Substacks recommended by Tara McMullin

Recommended by Tara McMullin

My personal Substack

💥 Public speaking for the soul. Get weekly 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 newsletter and community for driven possibilitarians who are seeking full-spectrum thriving, hosted by award-winning, best-selling author of Start Finishing, Charlie Gilkey.

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

🎢 Divine disaster diaries from a breadwinning business owner living in New York City.🗽 Posts go live Wednesday and Saturday 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

It's the perfect time to work on being the best versions of ourselves. Let's talk about how to make that happen.

Ancestors to Elements

By Sebene Selassie

A moonly newsletter exploring the central paradox of being human: we are not separate AND we are not the same. Sent on 🌑 New, 🌕 Full, and 🌗 Last Quarter Moons (+ a First Quarter Moon 🌓 Chat). Welcome to the Paradox Party!

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

Better Team Habits

By Charlie Gilkey

Create better team habits and the habits that create better teams

Charlie's strategic thinking is concrete and actionable—while always being firmly grounded in ethical and humane philosophy.

- 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. Each Tuesday, I share purposeful practices, revealing research, and relatable reflections on living whole, raw, and real.

Morgan Harper Nichols

Artist essays and brand-new poetry by an autistic artist and MFA candidate writing about the small things that can help us process the big things

Simply Sketched

By Doug Neill

A publication for visual thinkers.

The Sublime Newsletter

By sari azout

A laid back column about very serious ideas.

New Means

By Joshua

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 being alive, from a writer/illustrator and recovering company founder.

More to Hate

By Kate Manne

Fatphobia, misogyny, and more

The Editing Spectrum

By Amanda B. Hinton

Weekly doses of creative nourishment and hands-on editorial guidance. If you're seeking practical, intuitive ways of developing your craft and carrying it into the world (that are also neurodivergent-friendly), you're in the right spot.

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 wild terrain of being human: the depths, the joys, and all the in-betweens.

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

Startup Parent with Sarah K Peck

A deeper look at what's really happening in today's world of business, productivity, gender, and parenting. Plus, we're building real community for founders with kids.

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 beauty culture from “the woman the beauty industry fears” (the Sunday Herald).

Healthy Rich

By Dana Miranda

Essays about how capitalism impacts the ways we think, teach and talk about money.

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 2024 it begins 6/1!)

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 interviews on food culture, media, and politics sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.

Platformer

By Casey Newton

News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.

The Convivial Society

By L. M. Sacasas

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you