Hi everyone, welcome back to Bad on Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia

Mentor. And today we are offering you our best, our brightest, our shiniest advice. I thought

you were going to say best and worst. No, I hope it's good. I feel like last time we did

advice, I feel like we both rated ourselves a seven out of 10. I'm hoping we get to an

eight. I think so. And these are all really interesting topics to discuss, whether you

get something out of it or not. I hope you do though. It was interesting that there are

a lot of repeat topics. We'll talk about it more once we get into. I noticed that as

well. But tell me about your high. What's been going on? What's been good? Yeah. My high

is using a substack for my newsletter, offering more newsletter stuff and paid subscriptions.

And I honestly didn't know if people would pay for anything. I've been sending my newsletter

out pretty regularly, my weekly essay for about a year or maybe a little more. People

have been so supportive. And I've just really enjoyed like being able to focus on it and

to dedicate more time to it and be more creative. And having just like a little bit of money

from the subscriptions means that I feel better able to and I can like say no to other things,

which is just my goal this year. And so I feel like it's all coming together and I feel

really good about it. I bought my full year subscription. Listeners. Thank you. You should

do that too. I thank you. I feel like you're really good at it. I love your personal essays.

When you were talking on the podcast last week about how you were sending out a newsletter

about buying new underwear, it hadn't gone out yet. So I hadn't read it at that point.

And in my hand, I was like, oh, okay, sure. And it was so different than when I expected.

I feel like you always have such thoughtful, poignant, but relatable little essays. Thank

you. That's what I'm going for. It feels really good. So I'm excited to keep it going.

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