Not long after the first season of Ted Lasso began on Apple TV+, a car scraped the side of my car. Ordinarily, there might have been some expletives.  But Ted Lasso oddly came into my head and I found myself being generous to the other driver just like Ted would have been.  I felt good about it too. I had an annoying scrape down the side of my car, but I was smiling more than when the scrape wasn’t there.

 

That sent me down a research path—not just to car repair shops—but into psychology. I have been a journalist and writer all my working life. If a sitcom on TV could affect me that way, could there be more to it?  There was, which you can read about in What Would Ted Lasso Do?

 

I was also curious about how a show filled mostly with men could pack such a powerful feminist punch.  So often women in TV shows are pitted against each other. But Rebecca and Keeley become friends and in so doing become braver and more powerful. They show how women make great business leaders and what happens when women support each other. In an unequal world, that’s an important message. How To Be A Lioness: Find Your Roar With The Women of Ted Lasso explores it all.

 

I have, over the years, been lucky enough to contribute to many newspapers and magazines including The Los Angeles Times, The London Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Marie Claire (US, UK, Australian editions), Cosmopolitan, Glamor, TheCarousel.com and WomenLoveTech.com. I worked for many years as a reporter in London on the now defunct Today newspaper and moved to Los Angeles more than twenty years ago.  But I’m not sure that any of it has been quite as much fun as writing about Ted Lasso.