Substack Live Podcast

Today’s live was phenomenal! Please listen to the podcast version while you’re cooking this weekend or walking or running or whatever. In my live with the amazing Austin Kleon reminded me that on Substack, we’re writing news- letters . I wanted an expert in letter writing to share how exactly the principles of letter writing could help us be better writers on Substack and write more engaging Subst...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com Brand sponsorships on Substack aren't just about some sort of weird brand placement that's awkward. I t's about rethinking Substack and how you make money on here, and how we support each other in making money. In this episode, I give you everything you need to know about Substack's new brand sponsorships p...

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Welcome to our new series for paid subscribers: “The Minimalist’s Guide to Substack.” Declutter your Substack brain and life , so you can actually grow in what is an increasingly crowded Substack landscape. The biggest mistake I see on Substack is people making it way too complicated. Principle #1: Post when you have something worth sending. Each post should pass two tests: Is this something peopl...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com Nearly 250 paid subscribers came to the monthly paid-subscriber live with Seth Werkheiser of SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB . » I love when we all get to be together. Seth walked us through a 4-step approach to Notes that converts, pulls you out of your comfort zone by showing you how to engage with others, and s...

How your Substack posts land in your reader's inbox matters more than you think. In this live, I walk through what your subscribers actually see when your post arrives, how to find out where you're being read (email, app, or web), and why creating a familiar, consistent post structure is more important now than ever. I also cover what's working with images, why stock photos can devalue your writin...

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Part of the Substack Writer at Work Series. In 2026, I’ll be giving paid subscribers and Premier members a taste of the writing guidance I use with my students at Northwestern and my Craft of Writing on Substack course. Today, we dive into Substack writer's block, a unique but common ailment. Substack writer’s block looks like not posting—or posting lifelessly. Or giving up entirely. There are a l...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com Navigating SW@W: SW@W homepage | Premier Membership homepag e | 2026 Notes Boost Challenge | Paid/Premier Chat | 2026 Substack Pathway | Upcoming courses & Intensives | Substack Essentials Workshop library | Archive | Index | Guidance on Notes , Growth , Revenue , Writing on Substack , Serialization

Maya C. Popa and I talk about self-promotion for the self-promotion averse. Find out why self-promotion is all about bravely falling backward into a ball pit and why we can blame our dislike of it on the Modernists, Roland Barthes, and the Iowa Writers Workshop . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.substackwriter...

Welcome to the Substack Live Podcast! Conversations with the best Substack early adopters who created amazing newsletters and continue to bring their good work to the world and make the world a better place in doing so. Plus, get updates and expert guidance on the platform as it changes and changes again and again, so you can use it to fuel your creative, professional, and financial life. Brought...

It was so fun to talk about the importance of mindset when you're a writer and a Substack writer. It’s everything. Substack Writers at Work is the only expert guide to Substack. * We’re one of the Top 10 Substacks, globally—a bestselling Substack featured by Substack and trusted by writers and creators since 2022. In case you don’t know me, I’m the leading Substack Strategist. I’ve been on this pl...

Welcome to the Substack Live Podcast! Conversations with the best Substack early adopters who created amazing newsletters and continue to bring their good work to the world and make the world a better place in doing so. Plus, get updates and expert guidance on the platform as it changes and changes again and again, so you can use it to fuel your creative, professional, and financial life. Brought...

Nearly 400 people showed up to listen to Maya C. Popa and I talk about: - The realities of pitching, publishing, and rejection - Mindset, motivation, and the myth of “having it all together” - Substack strategies, authenticity, and audience growth - The dopamine loop, validation, and the writing process and more… Maya is a poet, prose writer, exceptional human, and someone I’m so lucky to call a d...

In this episode, I tell you what no one tells you about the Substack Bestseller badge, what it really means, and why your Substack DNA is all that matters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com/subscribe

As people scramble onto Substack, it’s easy to overlook why it’s the platform to be on right now: Certain early adopters spent years creating Substack newsletters so good people would actually read and paid to read them. Which is why I’ve created an entire podcast to share them with you. My conversation with Mason Currey contains some of the best advice on how to stop feeling like you have to chas...

For the only expert guide to Substack, join Substack Writers at Work with the leading Substack Strategist Sarah Fay: https://www.substackwritersatwork.com/ Substack has fundamentally changed—and that's actually the best thing that could happen to us. While everyone's panicking about algorithm changes, trolls, and platform noise, we need to see why Substack 5.0 is our opportunity to build something...

** Use the Know Your Subscribers Implementation Guide PDF below to make this much easier. Too often, when we try to get subscribers or likes or conversions, we don’t even know who we’re trying to engage or upgrade to paid. The tricky part is that our person changes and we change and Substack is always changing, so we always have to be checking in. In marketing-speak, they call it your “avatar.” So...

I love getting to do this with all of you. This goal-setting session is the best 40 minutes you can spend. I’m not just saying that. I did it this morning, too. Participating in this session will transform the next three months for you. Let me guide you for 40 minutes. You’ll leave knowing what matters to you and who you want to become; where to focus; and where to spend your time, attention, ener...

So many writers want to be featured by Substack. It can bring thousands of new subscribers. Being featured signals you're producing authentic work, not AI content. It puts you in excellent company with other quality creators. Today, we're talking about the one thing that actually matters for Substack success—and it's not posting more, growing faster, or any of the surface-level tactics everyone's...

Subscribe to Substack Writers at Work: www.substackwritersatwork.com Today, we talk about subvocalization and how important it is to reading and voice and how important it is to writing. Voice is one of the hardest craft skills to teach and learn. If more Substack writers and authors had it, a lot more of them would be earning an income. The most profound subvocalization-causing effects—your authe...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com Thank you Joy Sullivan , Jo Hutton , Dr Kondrot , Beth Spencer , Diana Spechler , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

To listen to the full episode, join us at Substack Writers at Work! https://www.substackwritersatwork.com/ In today's episode: Learn how to grow your Substack with live shows, discover author success secrets from Jason Chatfield & Mikala Jamison, plus March's top engagement strategies from Substack's leading expert. 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 01:15 Meet the Guests: Mikayla Jamison 02:26 Meet t...

Live Substack Office Hours . Your Substack questions answered. Become a paid subscriber to Substack Writers at Work: www.writersatwork.net/subscribe . Yet another way SW@W is here to help you be your amazing self on Substack. Who? * Me, you, all of us. What? * Your Substack questions answered. When? * I’ll announce the day and time of each live Substack Office Hours every Tuesday in that week’s po...

I had the opportunity to sit down with Hamish McKenzie , co-founder of Substack. I’m so happy to bring you our conversation. It was really illuminating and feels like the best thing I can give you as a Substack writer or creator. Many people don’t understand or know who the people behind Substack are. Hamish and all the people who work at Substack are some of the best, most idealistic people I’ve...