Maddie Alexander Grout

Yeah, it's Instagram.

Like, have a press highlight on your Instagram.

Like, every single time you are featured in the press, save it as a highlight.

Then it's on your Instagram profile forever.

People can link through to it.

Like, if you go onto my Instagram, like Maddie Talks Money, you will see that I've got all of my press in a folder, like, on my highlights.

It's just...

But my press got me verified on Instagram, which is why I'm still Maddie Talks Money and I can't change my handle.

I would love to change it.

But because I'm verified by Instagram as a notable person of interest, like, and I don't want to pay for it.

can't change it so i'm like maddie talks money will have to be there forever i mean i still talk money like i'm in my book mad about money it's like you know and and it's it's just there um i'm currently writing my next book which is um gonna be mad about business um and it's managing managing business um as as a neurodivergent and i talk a lot about the press in there and how to deal with it when it goes wrong so uh

Poster syndrome, fear, thinking they're boring.

Like people think, oh, you know, why would somebody want to read about my small business?

I got in the press first with my first business.

It was a discount card that helped people shop local.

It wasn't that exciting.

It wasn't like...

And it's about finding those personal stories that you're happy to share.

And I think people think, oh, well, I can't get in the press because it's going to unearth a load of like, you know, I mean, I used to have like these fears of like, oh, if I'm in the press, like someone's going to, there's going to be like an expose on me and all the bad things I did as a teenager.

Touch wood, so far, they've never come out.