The Hype - March edition 📣
My free monthly newsletter of self-promotion tips and creative inspiration.
Hiya 🌊! I’m Lucy from Hype Yourself. The Hype - is my monthly free round-up born in 2019. I chat about self-promotion and creative living. If you are new to this page, pop your email below to ensure you receive my posts.
Hiya 🌊,
Welcome, dear old friends and new to the Hype Monthly. With a pinch of behind-the-scenes, useful resources, quirky reads, and the best of the paid membership and my network.
🇫🇷 I relocated to France nearly two years ago; since September, I’ve been taking French classes at the Mediatheque. I don’t currently have childcare and baby came with me - but now she is too wriggly so I’m having to rethink.
🕰️ Part of the self-employed parenthood juggle is that you just get into a flow, and then things change, and you have to adapt. What worked a few months ago doesn’t now. (*Weekend working enters the chat).
🧹 I’ve been frustrated (despite my word of the year being SLOW) at my lack of progress on French, but just like hyping yourself, you rarely see an overnight win to solve all your problems. It’s unreasonable consistent little steps forward for the win.
🥇 It is for this reason, that I set my challenge tasks to give you ideas of new things to try and keep on hyping. You never know who is reading, watching or listening that can open the door for you.
Lucy
❤️ I’ve set an audacious goal to hit 1,001 paid subscribers. Here is how the journey is going:
- I turned on paid subscribers on October 22nd; last month, I was at 274, and today, I’m at 292 ⬆18.
- Free subscribers: last month, I was 6,400, and this month, I’m at 6,792 ⬆392
- Went from a Top 61 to 61 ⬆5 in the business category
⏰ This month was my fifth year teaching for Hatch Enterprise, and my second for MSD UK if you are looking for an interactive workshop for your accelerator, university programme or business I’m starting to take bookings (and yes, I do come back to the UK so don’t forget me for your in-person things).
🎤 Stay tuned… I’ll be able to announce my first appearance at a Substack online summit, a chat with Louis Grenier, and potentially talk more about my third book deal (not what I imagined or you would think, but interesting nonetheless!)
BEST OF THE FREE TO READ
BEST OF THE PAID
A collection of my favourite resources and 🌟 Hype Yourself member collaborations
RESOURCES AND HELPFUL THINGS
❓ We don’t always need to look externally to find our answers.
from has some great pieces but I loved this recent post on Five Lessons I’ve Learned from asking myself questions📸 Need help freeing up photos from your phone?
is cooking up something; check this🏞️ We are all about taking small, actionable steps here and
new book, The 1% Wellness Experiment, does just this, and she has recorded an audio version of the first chapter for us👯 Are you a freelancer who also happens to be a parent? You need Doing It For The Kids whose Manchester meet-up is in May with a few tickets left
🛍️ Own a shop? You need to join
6th #myshoplife challenge starting in April. Details here…📆 Looking to attend some alternate freelance events?
has created this excellent directory of upcoming events🎨 The best hypers do so from a place of fun, creativity and joy.
has launched this brilliant journal that can help with all of that Wonder Journey Joy - A simple guide to live with intention, clarity, and confidence🐴 I keep reading a lot of trend articles about hammams and alternate places to sweat; it appears to be this year’s new ice bath for media. In particular, Tom Sutton seems to have picked up swathes of press for his business converting horse boxes. Here is a great example of regional press of telling the story rather than advertising the business. If you need to get started with regional press start here:
UPCOMING CONTENT…
🎤 Paid members ⭐️ Save the date: Friday, April 19th 12:00 GMT (replay available) our next workshop will be about how to design a great workshop with facilitator expert Kirsty Lewis, founder of the School of Facilitation
Keep on hyping.
Lucy x
P.S. Did you know I’ve written two books? Hype Yourself and Brand Yourself 📚
Thank you for including my piece, Lucy :) I'm so pleased it was helpful. I'm exploring the other pieces you've mentioned with a cup of tea this morning!
Thanks for including my audio book intro, Lucy x