Special Holiday/Q4 Collaboration Challenge!

Try out something new with me

Hello Friends & Collaborators,

I hope you’ll join me in trying something new to wrap up this year—and hopefully to help spark collaboration again after a slower summer!

I’ve long had the idea of giving us all a theme to focus on, one that we could use to pitch each other collaboration opportunities. The Holidays feels like a great, broad first theme to start with, so I’d love to test this out here in the final months of 2025.

Here’s how it works:

• Come up with an idea of what you could offer or contribute toward a collaboration that centers around the The Holidays. Any holiday that occurs between now and New Year’s qualifies. Here’s some ideas of what you could share:

  • An idea for a guest post, ideally one you could tailor to someone else’s subscribers (could be a personal story about the holidays you want to share, holiday tips or guidance, a holiday list of some sort, etc.)

  • A holiday-related topic you could cover as an interviewee on a podcast

  • Some holiday tips or stories that you could share on a Substack live video with another writer

  • An idea for a co-authored post on a specific topic related to the holidays

  • A holiday-themed post you could write on your publication that another writer could cross-post to their publication

• Once you have your idea, head into the comments of this post and:

  • Tell us who you are and what you write about, with a link to your newsletter.

  • Pitch us your idea—and if you have more than one, share them all! (If it makes sense and the ideas are drastically different, create more than one comment.)

• Browse the other comments to see if anyone else’s pitch is of interest to you, then start connecting!

• When you have completed a collaboration, tag me,

  Marcy Farrey 🧚‍♀️
  , or CollabStack.

All collaborations done between now and the first week of 2026 will be featured over the coming months in our Collaboration Celebration emails. I’ll keep the comments on this post open through the end of the year as well, so you can keep connecting. I will remind you as often as I can that the challenge is still open.

An Example

I will give my own example of a comment/pitch here, so you have a general idea of what to work off of:

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Hi all! I’m Marcy, and I write the Soul Journaling Sessions. I create meditative journaling experiences to help you channel the wisdom of your Soul. https://souljournalingsessions.substack.com

I’d love to create holiday-themed Soul Journaling Sessions that are tailored to your subscribers needs. For example, I could create a session or prompts around honoring or enjoying the holidays, managing stress or difficult emotions around the holidays, or simply maintaining peace during the holiday season.

I am happy to do just one session or a series, and I can incorporate Astrology, Tarot or Oracle cards, if you are interested. I envision doing these as a guest post(s) with an audio files, but I am also open to other possibilities/formats.

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I invite you to go ahead and jump into the comments, make your pitches, and find a new friend to collaborate with! Do as many collaborations as you’d like.

And if you aren’t interested in writing about the holidays, that’s okay. I’ll be back on Monday with our usual Call for Collaboration. If this idea for a quarterly theme works for folks, I’ll come up with a new one for Q1.

Happy collaborating!

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Hi, I’m Marcy Farrey (pronounced Fairy 🧚‍♀️ ), and I’m on a mission to help others connect and collaborate in meaningful ways here on Substack. Consider me your Farrey 🧚‍♀️ Godmother of Collaboration!

If you love CollabStack, it would mean so much to me if you shared it with others. This will help our little community grow. Thank you for your support!