Man, yesterday was a really productive day for me - in the real world. We finally got the electrical worked out so the fan we installed several weeks ago thinking we would "just" hook the Romex (the wiring) from the fan through the ceiling of our 125 year old house right across the floor of the attic and then drop it down the wall to the outlet ... Have you ever done any home improvement project where it was just like you expected it to be and took you 20 minutes? To begin with apparently there is a second floor in the attic which one accesses through a small hole in the closet of my bedroom which is part of the 3rd addition to the house. Once you go through the hole you have to squeeze through another section and then there is the actual roof off the original house - that's as much as I can see from the opening of the hole cause there is no way in hell I'm going through that hole... My husband and one of my sons ran the wire a full weekend project in itself - the next weekend was just getting the fan attached to the ceiling. This weekend for rewiring the porch light so that we could get power to the switch and be able to run the fan - and it will be another weekend when I will work on putting the dry wall back over the space. I did get a new porch light out of the deal too and am really happy with it. Today I'm going to take it easy - I slept in as long as the dogs would let me - my husband got up first which never happens and they were all confused. Did you have a productive Saturday too or did you get to hang out and relax? 🌼🪴🍁🌴🪴🍁🌼 This week is going to be jam packed: Monday is the VIP Mastermind 3pm mtn - we are working through the Client Attraction Masterclass - a course designed to facilitate the setting up of/restructuring of your business so that it is designed to attract clients systematically. You can learn more about that here: #Introduction Monday the Soulful Marketing Magic Summit kicks off here

How did we reach the end of July? It's rodeo weekend round here - which means more fireworks - feels like we have fireworks and parades in this town every weekend in July - next month will be the fair and then life will settle down for fall. (my very favorite season). Yesterday's Mastermind was all about notes and it was so great to have so many of you join live! Highlights? 📝 Post Notes daily. (Three per day is the sweet spot, but one consistently is far better than none. Use the scheduler so you never miss a day.) 💬 Spend at least as much time commenting as posting. Meaningful conversations are what make Notes work. 🌎 Don't stay inside our community. Support each other, then intentionally branch out into conversations happening across Substack. ❤️ Leave comments that add something to the discussion rather than simply saying "Great post!" The goal is to become memorable. 🤝 Build relationships before trying to build subscribers. Subscribers are the byproduct of genuine connection. 🔄 Return to older Notes and continue conversations. A new comment can bring an older Note back into circulation. 📚 Engage with articles and Chats, not just Notes. Every interaction increases your visibility. 🎯 Think of Notes as networking, not broadcasting. You're joining conversations, not posting advertisements. 🚪Use your Notes to open the door to your publication rather than trying to sell directly in the Note itself. 📈 Consistency beats occasional bursts of activity. Showing up every day compounds over time. 💜 Your personality is your advantage. People subscribe because of the person behind the publication as much as the content itself. Catch the replay w/transcript here 🌱 ✨ 💜 🤝 📝 💬 🚀 ☕ 🌿 Tuesday we'll be doing the Substack Setup Intensive LIVE again - we begin at 10am mtn #🎯START HERE to join us.

If you couldn't make today's Monetize Your Mission Mastermind, the replay is now available! 📺 https://youtu.be/lXC52aR6NFM This wasn't a session about "gaming the algorithm." It was about understanding why people choose to share certain ideas. During the mastermind we covered: ✅ The common patterns behind Notes that spread ✅ Why identity and belonging are more powerful than trying to be clever ✅ Soph Newman's viral Note (now over 19,000 likes!) and what we can learn from it ✅ One of my own Notes that generated 183,000 impressions and 253 subscribers ✅ How Related Notes, comments, and conversations expand your reach ✅ Why consistency beats chasing virality ✅ How Chat and scheduled Notes fit into a sustainable Substack strategy One of the biggest takeaways for me was this: The goal isn't to go viral. The goal is to become discoverable by the people who are already looking for someone like you. I'd love to hear what stood out to you after you watch it. 👇 Drop your biggest takeaway in the comments, or share a Note you've published recently if you'd like some feedback from the community. Happy watching! 💜

Got my first $12 tomato harvested and the second one is working on getting ripe... Usually, I only plant 1 or 2 tomato plants and I buy them as starts in the spring - baby them in the house until the threat of frost diminishes (though can I tell you how many years we've had bad frost in the middle of JUNE! - this year it killed ALL of my fruit tree blossoms - well except the plum tree - I will get plums) So, I figure the cost of my tomatoes is generally pretty high - though it is worth it to me as there is nothing in my world that is quite as delicious as a fresh homegrown tomato. Warm from the vine. Raspberries are doing well and I've got baby grapes on the vine out front I planted a couple years ago. This is the first time I've planted a grape vine and had it "take" so pretty excited about that. Love to hear what's growing in your yard... 🍄🫜🪻🍊🪻🫜🍄 Next Tuesday is going to be a busy day round here (the 4th of August) Not only are we doing the Substack Setup Intensive live at 10am Mtn but we are also joining Adam McCoullough of the Start a Business with no money community and maybe Heather Boers of the Directory community to do a Skool Community Profit Path Finder Hot Seat Workshop. We will be going through the Skool Community Profit Path Finder Assessment tool and will be looking at the fastest things one can do to monetize their community. And I'll be sharing about the tools John from the Leverage Lab has created to discover where your community might be leaking revenue.

It only took 3 tries but they were finally able to fix my A/C yesterday. What started out as something I thought was one thing - a water leak - morph into something totally unexpected. Did you know that if the drain line for your a/c gets clogged it will shoot water out of random places and flood your basement? Yep, that's what happened. On top of the line being clogged it was clogged in a way up high space that the first guy missed on 2 occasions. He thought he'd blown out the line but apparently there is another place in the line that he missed and that was totally gummed up. All is well now - and we slept gloriously. 🪅🥳💃🎊🎈🎊💃🥳🪅 This week's monetize your mission mastermind is going to be all about notes - creating them and leveraging them to grow. If you're serious about Substack this is going to be a big one for you. (yes, there will be a replay) We do these Thursdays at 2pm mtn - they are free and everyone is welcome. Mark your calendar here 🪅🥳💃🎊🎈🎊💃🥳🪅 You may have noticed with going through notes here that there is a "related notes" section that often shows up under the note you go to visit 🪄Related Notes is Substack's way of keeping a conversation going. When someone opens a Note and scrolls through the replies, Substack often shows a selection of other Notes it believes are about the same topic or would interest that reader. You don't turn this on, choose the related Notes, or tag them manually -Substack selects them automatically using its recommendation system. ✍️How Related Notes Work When someone reads your Note and scrolls through the conversation, they'll often see a Related Notes section. These aren't Notes you've linked to yourself. They're chosen automatically by Substack based on what its algorithm believes is related to the topic or interesting to that particular reader. That means every Note you publish becomes another opportunity to be discovered - not just in someone's Home feed, but alongside other conversations happening across the platform.