Publication: Insider
Topic(s): Family, home, lifestyle, relationships, work culture, retirement, personal essays
Rate: Starting at $240 for 600 words (approximately $0.40+ per word)
Deadline: Rolling
Name of Editor: Paige DiFiore, Deputy Editor (Life & Entertainment)
Submit Via: Online pitch form

Insider is commissioning personal, service-driven lifestyle essays for its widely read Life and Entertainment vertical. Paige DiFiore, Deputy Editor at Insider, is inviting freelancers to pitch first-person or reported lifestyle stories with clear takeaways, emotional intelligence, and broad audience appeal.

This call is ideal for writers with strong personal narratives around family dynamics, home decisions, work-life transitions, love, aging, and unconventional life choices. Insider favors clear storytelling grounded in lived experience, paired with reflection and insight that resonates beyond the individual story.

Story ideas currently of interest include:

• The best life, love, career, or social advice received from older relatives
• Home renovation regrets—or unconventional home choices that unexpectedly paid off
• Lifestyle and retirement stories, especially early retirement, and how it reshaped identity, work, travel, or hobbies
• Changing appearance to fit in at work (including trying to appear older or younger)
• Moving cities or countries for love or career opportunities
• Unconventional living arrangements, such as living with in-laws, tiny homes, or buying property with friends

Rates for these pieces typically start at $240 for 600 words, with potential for higher pay depending on scope, originality, and reporting requirements. Writers whose pitches are accepted may be contacted for follow-ups and fact-checking materials.

Pitch ideas should be submitted directly via Insider’s official pitch form.