This week I’m joined by another special being, Claire Venus. Claire is a Sustack best seller with over 18,000 subscribers regularly consuming and benefitting from her guidance and mentorship. She’s been teaching about the platform since 2023 and was an official mentor for Substack in 2024. If you’re thinking ‘what is this substack thing?’, I’d argue it’s side quest central. What started as a newsletter platform has evolved to being a community building space, and social network in its own right, attracting increasing audiences due to its founding principles on writers being able to earn from their work, and its often felt warmer and deeper tone compared to other sites where you mights build an audience. I met Claire at the Substack summer party and we’ve stayed in touch since, having some lovely conversations. While it’s many peoples Side Quests, Substack and Audience development is now Claire’s day-to-day job so we also explore how she makes room for her passions of allotment gardening and property investment. If you’re interested in nurturing spaces around your passion, this episode is for you.
