One question that was asked of me from someone in the audience: “Where do you find your support from?”

I want to preface with this… my family is my strongest support system… without them, I couldn’t and wouldn’t be doing this. Plain and simple. They supported me when there was no money coming in, when all I had was a wing and a prayer.

But… my support? Or better put, OUR support… comes from other bloggers. One of the best things about this “business” is the interaction with each other. It’s what gets me excited to “go to work” every morning… from my laptop, in my kitchen… and even right now in my pajamas! It’s the piece of the blogging pie that I adore and love and cherish and honor about “our blogging” community. The support from each other. We’re all different. We’re all unique. We’re all from a different place and have different family structures. Some of us have one child. Some of us have 10 children (or more!). Some of us come from corporate America. Some of us are completely self-taught. Some of us live in cities. Some of us live in small towns. Some of us use our blog as a soapbox. Some of us use our blog as a way to help other women. Some of us use our blog as a way to share our life story. Some of us curse. Some of us don’t. Some of us have been able to make a lot of money. Some of us are still working to bring in money. Our blogs make people laugh, smile, rant and rave, cry and sometimes leave people speechless. The blogging space is broad and vast and alive and energetic… but, the one thing that balances us all – we’re all in this together. We may not all have the same goals and ambitions and dreams for ourselves or our blogs… but, I mean it – someway, somehow… we’re all in this together. And the support comes from finding key people and friends who are there for you (and vice versa). It’s an amazing thing to see and to witness… through Skype, through Twitter, through Facebook, through our blogs… through every social connecting way possible, there are bloggers that are simply there for each other.

I have been very fortunate to have blogging friends who have been there to support me. From Jessica Smith to Lori Falcon to Beth Feldman to Allison Worthington to Lindsay Maines to Colleen Padilla to Vera Sweeney to Barbara Jones to Julia Beck to Tara Kuczykowski to Cassie Boorn toJanice and Susan of 5 Minutes for Mom to Maria Bailey to Arianne Segerman to Christine Koh to Danielle Smith to Emily and Cooper of The Motherhood to Nicole Feliciano to Trisha Haas… there have been so many, many, many others. The support comes from emails at 2 am… skype chats at 7 am… an afternoon phone call… email exchanges… text messages over and over and over again… Facebook status updates. It’s truly and utterly amazing, refreshing and so very, very important.

Blogging Support 101… it’s all in the connections, the engagement and finding some bloggers who (for lack of a better phrase) “have your back” and “you have theirs.”