Welcome back to a Live Growth Board! Been a long time and very excited to see where you are in your Substack growth. Where you get the chance to see your progress each week, ask question and be accountable. Which is the best way to grow on Susbtack and in this community too. Each Monday, we share our work, stats and progress in the classroom! It’s also a great way for me, and the community, to support and cheer each other on. Just share your update like I did below 👇 For me: Subscriber count: 2011 (previously 1911) Open rate: 21% (previously 23%) Notes published: 35 (previously 35) Growth comments: 200 Classroom work: worked on making the community more valuable, to give more coaching opportunities. Let me kow if you would loved to go faster with coaching, I have an offer for you in the comments. Continue the good work everyone!

Hey Newsletter Growth Lab — sharing something I think will resonate here. I just published The Politics of an Overthinker — it's about what happens when you stop treating your overthinking mind as a flaw and start listening to what it's been trying to tell you all along. Read it here → https://juliaw.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-an-overthinker And tomorrow, Saturday July 11th at 4pm EST, I'm going live on Substack with Jessica Huckabay. We're getting into writing, building intentionally, faith, and the honest parts of putting your work into the world. Come join us → https://open.substack.com/live-stream/265815?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r75qd This community is part of why I keep showing up. Would love to see you there. 💛

When I created this community, I honestly had no idea if anyone would join. I remember looking at the member count every day. 2 members... 5 members... 17 members... wondering if I was building something people actually needed or if I was just talking to myself. Today, we crossed 100 members. I know 100 isn't a crazy number compared to some communities with thousands of people, but for me, it's a reminder that every big community starts with the first person who decides to believe in it. More importantly, it's not just 100 members. It's 100 people trying to build something for themselves. People publishing newsletters, getting their first subscribers, landing clients, asking questions, sharing wins, and helping each other. That's what makes this community worth showing up for. So thank you. Whether you've been here since the beginning or joined yesterday, I'm genuinely grateful you're here. That said, we're just getting started. I want this to become the best place on the internet to learn how to grow a newsletter, and that only happens if we keep improving together. So I'd love your honest feedback: - What's been the most valuable part of the community? - What should I improve? - What would you like to see more of? Every suggestion gets read. Also, over the next little while, I'm opening a few newsletter audit calls where I'll personally look at your newsletter, growth strategy, and give you personalized feedback on what I'd focus on next. If you're interested, just comment: Audit I'll send you all the details in DM so check your message :). Here's to the first 100. Now let's build something even bigger together. 🚀

New to substack. All I know is I'm willing to do a newsletter about poetry and Ai. Don't know what to do next. Covered all the free material in the classroom. It's long-winded and boring I must say. What top 3 actions I can take to crush it ASAP?