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

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.

25 Years ago, today - was THE 9/11 - a friend of mine called and told me to turn on the tv that the twin towers were under attack. I remember watching those building fall and thinking no way - those were pulled. My youngest son was just 9 months old, and my oldest daughter had just joined the army. She was in bootcamp when it happened. One of those very surreal days where I just knew things were going to be very different from that day on - Do you remember that day? And then there was yesterday.... While my husband and I were walking a gal we didn't know slowed down her vehicle like she wanted to talk to us and handed my husband a bunch of flowers and told him to give them to me! they are beautiful don't you think? Just a random act of kindness that really brightened my day. 💜☘️✒️🐉☘️💜 Yesterday's mastermind was fun. We talked about notes, how to create them, schedule them and then talked about the analytics and I shared a super-secret tip for taking Substack's analytics and getting AI to help you interpret it. And then we wondered into different ways to monetize your Substack. If you tried to watch it last night - I had forgotten to change the visibility on the video - sorry about that but you can catch it now. https://youtu.be/gc3DrMOrcrk @Deborah Oppenehim - asked some great questions about sharing notes on other platforms which generated some ideas that might be pertinent to what you are doing. 💜☘️✒️🐉☘️💜 I'd like to take a minute and welcome the new community members today... @Courtney Richardson @Pam Woodisde @Enoch George While some of you might not have Substack accounts just yet - you're still welcome to click through the links here and get a feel for how notes work and what is happening over on Substack. Also like to let you know I offer Client Acquisition Audits for free where we can chat about how Substack might fit into what you're already doing and streamline your workload rather than making it more complicated. You can reserve yours here: https://hartlifecoach.com/client-acquisition-audit

So yesterday, @Ciska Venter posted a note that just cracked me up no end. Hence the emojis... Also yesterday I made sweet potato ice cream - looks like ice cream and tastes like ice cream but a little goes a very long way... Not sure if it's a dessert or an unusual dinner side dish. @Abigail Ringger mentioned she makes pumpkin ice cream - so that's going on the list next - after all it IS pumpkin spice season how could I not? I definitely feel it will be a staple because I like ice cream but the store-bought stuff just doesn't agree with my system these days. Not sure if it's because I'm saging as @Karen Langston says or the food supply has gone over the edge into not food category all together because I find more and more things I've eaten in my life simply aren't any longer edible for me. Are you finding this too or do manufacturers where you live still make food with actual natural ingredients? (as opposed to being Frankensteined in a lab) 🌻🪴☘️✒️☘️🪴🌻 Let's talk about going live on Substack for a bit shall we? Right up front - the only time I've gone live on Substack on my computer by myself it was a massive FAIL. But I have gone live with others successfully, starting with @Deborah Oppenehim last year back when you had to use the app to go live and couldn't schedule them. It's way better these days right? I've been going live with @Tracy Nicholas on Thursdays for the last couple months. So, I've gotten to know what it's like to be on the guest side of things. Because of my issues with going live alone - I often recommend people go live with a buddy and that led to ...