Hello and welcome to episode 224 of art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me

Louise Fletcher. Okay today I'm not so sure about the creative soul part although this

very definitely comes into it. We hopped on the call this morning,

not sure what to talk about, and we're going to talk about the thrilling subject of emails.

Sorry I jumped in and said it before you already.

But different reasons for different reasons.

So it's not necessarily going to be a how to do emails or how to get your

email set up. It's going to be a little bit more of why they work and how we're both feeling about them and I hope that you will take

something from it no matter where you are with your emails as an artist. Now this is partly because

I've just arrived back from a week away which was lovely but I have the normal email in-box deluge of stuff because I didn't keep on top of deleting. So I'm at one end of the spectrum. I'm also on another end with somewhere about the emails that I am choosing to send out bracket or not

or not. So we just thought we'd have a little chat about it,

but what's been going on? You've had a very successful

course launch, which we're not going to talk a huge amount,

but how are you feeling everybody started?

Yeah, tired.

So as you know, launching something, it's more work than the actual thing itself. So the build up to it, there's three weeks and emailing comes into it a lot, but there's three weeks of, there's getting everybody into the Facebook group, is one week there's teaching for a week there's a week of launching my course my paid course so it's three weeks of full on and I have a lot of people helping me now thankfully but still

just feel like I've typed and typed and typed and one of the things when we talk about emails that as a human design manifest and we've promised to talk about that in the future what human design is and

Responding is my worst thing it literally drains the life out of me to respond to other people and now I understand that I can time myself a bit more and not do quite as much of it. I still want to respond to people's responses. I just not very to respond to people's responses.

I just not very energetically set up for that.

So it's been exhausting, however, it was very good.

We've got lots and lots of fabulous people in the course that lots of excitement and a good number of people. So everything about it, you know, went really well and I'm very happy, but'm always reminded I'm sure you know this feeling too there's only so many times in a year you can manage this I only do it once a year I think you sometimes do it twice, but it is absolutely just wipes you out.

Yeah, it is absolutely exhausting and I think it's quite hard sometime unless you've done it to realize and also it's the thing that surprises me each time I do it

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