Ideation for my newsletter

therealbrandonwilson  •  10 Jun 2026   •    
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My writing dashboard continues to be a gift that keeps on giving. Six years ago, I was still contemplating ideas for a newsletter. I provided the screenshot below because it's from my personal archive of 200WAD posts.

I started Be Wellthy in October of 2020, and it is interesting to reflect on these initial ideas after writing over 300 weekly newsletters for 5+ years. Somehow, I was spot on because, other than number 6, I have covered all these topics. Some would say my scope is too broad and I should narrow down my niche to increase subscriber engagement. Whatever. I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and I've lasted this long without following traditional advice.

I just checked the Substack dashboard and was surprised to learn that I've hit the 700-subscriber milestone. This is a new record for the little newsletter that could. Now that's total subscribers. I have 21 paid subscribers in the Be Wellthy Club. My goal is to hit 1,000 paid subscribers, which seems pretty far from where I am now, but in terms of total subscribers, I can see hitting 1,000 before the end of the year. All this without doing much promotion and focusing on the enjoyment of the creative process.

Comments

Ah time hop for 2000wad writings… nice!!! Ever thought of making the dashboard code open source? ;)

jasonleow  •  11 Jun 2026, 12:22 am

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