"I am a private person, but want to create content... how to deal with this?"

Some people want to create content, but they feel very private about their lives and their identity. And they might be telling stories that are about people in their lives that might read those stories. And even if they don't use the names, the people in their lives that go, I know you're talking about me. Okay, so this is, I'm going to address those people who are like, what do I do in this case? There are two ways that I can think of to get to this goal of still having consistent content and visibility and being able to build your business while staying relatively private about the fact that your content is connected to your life or to the people that you know. One way is a little bit easier, but still, maybe it won't, it won't solve the problem for everybody, which is, but it might for some of you, which is this. You tell the stories by, by saying, I, I had a client a long time ago who had this issue, who had the situation right, who was like this, or I had a, I, I, I had a friend years ago who felt this way or who went through this or whatever it may be. So instead of saying, for example, some people say, well, I, I, I have, you know, stories about my mother. Maybe they have an abusive parent or something like that and the parent is still alive and they want to write about, you know, how they healed their trauma and healed their, maybe even healed the relationship with a parent or whatever, okay? And I said, I don't want to write about these stories because my mom is reading my things and they're gonna, she's gonna, it's gonna be, you know, embarrassing every time I see her. So in that case, you could anonymize the story enough where it's not about my mom. It could be about I had a client who had a father or who had, you know, who had a boss who was like this. Okay? So you, you, you change the details enough where the original person you know is not, at the very least is not sure, but probably doesn't sound like it's about them. And if you want some support in doing that, well, nowadays it's easy to get free help to do this, which is to use AI. Okay, you can write the story without using any names into, for example, Google, Gemini or ChatGPT and say, okay, here's, I'm going to write you a story and I want you to change the personal details so much that the original person could not, cannot see that it's them. So maybe you change, at least change the gender, you change anything else, you can change but still keeping the lesson or the transformational idea in the story. It's just that every other detail has changed so much that, you know, nobody knows it's, it's about them. Okay, so that's one way and that might really solve the problem for a lot of you. Okay, just anonymize and change personal details. The second way, which is more dramatic but it does work for some people, is to use a pseudonym account. So if I were doing this, I would no longer be George Kao writing about, you know, whatever in my life. I would be, I would start a new name. I would be, you know, I would, I would not even use my picture obviously, because if you use your picture with a different name, people can look at, look at. So you would use some kind of AI generated cartoon avatar or picture or AI generated real person picture. And you could change your gender, you could change whatever or keep your gender because sometimes it's easier to talk about. Like if you're a, a woman and you've had some issues with, you know, men or women, whatever, you could keep it. So you would just use a pseudonym. You use a pen name, sometimes people call it, and that way, you know, you create a new account. It's not connected, you're not friends with your pen name account, but you just create a brand new account and maybe even on a different platform, so maybe all of your friends and family are on Facebook. So then you would create a new account on substack and start writing there or create an account on YouTube, you know, pen name. And of course YouTube has billions of people and it's highly unlikely that your friends and family are going to find that new account unless you share it, which, which you're not going to. So these are two methods and I wonder if that resonates with anybody watching this who feels very private, you know. And I guess the third method which some of my clients have done is they still just, they're transparent about their stories. Oh, this is about my mom, this is about my dad, this is about my, you know, my ex boss. This is about my, a friend or whatever. And they just, first they, they know that, yeah, sometimes their friends and family don't read their, their writings, but if, if they do, they just, they're going to have those honest conversations. I mean, I, I, I, I, you know, there are people who literally write, for example, about their parents and even publish books about them and they're still, they still have a good relationship or an okay relationship with their parents. And so, you know, that's just the that's a scarier way, but it is. People have done that. Million people, lots of people actually have done this. So anyway, I've given you a couple of methods. I really look forward to hearing if any of this resonates with you, and if you've known someone who's used one of these methods and how did it go, Maybe you've tried it and looking forward to your comments and any questions below.