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 to you by Substack Writers at Work Founder and Director and former Paris Review interviewer, Sarah Fay.
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Nearly 300 people showed up to this live recording of the Substack Live Podcast with Maya Popa about the (Substack) writer’s mindset, including:
why her gut reaction to “writing” was “terror” (before she corrected herself to “process”),
the reality that even published poets with awards deal with the same mindset issues as unpublished writers,
how social media platforms are designed to prey on our weakest parts,
why we take our temperature based on other people’s responses (and why that’s a problem),
how current feelings about publishing are usually rooted in childhood or adolescence,
and so much more…
Maya C. Popa is the author of three collections—including the forthcoming If You Love That Lady from W.W. Norton in July 2026—and is an editor at Publishers Weekly. She teaches at NYU and is the founder and director of the incredible poetry and prose membership Conscious Writers Collective. She writes the Substack Poetry Today.
Thank you Joy Sullivan, Dr Kondrot, Rosamund Dean, Mary Roblyn, Susan J Tweit, and many others for tuning into my live video with Maya C. Popa!
