Introducing My ✨Year of Failures✨

Planning to fail hard and often in 2025. Who's with me? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Failure is succeeding in trying.

Hi, former “gifted & talented” child here. Throughout the course of my life, failure, which was really anything less than perfection, was not acceptable, leading to a very healthy lifestyle and tons of success by the time I got to my thirties.

Jokes aside, 2024 was a year of forced healing for me. This pivotal time of learning and transforming led me to the precipice of 2025 with the determination to fail as often as possible from a place of self-love, knowing that’s one way to move forward and see positive change. It’s also a way to prove to and remind myself that no matter how many times I fail (or succeed), my value and worth as a person does not change.

1. Why this, why now

Part of my healing journey included returning to myself as a creative writer. I wrote more (in a creative and personal space, not professional) in the second half of 2024 than I have in maybe the last decade combined. That’s how I discovered Substack and realized this could be an excellent new start for me, especially as I had closed my Gallantly, gal blog last year (more on that in my first official post).

2. The community you’ll be joining

Are you a perfectionist? Do you feel like you’ve lost your voice, your fire, your spark over the last few years? Then just for eight bucks a month, that’s eight bucks a month, I guarantee plenty more hilarious jokes like this one… (But seriously, imagine streaming services start bringing infomercials back).

This community, FREE for now (and likely will remain that way for the most part), is for healing. We can laugh over mistakes and learn that practice makes progress, not perfect, and share our experiences. Apart from my ✨Year of Failures✨, I plan to cover other topics that are important to me (even recycling some of my favorite posts from my old blog):

✔️ self-improvement

✔️ mental health

✔️ life & lifestyle

✔️ culture

✔️ creativity

…and more (like maybe some really bad poetry)!

3. Here’s what to expect

I don’t plan on being too hard on myself. This is a project that I want to feel exicted about, not something that feels like homework for which I have to dredge up every ounce of discipline to complete on a rigid schedule. I don’t want to follow those YouTubers who swear by this or that set of rules to make an unfathomable amount of money in a ridiculously short amount of time to sell a program that probably is, and always was, their actual moneymaker. This is another way for me to be creative and expressive.

Ideally, I’d like to publish a post every other Tuesday on what failures I collected since we last chatted (I’m thinking contests, auditions, applications). I’d also like to release a podcast episode every month and start a cozy YouTube channel. Alas, it’s the end of the year, which means, everyone across the entire globe absolutely has to experience a sudden surge of ambition. Once the new year comes around, I might feel overwhelmed and freeze up, but that’s human, too (and precisely why I’m doing my ✨Year of Failures✨—um, make that productive failures, not simple inaction).

Basically, I can’t say much more on my publishing schedule or future plans for paid subscribers at this time, but I can promise a community for healing and witty rambles.

4. Who even am I

What do you want from me? I’m a writer, a Pisces (and Aries stellium), a millennial, an INFJ (although recently I got INFP which is a very new development that positively intrigues me), a reader, a serialized fiction Substacker, an all-around swell lady, and oxymoronically a transparent enigma. The only way to really get to know me better is to follow along, of course.

Happy new year everyone! May your 2025 be blessed with abundance, joy, love, and emails from my Substack! 😏

Gallantly,