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Keris Fox's avatar

Totally agree. Thanks!

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Kate Harvey's avatar

This is wonderful! So inspiring! 🙌🏻💛✨

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Kate Darracott's avatar

Wow! Such honesty, thank you so much for sharing, so many of those points resonated with me! 👏👏👏

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Shire Jansen's avatar

Lovely, I would add that Katie should feel PROUD of her accomplishments, for the joy she brings her subscribers with her posts. 🌟

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Keris Fox's avatar

Agreed!

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

To help with Katie's feeling naive and confused over devaluing the print industry, I'll have her know that reading her Substack prompted me to buy her book (in print! With international shipping and all!)

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Keris Fox's avatar

Oh this is great!

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Katie Clapham's avatar

I'm not crying!! 🥲 THANK YOU JENNA

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

I'm also a runner and a high school teacher, so THREE GIRLS is right up my ally :) I'll pass it along to my students once I'm done reading and then I'll never get it back from them and then I'll probably end by buying another copy.

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Katie Clapham's avatar

🥰🥰🥰 this is so nice!!!

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Emma Carter's avatar

You should certainly feel proud of yourself! So many people, including myself, look forward to your hilarious newsletter each week (and not just for the exploits of Business Mum 😂).

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Jenna Vandenberg's avatar

Maybe Business Mum should have a Substack too. For those winter vacation pictures at least!

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Katie Clapham's avatar

Oh god, don't encourage her!

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Keris Fox's avatar

😂

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Bella Foxwell's avatar

ALL THE FEELINGS!!! Also how I feel most days about being self-employed and somehow, miraculously, getting paid by people for my work 🤪 it feels illegal and strange and scary and temporary and amazing. Loved this 🤍

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Keris Fox's avatar

Thanks, Bella.

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Aleksandra Balazy-Knas's avatar

Haha, I need to print this post out and stick it in my diary. It's just easier than writing it down, as there are too many points that resonate with me!

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Laura Oldfield's avatar

Oh this was so relatable and so inspirational. It was also a masterclass in how to use CAPITAL LETTERS EFFECTIVELY. Thank you Katie and keris x

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Rhonda Raulston's avatar

And this piece is an example of why I upgraded to a paid subscriber. Katie captures the stew of vulnerable, contradictory, and sometimes squirmy ideas that I recognize in myself and rarely share. I always feel like she's chatting with me over a cup of tea. Thank you Katie and Keris, a thousand thanks for posting this.

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Keris Fox's avatar

Chatting over tea is exactly right!

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Nelly Bryce's avatar

Oh all of this! I almost quoted my fave line but then there was another…and another

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Katie Clapham's avatar

ha thanks, Nelly ! Quote away!

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Jordan James Sterns's avatar

lovely read. money and success and the feelings that accompany them are complex.

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Rosalyn - This Is Me Writing's avatar

I constantly feel all of these things so thanks for the reassurance I’m the only one, Katie!

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Eileen Laurie's avatar

I love this. Beautiful honesty and inspiring!

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June Girvin's avatar

Dear Katie,

Don’t change a thing.

Love, June

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Katie Clapham's avatar

😘😘😘

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Jan Cornall's avatar

Oh that’s brilliant! Thank you Katie and Kerris, from Sydney Australia!

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Keris Fox's avatar

Thank you! (I visited Sydney for the first time around this time last year - wish I was there now.)

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Jan Cornall's avatar

Oh great, that means you liked it. Come back soon!

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Keris Fox's avatar

I really did!

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