This week on Notes from the Not There Yet, we sit down with Jamie Anne Bradbury - UK & worldwide DJ for 14 years with residencies at Manchester City and the Manchester City Women, Founder of Fit Food Media, personal trainer of eight years, and now, mum to beautiful baby Hallie.

Jamie’s story is everything we love at The Not There Yet Project: messy, meaningful, multi-layered.

She talks us through building a career from saying yes before she felt ready, turning a cold Northern studio into a full food-content operation, DJing the Champions League Final, pivoting out of the gym industry, and finding a whole new pace through motherhood.

It’s a conversation about identity, fear, courage, self-employment, sport, creativity, and starting again - even when on paper, you look like you’ve “made it.”

Because as Jamie says: “If you give it 100%, you can never regret it. And if you mess it up, you mess it up - but you’ll regret not trying.”

Show Notes

In this episode, we explore the many chapters of Jamie Anne Bradbury’s life - DJ, PT, food-content founder, partner, and mum - and how each chapter shaped her understanding of work, identity and fulfilment.

Topics covered

• Growing up in a sport-obsessed household and how it shaped her work ethic
• The early PT days: £30 in month one and saying yes to everything
• How Fit Food Media started from clients asking for recipes
• Turning a closed gym unit into a food studio
• Leaving the commercial gym after eight years - and why the scary “yes” was the right one
• How a missed gig landed her a DJ residency at Manchester City
• DJing Istanbul for the Champions League Final & Wembley with the Lionesses
• The behind-the-scenes graft of DJing stadium events
• Adapting to the fast-moving world of content creation
• Motherhood, identity, slowing down & unexpected clarity
• Feeling like the only mum in the DJ world — and finding community anyway
• What “Not There Yet” means to Jamie now

Key Takeaways

Say yes before you feel ready. Jamie’s entire career - PT, food content, DJing - grew from small yeses that built confidence and opportunity.

You don’t have to choose one identity. Sport, music, content, motherhood - everything can coexist if you give yourself permission.

Pivots aren’t failure. Leaving the gym wasn’t an ending, but an evolution that created more time, money and freedom.

Motherhood can slow you down in the best way. For Jamie, it brought presence, clarity and a new understanding of success.

Movement is medicine. As she says: “I walk into the gym fuzzy and come out fine.”

Being “not there yet” is a beginning. The studio, the DJ gigs, the nap-time work windows - it’s all part of the becoming.

Links & Mentions

• Fit Food Media Studio
• Manchester City FC & MCWFC
• @fitfoodmedia
• @djjamieanne
• Pinterest Predicts -