She Kept Hearing "No." At 60, Sari Botton Finally Found Her Audience.
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Sari Botton shares her journey of overcoming rejection and finding her audience at age 60.
"No just means not right now." That's the philosophy that kept writer and Oldster founder Sari Botton going through decades of rejection before building one of Substack's most beloved magazines — at age 60. In this episode of The Messy Parts, Sari gets honest with Maryam about the messy middle: the identity searching, the failed attempts, the mean girls that never quite went away, and the moment she finally stopped contorting herself to fit someone else's story. She also shares the writing st...
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