iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Pssst, its ok if people don’t like the same things you like, that generally doesn’t mean they shouldn’t like those things open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

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43: Don't Yuck Other People's Yum

Rowan here, and I have a confession: I love Coldplay.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Wondering what to do this quiet boxing day? Listen to @ericavogel.bsky.social and @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social chat about what people get wrong about trans people. 💕 open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

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34: What Society Gets Wrong About Trans People with Erica Vogel

Hey everyone, Lara here!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Rowan recently had a health scare and we tackled this topic in the middle of it. Uncertainty can be really tough. We shared some of our perspectives on what can help. open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

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22: Embracing Uncertainty

Because Anxiety Loves it When We Don't

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Have any of you tried a Skool community? I tempted to create one but also have never been in one…

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

As two people who have been online a lot and for a long time, and been asked “who cares?!” a lot, @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I tackled the topic of being online in this week’s episode of the podcast

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20: Who we are online (and why)

Personas, curation and oversharing on our 20th episode(!)

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Once upon a time a time I thought 70 was so old I wouldn’t want to live past that age. Thankfully my idea of what aging means and how it can feel has changed! Thank you Dani for joining Rowan and I on the podcast this week! @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social @curiouscrone.bsky.social

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19: Aging and Your Career with Dani Donders

Much of society thinks of retirement as the end of something important.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I’ve been overwhelmed by the expectations put on me by the world, and also catch myself putting unrealistic (or potentially harmful) expectations on the people around me. That’s what @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I talk about on this week’s episode of Unboxing It.

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18: Expectations

In which we toss some rules into the sea

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Have you ever heaed of aphantasia? I’ve got it and it means I can’t visualize. We talk about it and other cool ways brains are different in this week’s podcast! open.substack.com/pub/unboxing...

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17: On the differences in all of our brains

Or: Neurodivergence is the actually the norm

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

@mavenofmayhem.bsky.social and I had another great conversation for this week’s podcast. We talk about when things get hard again. How easy it is to feel badly about getting help. How much resistance we can have to getting help. And most of all that getting help is good.

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15: Talking mental health and asking for help

Or: Rowan Goes Back on His Meds

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our latest episode is out. We got to talk about gender and allyship with Stevie Bees, designer of one of my favourite shirts. Ps before or after you listen to this episode, go check out their site and you can get a shirt of your own! steviesafespaces.com

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14: Gender, Allyship and Stevie Bees

Pals, we’re stoked to bring you this interview with the incredible activist and stellar human Stevie Bees!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

How do you deal with unexpected change? We talk about it in this episode and I also realize I might be in denial/have blocked out a lot of the difficult things I’ve gone through over the years. lol Unboxingit.substack.com #podcast #unboxingit @rowanjetteknox

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Rowan Jetté Knox 🇨🇦 @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

They want us to fight each other because it saps our energy and divides us, and then we can’t fight them.

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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I've watched my friend Dani develop her wrapping skills and express her creativity using antiques, found materials and craft scraps, and I've been charmed by it. Now she's made a book, and she's a pro photographer, so it's a gorgeous book. If this is your kinda thing, go buy it and get wrapping!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Perfect perfect perfect. Or maybe not since I don’t really think perfection exists :) open.substack.com/pub/unboxing... @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social

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Episode 3: Perfectionism

My, my, my… How are we already on our THIRD episode?

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I’m leaving on an adventure Wednesday and I couldn’t be more ready!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So excited to launch this into the world!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My exciting news of the week is I’m launching a new podcast with @mavenofmayhem.bsky.social that starts next week!! It’s called Unboxing It and you should go check out our substack now so you can follow all the news about upcoming episodes 💕 Unboxingit.substack.com

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Dressed in my resting isn’t lazy hoodie to record a podcast about how resting isn’t lazy. This is one of my favourite topics to talk about!!

