How To Change Your Email On Substack: The Hidden Setting

Hi %%first_name%%,

I swear I’m not a Substack how-to expert! But yes, this is my second instructional video in two weeks. Enough of you asked how to change your email on Substack that I went looking. And this is not intuitive at all. 👀

I looked where any rational human being would look: your dashboard, your analytics, settings, settings inside the settings. Nope.

Then I tried the profile. And spoiler alert: it’s not there either.

And then I found it behind the third door…the least intuitive place you could possibly look. 👇

That’s what this video is for. It literally takes nine seconds.

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If you’re new here, you might think I’m a Substack tutorial channel. No. It’s only a fraction of what I offer here.

I’m not especially techy, but I’ve accepted that as a creator, a business owner, or a professional trying to build an online presence, I must constantly be learning new technologies. It just comes with the territory. (I also love making videos.)

And part of what I do is put out little videos like this one so you can stay free to create, write, and build without getting derailed by the technical stuff.

But mostly, I write essays about creativity, ambition, and the strange work of becoming (on the page).✨

Whether you’re building a writing practice, a public-facing business, or simply trying to share your work without letting your inner saboteurs (hello impostor syndrome, procrastination, perfectionism, paralysis 👋) run the show, I’m interested in helping you come into fuller expression on the page.

So, tell me in the comments: what are you currently pulling your hair out over on Substack?

With Love & Rebellion, 💛 Ashley

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He was an atmospheric physicist. He’s a poet. He’s now Professor of Critical AI Literacy and he teaches it every week on Substack.

His book Slow AI doesn’t pick a side. It shows you where these tools are genuinely brilliant, where they cost you more than they save, and how to tell the difference while it’s happening.

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