Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Growth spiral: quitting day job dream #substack #shorts

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the creator reflects on his early blogging journey. He recounts an early temptation to use spammy tactics, quickly rejecting it as misaligned with his values. He then describes connecting with fellow low‑traffic bloggers through mutual guest posts, which fostered a supportive community. A turning point arrives when a more popular blogger links to one of his posts, propelling it to become the site’s top‑traffic article for months. The surge in readers, comments, and perceived usefulness excites him, igniting a new phase where he envisions abandoning his day job to focus entirely on blogging, prompting him to pour his heart into the endeavor.

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So that was actually a really good lesson was when I wanted to like spam things, which was just a very, just like one day or two or something like that. Um, but I was just like, okay, actually it's not cool to do that. And I don't, um, it's not really centered on the values that I want. So I learned that early on. I also connected with other bloggers and so we like connected, we did guest posts for each other. They didn't have any readers either, so that was cool. And then somehow another blogger who had more readers found my, one of my posts and linked to it. And for the, for months, that was the highest traffic post of my site. And so people started coming and, um, and when I, when my blog started growing and people were commenting and finding it useful, that was really exciting. And so I, And that actually switched me on to this next phase, which was, ah, this is amazing. And I want to do nothing else but this. I want to quit my day job, you know, just do this. And so I kicked into even more of a hyperdrive. This is, uh, the attachment hadn't been let go of yet, by the way. Um, and so I, I was like, I'm going to pour my whole heart into this.