Two Hundred Mondays: What 200 Weekly Newsletters Taught Me
This week, our women in business newsletter, the Biz Love Letter, turns 200. A thank you to everyone who has read along through the wins, the wobbles and everything in between.
Two hundred. I’ve typed that number a few times now and it still doesn't feel real.
Two hundred Mondays. Two hundred Biz Love Letters. Almost four years of appearing in your inbox with whatever was happening inside The Female CEO that week — the good stuff, the hard stuff, the ideas that were jumping around inside my ever-entrepreneurial brain and, occasionally, the lessons I learned five minutes or less before writing to you about them.
The first official one was written from my makeshift office in the conservatory at home with a sleeping cat (Rockstar) on my desk. In truth, I had been writing off and on like this since 2016-ish and I don't fully remember what was on my mind that day, but it definitely wasn't, excellent, I’ll just do another 199 of these.
And yet… here we are.
All sorts of weeks
These letters have been written through all sorts of weeks.
Weeks where something brilliant had happened and I could barely wait until Monday to tell you about it. Weeks where The Female CEO picked up an award and I kept logging in to make sure it was still there in case someone decided they’d made a mistake and wanted their accolade back. There have been letters written around life events, magazine deadlines, travel, big ideas and conversations with you that changed the way I was thinking.
And there have been other weeks when running a business felt considerably less shiny.
You got those letters too.
Because writing into an inbox is a strange little act of faith. You press send, thousands of tiny digital envelopes go whooshing off into the internet, and you don’t get to see the person opening one at the other end.
But then someone replies. Or forwards it to a friend. Or tells me a line made them rethink something.
Or takes my hand at an International Women's Day event and tells me that they didn't give up on their dream because reading these letters reminds them that I didn't either.
That we are all, in fact, in this together. For better and certainly for worse. 🥹
And suddenly it doesn’t feel like writing at a mailing list. It feels like a conversation we’ve been having for almost four years.
So if you’ve been here from the beginning, thank you.
If you joined six months ago or this week, thank you.
If this is the first Biz Love Letter you’ve found and you’ve stumbled into the 200th one — excellent timing. Welcome.
Pull up a chair. There’s always room.
What two hundred weeks taught me
Two hundred weeks has taught me quite a lot about what I want this little corner of The Female CEO to be.
A place where we can talk about business without pretending we’ve got every answer.
Where ambition and real life are allowed to exist in the same sentence.
Where we take the long view.
Where we build businesses that fit the women running them — rather than spending our lives trying to contort ourselves around the business or turning ourselves into some sort of LinkedIn Stepford Wives.
And where, when something good happens to one of us, we all cheer. Loudly.
200 is just a number. You’re the reason it means anything.
So here’s to whatever comes next.
More businesses being built.
More ideas changing halfway through.
More women making big decisions and big money.
More conversations in our inboxes and over coffee.
More wins worth making a massive deal about.
And, of course, more Mondays.
Before you go, do me one favour.
Drop me an email and tell me one thing that has changed in your business since you started reading the Biz Love Letter.
Big, small, brilliant, messy — I don’t mind.
I’ll read every one.
I believe in you (always).
👉🏼If you want to receive a Biz Love Letter directly to your inbox every week in 2026, I email our Hello CEO mailing list every Monday. To join, head to The Homepage and sign up!
Tricia Scott is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Female CEO — a global platform, magazine, and community dedicated to helping women build confident, aligned, powerful businesses.
A startup mentor and multi-company director, she’s spent the past decade helping women move from overwhelmed and isolated to empowered and intentional.
Most days, she’s juggling her MacBook, her next big idea, and a very necessary caffeine supply. Connect with her at thefemaleceo.com.
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