Katherine Goldstein

Some personal news: I am beyond thrilled to share that I’ve sold a book proposal tentatively titled, HOW TO FIND YOUR PEOPLE: A Guide to the Transformative Power of Community. It will be published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

how lucky am I to have this amazing lady as an agent! 👇

here's a full newsletter post about it, and stay tuned for more community-centric content coming from The Double Shift! thedoubleshift.substack.com/p/some-persona…

My lofty goal for this book is to ignite a public conversation that reimagines solutions for how we currently talk about loneliness and a host of related crises. I want to build a movement of Americans committed to community-filled lives.

Some personal news: I am beyond thrilled to share that I’ve sold a book proposal tentatively titled, HOW TO FIND YOUR PEOPLE: A Guide to the Transformative Power of Community. It will be published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

...and show readers how to participate meaningfully in strong communities within our own neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and religious and civic organizations along with through our family lives.

We love: A history lesson about how much of our current parenting culture is fear-driven over at Rebecca Gale's substack, featuring @kgeee and @FreeRangeKids: bit.ly/4dyFpvO

If the amount of time, effort, discipline and coordination that went into children’s swim meets went into electing Democrats, pretty sure we’d be living in a very different country

This is what it’s like to be a working parent in need of childcare in America." read my latest is TIME time.com/6967551/u-s-ec…

you don't want to risk damaging the relationship by asking too often. What if every single day you had to cobble together how to find internet from all of these sources just to do your job and provide for your family?

Economists love to talk in macro terms, and those discussions often ignore the real economic pain of families. We appear to have dodged a recession, but that doesn't mean "all is well.

@hamishmckenzie @Claire I've been able to bring over everyone's email addresses but support was very clear i couldn't bring over their existing recurring stipe payments. is this not true???

@KGeee @Claire btw, Katherine, you should certainly be able to bring your existing paid subscribers with you. If you're having trouble with that, please contact support@substack.com and we'll help you right away

@Claire @hamishmckenzie that is encouraging! i am trying not to be hard on myself for not doing it 2 yrs ago. but better late than never.

@KGeee I’m in week 2! It’s amazing / what the hell have I been missing for five years?! Thanks @hamishmckenzie 🙏

Today is a big day for me. I switched from Ghost to Substack. This is a financial risk b/c I can't take my existing paying members with me. And my decision touches on a lot of the issues that make it challenging to be an independent journalist.

read the full post and join me over at @substack thedoubleshift.substack.com/p/on-taking-ri…

@substack I have thought about this long and hard. Substack is by no means perfect, but after a lot of careful consideration, I think this is the right decision for me. I believe what I do is valuable. I want it to reach more people. I want to earn more money for it.

@substack However, without the powerful recommendation and marketing tools I see available on Substack, I’ve concluded that on Ghost, I had plateaued on my total paying members as there’s an expected churn of people who drop off.