing through life.I'm drawn to stories about people in motion, whether that's physical travel or internal shift.&nbsp;My essays are character-driven, observational, and rooted in place.Find me most active at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/kyomiwade/">@kyomiwade</a>

Narrative essays, travel writing & poetry

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I'm a paid social media buyer specializing in Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn ads. I help brands run campaigns that feel aligned and get results—whether you're a small business figuring it out for the first time or an established company scaling what's working.

 I run ads, teach marketing, and make the complicated stuff simple.

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Paid social retainers (campaign management, creative strategy, optimization)Marketing consulting (Power Hour sessions, Marketer in Your Pocket)Corporate workshops &amp; training (custom curriculum for your team)DIY resources (templates, courses, guides)

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A paid social specialist, writer, and advocate for slower, more intentional life.For over a decade, I worked in growth marketing across startups and agencies in London, Berlin, and beyond. I was good at it. But somewhere along the way, I realised I was running faster than I wanted to go.

I'm Kyomi Wade

I packed my life into a suitcase and started slow-traveling across Europe—The countryside of Germany, France, Spain, Belgium. I wanted to figure out what work could look like when it wasn't tied to hustle, and what life could feel like when I stopped optimizing every moment.(Now I leave the optimizing to my campaigns.)

Today, I run WADED, my paid social business, where I help businesses grow through Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn ads. I also teach marketing through workshops and consulting, breaking down advanced strategy so it's actually usable.People who work with me say I'm competent and kind in equal measure, someone who gets things done without the usual marketing nonsense.

On my blog Wading Wade, I write long-form narrative essays that explore place, travel, character, and transformation. I do more bite-size versions of that over on Instagram. My work attracts thoughtful and curious people who are trying to figure out how to live differently and/or travel like a local.Currently:→ Based in Berlin, working internationally→ Running paid social campaigns for aligned brands→ Writing narrative essays, poetry, and travel pieces→ Teaching marketing workshops and offering consulting→ Building a YouTube channel about slow living, freelancing, and placeLet's Work Together:Whether you need paid social strategy, want to commission a piece, collaborate on a creative project, or pitch me an editorial opportunity—I'd love to hear from you.

Hi, I'm Kyomi. A writer, storyteller and lifelong marketing brain

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