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(Live) Building Your Igloo:
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- Sparkle on Substack
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- Jan 23, 2026
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- 3690
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- https://sparkleon.substack.com/p/live-building-your-igloo
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Summary
Thank you Debbie Weil , Practical Astros ⚕️ , Club Trader Joe's , Mary Beth Kaplan🪶 , Dan Ehrenkrantz , Georgina Dean and many others for tuning into my live video with Erin Shetron ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Join us for more FREE joyful growth advice, activity and tips over here - January Joy(ful) Growth Club with Russell and Claire Summary Claire Venus and Erin Shetron from FREQUENT CRIERS CLUB discuss the realities of building a sustainable newsletter practice on Substack, emphasizing depth over frequency, authentic audience connection, and giving creative work space to breathe. The conversation covers; * practical growth strategies * monetization approaches * SEO optimization * and the importance of honoring your own creative energy cycles rather than following prescribed publishing schedules. Key Quotes On Publishing Frequency: “I really feel like it’s okay to slow down your publishing cadence if you are going deeper... your relationship with your audience is all that matters. And they don’t really mind too much how often it’s not about the frequency I don’t think it’s much more about the depth.” On Growth as a Process: “It feels like literally building an igloo to like live inside and you like got your torch... it’s all exactly the same. And then all of a sudden you’re nearly there. And then once you get there, it’s like, woohoo, we’re down slopes, we’re skiing.” On Creative Energy: “I don’t worry about running out of ideas. I worry about energy dips... I’ve run out of the aligned energy to deliver them.” On Platform Evolution: “I cannot be so enmeshed and entangled with a platform because I don’t work for the platform and the platform is going to platform.” On Authenticity in 2026: “With how unstable everything feels and how fake everything fee…