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Alexandra Lais's avatar

So many beautiful reminders in this article to use ourselves as a reference point, and not other people. Great to find more and more people orienting towards this type of leadership!

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Lucy Down's avatar

Thank you so much Alexandra! I so appreciate you stopping to share your thoughts. This for sure is a time for personal sovereignty and liberating our hearts and voices 💫🌿

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Elisabeth Neely's avatar

This is exactly what I have been looking for! I have been feeling constrained with the vast majority of businesses advice I’ve heard and have felt the same thing…if we all follow it, we end up sounding identical. I’m on Substack to share ideas that I haven’t read anywhere else. It is so validating to read your article!

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Lucy Down's avatar

Elisabeth, it makes me so happy to know this resonates with you ☺️

There is just so much archaic advice which hasn’t been updated in the last 5-10 years, and it feels like many people are just plugging away, waiting for it to all ‘work’…but things have moved on. It’s all so tired and it’s really loading on the pressure whilst taking the passion out of marketing.

Personally, I feel like it’s time for a shake up - marketing should feel absolutely joyful again 🙌💫

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Legacy of love with Anna's avatar

Beautiful to meet you! I’m here in Substack to reclaim my creativity and the power of the written word, beyond the constrains of trends and putting it into the box of content creation. Makes me want to vomit now. Honestly.

Here to reclaim the joy of my inner child just playing with words.

Celebrating your voice.

Thank you for voicing this out🙏💖✨

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Lucy Down's avatar

Yay Anna! It’s so wonderful to meet you here. There’s just so much constriction isn’t there.

We need to release ourselves from it 💫

So happy to hear you’re liberating your voice as well 🌿

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Legacy of love with Anna's avatar

Looking forward to witnessing our journeys. 🙏💖🌹

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Tanya's avatar

"What if sharing was enough?" 💥

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS 💗

It's way too easy to fall into the variety of marketing traps that are out there(waves hands in the air). Which, like you said, in the end is handing your power over to someone else. 🙄

Learning to trust oneself is where it's at. And I couldn't agree more, writing is such a great way to do so(at least that's been my personal experience, especially as an externalizer).

Thank YOU for sharing your unique voice. And reminding the rest of us that we can do the same. 💗

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