Welcome. Beautiful. I'm so glad you're here as a Founding Member. The Substack Studio is a space for gifted, neurocomplex women over 40 on the journey from paralyzed to prolific — building a body of work that gets your most inspired ideas out of the Good Idea Graveyard and onto a real platform that attracts golden opportunities, collaborations and projects as deep as you are. Please keep in mind that our official public launch is in June. I decided to roll this out with minimum delay because Uranus (revolution) has just moved into Gemini (writing, communication, self-expression) and I want us to take maximum advantage of these Universal forces. The wind is now at our backs. So now you get Founding Member benefits — including lifetime Founding Member pricing, early access to the beta Self-Centered Business OS and individual attention from me — while also giving me feedback that will shape the final version we launch publicly. (For this, I thank you in advance. 🙏🏾) 👉🏾 Step 1: Watch the welcome video below. 👉🏾 Step 2: Check out the Classroom. You'll find the Write Fire 🔥 Substack Launch Challenge, the Inner Critic Cure (we're loading it now!), branding templates, and (eventually) everything you need to start, grow and write your own bold, beautiful Substack. 👉🏾 Step 3: Jump into the community and introduce yourself in the comments below. Read what other A-List women are sharing. Comment, connect, build each other up. Tell us: - Your name - Where you're writing from - The body of work that's been sitting in your Good Idea Graveyard waiting for its moment I'll go first: I'm Tara-Nicholle Kirke. I write from Carvoeira, Portugal — a small village by the sea where every house is painted white and blue in honor of the Goddess of the Blue Sea (Yemaya). The body of work I'm finally building is how the Goddess is now returning to her throne, in the form of every single woman like us. The Substack Studio is where my body of work for other Creatress Women lives now. And so do you.

We're going to probably end up with doing Office Hours every other week and Body Doubling on the alternate weeks. What are you working on at the mo? Drop it into the comments! Pic from leaving our coworking with friends session yesterday here in my hometown of Ericeira...

This is a note to say that there will be no zoom coworking on July 30. the A-List coworking hours will be back in September, after Summer holidays. See you then!

See you in the co-creation session, @Jennifer Davis-Flynn. Thanks for holding space, Sister. 🙏

Hey, Beloveds: I wanted to give you a quick OTS (Over The Shoulder) update on what is happening behind the scenes in my world, and what is about to happen in yours. I’ve been spending the last few months looking deeply at why brilliant, neurocomplex women retreat on the brink of their own breakthroughs. Why do our boldest ideas keep piling up in the Good Idea Graveyard? Our childhood conditioning to be smart-and-cute-but-mute runs deep into our cells, sneakily silencing the most radical, electric insights within us before they can make it out into the world. When we try to build a platform or a business using the linear, extractive "bro-marketing" models just throws a Feral Ferrari brain into a threat defense response. We excelled at school and work because they came with built in external urgency and structure, but when we step closer to sharing our most audacious thinking with the world, we feel wildly untetherd and even... unsafe. This is not just a conditioned response from our this lifetime. To fix it, we have to stop future tripping, because the future never comes. Instead, we have to look back. Way back. For 5,000 years, the capitalarchy has tried to drop a veil over our voices, extracting our power for the purposes of empire.But before that veil dropped, there was Enheduanna. Around 2300 BCE, Enheduanna was the High Priestess of Ur. She is the first named author in human history. She didn't wait for gatekeepers to give her permission; she prolifically wrote her own bold, dangerous poetry on clay tablets.But she wasn't just a spiritual figurehead or the first-ever scribe—she also masterfully led the Gipar, a massive, wealthy temple economy and agricultural estate, supported by an entire class of learned priestesses. She was the original Prolific Paid Priestess.If you can't understand why the calling to write or speak truth and also live a prosperous life won't leave you alone, it's in your lineage. We don't need to ask the patriarchy for permission to publish, speak, or earn.We can use Substack to build our own Gipars.