#44 The 5 healthy ways I grew to 1,000 subscribers in a year
In celebration of this Substack newsletter's first birthday!
Yesterday marked exactly a year since—in a spurt of ‘new year’ productivity—I decided to launch this newsletter. I fashioned the logo on Canva with a colour scheme my brother described as ‘giving Wimbledon’ (fair), and clearly still had the festive spirit because, as you might have guessed, its name is a healthy play on the iconic Christmas film Love Actually (although I added a comma for extra sass).
The past 12 months—powered by incredible advice from Francesa Specter of the brilliant The Shoulds newsletter, and a desire to say what I really thought about certain matters of wellness—have filled me with so much joy. I can’t believe that there are now 1,000 of you allowing me to take up your valuable inbox space with my typed-out musings, and I’m so grateful to all those who have subscribed, shared, liked and commented along the way.
Not that there haven’t been some bumps. In the name of ‘growth’, and feel-good first-birthday vibes, I wanted to impart some knowledge about a few things I’ve picked up on the journey. Perhaps if you, too, are poised to start your own newsletter. Mind you, this isn’t your typical ‘how I built my Substack empire’ post—there are plenty of those—but more an honest perspective on how to use your newsletter-allocated energy most effectively, and avoid what I really do believe can be a kind of Substack burnout…