Pause.


No Clucks Given Newsletter

The 22nd Edition - Pause.

Hi Reader

Our website has just been updated, and right there on the first page we added one word:

Pause.

It feels important to state it.

If you’re anything like me, energy is rarely the problem. Ideas come quickly. Direction feels available. There’s always another move to make, another path to try, another improvement to act on.

And yet, I keep noticing how often momentum is lost not through inaction, but through too much motion. Each new idea pulls energy away from the previous one. Each quick pivot we loose.

Pausing doesn’t cost a cent. One breath costs nothing.
But it could save you a bad decision.

This has been very present for me while updating the website and formulating how our memberships will actually work. What’s developed is not the Work itself. What’s changed is the shape it holds.

Over time, it’s become clear that people need different kinds of support at different moments. Many people want the chance to try something without committing straight away, and that’s understandable. At the same time, real growth will ask you for commitment. The membership tiers are designed to support both — an entry point to explore, and deeper levels that reward commitment with time, access, and live engagement.

Memberships are about staying with yourself long enough to do the Work.

This is the same pattern I keep seeing everywhere. When pace and capacity are aligned, progress is steady, consistent, predictable. When Work is supported by structure we can allow ourselves to pause before committing.

Like me, do you charge ahead in haste?

I'd love you to look at the new website - hit reply and tell me what your impression is in just 3 words. You know I read every one.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu
Georgina 🐣
The Hatch and Hustle™

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Memberships

At last our members are up! Click here to find out how you can get supported on your entrepreneurial journey. Looking forwards to seeing you there.

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If you’re building a business on your own and finding it harder than you expected to stay on track, you’re not imagining it. Early entrepreneurship asks more of you than most people realise — not just in skill or effort, but in how you think, decide, and keep going when things don’t go to plan. I’m Georgina Joy Read. Each week I write No Clucks Given, a short journal for solo entrepreneurs who have already started and are learning — often the hard way — that the business grows only as much as they do. I write about the inner Work of entrepreneurship: the moments of doubt, the habits we fall back on under pressure, the ways we avoid or overcomplicate, and the capacity required to keep showing up. I use examples from my own business as I build it — what’s working, what isn’t, and what I’m noticing about myself as the business asks more of me. This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about learning how to get yourself back on track — again and again — so the effort you’re already putting in can compound. Join me. Cluck yes.

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