Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

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Sarah Fay, PhD
Jan 14, 2026
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Many of you have asked how to determine if the Substack DNA Intensive is right for you.

It’s for you if you’ve been following all the Substack advice and still feel:

  • stuck

  • like you’re growing slow-motion

  • don’t know where to start


When my clients and Premier members discover their Substack DNA, they grow and convert:

  1. Within a year of discovering her Substack DNA, Petya Grady went from 400 subscribers to over 7,500 and was featured by Substack three times.

    She now has over 11,000 subscribers and a highly engaged comments section and chat.

Graph of a Substack writer's growth
  1. Emma Vivian, the writer behind Attempts at Optimism by Emma Vivian, doubled her subscribers in two months after figuring out her Substack DNA.

They also know what strategies to try and what to ignore, they can tell when a strategy is working for them, they have a sense of when to give it a little more time and when to pivot.

I hope this helps and would love to have you!

All my best,

Sarah

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In this 3-hour intensive, we’ll find your Substack DNA together using my Substack DNA Growth Framework™—built on years of pattern recognition across 1000+ clients and tens of thousands on Substack Writers at Work.

Substack DNA Intensive

  • Friday, January 16, 12-3 PM CT (includes our interactive, community-based, one-week lab component in our private Substack for honing the material)

  • $225 | Paid subscribers & Premier members get 10% off (code below)

Doors close tomorrow, 1/15 at 8 PM CT

✨ “Sarah is brilliant and knows Substack inside out. Her guidance is not cookie-cutter; it’s very precisely tailored based on your specific publication and vision.” —Jeannine Ouellette, Writing in the Dark


✨ “Sarah is a true expert who I admire and would recommend to anyone trying to find their voice here on Substack, whether it’s purely for writing for yourself or kickstarting a business.”—Evelyn Skye, Creative. Inspired. Happy.

✨ “I feel so much more confident than when I started, with a clearer idea of not only what I’m writing about, but also my very identity.” —Emma Vivian, Attempts at Optimism

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