Substacks recommended by Tara McMullin

Recommended by Tara McMullin

Trying to spend my time, money, and energy on purpose & sharing what I learn along the way.

💥 Public speaking for the soul. Get love notes and monthly community on Zoom to show up/show out with your humanity intact. Guidance & fire from the author of #1 bestseller PERMISSION TO SPEAK. A Substack Featured Publication 2024.

ADHD Open Space

By Gray Miller

A newsletter and podcast for professionals living with ADHD to share ideas, challenges, and solutions, and the Open Space event coming to Madison, WI in January 2024. Want to get right to the content without subscribing? Just click on "no thanks" below!

Productive Flourishing

By Charlie Gilkey

A community and newsletter focused on thriving in life and at work. There's more to life and work than getting by and through.

Charlie masterfully connects the tactical, the strategic, and the philosophical, offering a rigorous approach to work and management.

- Tara McMullin

Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake

By ❤️ Jenny Blake

🍩 Twice-weekly personal essays about the stickier sides of self-employment, from a breadwinning business owner living in New York City. 🗽 Posts go live Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:11 a.m. ✨

Jenny Blake is a humane, thoughtful, and savvy-as-all-get-out business writer who practices what she preaches.

- Tara McMullin

WANDERINGS

By Kate Tyson

Radical possibilities in business and economics from Kate Tyson of Wanderwell.

We're All Getting Older

By Lou Blaser

Thinky, funny, and just deep enough. For people figuring out what matters now, by someone who definitely doesn’t have it all figured out.

remind me to love

By Sebene Selassie

a moonly newsletter for fellow students of love

Sebene's writing has opened my eyes to new ways of experiencing the world. She brilliantly combines the immanent and the transcendent to realize a profound this-worldliness.

- Tara McMullin

How Things Work

By Hamilton Nolan

Labor, politics, and power.

Heigh Ho — Work and Working Life

By Bob Merberg

Gritty, factual stories that make sense of work and working life.

The Messy Human

By Marisol

Gentle personal growth for overworked achievers, delivered weekly in a reader supported newsletter. In each post, I share purposeful practices, revealing research, and relatable reflections on living whole, raw, and real.

Morgan Harper Nichols

An ongoing series by artist and writer Morgan Harper Nichols exploring journaling, notebook keeping, and the various designated spaces we create and keep for thinking and discovery, reflection and imagination.

The Sublime

By sari

Curated ideas to ignite your spirit. Plus, occasional behind-the-scenes of building sublime.app

New Means

By JP

Writing that zooms out. New Means discusses politics in the broadest possible ways, from our neighborhoods to our workplaces to our religious lives to organizing to the ways we collectively think.

Free Time with Jenny Blake

By ❤️ Jenny Blake

How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with joy and ease, while serving the highest good? 💸 Set your time free through smarter systems — and get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit in the welcome email :D

Other Day

By The Other Day by David A. Banks

Why people and cities act like that.

Subject to Change with Emily McDowell

Cautionary tales, unsolicited advice, and notes on living in liminal space, evolution, and returning to yourself.

More to Hate

By Kate Manne

Misogyny and more

The Publishing Spectrum

By Amanda B. Hinton

Thoughtful tools, Substack-savvy data, and intuitive strategy — read by thousands. ☀️ Shape a publishing practice that’s truly your own: one that honors your creative instincts and draws the right audience for your work.

The Squeeze

By Skye Pillsbury

Original reporting on issues that impact audio producers and podcasters.

Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

By Meg Conley

Hi! I’m Meg Conley. I write about the intersection of capitalism, culture and care work at Pocket Observatory. Select essays are republished to Substack. If you'd like to receive my official (FREE) newsletter, subscribe here + I'll take care of the rest!

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

The Column

By Adam Johnson

Media and political analysis from Adam Johnson (with contributions from Sarah Lazare)

Human Stuff

By Lisa Olivera

A newsletter that explores the spiral of aliveness: the aches, the joys, and the liminal, from a therapist who is mostly just a human.

The Author Stack

By Russell Nohelty

Helping create a sustainable path forward for authors to build businesses that allow them to thrive and lives that light them up inside.

Robert Reich

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused

Embedded

By Nick Catucci

Your essential guide to what’s good on the internet. Written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci.

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

Sarah K Peck

A deeper look at leadership, culture, and how we live together. From friendship to business to parenting, let's talk about all of it.

Startup Parent covers the fraught intersection between family and business with rigor, heart, and realism.

- Tara McMullin

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino

A critical review of the beauty industry prioritizing people, not products.

Healthy Rich

By Dana Miranda

A newsletter about money for misfits. From the author of YOU DON’T NEED A BUDGET.

WELLREAD

By Kerri Kelly (CTZNWELL)

Everything you need to know to wake up, take action, and stay well.

CRAFT TALK

By Craft Talk

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

My Sweet Dumb Brain

By Katie Hawkins-Gaar

A newsletter about facing life's ups and downs, all while being kind to yourself.

BOSS BARISTA

By B O S S B A R I S T A

A newsletter and podcast about a thing you drink everyday. Interviews and articles about big ideas in coffee, the service industry, and collective action.

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy

Essays, criticism, and commentary on food, culture, and media sent out on Monday morning. Subscribers receive every post in full, are invited to join the weekly Salon and Desk Book Club, and much more.