What 3 story-based Threads posts & 400+ followers in 1 week taught me...
Hi Community,
This may be my last "newsletter"...
But it's not the end of me writing to you.
In fact, I'm already writing & sharing much more frequently than ever. But chances are, you haven't seen it yet (especially if you're not on Threads or inside my Notion or Google Drive).
I've been in a season of deep curriculum planning and adventuring further with my writing online. What I've discovered has reshaped how I want to show up and serve this community in 2025.
Today, I'll share with you what I'm letting go, welcoming in, and what I learned about letting our stories create the connections and impact they're meant to make.
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In today's letter...
🌀 A Journal Prompt on Letting Go
🌀 Lessons I learned from 1 month & 500+ new followers on Threads
🌀 Why this is my last newsletter & what's coming in 2025
🌀 Updates & IYMI (In case you missed it...)
Two weeks ago, my family moved unexpectedly.
The old family home we had been renting (for almost nothing) from my auntie across the street had been making us sick with mold, mites, and construction dust since last year.
It took a lot for me to surrender my connection to that house on that road. It wasn't until after we moved that I realized I was really holding on to a phantom version of myself who never existed - the version of me I'd been mourning since my parents moved me away from Taiwan & everything I loved at 3 years old.
Once I surrendered, the universe was already waiting to deliver. The perfect home with everything we'd been looking for, still walking distance from my grandparents & aunties & uncle.
Here, in this home, my health, creativity, & vision are evolving. And this theme of surrender and evolution has shown up in my work too, especially in how I share my stories online...
📝 Journal Prompt: For Letting Go 🌬️
🌀 What is taking up too much space for you right now? Something that has been a precious part of your identity & world? But now it's occupying the space of the future that the universe is trying to give you?
🌀 Can you loosen your hold on that thing? Thank it for being a part of your life then release it with gratitude?
🌀 What is waiting for you once you let go? Why haven't you been ready until now to receive it? Why has holding onto that thing been keeping you safe & comfortable? Where can you still create your safety & sense of self once you let it go?
📝 Write a letter to your present self from your future self to thank you for letting go & receiving the blessing that was waiting for you around that corner. Have your future self describe in sensory detail what living in that future reality looks & feels like & how impactful it's been for you and those you care about. Thank your present self for your courage to surrender. 💛✨️
💻 What I learned from posting my stories on Threads & gaining 400+ followers in 1 week...
Something about starting on a new platform has always felt impossible for me & my autistic mind.
So really giving Threads a fair shot at the beginning of November was all thanks to a combination of my intuition, curiosity, and love of conversation on the page. If I had had any sense of preconceived notion or strategy going in, I doubt I would have gotten off the ground.
What I did have was a choice to follow my light and experiment with sharing my story-lessons in a shorter form than essays, longer form than captions. The perfect vehicle: a Thread. 🧵
When three of my story-based Thread posts in my first week brought a combined:
56,223 VIEWS
2,607 LIKES
127 COMMENTS
139 REPOSTS & SHARES
& over 400 new FOLLOWERS
...I knew I needed to pause and really listen to what this experience was teaching me.
Here's what this month on Threads showed me about offering our stories to the world:
When we share from a place of deep reverence for our stories and genuine desire to serve, we don't NEED viral strategies or gimmicks. Numbers and algorithms become secondary to real connection.
One of my threads got just 10 likes but was the only one to lead to a booked call. Another thread didn't "pop off" but brought a creator I deeply respect into my community. Authentic storytelling naturally calls in your people.
On Threads, I gave myself permission to write as multi-dimensionally & boldly as I'm able to embody. I leaned into my core values & deeper frameworks. Each story carried a valuable lesson. I didn't write for metrics. I wrote to offer my insights to anyone who cared about the things I care about.
What moved me most wasn't the likes or follows, but seeing how people engaged with the stories themselves. The thoughtful comments. The way readers quoted and shared passages that resonated with their own communities. The dialogue that emerged around our shared values and visions for better futures.
