Six SMEs I'm Supporting This Sale Season
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When I sat down to write the intro to this piece about why I’m so passionate about small businesses before I actually shared the small businesses I’ll be supporting, it was 3000 words. Yikes.
I’m just a very passionate silly girly pops, ok??!!
Anyhow, I don’t want to be like one of those recipe bloggers who make you read 10,000 words on their life story before they finally let you read the recipe on how to make a damn gluten free raspberry brownie. I am running out of time, Ms Baker!! Anna is hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow and you think I can read 10,000 words before I find out what ingredients I need to buy???!!!!! Time is, quite legitimately, of the essence!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, I wanted to share with you all why I’m so passionate about supporting small, so I have: in a separate web-only post as seen below…
Just click the link! Easy peasy!
And now you’re probably wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today in this newsletter as well.
(Kidding, if you don’t know why you’re here, just read the title??? I’ve made it very obvious!!! There are no innuedos in this post!!! I am simply talking about the six SMEs I’ll be supporting this sales season!!!! Inneudos = out. Alliteration = BIG IN).
Lesgggggoooooo!
The Plotline
When I received an email from The Plotline asking if I wanted to interview the founder Meghan McTavish for my BFCM First Timers’ piece, I thought my sister must have run into the founder somewhere.
After all, I had literally just sent my sister a link to The Plotline on Instagram, begging her to tell my niece that it’s what Aunty S wants for Christmas (my niece just turned two, but I’m pretty sure she’ll come through with the goods).
Meghan from The Plotline had no idea I was from the Gold Coast when we started talking for the interview, and didn’t know my sister either. It felt crazy to me, the Gold Coast was such a small place when I was growing up. Everyone knew everyone... had it really changed that much since I graduated high school?
Turns out it has, and so have I.
“You’re literally our target audience, like you GET IT,” Meghan laughed with me down the phone during the interview when I mentioned that the reason I was so desperate for the journal is because I have had yet another wild year in the Story That Is Sophie Venz.
(A brain infection, first relationship in three years that was over before it even began, leaving my job at Forbes, travelling to 16 countries in the space of two weeks, moving back to Edinburgh without actually intending to, getting diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder after I started having seizures in the street and lost control of the right side of my body……. the list goes on. I think you get the point).
And Meghan is right, I am The Plotline’s target audience. Because the brand's ethos is to embrace the plot twists that come our way, and mine has had many plot twists in the past 12 months alone.
Our lives aren’t some straight formed plotline like a movie with a clear beginning, middle and end. As Meghan says, “The best movies are packed with tragedies, setbacks, and disappointments”.
So why should you expect that if were to write a book on your entire life, it would have one single climax in the story like we were taught to write narratives in high school english classes?
Our lives are happening right now. Mine is happening somewhere else to where you are as you read this, and I am somewhere else to that place as I write this. I don’t know where I’ll be when I hit ‘publish’ on this edition of the newsletter and schedule it for Friday morning in Australia.
I don’t know what will happen between now and then. Something wonderful, something terrible, something mundane, something otherworldly. But I do know that whatever it is, it’ll be worth writing about—in a journal for my eyes and my eyes only, rather than something I can commercialise or pitch to a publication or add into my memoir.
You don’t have to “do it for the plot”, but it always helps to write about the plot you find yourself in (at least it does for me).
The Plotline ships worldwide, and currently has 30% off sitewide. I know who I’m buying for!!! 👀👀👀
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