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Zerlina Maxwell

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@zerlinamaxwell
Soft Life Correspondent living in Sicily 💫. Helping women build calm, powerful lives after burnout. SiriusXM Host • Inner Work + Growth Newsletter ↓
  • Travel
  • Following 3.8K
  • Followers 53.9K
  • Engagement 3.47%
  • Avg comments 139

About Zerlina Maxwell

Zerlina Maxwell (@zerlinamaxwell) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. The account has 53,868 followers and 3,223 published posts. Recent posts average 2,101 likes and 139 comments, an engagement rate of 3.47%.

With 53.9K followers, Zerlina Maxwell is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Zerlina Maxwell follows 3,829 accounts, so the audience is roughly 14 times the size of the list followed. Zerlina Maxwell carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Zerlina Maxwell under Digital creator, with Travel as a secondary category.

The Instagram bio for Zerlina Maxwell runs to 20 words across 3 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Zerlina Maxwell dates from May 2026.

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3,223 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Zerlina Maxwell, 4 are single images, 4 are carousels and 2 are videos. No single format accounts for most of them. With 3,223 posts published, Zerlina Maxwell's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark. Against the audience, that is roughly 17 followers for each post published. Zerlina Maxwell also keeps 9 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 122 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include substack, read, life, would and been. The captions tag #expat, #kamalaharris, #2026 and #leadershipskills.

American hustle culture has ruined rest for us. We think we have to grind until we break and in some cases we do because we can’t afford to do otherwise. We treat burnout as a virtue. If you’re not overscheduled then you aren’t as dedicated as everybody else.

For so long I could not take a slow morning without the creeping sense that I was falling behind and “letting the day get away from me,” or that someone else who has the perfectly aesthetic viral morning routine is beating me in the game of life. I told myself I couldn’t afford to rest and that I would do it later once I had truly earned it.

But this changed when I moved to Italy.

Head to Substack to read more at the link in my bio.
I want you to schedule one hour that has no purpose. Put it in your calendar the way you would a meeting. Block it. Protect it. When the hour comes, do not fill it with productivity dressed as rest.

Just be somewhere, doing nothing in particular, for one full hour. Notice what comes up. Notice what you want to reach for. Notice what happens if you don’t reach for it. That noticing is the work.

Read more about rest and doing nothing over on Substack at the link in my bio.
I want to talk about something that took me way too long to truly understand.

Rest is not the reward for finishing.

Rest is not what happens when you have earned it, when the deadlines are met, the emails are answered, the people who depend on you have been taken care. And the to-do list has been cleared.

Rest is not the prize at the end of the productive day.

That is not real rest. When you collapse onto the sofa at the end of a marathon day you haven’t earned that moment of peace. You don’t have to earn that.

Rest is what is necessary for you to sustain and thrive. Rest is required!

Read more of my new post over on Substack at the link in my bio.
I did not leave America because I gave up on something. I left because I finally chose myself. Maybe you’ve been thinking about doing this too but fear is holding you back or you think that there are so many things you will miss about America. I’m here to tell you the grass is greener on the other side of the world. I do not miss America. I left for my own sanity and survival.

And I have not looked back once.

Read more on Substack about why I don't miss America at the link in bio.
People ask me some version of the same question all the time.

“Do you miss America?”

Every single time, people ask me this question, without hesitation, I answer the same way.

Nope.

Not even a little. I love Americans, but I don’t miss America.

I don’t miss America some of the time. I don’t miss America on my hardest days here in Sicily. And surprisingly I don’t miss America on holidays. There has not been a single day since I moved to Palermo that I have woken up and thought, I wish I were back in America.

Now don’t get me wrong. I miss my people. I miss my family. I miss my dog. Those things are real, and I hold them close.

But here is the thing nobody talks about: I was so busy working in America that I barely saw those people anyway. American hustle culture consumed everything and almost every minute of my time.

Read more of why I don't miss America over on Substack at the link in my bio.
Somehow we’re all supposed to close the laptop and slide into an ordinary evening as if your whole system has not just spent the day metabolizing other people’s catastrophes.

It’s not about caring less. I have never been able to do that in my entire life and I do not want to start now. What I needed was a way to answer the question that did not force me to abandon one true thing in order to say another. I am a person with a life, with work I love and dinners I look forward to. I am also a witness to a moment in history that is genuinely heavy.

Read my latest post on Substack at the link in my bio.
There is a specific pause I do now when someone asks how my week is going. I work in news. So how the week is going isn’t a neutral question. It’s a question that depends on what is going on in the world instead of anything that I am choosing to do with my life and spend my time when I’m not working.

Because I cover American politics for a living, I have no choice but to pay close attention. It used to be all consuming. I used to be obsessed. I used to talk about nothing else. You understand now why I burnt out after more than a decade of that pace.

I have evolved in my relationship to work and so I also try to be intentional about the mental and emotional distance I have from the news cycle. And I had to learn over the years that I was the only one who could put up a boundary between my mental and physical well being and the dumpster fire of the news cycle.

Read more on Substack about how I'm staying human while paying attention to what's happening in the world. Link in bio.
Highly recommend.

I’m privileged and blessed and not everyone will understand but I did what my late mother would have wanted. Her life and death were a warning to me. Do what’s best for you. #expat
When I moved to Sicily, I thought I understood what I was signing up for. I had a dream. I created the vision in my mind. I had the plan and the apostille’d documents (IYKYK). I had learned to have more patience while navigating the Italian bureaucracy.

I had the courage to leave a life that looked good on paper but didn’t feel good in my body. What I didn’t have was any real understanding of how much this place would change me. I’m not a new person but I am very different now, and in some ways I think this is always who I was supposed to be. As Dr. Thema Bryant would say, I returned home to myself.

A little more than a year later, I can tell you this: Sicily didn’t just give me a new life. It rewired the way I live my life.

Head to Substack for the 5 things I've learned living in Sicily for a year (link in bio).
Kamala Harris says the highest-stakes moments are the ones you cannot plan. You have to trust your instincts and make the call.

She reflects on the 107 days and on how the American people showed up in community across backgrounds and brought their full selves to the moment.

Harris argues that no election or individual should be allowed to dim the light people carry in their belief about what is possible.

#kamalaharris #2026 #leadershipskills

Zerlina Maxwell's engagement

Zerlina Maxwell's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.47%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 2,101 likes and 139 comments, close to 15 likes for each comment.

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Avg comments
139
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Who is Zerlina Maxwell?

Zerlina Maxwell (@zerlinamaxwell) is a Digital creator creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. Zerlina Maxwell carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Zerlina Maxwell runs to 20 words across 3 lines.

How many followers does Zerlina Maxwell have?

Zerlina Maxwell has 53,868 followers on Instagram (53.9K). Zerlina Maxwell follows 3,829 accounts, so the audience is roughly 14 times the size of the list followed. With 3,223 posts published, Zerlina Maxwell's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.

What is Zerlina Maxwell's engagement rate?

Zerlina Maxwell's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.47%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 2,101 likes and 139 comments, close to 15 likes for each comment.

What does Zerlina Maxwell post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Zerlina Maxwell under Digital creator, with Travel as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Zerlina Maxwell, 4 are single images, 4 are carousels and 2 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Zerlina Maxwell repeatedly use the words substack, read, life, would and been. Zerlina Maxwell's captions carry hashtags such as #expat, #kamalaharris and #2026. Zerlina Maxwell writes those captions mainly in English. Zerlina Maxwell keeps 9 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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