Celebrate Collaboration + a Challenge!

More ways to celebrate our work and each other

Welcome to our new end-of-month Collaboration Celebration! In this post, coming to you the last Monday of each month, I will highlight successful collaborations from CollabStack Premium Members (paid subscribers), and open up the comments for YOU to celebrate your recent collaborations.

Here’s how it works:

1. Browse the collaborations in this post and get inspiration for your next collaboration! Read, like, and restack the ones that speak to you.

2. Head into the comments and share what you’re celebrating around collaboration this month. Share any links to collaborative projects or posts (guest posts, interviews, profiles, etc), if available.

3. Browse the comments and cheer on others! If they share links to collaborative posts, read the ones that speak to you, and like, comment, and/or restack!

But wait, there’s more . . . Introducing: Love Notes!

I want to share a NEW opportunity for you to cheer each other on and win three FREE months of a CollabStack Premium Membership!

I’m adding a new section to our individual CollabStack Directory listings: an area for testimonials or endorsements, so those visiting a creator’s profile can see that other creators recommend working with them.

I want to do this in a way that feels more fun and natural than sitting down and writing a formal testimonial and sending it to me. So I’m inviting you all to write Love Notes on, of course, Substack Notes!

How to participate:

1. Collaborate with another creator in the CollabStack Directory (in whatever way you agree upon—guest posting, cross-posting, interviews or profiles, co-written articles, swapping recommendations, etc).

2. If you enjoyed the experience, write a Note tagging them and sharing why you think they’re a great person to collaborate with.

3. Mention this is part of the CollabStack Love Notes challenge and tag me,

   Marcy Farrey 🧚‍♀️
   (@themysticalfarrey) at the end of the Note or in the comments so I see it.

4. I will add a link to your Love Note/testimonial on that creator’s listing in the CollabStack Directory.

I’ll be running this challenge quarterly and giving three FREE months of CollabStack Premium Membership (the paid subscription) to:

• The creator who receives the most Love Notes that quarter

• The creator who sends the most Love Notes that quarter

For the purposes of this challenge, you can only recommend a person one time (so if you write multiple Love Notes for the same person, it will not be counted as multiple entries).

We are already well into Q1, so this round will be abbreviated. Send/receive as many as you can by March 31. Then a new round will start in Q2.

If you collaborated with someone who isn’t currently a part of the CollabStack Directory, and you want to write them a Love Note, encourage them to submit and join. We now have more than 140 creators/publications in the directory!

This Month’s Highlights

And now onto our celebration! Below are great examples of the range of content you can create with others on Substack. I’ve grouped them by collaboration type so you can see all the possibilities.

Want to have your collaborations prominently featured? Consider joining us as a Premium Member.

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A Live Event Series

Premium Members

Dre Beltrami

,

Andrea Hoffmann

, and

Jennie O'Connor

have come together to create a new series of live events on Zoom. The Substack Investigative Series will help us learn how to make Substack work for us! Learn more about the Substack Investigators:

The Substack Small Creators Workaround Hotline Is Now OPEN!

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A Co-written Article & Live Workshop

This collaborative post from

Michele Parad

teased an upcoming live event with her co-author:

Mastering Your Inner Voice: A Guide to Enhancing Your Body of Work

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Guest Posts

Premium Member

Anne Marie Chaker

wrote a guest post for fellow Premium Member

Andrea Hoffmann

:

Building Strength, Not Stress

Andrea Hoffmann

wrote a guest post for The Curmudgeon’s Guide to College Admissions:

The Secret Ingredient to Successful College Applications

Kelly Thompson

wrote an essay that was featured as a guest post for Sober App that she also cross-posted to her own publication:

Awakening the Fire Within: Recovery, Rage, and the Power of Voice

Michele Parad

featured a guest post from

Toku McCree

on The Dried Mango Principle:

The Dried Mango Principle: Creating Wisdom That Sticks

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Profiles & Interviews

Premium Member

Jo Taylor

shared her story about one of her Notes going viral in this post from

Kristina God

:

This Non-Perfect Note Shook Substack and Won 5800 Hearts

And

Anne Marie Chaker

profiled several inspiring individuals on her publication, Lift:

A Naval Officer's Secrets to Navigating Stress

Lessons from A Winter Warrior

Resilience, Reinvention and the Power of Setbacks

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Podcasts

I welcomed two guest hosts on my podcast, the Soul Journaling Sessions:

Journaling & Love: A Letter to Romantic Love from Maria Luz O'Rourke

Journaling for Healing Trauma in Our Relationship with Self

Now it’s your turn to head into the comments and share you collaboration success stories! Don’t forget to include links to any finished pieces so we can like and restack them.

Want to connect with any of the Premium Members featured in this post? Below are links to their profiles in the CollabStack Directory:

• Dre Beltrami - The Hot Dog Cart

• Anne Marie Chaker - LIFT

• Andrea Hoffmann - Can We Talk About This?

• Jennie O’Connor - Down the Rabbit Hole

• Michele Parad - Multidimensional Leaders

• Jo Taylor - Characteristically Speaking

• Kelly Thompson - There’s Nothing Wrong With You (And There Never Was)

Until next time, Happy Collaborating!