Olivia Wickstrom writes Petal and Hearth, a bestselling Substack about French living, building a creative business, and designing a life you can fall in love with β and that intention shows up in every part of her work.
In this interview, Olivia talks candidly about living and writing in the south of France, the cultural whiplash between American and French approaches to work, and the systems that quietly made her freelance career sustainable.