I built my identity as a working mom #substack #shorts

A creator built her identity around being a working mom sharing recipes, and now worries that quitting her job will disappoint her audience. She's hesitant to leave even though she knows she shouldn't care what people online think.
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Moms, they're very busy, so they want to have a meal planner for their kids, or single parents, or busy entrepreneurs. So I think you definitely have a great niche there. So I was gonna ask a little bit about that. One of my other premium members, she's called Sophie Guignon, based in Australia. She also does recipes, healthy recipes. So maybe I can, I can hook you up, because one of the things that I find extremely well is that doing collaborations with people in your same space, it really helps. I have done multiple— Michelle is an example. I've done with Gunnar as well. So it does really help you, especially on that point that you were talking about of growing organically from within the platform.
Yeah, I think what Gunnar said also about like one of the reasons I have been so hesitant to quit my job is that like I've built this identity online of like I'm a working mom just like you, and I can show you how to cook. And so that's kind of like what I've built my identity on. And so it's like, oh, well, if I quit my day job, then how are they going to see me? You know what I mean? Like, and I know I shouldn't care about— I've been doing this long enough. I shouldn't care what people on the internet think, but here we are.
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