A Patreon, a New Newsletter, and a Site Redesign

It’s been a lengthy even though considering the fact that I have created on Legal Nomads. When people question how I’m executing, I have taken to declaring, “I’m hanging in as best as I can.” What else can we all do? These are pretty unusual, intense times, and truthfully I’m just impressed with everyone who will make it via just about every working day with no cracking at the very least when.

Whilst I have not been writing a lot in this article, I have been operating (in 20 moment standing increments!) on some truly satisfying points, which I am energized to share with you here.

1. I have Launched My Patreon

Numerous of you have requested about techniques to help me at a time where I just cannot physically function the way I made use of to. Patreon is a good way to do so.

I unveiled my Patreon to the environment through the last 7 days of February. For all those unfamiliar with Patreon, it’s a membership platform that lets persons to signal up to acquire updates, powering the scenes videos, non-public podcasts and much more from their favourite creatives, writers, or artists. A lot of you in this neighborhood have recommended I start a single up, and in my little working increments I was in a position to get it up and operating.

Numerous of my travel running a blog friends have started 1, but my Patreon is a little bit diverse than the norm, due to the fact it is support only. So in its place of each and every tier featuring additional and much more rewards for what you indicator up for, my marketing campaign has every tier receiving the identical accessibility and advantages as the other individuals. But! Unlike quite a few assistance-only Patreons, it still does have exciting goodies (beneath), simply because there are continue to several enjoyment issues I can give within just my constrained point out.

I structured it this way mainly because agony restrictions my day to working day output so substantially that I’d instead be certainly absolutely sure that I can provide what I promise, vs. creating large financial tiers and crack that guarantee.

It is an wonderful sensation to have a neighborhood of persons inquiring to help me from significantly flung spots. I have had artists and photographers achieve out as effectively, to deliver regular monthly goodies that I can incorporate to the tiers — mostly bird-associated or soup-similar, which looks about ideal!

The start video clip is under. Patreon website page is right here. We’re up to about 170 men and women now, at the time of crafting.

Although it is a support-only Patreon, every person does obtain a bunch of rewards!

• Your title on the Patreon thank you page on Legal Nomads.
• Your title on an Instagram thank you publish.
• Early obtain to podcast facts, Lawful Nomads website redesign, and information.
• Potential to vote on future episode matters for the podcast.
• Month to month online video or audio AMAs on Patreon, as my health lets. You can post concerns that I will respond to.
• Shorter videos with updates about progress for the podcast, redesign, and any other updates in the Authorized Nomads universe.
• Supporting me with a steady revenue at a time the place I’m physically unable to get the job done as I applied to.
• A thank you image of your tier chook, 1 of Bob, Fiona, or Arthur (these are the birds in the header of this submit – I like them so a lot.)

I might include larger tiers with unique rewards later on. There are also enjoyable goodies in the operates as I described earlier mentioned.

I observed this on the page by itself, but here’s how I system to use the funds:

• Funding my running expenses so that I can keep my internet sites and projects afloat.
• Supporting the launch and production of my new podcast, that will allow me to develop and share content material with you as a result of a a lot more workable medium supplied my latest problem.
• Helping me change my website posts about long-term sickness into audio sort in purchase to make them extra available to other individuals (I will seek the services of a sound engineer to do this).
• Redesigning Legal Nomads to incorporate a new property web page, brand, and website flow that reflects my current.
• Standard assist for me as I navigate this new, confined, way of everyday living.

A large many thanks to the pursuing amazing persons, who took the time and vitality to preview the page, the video, and give feed-back together the way (which includes lots of testing-of-the-banner-image-on-cellular makes an attempt) for this big launch: Ella Frances Sanders, Audrey Scott, Catherine Bodry, Christopher Nowakowski, Dalene Heck, Derek Earl Baron, Jim Fricker III, Kate McCulley, Marta Bethencourt De França, Mike Sowden, Reine Gammoh, Shannon O’Donnell, Tasha Mary, and Tim Van Der Linden.

A New Newsletter

I talked about in my very last (August 2020) put up that I would be restarting my newsletter on Substack. I did so for the reason that Aweber was getting to be price prohibitive at a time when I was not able to operate, and Substack’s offerings are cost-free except you demand for your publication (at which stage they choose a percentage). Since I often prepare for my newsletter to be totally free, it built sense to swap in excess of.

I’ve finished a few so significantly and they comply with the traces of my previous Backlinks I Cherished missives: some musings about a topic of desire, personalized updates, the greatest looking through from all around the internet that thirty day period. The future one particular goes out at the close of February.

If you were on the Backlinks I Beloved listing, I have introduced you more than to Substack. If you consider you have been but did not get the new publication, be sure to test your spam folders on February 28th! And if you are interested in getting it, be sure to indicator up below.

You can examine out the archives right here, initial.

A Authorized Nomads Redesign

This internet site no extended reflects the human being I am, or the life that I lead. I love it, and I’ve liked creating on it for all these many years via the iterations and redesigns, but it’s no extended me.

This time, colours, brand, and layout are likely to change. I never prepare to improve also significantly supplied my constrained bandwidth but will start with the essentials: the homepage, some of the classification movement, and the about webpage and essential textual content.

Also altering? The slogan. I’m not telling stories via food any longer. I’m also not a legal nomad, but just after 12 years in this article I am sticking to the domain. The new slogan is Curious About Almost everything, exact as the e-newsletter. The most important theme colour will be a green-blue, underneath. I’ve also picked out a mascot, a raven I’ve named Arthur, given that corvids are insatiably curious just like this local community.

The most important web page will have comparable classes as suitable now, but will talk to the concern, “What are you curious about today?” to look through them. Other than that and the look-and-come to feel of the household website page, I may make adjustments bit by little bit but the content material from the very last ten years will stay. I’m fired up to have a website that displays a small more of my current attitude, though of study course curiosity is what fuelled my life of vacation all alongside.

Podcast Development

I was never 1 of all those “I’m likely to generate 4000 words and phrases each individual morning” people. Except if I was underneath deadline, my writing held the same type of whimsy as my travels: when inspiration struck, I pounced. And then I mainly went feral. When the tingly, “I have to have to write” sensation began, I knew I needed to inventory up on treats, get a shower in now, and terminate options with pals. I would fail to remember to take in, reside, and do day-to-day tasks crafting blotted every thing out.

It appears manic, I’ll give you that, but it labored for me for the reason that I under no circumstances understood where the writing journey would guide me. I never had a set arc in advance of I sat down to my laptop but identified the joy partly in the approach of my brain’s wandering.

(Scenario in position: I stood up to generate this publish now, and realized I skipped a thing I was meant to do at 8pm… due to the fact I obtained missing in producing.)

My level is in this article is that the act of producing is alone these types of a huge portion of what will make me experience resourceful and alive, and it’s been very challenging not to have it in my everyday living. I’ve recognized voice-to-text does not bring me the required tinglies, nor do other accommodations for my CSF leak. So as I said in my 12 many years of Authorized Nomads post, I’m likely to be shifting toward a podcast instead.

The podcast was going to be known as Check with a Jodi, but I’ve changed the title to be “The Way Through” – for the reason that at its core, it is a podcast about getting via the ups and downs of daily life. If you have topics you’d like me to include, I’d adore to hear from you! Email me at jodi-@-legalnomads .com or by using my contact website page. Therefore much, I have a listing I’ve retained from your concerns, which consists of how to be far more resilient, how to be a lot less nervous, and how to sleep greater.

That’s it for now! Many thanks for all your help, like, and enthusiasm as I navigate via this challenging time. I hope you’re keeping protected and properly.

xo,
Jodi