Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients (Softer Sounds)
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| 03 Dec 2024 | ✌️ Why I Left Instagram & a 5-Step Plan So You Can Too [BEST OF] | 00:32:37 | |
Welcome new friends from We Can Do Hard Things! In this BEST OF episode, I'm sharing the story of why I spent a decade investing my time, money & energy into Instagram...and how I eventually decided to leave all social media in April 2021.
I'll be sharing two more BEST OF episodes this week to help us reflect on our relationship to social media as the year draws to a close. If you enjoy them, please download our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit today! 🩵 | |||
| 27 Jul 2022 | 🛼 Let’s get transparent again — an update on our top 10 marketing practices at Softer Sounds | 00:49:59 | |
We’re back behind-the-scenes, babe! In this episode, Amelia revisits Softer Sounds’ top ten marketing practices to update us on what’s going great & what’s not working anymore. Tune in to hear about—
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| 08 Nov 2023 | 🥸 Am I a Business Owner or an Artist? (or a Secret Third Thing) | 00:39:17 | |
Welcome to the season two finale of Off the Grid! In this episode, I’m unpacking the difference between business and art … and arguing that maybe it’s actually all about being of service?!
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 27 Mar 2024 | 🚀 How to Launch Your Next Big Thing Without Social Media | 00:26:57 | |
Welcome to our most-ever-requested episode! 🚀 This week, I'm teaching you my three-step process for launching your next big (or small, or just-the-right-sized) thing without social media. Tune in to learn how to create a clear container for your work, clear communication about your offering or product, and clear outreach to your community ... all without social media. We also cover how leaving social media helped me finally enjoy the launch process and two reasons I think I get this question so often. Press play for a free 25-minute workshop on launching sans social, then join me in The Interweb for an hour-long class on this topic, including a comprehensive workbook and a live community call next month!
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today | |||
| 20 Sep 2023 | 🌿 Embodying Liberation from the Social Media Matrix — with Lauren Ash of Black Girl in Om | 00:54:26 | |
What's it like to walk away from 50k Instagram followers & a full roster of paid partnerships? Let’s find out. In today’s episode, I’m joined by Lauren Ash, an artist, wellness practitioner + community gatherer who shut down her socials & pressed pause on brand partnerships almost a year ago. Tune in to our conversation to hear about—
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 30 Jan 2023 | 🏔 Releasing #Productivity & Making Your Work More Seasonal — with grace allerdice | 01:00:47 | |
How can we release ourselves from the outer forces, inner voices, and productivity gurus driving us toward more-more-more? And when we do choose another path, how do we set up our work so that we actually bring our dreams to life — without getting lost in ambiguity, confusion or overwhelm?
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| 10 Jan 2024 | 💫 Is this the year you leave social media? [Free 5-Day Challenge] | 00:19:04 | |
Happy New Year, friends! Amelia here, dropping into your pod feed with three exciting announcements: #1 — Season 3 of Off the Grid is launching next week! 🥳 Surprise! I’m coming back from break early and will be posting awesome weekly episodes through the end of June. #2 — If you’re thinking 2024 might be the year you finally leave social media… I made you a 5-day challenge to plan your hiatus or exit! It’s free for everyone through the end of the month. Grab it at this link. #3 — Speaking of leaving social media … tune in to this bonus mini-sode for help feeling into if now’s the time for you to delete the apps. Lend me 15 minutes, and I’ll offer you a dozen reasons you might want to log off for a while or for good.
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨
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| 16 Mar 2022 | 💯 100 ways to share your work off social media | 00:28:52 | |
So what exactly do you do once you leave social media? In this episode, Amelia shares her popular list of 100 Ways To Share Your Work Off Social Media. With a little gentle guidance and a whole of big ideas, she invites you to become your own marketing visionary and imagine a new business away from from the Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok grind. Grab your Leaving Social Media Toolkit, and tune in to get inspired!
