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IMPORTANT Subscription Updates for the mother makers

Hello hello beautiful friends!

Yes, this is relevant to YOU. So please keep reading! Especially if you have PREVIOUSLY been a paying subscriber here.

Updates as I am about to turn paid subscribers BACK ON and I want to give you an opportunity to assess this for yourself.

Updates for those who are free subscribers to my newsletter The Mother Makers (Previously Kat River)

Updates for you who are a part of my paying community here (that has been on pause for over 6 months)

Continue reading below.

As many of you may have noticed, I paused all paying community members subscriptions here for at least 6 months.

I took a Substack hiatus after hyper focusing on Substack for a year.

I built this community here with the huge help of recommendations, community sharing, and you guys actually reading and enjoying my work…

To over 4000 subscribers and of that, 271 paying subscribers.

This blows my mind, but I also get it.

My substack newsletters are my most affordable, and most accessible offering out of everything I offer.

I provide a lot of free, high value shares here. Often taking hours and hours to curate.

I mean, if you were to peak behind the scenes of my postpartum period with Ren (Who is now 18 months old), you would have seen a sleeping newborn, and a disheveled, totally engrossed mother up until 1am most nights, studying substack, the dashboard, the statistics, the community, reading, learning watching, then writing and writing for hours… all because she was obsessed and deliciously inspired by the idea of creating a hub for creative *witchy mothers to truly be held and feel supported in bringing their ideas to life.

I took space from this platform about a year ago when Ren became quite unwell. I had online programs running that needed my time and energy, and then I had two high energy boys who needed my focus while we built a tiny house.

Finally, I feel like we are in a good enough rhythm for me to come back to Substack with the self trust and consistency I hope for in this space.

I am also about to gift about 30 paid subscriptions to some of my mother maker community, and so in order to do that - I need to turn on my paid subscriptions again!

I need to make it incredibly clear what you receive if you are subscribed here for free, and if you are subscribed here with a paid subscription so that you know the difference and can choose what is best for you.

For all those of you here for free:

HI and WELCOME! I so appreciate your time and energy. You are basically signed up to receive my posts straight to your email inbox or on the substack app.

This essentially acts like a newsletter. I will not bombard you, but I will promise to provide value that will help you grow and evolve as a mother maker.

I will write for you a monthly article full of goodness, straight to your inbox. Plus let you know of any updates and opportunity coming your way. I’ll re-establish the Mother Maker Cauldron which is a monthly write up of inspiration, recommendations, things I’ve read, podcasts I’ve listened to and mother makers who are inspiring me.

I appreciate you being here and I highly recommend downloading the substack app (I know I know, another app), But I promise you it’s like walking into a cathedral library, and finding the best, golden velvet comfy couch, in front of a window. One you sink right into… Someone brings you chai… You’re cozied up reading from your fave writers about any topic you like… then…. you spot one. One of the authors. You follow them through to the back yard of the library and realise there’s a whole party going on, and you're invited.

If you’re into where this story is going… I wrote it in much more depth- about the experience of substack as a platform for both readers and creators here:

The Cathedral Library and the Garden Party

You are also welcome to upgrade to becoming a part of my paid subscriber community at any time - You’ll just have to do that by opening this in your emails and following prompts rather than on the app.

Now, my paid subscriber community.

I honestly barely know what to call you because “Paid subs” sounds cringe as fuck.

But, you are the ones who are willing to pay me in equivalent to taking me out of a coffee date once a month, and for that - I’m grateful.

When I first started substack in 2023 my literal goal was to cover my coffee at the cafe I would write at and cover the 2 hours of writing time.

I didn’t initially expect so many of you to be willing and wanting to pay!

I had previously been used to 20-50k launches and big income hits. So to feel SO damn excited, humbled, vulnerable in a good way - at receiving $9 subscriptions was so refreshing for my heart.

I quickly realised also that the reason you wanted to pay was because the articles I was writing were truly truly helping people. They were giving both practical, magical, thought provoking, soul tickling ideas, and breaking down complex concepts into bite size and actionable chunks.

As time has gone on, I have refined my craft, my skills, and my perspectives to better serve the mother makers.

As I am running my LAST mother maker intake of Art of Alchemy. I plan to have this space on substack become my HUB for all things mother maker.

See it like a monthly membership portal where you get to learn and grow in the realms of energetic business, body intelligence, understanding the depths of your creative self and how on earth to mother, create, and live in harmony with family life and work life - In a mother centric mother nourished way (No hustle girl boss culture here folks).

For $9 a month, or $100 annually, you’ll get

• All my free offerings (Monthly write up, the mother maker cauldron and any free vids and audios I do)

• You’'ll get a weekly article drop into your inbox which will be a personal take on the topics we move through as mother makers. From money, to sex, to building community, to sales and branding soulfully, to social media, our inner worlds of sabotage, birth blueprints and so much more.

• A monthly Longform video exploration with ME or with a GUEST from my epic network of mother maker expanders- to dive into one of these topics.

  These are valued at $200 ALONE, and would make your subscription beyond worth it. I want this to be a no brainer for you.

• Access to the Mother Maker DM’s as a paid subscriber meaning you can submit QNA.

• Exclusive discounts to any upcoming offerings, from events, online workshops, Tully (my husband) offerings in his relationship work, or any give aways and collaborations I organise.

If all of that sounds like something you’re into - and sounds like it would support you in being able to show up better in your own creativity, self, motherhood, family life, make more $, be clearer on your offering and message…

Then please consider taking me out for a virtual coffee and upgrading your subscription to becoming a part of my paying mother maker community.

I am so excited to collaborate in this space for you and create based off what you are needing to support your journey further.

Lot’s of love, Kat

PS. I’ll be turning on Paid Subscriptions as of 25th FEB 2025 and will resend this email then.

PPs. If you’re a paying subscriber and possibly subscribed in a different season of your life, or when I was writing more broadly for a wider audience, you are welcome to unsubscribe. I also of course don’t mind if you stay due to resonating with the content even if you’re not a mother. That is SO fine and you are MORE than welcome.