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I heard someone point out just how strange it is to revere being selfless. I agree. Revere kindness, revere goodwill, revere helping and supporting others. Don’t revere giving up your “self” in order to be a good person, we all deserve to be our full and complete selves, and to care about that self.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’m so afraid of the millennial pause I keep cutting off the beginning of my words in videos and voice notes 🤪

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I’ve been wondering what the real numbers were on this. That’s a lot less visits given both our population size and “February”

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When you’re almost 50 and still wondering “What do I want to be when I grow up” - does that mean you’re a failure or does it mean something else? (This might have to be a topic discussed on my not yet launched new podcast ;)

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

One of my hobbies is finding supplies that can be reclaimed for art and sewing projects. Now I just need to figure out how I would ever get through even a fraction of it ;)

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My feelings on striving for perfection

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Apparently my dog is the boss of me because he annoyed me at my desk until I came to work on the couch with my laptop because that’s where he wants to be right now. But apparently only if I am also there ;)

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 18/02/2025

Hostile Government Takeover It's a bop

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Jenn Annis @jennannis.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

American friends, I know there's a lot going on but as a historian I urge you to keep written (on paper) diaries. We won't be able to trust the government narrative of these times and first hand accounts will help historians have an accurate picture of this time period.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/02/2025

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Do you celebrate your wins? open.substack.com/pub/yourenot...

White woman with brown hair and glasses wearing roller skates standing in front of a roller rink

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Erin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[insert fart noise here] Ffs let kids read whatever interests them in whatever format they want. Depriving them of what they enjoy won't cultivate a love of reading, it'll kill it. And labelling other books as...broccoli...isn't an effective way to sell kids on reading either.🥦 Oof indeed.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I’m not saying I’m planning for the end of things, but I am going to tell you that I’m taking sewing and canning lessons in 2025 just to be on the safe side.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In January I made the sad decision to cancel a trip to Vermont I was really looking forward to. But then I spontaneously booked a trip to Newfoundland to replace it and I’m very very excited about that :)

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My new hoodie arrived and I’m tickled beyond belief 😄

White wonan wearing a black hoodie with the words please please please and Grover’s head

The back of someone wear a black hoodie with an image of Grover with his mouth open and hand on his forehead saying stop turning pages! And “I’m so scared!” And Retrokid

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Beyond crushing. Nature released a study a little while ago proving these policies increase suicide attempts among trans kids — and lawmakers pursue them anyways. Cruel beyond comprehension. I am so sorry this is happening.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Feel good story of my morning: My dad has been helping my daughter with math via zoom. He even borrowed a copy of her textbook from library so he could easily see what she’s seeing and prepare for their tutoring sessions. This all just feels so lovely to me 💕

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Another look at my work in progress as I felt in a background that hopefully gives a bokeh style look at forest behind the birch trees

Section of an art piece with embroidered birch trees surrounded by green and brown felted and punch needle sections

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Kim Kinloch @kimberleykinloch.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hi there 👋🏾 I’m Kim. My debut book ‘Me and my Hair’ published last summer. I’m lucky enough to have written a range of non-fiction books. I’ve just made the leap to Bluesky and am looking forward to meeting other leaping authors! #booksky #authorsky 💜

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just this past weekend I was talking about the fact that I’ve been a quitter a lot in my life and how I wish others wouldn’t feel the need to stay in bad situations for so long just to prove they aren’t quitters.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The sun is shining through the window and warming my face and it is glorious. I wish you could all feel it because the photo isn’t all that exciting :)

Sun shining through a patio door with trees and a hill in the background

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My husband and I got our first matching outfits

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

After a two week break because of unexpected gallbladder surgery, I’m getting back to my morning journaling

Photo of open journal with handmade paper and a brown leather cover

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Lara Wellman @larawellman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ve cancelled my May trip to the states already.

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Drewie77 @drewie77.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yes please. I'm in! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent Britain’s working week. Article: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j... Website: www.4dayweek.co.uk

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Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week

More than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay

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