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Hey Reader,

We’re four days into MicroBook Magic Season 7 and — as always — I’m already deliciously excited and inspired by my writers.

Not everything about doing what I do is always roses, but THIS part? The part where I get to learn for the first time what my clients’ ideas are, and how they see the world? Then the part where I get to dive right in?

This part is ALWAYS incredible.

Let me give you a little taster of the books currently being created in my world: martial arts principles; marketing adventures and tall tales; scientific communication skills and diversity in tech; an approach to marketing that you will NOT have seen before; making schools TRULY inclusive (this is a game-changer); the most unlikely brain injury survival story; critical thinking in marketing (hoo-boy I cannot tell you how much this one is needed); a manifesto for unapologetic women (good LORD I cannot articulate how excited I am by this one)…

These books are all happening because my clients decided to bet on themselves and make it happen. Yeah, I’m helping — but they’re the ones doing it.

And they’re doing it magnificently.

But the most difficult part isn’t really the writing, or the editing, whatever we might say about that.

The most difficult part is truly believing we can, then making a commitment to ourselves, then honouring that commitment and starting.

We put ourselves in boxes. We let the world put us in boxes. And we let the world decide what we are, or are not, capable of.

But it is possible to step outside of that and say HELL NO. I want to do THIS thing, and I’m damn well gonna do it.

Let me leave you with something my client, Sophie Lee, said this week:

It’s a lot without all the other stuff Sophie’s been working on tbh. She both is and isn’t special: she is special because she’s genuinely remarkable in her creativity and working pattern and brain.

But she also isn’t because she decided what she wanted to do, and she found out how to do it, and then asked for the help she needed, and then got on with it.

And any one of us can do that part.

TTFN,

Vicky 🫡

p.s. speaking of deciding things and then getting on with them — I’m doing stand-up comedy at a big show in Bristol on December 14. I’ll have 5 minutes on stage with a group of other new comedians and I’d LOVE if you could come along.

Tickets are £25 and I have to sell 10 of them in order to guarantee my spot onstage. You can buy a ticket here.

If you can’t make it, the whole point of this event is to raise money for charity. My chosen charity is Medecins Sans Frontieres and every tiny donation helps. If you find yourself with a spare fiver, please consider donating to this very good cause.

I was top of the leaderboard, but I’ve been knocked off. Please help me get back up there!

Thank you so much!

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