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I had a feeling you needed this peaceful beauty in your life today. I know I did…
How life starts to feel when your screen time is under 2 hours a day
The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships stop fitting, but new ones haven’t formed.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even versions of yourself.
Growth is beautiful, but it can also be isolating.
Keep growing anyway. You’ll find your kindred spirits.
You made it, you own it
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I have one subscriber who reads a single chapter of my book every week, than emails me every Sunday morning with his feedback.
He's 75, and has no idea how to use the Substack app. He will never see this note.
It makes my entire week when I get his email. He is a wonderful soul, funny and lovely, and he keeps me moving forward.
How do I even repay that?
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Join the most interesting and insightful discussions.
Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.
So give it a go, it’s a pretty lovely stretch. (Though it’s not actually magic, it’s just an up…
Imagine if social media closed everyday at 5pm like a shop;
We would all be forced to meet up and speak to each other in real life, to be present with our families, to go outside, to create something new or to read, or to simply just be with ourselves.
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this and never watching an instagram reel again
You made it, you own it
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
I don’t care if you have 0 subscribers or 10,000. I want to read your work. Drop your Substack below.
I will read as many as I can and subscribe to those that resonate. I will support the voices that need to be heard. And if a writer speaks to your soul, lift them up. Share their work. Pass it on.
Your voice matters. Your words have power. Let’s grow and rise together.
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Grow your publication on Substack
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Avoiding very
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I just found out that people accuse writers who use em-dashes of using ChatGPT — and I’m shocked!!
I love using em-dashes (—) as much as I love using semi-colons (;), and colons (:), and hyphens (-), and parenthesis (()), and exclamation marks (!), etc
Em-dashes (—) are perfectly dramatic and I love them. No em-dash user slander shall prosper
You made it, you own it
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
NO, I don’t want to “learn how to grow my substack account.”
Let’s stop turning social platforms into a constant reminder that we’re never doing enough.
I simply want to share my raw, authentic story, wisdom, and all the advice I wish I didn’t ignore.
And I want to read about others sharing the same.
I’ll take real and relatable over optimized any day.
First time in my life I've ever run across someone else who thinks in Calabi-Yau.
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I’ll never forget that time National Review went mask off on how a large part of Con Inc. really thinks about their base.
The gym owner who stood up to government at the height of fraudvirus, Ian Smith, continues to demonstrate that he has a better understanding of world dynamics than most. Here’s what he wrote on Twitter today:
“It would be difficult to convince me at this point that Joe Biden wasn’t meant to succeed — but was meant to fail?
Not just lose control. But lose the people.
Let the borders collapse.
Let inflation wipe out the middle class.
Let children be sterilized under “progress.”
Tonight I tried explaining the monetary system to a child. Here’s how the conversation went.
“You see this $1 bill? It says Federal Reserve Note on it. It’s not real money. They print it out of thin air and people are expected to accept it as legal tender. Do you understand?”
<blank stare>
“Okay, I can see I need to go back further and…
