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Moving through the mess with Claire Venus

Moving through the mess with Claire Venus

"You don’t know what you don’t know."

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Jul 11, 2025
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Claire Venus is an absolute wonder and a Substack superstar. And, with this, her fourth post, becomes the most-featured interviewee!

First was the interview back in 2023:

All about abundance

All about abundance

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February 6, 2023
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Then a follow up about scaling her business here on Substack:

Feeling safe in a newsletter subscription business.

Feeling safe in a newsletter subscription business.

May 16, 2024
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And finally (until now!) an interview about financing the book she wrote with Russell Nohelty, ‘How to Build a World Class Substack':

Can you really earn a book advance on Kickstarter?

Can you really earn a book advance on Kickstarter?

August 5, 2024
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I can’t even remember how the idea for this latest chat came up - it took us a while to actually find the time to do it - but it was already on the cards when Claire mentioned to me that she was stuck in “the messy middle”. Given that that’s the name of my fledgling Coaching Business - Messy Middle Money - I suggested we start there.

We chatted over WhatsApp and then when I went to draft this post, I found that the majority of our conversation had disappeared. Talk about messy. But we got there in the end!

Hi Claire! So what are you in the middle of and what’s making it messy?

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