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Building in Public

A Three-Year Journey from Promise to Practice

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Janelle Ward
Jul 14, 2025
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For the past three years, my answer has always been “I don't know.”

Three years ago, when I started as a solopreneur, I made a promise: to build in public. As an introvert and a perfectionist, this has proven difficult. Especially confronting was my unwillingness to share the periods where I felt like a failure. I’ll go into all of that at some point, bu…

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