Hello, hi welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn show and a midweek installment of bullet points.

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So this week, shall we talk about second chances?

Now I keep coming back to second chances because so often in life

we can only see how we should have done something in hindsight and this really

came home to me recently when I decided to start a substack.

Now substack, if you were not aware, is essentially a platform for writers to create content

and build a subscription-based audience.

So the end user almost looks a little bit like a social media, but essentially from my side of

things as the writer, I can publish my features and it will be sent out to my audience and in my case

I have people who over the years have signed up for my newsletter and so anyone who has ever signed up for my newsletter will receive my features from Substack.

This is great. It's absolutely brilliant. It means I don't have to shaft about it on social media and it means that if I write

something it will be sent to the people who I hope because they signed up at

some point will want to read it. So it's it's really the platform actually and

I've been on there for about a week and I'm really enjoying using it. It's actually really easy to use, but we'll get on to that in a second.

So I had already started, if you might have noticed, to flex my writing muscles again over on my website Emma guns.com but the truth

is it's not it's a website that doesn't really have much going on there there's like

seven features I used to sort of have the podcast appear on it every week but that I mean no one goes

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