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CreativeCreating · 2 years, 1 month

Turned a layoff into a 10,000-subscriber newsletter

Illustrated portrait of Camila Reyes

Camila Reyes · 38 · Chicago, IL

“I lost the masthead. It turned out the readers were mine, not the paper's.”

In short

Laid off from a metro desk after eleven years, she started emailing her old readers directly and rebuilt a living one issue at a time.

Hardest part

Sending issue one to 84 people and hearing nothing back.

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Who else is on this path right now

A living network, not an isolated story.

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people on step 2 today
6
one step ahead of you
3
mentors who finished a creating journey
9
took an alternative path from here

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