Welcome to My Medium Profile.
I’m Nick Wolny, an editor, writer, and consultant of seven years. Professionally, I write about personal finance, technology, LGBTQ+ equity, and entrepreneurship. Personally, I use Medium as a creative outlet to explore new writing formats and storytelling styles.
Links
🔗 My website. It’s good!
🔗 My newsletter, “The Morning Walk”. Also good! It’s about small business and marketing, written in a breezy, newsy style. Also, it has cute artwork.
🔗 My consulting company. Established in 2016, Hefty Media Group provides writing education and resources for the modern solopreneur, mainly through our Camp Wordsmith program. We also take occasional done-for-you editorial work, and have a “fractional editorial director” service.
🔗 Camp Wordsmith. Camp Wordsmith is my company’s trademarked content writing program. We provide education, coaching and turnkey and resources relevant for the modern solopreneur. Lots of cute artwork, too.
A Few Work Samples
✏️ Maxed Out: Inside America’s Credit Card Debt Crisis — and Where We Go From Here. A multimedia feature for CNET examining America’s credit card culture, which has led to a collective $1 trillion in consumer debt at interest rates over 20%.
✏️ How Gay Pin-Up Mags Launched a Political Revolution. In this edition of my finance column for Out Magazine, I looked at how the birth of Physique Pictorial and 1950s queer publishing culture influenced gay rights organization.
📺 Is your phone’s digital wallet safer than plastics? For Good Morning America, I weighed in on e-wallets, which after 10+ years still have mixed adoption rates.
✏️ If you’re LGBTQ in America, the time to broaden your skill set and prioritize career flexibility is now. An op-ed I wrote for Fast Company. I love having a portfolio career. It’s challenging at times, but keeps me sharp and humble, which is important. For marginalized populations who historically earn less at work, it’s even more important.
The Fancy Author Bio
A classically trained French hornist by education, Nick Wolny is a senior editor and journalist at CNET, where he oversees coverage related to consumer spending, consumer tech and personal finance. He is also the finance columnist for Out magazine and a frequent television correspondent, and was previously senior editor at NextAdvisor, in partnership with Time, where he oversaw coverage of the financial independence movement.
Prior to journalism, Nick owned a content marketing agency, a business he converted into a fractional consultancy upon pivoting his career. He has previously written thought leadership columns for Fast Company, Insider, Entrepreneur Magazine and Fortune, and is based in Los Angeles.
