Oct 21, 2021
Cult of Personality is 5!
TFW you attempt a cool photo shoot like an influencer, but instead you just look like a weird dork on your porch, holding a fucked up sparkler. 🤷🏻‍♀️
I’ve never celebrated a “business bday” before, because October 21 is my best friend Carolin’s birthday (she’s not on ig so I can’t tag her), and that’s what I’m usually celebrating today.
But it just so happens that five years ago—in 2016, what a year, amiright?—I got fired on Carolin’s birthday. I remember, because after I hung up the zoom call with the sexists, I called her and said—
“Hiiii! I just got fired on your birthday!” 🎉🥂🥳
And that’s how I’m able to remember that today, Cult of Personality™ is five years old! She’s walking and talking and about to start kindergarten I guess!
I could tell you the whole story of how and why I got fired, but it’s on my blog, and if you scroll down my feed you’ll find a
post about my origin story somewhere in there, too.
Anyway. Happy birthday, Carolin! Happy birthday, CoP™!
Many happy returns. 🙂
About Sam
Samantha Pollack is a Copywriter & Creative Director who works with ethically minded, mission driven businesses who are actively trying to reshape our culture (and possibly tear down the patriarchy). She’s also the founder of The Highly Sensitive Business Owner, a 12-week online program that helps HSPs & neurodivergent business owners create healthier, more sustainable systems in their work.
Sam also writes about feminism, privilege, pop culture, entrepreneurship, the creative process, and whatever else is on her mind. She currently lives in Asheville, NC.
Emails for cult thought leaders.
(Personality included.)
Want to learn how to craft emails that inspire action and engagement WITHOUT the “tried and true” (cough: patriarchal) norms we’ve all been taught?
I’m doing it, and I can show you how to do it, too.
(But sometimes, I also like to write about the books I’m reading, or the creative process, or the entrepreneurial experience, or why I hate Steve Jobs, or how I met my BFF. I’ll send you emails like that, too.)
*Just kidding. It’s only an email list.
Books. Cats. Rants. Drawrings.
(and every couple months or so, an unexplained absence 🤷🏻)
