A New Adventure Awaits...
Hi all!
Starting up a Substack is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a long time but let me explain why I’m doing it now and what the game plan is.
My schedule has gotten quite full recently; I have a regular writing gig at RocaNews and I am starting to write for other outlets as well. Trying to schedule that on top of a real job, a twice weekly podcast, and maintaining a social media presence is getting to be a bit difficult. Add to that the fact that my husband also records a thrice weekly podcast and you can see where scheduling time to record gets a bit dicey.
I don’t want to stop making regular content for you however, so here is the plan I’ve come up with - the podcast will go down to a once weekly episode and I will replace the second weekly episode with a newsletter. The Monday weekly roundup episode will stay but the Friday episode - where I usually do a deeper dive on a single topic or highlight a specific idea / piece I want to talk about - will move here. My idea is that by writing instead of recording this will allow me a bit more flexibility with my schedule while still giving you guys the same amount of content.
The second reason I’m doing this is that I’ve been thinking for quite some time how I can diversify the ways I give you content without cannibalizing my podcast content. I know not everyone enjoys listening to podcasts and I want to provide another option for those of who are in that camp. As luck or fate would have it, my schedule is making the decision for me.
To those reading this who don’t currently listen to my podcast - hi! I hope you’ll join me here!
As to what I will be filling this space with, I plan to keep that as loose as I have with my Friday episodes. Sometimes I’ll discuss a particular political topic, sometimes I’ll do a in depth discussion on a recently published piece, sometimes I’ll cover a brewing controversy. I don’t limit myself to specific topics; sometimes it’s political, sometimes it's cultural (although rarely about The Culture War), but I always try to keep it interesting. And just as my Friday episodes varied in length so will these pieces, perhaps I will do a quick 500 words on a topic or a 2000+ word breakdown.
I plan on this being an at least once weekly newsletter but it may expand to more. With writing I have much more flexibility than I do with recording so creating content is much easier for me and I can do it on the fly. I don’t want to commit to a specific day when you can expect a new newsletter just yet, once my schedule sets in maybe that will change.
For now the newsletter will be free but I will be switching over to being subscriber only in the future. I will give you guys plenty of notice before the switch, don’t worry. I hope as many of you who can subscribe do, the more I can transition away from my day job the more I can write and record. Hell, if everything goes well I’ll go back to recording twice a week and also keep writing here.
So that’s the plan as of right now, I hope you are as excited about it as I am.
Take care and until next time.