It's a lovely Sunday here in southern Idaho today. The sun is shining but not hot and the sky is that lovely shade of blue that promises fall with those big puffy white clouds that beg investigating for images while lying on the grass. Yeah, that kind of day. How's the day shaping up in your neck of the woods? 🪴🍁🪺🪻🪺🍁🪴 🔥𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 - 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝘁 ... 𝗜'𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 - 𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗚 - 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗚.🔥 🪴🍁🪺🪻🪺🍁🪴 Been thinking a lot about AI lately. We even had a chat here about it yesterday - around names we have for our AI agents. There was one part of the conversation that had me seriously laughing out loud when @Eli Norris and @Ali Davidson who both have ai's named Sam questioned whether Sam was stepping out on Eli - who says AI has no sense of humor? There are so many ways to use AI beyond simply an expanded search engine and the more I explore the more I'm blown away. Katya from Oracle Connection really helped me take what I'd gleaned from Evelyn Weis' community to a whole new level and then @Bo McCoy and @Janay Trevillion expanded on that even further. One thing I know about myself, though, is ... I like puzzles and I can easily get pulled into doing things because they are interesting but not actually what I need to focus on to further my over all mission.

Can I tell you how fun it is to see so many of you going live on Substack? Love popping on and seeing someone I know live over there. And then I start seeing familiar faces in the chat - so FUN. Like a little party in the middle of the day. From yesterday's notes boost we've got a few community members who are looking to partner up to go live @Gwynne Conlyn @Madison Chase @Oluwatiresimi Adeyemi @Deborah Oppenehim and @Janay Trevillion all mentioned they were looking for live collabs and I know @Americo Da Costa is WAY into lives he livestreams on a bunch of platforms at one time (kind of like you know extreme sports - only with podcasting😱🤣) @Tracy Nicholas @Alli Gatlin and @Karen Langston and @Janay Trevillion go live all the time and are great live partners. @Bo McCoy did a banger of a live yesterday too. And I caught @Evelyn Beatrice Bourne was live also. @Kathleen Thorne RN, LMT was also live yesterday talking about the AI scanner and offered a link to petition Substack to not scan your material, or label it. I personally don't mind the scanning because anything you create on the internet is going to be exposed, but I do mind the AI shaming that is happening around the scanning of writing over there because AI is a tool that opens up the platform to be international and levels the playing field for those who are other abled.

Publishing helps people find you. Genuine conversations give them a reason to remember you. ✨ You’re publishing on Substack. Maybe you’re writing articles, posting Notes and sharing your ideas consistently. You’re doing what you thought you were supposed to do. But your reach still isn’t growing as quickly as you hoped. Here’s the piece many people miss: Substack isn’t simply a publishing platform. It’s a relationship platform. 🤝 Publishing gives people something to discover. Commenting helps you become part of the conversation. And that conversation is often where growth begins. 🌱 📝 Posting Notes is only half the strategy I recommend posting Notes every day. If you can post three times a day without making it feel like a full-time job, even better. You don’t have to sit in front of Substack all day to do that. Use the Notes Creation Engine #🤖 Create Better Notes w/the Notes Creation Engine to turn your existing ideas, articles, podcast episodes and stories into several Notes. Then schedule them so they appear throughout the day. ⏰ Your three Notes might include: 1. 💡 A short idea, observation or belief 2. 📖 A story or lesson from your own experience 3. ❓ A question or invitation that encourages conversation 4. This keeps you visible without requiring you to create everything in real time. Substack has reported that writers and creators who published at least three thoughtful Notes during the week they launched gained 50 percent more total subscribers than those who didn’t. That doesn’t mean three Notes a week or three Notes a day is a magic formula. It does show that participating in Notes can contribute to discovery and subscriber growth. But publishing your Notes and disappearing is not enough. The part that makes this work is what happens next. 💬 Comments are where visibility becomes relationship Think about how you would respond if someone shared an interesting statement or personal story while you were having coffee together. ☕

Please give me a minute... Gotta gather my brains back up - @Bo McCoy blew my mind yesterday in the Mastermind as he explained how to make an extension using Chatgpt and Claude. And the extension part was just the beginning! He also shared about dashboards and agents and then my mind was off to the races about possibilities. If you missed it, you can still catch it here: https://youtu.be/2wxeeE8p0lI 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 About the Lives thing - I'll create a category for Lives - It'll be called EVENTS and you can share your links to Substack lives there but also remember to share them here - in the notes boost thread too. Make sure you do more than just dropped the link - tease us a bit and give us dates and times - it's okay to put in the same link in a few days in a row - We're all busy and if we have notice it's easier to get things scheduled. 🌿🎈☘️😎☘️🌿 Speaking about lives - They are a simple way to grow on Substack because they get pushed out to your audiences. Here's a quick overview: 🎥 LET’S TALK ABOUT GOING LIVE ON SUBSTACK Have you tried it yet - or does the thought make you a little nervous? Substack Live lets you connect with your audience in real time without sending people to another platform. Why go live? ✨ Build trust faster by letting people experience the real you ✨ Answer questions and learn what your audience needs ✨ Invite another creator and introduce each other to new audiences ✨ Offer public sessions, subscriber-only events, or paid-member experiences ✨ Turn the recording into a post for people who couldn’t attend live And you don’t need a fancy production. HOW TO GO LIVE: 📱 From the Substack app: 1. Tap the orange + button 2. Choose Live 3. Add a clear title 4. Choose who can watch: everyone, subscribers, or paid subscribers 5. Go live immediately or schedule it for later 💻 From your computer: (and this is a fairly recent thing we're able to do - @Deborah Oppenehim remember last year we had to go live with our phones?)

It's dark and raining, my candle is crackling and my coffee is particularly good this morning - shaping up to be a lovely day. Don't you just love how every day is a new opportunity for discovery & reminders of things you might have known but forgot? Yep, me too ... So, here's a few things from yesterday - 1. Skool has put a review option in place for people who are paid members of a community - this helps people in 3 ways - a) it helps the reviewer because they gain visibility on the about page of growing communities b) it helps people learning about the community see that it's worth exploring c) it helps the community grow. 2. If you're a paid community member you can pop over here and leave a review if you so choose. It's another way that Skool has designed to encourage people to become paid community members along with the new Upgrade button for Freemium communities. Also, yesterday @Carol Hudnell posted a thread about making videos from posts - you know I had forgotten about that feature on Substack! Right now, there are so many features over there that it is getting hard to keep them all straight! But yes, you can make a short video from written content to share as a story or video on Instagram and FB. You can't highlight very much text for this as it's short - like just a few seconds - but it is a thing over there. You can find the option on the "share" page after you publish your article. ☘️🍂🪻🌼🍂🪻☘️ Also, a few days ago (over the weekend) I created a quick video about creating your profile over on Substack - you can find this video and the brand new tool over in the Quick Start Guide to Substack & Podcasts in this section #💛Create a Substack Profile That Converts The tool will help you create your bio. Try it out and let me know what you think... ☘️🍂🪻🌼🍂🪻☘️