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Nathan Baugh's avatar

you're a good writer!

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Jay Clouse's avatar

meaningful from you! 🙏

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Kevon Cheung 🥦's avatar

Substack just got a little better because of this :)

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Jay Clouse's avatar

my guy. thank you 🙏🥦

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Janice | Travel & Photography's avatar

Great to see you here jay, looking forward to getting a different point of view than just your creative science side!

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Matt Snyder's avatar

Excited to see you over here on Substack, Jay! You were already in my inbox and podcast feed each week, now here.

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Jay Clouse's avatar

i’m inescapable 😂

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Nishat Shahriyar's avatar

You are an amazing writer.

Dont dout yourself, keep writing :)

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Thank you Nishat!

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Blake Roberts, LMFT's avatar

What I admire most is that you didn’t just import your 60k+ list, which you could’ve easily done.

That says a lot about your character and it’s inspiring. I’m excited to continue seeing this side of you, as I’m learning to be a better writer too!

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Thank you Blake!

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Andy Youings's avatar

Hi Jay,

I’m so glad you’re here.

I am you, 8 years ago - struggling to start but now have a clear idea of where to start, so I plan on taking that step and see where it takes me. I’m excited to have you here to learn from.

Creator Science has already taught me so much - I’m excited to see more sides of Jay. 😃

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Jay Clouse's avatar

I appreciate your early support here Andy!!

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Geepi's avatar

Hey Jay, I'm a huge fan of your youtube channel especially after first paddy interview.

I'm happy to see you here on Substack. I have just started school of clarity newsletter here.

Would love to work with you and your team someday, let me know if you are open to hire writers.

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Magda Sawyer's avatar

Hi Jay,

it is great to see you here on Substack, I came across your website and podcast probably less than 6 months ago, and it is one of my favourite ones — somehow you manage to have a unique, thoughtful spin on every topic, even if it is something that so many other creators talk about.

It makes me want to join The Lab (even though I don’t consider myself a creator and only recently started blogging/substacking)!

One suggestion though if I may — please don’t say you are “starting from zero” here on Substack. Many people here already know you and your content, and just seeing your name pop up, they subscribe. So your path on Substack is not the path for majority of people who actually do start writing here. Just something to consider.

But once again, great to see you here and looking forward to reading more from you!

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Very kind of you to say! And yes, I know I can’t totally start at zero without writing under a pseudonym

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Paul Millerd's avatar

Love it. I joined here in 2019 basically because I determined it was the best way to practice writing. Still a solid platform for this I think. Good luck on the book

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Jay Clouse's avatar

I really do love the way it’s intertwined with Notes too. Feels like a really smart product design

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Paul Millerd's avatar

It had a slow start but the feed is solid now

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Jesse J. Anderson's avatar

Welcome!

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Following your example here!

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Matt Tilmann's avatar

If it helps, I’ve had more traffic on Substack then I ever had on my Wordpress site. The discovery has been great, especially with Notes!

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Thanks for sharing that!

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Brad Miller's avatar

I started here on Substack a month or two ago because I was looking for a place to keep all my writing. Most of what I do is on LinkedIn, but it is incredibly difficult to find things on there once it is published. I also wanted a place I could write some longer-form content than what works on LinkedIn. Plus, there is sort of an email list component here that allows me to send out my stuff to my followers.

Like you, Substack is an experiment for me right now.

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Jay Clouse's avatar

Excited to follow along!

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Chris Anselmo's avatar

Excited to learn your origin story, Jay! I appreciate you wanting to start anew and get back to writing for the sake of writing.

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Land Lawson's avatar

Love it Jay. Excited the follow your journey.

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Jay Clouse's avatar

thank you Land!

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Andrew Ellis's avatar

Ooo this is exciting to see!! I’m grateful you’re willing to open up and share about the same struggles many other creators face but are unable to express the thoughts. There will be many that read these pieces down the road and probably deeply resonate with them.

P.s. just to give a little vote in the category of your “I am a good writer” dialogue: I look up to your writing and ability to express ideas.

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Jay Clouse's avatar

that means a lot thank you!!

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