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| 18 May 2022 | 📌 How Pinterest can grow your business + a paid ads primer — with Brooke Basso | 01:04:39 | |
Searching for a marketing channel for easy, long-term business growth? In this episode, Brooke Basso of Embody Socials joins Amelia to talk about how Pinterest connects you with your ideal clients, boosts the longevity of your content, and drives traffic toward your offerings. 😎
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| 01 Nov 2023 | 🧗🏻♀️ Getting Off the Online Business Growth Escalator | 00:37:41 | |
Lately I've been feeling like mayyyybe I want to burn down my whole business... But I know that's not really true! I've just been growing in the wrong direction and at the wrong pace. So today on the pod, I'm bringing together everything I know about Online Business with my own business growth journey to explore why sometimes we feel like our businesses just won't work... and then other times they grow wayyyy beyond our capacity.
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 23 Mar 2022 | 🌈 How to create a fun, feel-good marketing plan to grow your business | 00:30:24 | |
Bummer news, babes. When you leave social media, you still have to market your business… But we promise it doesn’t have to be a drag!
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| 26 Jun 2024 | 👀 How to Feel Seen Off Social Media | 00:35:00 | |
This week we wrap season three with some #deepthoughts on what it means to feel seen and how social media is messing with our sense of self-worth and community connection. Tune in as I break down why visibility ≠ connection (or $ales), and I share many ways that we can find connection in our work and our lives without being on all the apps. And if you're sad that the show is going away for two months, join us in the Clubhouse for private weekly episodes + secret emails all summer long! ☀️ 🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us for weekly episodes + secret emails all summer long. Only $5/mo or $50/year. | |||
| 25 Oct 2023 | 🪦 Grieving Social Media — How to Process Your Feelings About IG/Facebook/Twitter/TikTok | 00:34:15 | |
Why does leaving social media feel so impossible? I think one reason is because of how joy and grief intermingle on these platforms. So this week we’re grieving social media together, so we can remember what we loved, recognize what we miss, and prepare ourselves to step into what’s next. Tune in to hear more about:
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 31 May 2024 | ✨ June Biz Forecast — Slowing Down, Sliding Scales & Sponsor Love | 00:28:27 | |
Welcome to our #summertime June Biz Forecast episode! This is a pod-feed-exclusive where I check in at the start of the month to share a few fun marketing trends, this month's biz-care to-dos, a preview of upcoming episodes, and more!
💌 Email hi@softersounds.studio ☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid | |||
| 30 Apr 2025 | ✊ Make the Movement Irresistible — Quiet Quitting Social Media as an Artist with Edgar Fabián Frías | 01:07:32 | |
Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more.
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| 28 May 2025 | ↪️ Knowing When to Pivot — The Realities of Food-Based Retail with Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods | 00:58:46 | |
Welcome to Off the Grid CPG edition! 🍜 Today on the show, I’m joined by Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods to talk about farmers’ markets, food retail, and the realities of consumer product goods businesses.
💓 Biz friend links from Molly: Kate LaBrosse, Lip Esteem, SJC Body Love, Mazaah, Heti
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| 10 Apr 2024 | 👁️🗨️ Creative Business as a World-Building Practice — with Ayana Zaire Cotton | 00:47:08 | |
“We don’t have to give up the wild, “non-marketable” parts of our practice in order to sustain them.”
