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How to expense your Mondae Mornings subscription
If your employer offers a learning, wellness, or professional development stipend, there's a good chance they'll cover your subscription to Mondae Mornings. Whether you work in UX, strategy, marketing, research, or product, this newsletter delivers trend-backed insights that can support your work (and your team’s).
To make the process easy, here’s everything you need: what’s included, why it qualifies, and a pre-written email template to ask your manager or L&D team.
Why Mondae Mornings is Reimbursable
Weekly Insights: Deep dives into UX research, consumer behavior, and emerging brand trends
Professional Development: Curated ideas at the intersection of product, culture, and design
Work-Adjacent but Work-Relevant: Designed to help you think more critically about the products, brands, and experiences you help shape
Affordable Continuing Ed: A fraction of the cost of a conference or course
Written by someone who’s been on the inside: a UX Researcher & Brand Consultant: with experience at at top-tier tech and strategy firms, bringing insights from consumer research, product innovation, and brand storytelling. Cross-industry experience spanning wearables to wellness.
Subscription Breakdown
Plan + Price + Details
Monthly: $8.88
Billed each month, cancel anytime
Annual: $80.00
Save 11%, billed once per year
Both plans include:
Weekly subscriber-only posts
Access to all previous archives
Curated research deep dives + case studies
Bonus downloadable frameworks + trend PDFs
Pre-Written Email Template
Your free resource to copy, paste, and tweak to match your tone or team structure:
Subject: Request to Expense Mondae Mornings Newsletter
Hi [Manager’s Name],
I’d like to subscribe to a research and strategy newsletter called Mondae Mornings on Substack. It’s a professionally written publication that focuses on branding, UX research, and consumer behavior, with weekly insights that are highly relevant to my role in [your department].
The subscription is $8.88 / month or $80 / year, and I believe it aligns well with our professional development budget. It would help me:
Stay current on market and cultural trends
Bring fresh thinking to brand or product conversations
Explore user-centered frameworks I can apply at work
Click here for the link to their page.
Please let me know if I can expense this as part of our team’s learning or wellness allowance.
Thanks,
[Your Name]
Downloadable Receipt
Click here to download a PDF summary for reimbursement!
A one-pager you can submit with your company’s expense system.