Over the past three years, I've changed email providers three times without ever changing email addresses. That's because my address is entirely under my control. Instead of relying on an email that ends in gmail.com, yahoo.com, or the link, I can send and receive mail from my @jarednewman.com domain, which I can transfer between email providers at any time. This is called using a custom domain for email, and it's one of the most liberating tech things I've ever done.