Yesterday I had a really good conversation with David McIlroy on my podcast - the You World Order Showcase - He's a best seller over on Substack with over 33,000 followers. We talked about vulnerability which might sound like an odd topic for Substack - but when it comes to notes and content it's one of the most important pieces to get nailed down. There is a fine line between oversharing and being vulnerable. And the difference will cost you. The thing that it costs you is confidence. Not your confidence - but others confidence in you. Being vulnerable, in the world today, often shows up as being you, having your own opinions and letting others have theirs - that last bit - super important. As human beings we like to have our positions validated so it's often difficult to just state where you stand on things - but in doing so you pull your people towards you. I have to say that as a person who has always leaned toward people pleasing it's hard for me to take rejection - it always feels personal, so I get the allure of being vanilla. Though saging (as @Karen Langston puts it) has allowed me to care less about what people think about me on a personal level and more about helping them move towards stepping into the spotlight themselves. Which is where notes comes into the picture. The most powerful notes aren't notes that cause controversy but notes that allow people to feel aligned to something. I have note right now circulating around that has 16,000 likes, 771 comments and 1.7K restacks - it's brought in 255 new subscribers. I've had other notes go viral too and sometimes they go viral at the same time. You all have had notes go viral too - @Soph Newman 's spectacular one and @Evelyn Beatrice Bourne had one go crazy (I know they've had others - but I saw these go viral)

Love that it is still dark at 6am here. Something about drinking coffee with a candle for light that really makes my day feel special. I don't know if it's just me so I'm going to throw this out here - are you all feeling an energy shift right now? Not really looking to label it as I'm not sure how to label it - things feel different to me - not good or bad just not settled. Anyone else feeling this or have some insight around this? 🪻🍀🌺🔥🌺🍀🪻 Today is the weekly Q&A/Social Hour - we start at 1pm mtn - here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82141442688?pwd=xJ9W2bYfTXnBptWKuoOgEH4P2enq6p.1 come for 5 minutes or come for the hour. Tomorrow we will be enjoying the wisdom of @Rasheed Hooda who will be sharing a workshop with us on Monetizing Your Weird - Rasheed has a great backstory and I personally am really looking forward to this. Join us at 2pm mtn here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82173053137?pwd=LvWmj0jftv7dmZv7xB0lKcaarU1YHs.1&jst=2 Tuesday September 22nd at noon mtn we will be hosting the Substack Setup Intensive LIVE. Whether you've been on Substack a minute or are just starting out this is a great opportunity to dial in your publication so that the visibility you create by boosting your content over there leads to free and paid subscribers. Learn More here or upgrade here #🎯START HERE (you don't have to wait until Tuesday - you can jump right in today and watch the replays and go through the set up guides so that when we are live you have the ground work done and can really take advantage of asking me questions. 🪻🍀🌺🔥🌺🍀🪻 Post your links to notes, chats, lives and articles for boosting here - we will like, restack and comment where appropriate

Feels like Monday today - even though it's Tuesday. Yesterday was fun though a lot for this ole gal. I don't get to spend alone time very often with the second born grand kids because - well they have older siblings and usually we get them both - yesterday was really special in that way. Theo though 2 and half is learning to talk and count and likes to sing movie themes apparently - we had all the fun singing along to Frozen and Moana. The surgery went well for his brother, but he will need another one in March to actually fix the issue. (Which should have been fixed when he as 12-18 months old - but we have morons for doctors in our next of the woods. There is always a tradeoff for living in the country and unreliable medical support is the main thing here) 🌴🌼🥀🪻🥀🌼🌴 @Vinayak Ramesh 's interview with Substack best seller - Phillip Hofmacher is live today! https://substack.com/@vinayakramesh1/note/c-337284012 Tomorrow we have the Q&A/Social Hour happening at 1pm mtn here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82141442688?pwd=xJ9W2bYfTXnBptWKuoOgEH4P2enq6p.1 and then on Thursday we have the Monetize Your Mission Mastermind at 2pm mtn with @Rasheed Hooda who will be talking about leaning into monetizing your personal brand of weird. 🌴🌼🥀🪻🥀🌼🌴 Next week will be the Substack Setup Intensive live happening again - on Tuesday the 22nd at noon mtn. If you're new to Substack or even been over there for a while but not sure if you have your publication set up optimally you are going to want to go through this. There are many replays in the classroom and guides to get you started so you don't need to wait until next week - upgrade today and gain access. #🎯START HERE

I'm here in the wee hours of the morning at my son's house - babysitting the youngest. There was almost a disaster... a real catastrophe - I couldn't for the life of me find the coffee! Let me tell you, shear panic was setting in. After searching high and low for the better part of 20 minutes I finally found it. Phew - I was considering the idea of running home to get some and taking Charly home at the same time. Charly is my dog, we brought him over to play with Rocket, my son's dog. Bad idea they stayed up for the better part of the night wrestling with each other. It was worse than a little girl sleep over party. 🗝️🌻🌺☘️🌺🌻☘️🗝️ This week in the news... Today's VIP Q&A is moved to Tuesday (Tomorrow) at 3pm mtn - my son & his partner won't be home until late this evening and there is WAY to much pandemonium happening around here for me to actually host a call with any focus. Next week we will be back to the Monday routine. Wednesday will be the regular Q&A at 1pm mtn Thursday is the Monetize Your Mission Mastermind at 2pm mtn @Rasheed Hooda will be coming and sharing his workshop on Monetizing Your Weird. 🗝️🌻🌺☘️🌺🌻☘️🗝️ Post your links to notes, chats, lives and articles and we will like, restack and comment where appropriate.

Today we will be spending the afternoon and night babysitting a grandson as his brother and parents will be traveling down to Salt Lake City for surgery tomorrow. My son and his partner have 2 kids but also provide food and shelter for 2 teenagers who are pretty much homeless. So, we will be doing taxi service for them to school Monday as well. It is interesting to me how many kids end up being abandoned as they get into their later teen years. When my kids were younger we were always housing an extra (usually they are boys) kid for a couple months and in some cases a couple years. We weren't really unique, it's sad but many parents end up cross ways with the law over primarily drugs and end up not being able to support themselves let alone kids. All that to say - tomorrow's notes boost may be even later than today's but it will be here. 🍄🍀🐉💜🐉🍄 As you may have seen yesterday - Substack is posting your recommendations on your profile now!! I feel it's important to add blurbs to those recommendations - it allows those who you are recommending to add you to their welcome page - that means even MORE exposure for you. 🍄🍀🐉💜🐉🍄 Also I'd like to share with you a free to use (there is a paid version too) tool called https://stackbuddy.io/ it allows you to schedule posting better analytics etc. Not many know about this so thought I'd share - I do not use the pro version because I have my own way (which I shared in the last mastermind) of exploring my analytics. 🍄🍀🐉💜🐉🍄 Post your links to notes, chats, lives and posts and we'll like, restack and comment where appropriate.