Are you prepared for what's next? (in 2026)

There's a version of being busy on Substack that looks like progress but quietly keeps you broke. You launch your paid tier. You start pouring dozens of hours a week into your content. You keep that up for months, sometimes even years. Just to look up one day and realize you're only serving a handful of customers and barely making enough money to cover your bills. So you start wondering what you're doing wrong. After a while, you start to think, "Maybe I'm just not cut out for this." But you...