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Substack Is My New Gaia Goddess Next to Medium

Join me and other impact-makers, soul-shakers?

Desiree Driesenaar
Modern Women
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4 min readOct 10, 2024

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Picture from Abundance! Gaia’s Dialogues on Substack. Picture made by Bee Wild. Thanks, Robin!

Why Substack?

Well, I must say, it’s intuitively easy. What were my first steps?

  • I already had my handle Abundanism since 2021. Now, I made my newsletter Abundance! Gaia’s Dialogues and added the paid subscriptions. Connected to Stripe. And wrote my first posts for free subscribers and paid ones.
  • I set the payments. 9 euro per month or 88 per year. And 199 for founder members who can build feed strands with me. Which is nice. I don’t want to be the only influencer here. Gaia has many voices…
  • I uploaded the email list from my website abundanism.com. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
  • And then, I started to build realistic expectations.

That’s the hard part for what I do, you know. I do full-spectrum. Nature & Cultures. Impact-making. And that means professional, personal, all continents, and Gaia. Our planet.

Mother Earth. An organism of us all.

Senses & Sciences.

Mechanistic

And of course, that means I will lose people sometimes too. I had comments from (especially men) followers who want the…

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Desiree Driesenaar
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