# @brettdash_ on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbT_a2omStI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68412772-brettdash-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/6f1c336f6a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T22:02:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Brett Dashevsky (@brettdash_) — https://gondola.cc/brettdash_

## Caption

If you can create it here, you can create it anywhere…

Many people don’t know this, but I actually entered the creator economy through newsletters.

In 2020, my brother and I started a healthcare newsletter focused on simplifying complex topics during the height of COVID.

We grew it to the point of being acquired by an emerging creator-led media company, where I then had the opportunity to help other B2B creators launch newsletters, podcasts, and media products of their own.

Eventually, I felt the itch to build something again.

That itch became creatoreconomynyc.

It started with bringing people together through simple happy hours, which then turned into larger events.

But I always knew a newsletter would sit at the center of it: a place to stay connected with everyone entering our universe, share stories, educate, and inspire creators as they build.

This week, we sent our 137th consecutive edition.

Not a single missed send in 137 weeks!

So seeing myself and Creator Economy NYC featured in Times Square as part of beehiiv’s spotlight on NYC-based creators felt incredibly full circle.

And fittingly, in the photo I’m wearing our “F*ck It, Create It” hat, a phrase that has become something of a mantra within the CENYC community.

Put the idea out there. Start before it feels perfect. Make the thing.

You never really know where it might lead...

Hell, maybe it lands you on a billboard in Times Square.

Grateful to beehiiv for the feature, and for building a platform that helps creators own their audience and build something that lasts.

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brett Dashevsky | @brettdash_ | https://gondola.cc/brettdash_ | Creator |

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