This experience affirms the vision my intuition has been leading me to follow: Build through writing. Build through speaking your unique way. Your voice - just as it is - is ENOUGH. There are people ready & eager to engage with your stories.
But here's the key: You have to do your story work first.
This means:
Knowing and loving your own voice and stories
Being in deep reverence and gratitude for the unique lessons you've been given
Taking responsibility to share those lessons
Learning to craft memorable experiences that others can learn from
Writing your way into such familiarity with your storyteller-teacher identity that it becomes unmistakable
It's not a posting schedule or strategy that grows your community. (It might help you stay organized, but only after you have this foundation first. 👉🏽) You need to trust yourself, know your message, be self-validating, release your ego, follow your vision, then share your wisdom with your world.
💡 Goodbye newsletter. Hello, email conversations...
This clarity, underscored through my Threads experience, is inviting me to break free from prescribed molds, starting with how I write to you.
So in 2025, I'm shifting away from structured newsletters to something more organic and conversational.
This isn't goodbye - it's an invitation into more intimate, immediate connection, through email & beyond. Less structured newsletters, more heart-to-heart shares as the insights and opportunities emerge.
When a magical insight emerges from a client session, I want you to be the FIRST to know. When a creative idea for a new gathering or workshop comes to me, I want to share it with you right away & hear your thoughts. I want us to be in real dialogue - because the story I'm writing by living it and sharing it is meant to be super helpful TO YOU.
While I love our live workshops (they're truly magical!), living in Taiwan means navigating time zones can be tricky. So I'm creating more ways for us to learn and grow together across time and space:
Quarterly live offerings like the 3-day DO YOUR STORY WORK intensive starting this spring
Self-paced mini-courses on topics like: (lemme know if these speak to you...)
NURTURE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM TO FIND YOUR VOICE
LOVE YOUR STORY
WRITE YOUR WAY HOME
GATHER YOUR PEOPLE THROUGH STORY
My comprehensive TELL YOUR STORY course (which takes what I provide my clients in 6-month partnerships & offers it as a self-paced option)
My journaling-framework book WRITE YOUR WAY HOME, which I can't wait for you to see & hold. It's my little mind + heart in paper form. 🥹
A special documentary + book project celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the high school spoken word team that sparked so much of this storytelling journey (more on this later!)
But here's where you come in - I'd love to hear what topics you want me to teach & create workshops/ courses/ workbooks for. What would be most helpful for you? What stories and skills are you ready to explore?
Thank you for being here, for reading, for engaging, for growing with me. Our collective stories have so much power when we nurture them intentionally and share them generously.
👩🏽🏫 Workshops now ON-DEMAND!
My well-loved REFRAME IMPOSTER SYNDROME and TELL BETTER STORIES workshops are now both available for on-demand free access. Register with your email & access the replay video & companion resources at your own convenience. Click the images below to learn more.
✨ Whenever You're Ready...
Here's some ways we can work together.
NOTE: I'm offering my 3-session intro package for only $350 (usually priced at $500) until the end of the year!
📒 Story Work for Clarity, Confidence, & Connection - A transformative 1:1 mentorship at the intersection of healing, coaching, story work, creativity, and decolonization. Move compassionately through blocks, learn to trust the volume & value of your voice, and embody the most creative, authentic version of yourself to live your next chapter freely.
☀️ Mission-Building Accelerator - A 1:1 partnership to support you getting your necessary work & service out to your world. Together we: Gain clarity on your story, identity, & purpose (your brand). Amplify your messaging & mission to the audience who needs you the most. Nail your core frameworks & create your instructional assets. Upskill your communication, storytelling, & public speaking. Integrate the tools of self-care that you and your nervous system need in order to do this radical leadership work.
🏘️ Voice-Finder Sessions - In introductory 1:1 sessions, I'll support you to find your voice & the messages on your heart. I'll guide you to notice, reframe, & release intercepting inner narratives that are holding you back from using your voice at full volume to serve your vision. My gift is to see & offer deeper, more empowering storylines that you may be missing & invite you to step fully into sharing those powerful lessons & insights with your world.