Sarah J. Bray | director of A Small Nation and leader of the Tour de Bliss

People say I send
good emails

about building nations around work you believe in, creating infectious feeling and action through entrepreneurship and design, the process of screwing up your brilliant ideas until they become as beautiful as they were in your head, and the convoluted paths we take to make the great yearnings of our lives happen.

I also talk about the web projects I’m directing and what I’m learning from them, and I often give discounts and early access to readers. I’m happy to write to you, too (enter your email to the right).

I open and read your delicious e-mails because they’re a chance to hear from one of the more interesting people I’ve been privileged to “meet” on the internet. I love the way you think about things — and they way you share those thoughts so generously in your e-mail updates feels like getting to read your business diary. You make me laugh, and you make me think. You help me imagine new possibilities for my own business. Your emails never feel like business. They feel like getting to know *you.* Thanks so much for that. Christianne Squires

I have to tell you, I’ve unsubscribed from many e-mail lists. These were e-mails with valuable information to offer, with all sorts of links to list posts and interviews, that got me to open 5 new tabs in my browser as I read them through. But these e-mails really wore me out. I don’t know for sure if this is a common experience or only mine, but I find your e-mails rejuvenating. You write with such candidness and transparency that the lessons you pass on build me up like a conversation with a close friend. I finish them feeling lighter.Stephanie Peterson

I’m actually in the middle of downsizing the number of emails I get and I’m unsubscribing from emails left and right and it’s making me feel great. BUT. When I see an email from you it’s not just that I open it, I get really excited to open it! I know that whatever is inside is going to be something that I can relate to, something that will help me on my path, something that will give me an inside look into the life of someone I admire, someone who motivates and inspires. And it never fails – it does.Nikki Jeske