Spend Two Hours with us aligning your growth and evolving your plans for your BEST year yet on Substack!
EVOLVE - Sustainable by Design: The Joyful Growth Method for Substack for 2026 and Beyond!
For two hours of strategy for joyful growth on Substack!
You don’t need to start again.
You don't need a blue print...
You don’t need to hustle harder.
And you don’t need to chase what no longer fits!!
This masterclass is for writers, creatives, and business owners who already have a Substack and are ready to evolve their strategy so it fits like a glove for 2026 and beyond.
This is for you if...
Your audience has grown, but your strategy hasn’t caught up?
What once felt exciting now feels heavy, noisy, or misaligned?
You're unsure where to focus your growth efforts - Substack Notes, Social Media, Speaking Gigs, Ads...
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In this two-hour live masterclass, Claire Venus and Russell Nohelty come together to explore what joyful growth looks like at their stage of their Substack journey.
The overview of where creativity, sustainability, and income goals get to coexist.
This is not about hacks, virality, or chasing the algorithm.
It’s MORE about evolving your strategy so your Substack supports your life, your energy, and your long-term vision for your most creative self in the world on and off Substack.
You’ll leave with clarity, renewed confidence, and a growth approach that feels calmer, kinder, and far more effective for 2026 and beyond.
Content and timings (UK time)
5-5.30pm - Intros from Claire and Russell and reflections on what worked well for growth in 2025.
5.30pm - Your renewed joyful growth strategy for 2026.
6pm - Hot seat coaching
6.45pm - Wrap up and next steps
✨ What evolution actually looks like on Substack (and why growth often plateaus before it deepens)
✨ How to shift from outward expansion to meaningful, nourishing growth, find your best fit readers, customers and champions.
✨ Aligning your content, cadence, and offers with the season you’re in
✨ Building momentum without burning yourself out
✨ Letting go of strategies that once worked without fear or guilt
✨ Substack SEO
✨ Designing a Substack ecosystem that supports joy and revenue
Expect reflection, practical insight, honest conversation, and plenty of permission to do things differently.
This masterclass is for you if:
You already have a Substack and want it to feel more aligned and spacious
You’re tired of growth advice that feels extractive or exhausting (you're probably signed up to too much of this and you can't hear yourself think!)
You care about creative integrity and sustainable income for the long term. You dream of making more money doing the things you love a.k.a creating and writing.
You want your Substack to grow with you not outgrow you and you to take your audience with you and be bold in your choices.
You’re ready for a strategy that honours joy and goes deeper than numbers numbers.
By the end of this masterclass, you’ll have:
✔ A clearer understanding of what joyful growth means for you
✔ Insight into which parts of your Substack need evolving (and which don’t) - stats are your friend!
✔ A gentler, more sustainable approach to audience and income growth
✔ Practical ideas for refining your content, offers, and rhythm
✔ Reassurance that you’re not behind; you’re simply evolving - hot seat coaching will help! We learn so much from listening to others.
✔ A renewed sense of trust in your voice, your pace, and your path
Between them, Claire and Russell bring deep experience in creative business, Substack strategy, and long-term, values-led growth.
This isn’t theory it’s lived, tested, and continuously evolving work they do week in week out.
This masterclass is an invitation to pause, reflect, and consciously choose how you want your Substack to grow next.
With and intention with you and your WONDERFUL work, writing and invites at the centre.
We met on Substack Notes in 2023, the rest is history!
About Russell
Hi, I’m USA Today bestselling author Russell Nohelty, and I built The Author Stack. I’ve written over ​40 novels​, 19 ​nonfiction books​, over 1,000 pages of ​comics​, and even a ​children’s books​. I have written for ​magazines​ and newspapers across the country, along with working on licensed content for many companies.
To date, I’ve made over a $1.2 million on my creative projects, and helped thousands of entrepreneurs build sustainable, thriving businesses that light them up and nourish their soul.
About Claire
Claire is an award winning Engagement Consultant, Audience Development Manager and Substack Expert. She lives on the Northumberland Coast with her family.
With a background in in-person festivals and events, she pivoted to work online in 2020.
She’s the co-author of How to Build a World Class Substack which she wrote with Russell in 2024. Claire built her audience using Substack and now runs a successful consultancy business and membership to help others do the same.
Hi, I'm Claire. I'm an Engagement Consultant and Mentor and I started my journey with Substack in 2022. I've built my audience to 15k readers across two publications, work with over 500 members and I'm so excited to share more with you. Come join us.
"On the very first day, I recouped the entire cost of the course simply by implementing the changes Claire recommended in the first lesson and sending 1 email to my list."
"I love Claire's open hearted, enthusiastic and generous sharing and support around Substack. It has extended my goals, I've managed to get Bestseller status (101 paid subs) within months of working with her, all whilst working intuitively, from the heart, with flexibility and always keeping my writing at the heart."
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"I've been overjoyed to be a Diamond Member at Sparkle on Substack, but I also snatched up Claire's book and attended the World-Class Substack workshop she ran with co-author Russell Nohelty.
Following one tip they shared led to me more than doubling paid subscribers (and my annual income from Substack) in three days!
Now let's see what happens when I read through my notes and try any of the other dozen ideas I had on just that one call. You owe it to yourself to learn from Claire if you want to build a sustainable Substack that brings you (and your readers) joy."