Going on Hiatus

I'm gearing up for the next big thing.

Friends, this has been one hell of a year, right?

Parenting an 18 year old who graduated high school then started college was a whole thing. Looking for a job alongside 7.6 million other unemployed people, handling the rejections, the ghostings, and the actual fraudulent and misleading job ads was exhausting and demoralizing. Health stuff, getting older, and probably a thousand other things could have really all done me in.

And I’m not even going to get into the broader insanity we hear about regulary.

A friend pointed out to me earlier today that I’ve ben resilient, continuously pushing through, pivoting, and hustling. I was already feeling that before she said it, but the validation was very welcome.

Honestly, things are hard af right now, and yet I’m feeling more hopeful than ever.

I need a pause on this though.

I keep trying to get this Substack out every week, and it doesn’t happen. Not because I’m depressed and not because I don’t have anything to say. Quite the opposite, actually.

There’s so much good and exciting stuff going on that I can’t find a minute in my day. I’m going from about 6am to 6pm daily, plus as many hours as I can bare on the weekends.

My business is |thisclose| to being ready to fully launch. I’m already doing the work of it—writing, editing, marketing, coaching, concierge services, clothing consignment, and more—but the business side of things isn’t quite there.

The website, the bank account, the social media pages, the workshop I’ve half announced but haven’t finished prepping, the business plan, and a bunch of minutia not worth listing… all not done yet. Most of that is pretty essential to having a legit and legal business too.

So for the month of December, around fetching my kid from school so they can be home for a month (a month I want to make the most of) and the holidays, I need to get my business affairs in order.

And to do that, I’ve got to pause some non-essentials.

And I need to rethink this.

This newsletter is no longer focused on the things I’d originally planned on. It feels a little too stream of conscious and haphazard, which is not what I wanted.

So things need to change here too—whether that’s the description of this Substack, getting back to my earlier intentions, or scrapping it altogether remains to be seen. I hope I can work that out by the end of the year. We’ll see.

I am so grateful to my paid subscribers.

I’ve always said that my paid subscribers would get nothing by my undying gratitude for their contribution. I haven’t earned much from this, but it’s something.

That money has been sitting in an account, earning interest, just waiting to be spent. It will go directly to the start up costs of the business launch. The truth is that the business came together through my writing here, and saving that money so I could make it a reality has been critical.

Literally, because of my paid subscribers, I’m going to be able to take a step I couldn’t have at the start of the year. So thank you. Thank you so very much.

Of course, it’s not about money. Every read, heart, comment, share, and hug helped keep me moving forward. It’s no small thing. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the year doing whatever it is that makes you happiest. See you in January!