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today | |||
| 07 Jun 2023 | ♻️ Pivoting Your Business Away From Social Media — with Natalie Ross of Earth Speak | 00:48:15 | |
Today on the podcast, I’m talking to Natalie Ross about what to do you do when you’ve built a successful business on Instagram … but it turns out that social media is wrecking your life. Natalie is the cofounder of Earth Speak, a podcast and membership collective she co-created to bring intuition into everyday life. She grew Earth Speak to over six figures in annual revenue, 37,000 Instagram followers, and millions of podcast downloads… then decided to step back from social media and pivot the business. Together we talk about stepping off the social media hamster wheel, how healing her trauma required changing her business, and why we need to rewire the survival instincts that make it feel so scary to connect authentically and vulnerably with others. Tune in to hear more about—
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 💌 Want a gorgeous email service provider with easy segmentation options? Use my affiliate link to get 50% off your Flodesk subscription 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 02 Mar 2022 | 🐲 4 myths & a truth about social media for small businesses | 00:31:49 | |
Do you ever wonder how we started doing business on social media to begin with? On this episode, Amelia breaks down four myths about social media marketing for small business owners — deconstructing the idea that this free & easy marketing channel is ever actually free or easy. She also explores:
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| 19 Jan 2025 | 🪦 Grieving Social Media — How to Process Your Feelings About TikTok, Meta & Everything Else [BEST OF] | 00:34:03 | |
TikTok's been banned (for a minute). Meta's removed fact-checking (for good?). 2025 has already been a big year in social media news, and if you're having some big feelings about it, this episode is for you. Today we’re grieving social media together, so we can remember what we loved, recognize what we miss, and prepare ourselves to step into what’s next. So whether you were abruptly kicked off TikTok or you've been inching away from social media for a while, tune in to this Best Of episode (with a new of-the-moment intro!) to hear more about:
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| 24 Apr 2024 | ❤️🩹 What is a Trauma-Informed Business? — with Jess Jackson | 00:52:00 | |
If you want to feel more supported and supportive in your client work, this episode is for you. Today I’m joined by Jess Jackson of Soft Path Healing to talk about trauma, trauma-informed care, and trauma-informed business. Together, we explore how to make our business practices more trauma-informed AND we talk about how to approach social media marketing with nervous system regulation in mind. Tune in then click here to learn more about Jess’ upcoming course, Trauma Informed Foundations, which begins on May 17. 👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today | |||
| 03 May 2024 | ✨ May Biz Forecast — Daily Practice, Asynchronous Everything & a Summer Secret 🤫 | 00:25:56 | |
Welcome to our #It'sGonnaBeMay monthly forecast episode! This is a pod-feed-exclusive where I check in on the first Friday of each month to share a few fun marketing trends, this month's biz-care to-dos, a preview of upcoming episodes, and more!
💌 Email hi@softersounds.studio ☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid
💞 Link love 💞 — 100 Hell Yes People from Jen Carrington | 1000 True Fans | Ordinary Practice by Cody Cook-Parrott | Be School podcast & my episode | Making Things Together (Daily May Coworking) with Liz Bayan | Voxer
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| 20 Mar 2024 | 🌱 Embracing Seasonal Transitions & Shifts in Your Business — with Yarrow Magdalena | 00:52:21 | |
Happy spring, biz friends! In honor of the equinox, today I'm joined by Yarrow Magdalena for a conversation about embracing seasonality and intentional shifts in our businesses.
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| 04 Oct 2023 | 💸 How to Make $$$ with Your Friends — with Taylor Elyse Morrison | 01:08:01 | |
Everything’s better with friends, babe! Including making money in your busine$$. Today I’m joined by my dear friend & biz cofounder Taylor Elyse Morrison to talk about the highs, the lows & the finances of working with your friends. Taylor and I have been friends & collaborators for more than five years, partnering on everything from live workshops to brand partnerships to cofounding the Lifestyle Business League.
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 19 Mar 2025 | 🖌️ Copywriting, Pain Point Marketing & 3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Sales Pages — with Nicole Cloutier | 01:03:04 | |
What if selling didn't have to feel sleazy? And the words on your website could cast a magical spell for your ideal clients/customers instead? Today, I'm joined by copywriter and podcaster Nicole Cloutier to talk about how to be more specific in our messaging and simple tips to write better sales pages. Tune in to hear about:
And make sure to grab Nicole's FREE sales page bundle, exclusively for Off the Grid listeners! RESOURCES + LINKS | |||
| 04 Sep 2024 | 👀 How to Be Seen Off Social Media — Visibility & Bias with N. Chloé Nwangwu | 00:58:47 | |
Welcome to season four of Off the Grid! Today I’m joined by everybody’s favorite brand scientist, N. Chloé Nwangwu of NobiWorks. Chloé is here to talk about what brands are, why they matter, and how we can craft one that breaks past visibility biases. This conversation is also an extension of our season three finale where I explored how to feel seen off social media. Because in this episode, Chloé explains how to actually be seen off social media — including why so many of us are underrecognized (not underrepresented!) and how to craft a circle of recognition that makes sure we’re actually seen and heard. Here are just a few of the amazing things Chloé says in this conversation: ✨ All social media is interested in doing is farming and selling attention. It’s not interested in the process of visibility — which is gaining, maintaining, and translating attention.✨ You are not social media’s client. You are their product. ✨ For some of us, it’s like we have an invisibility cloak on. So no matter what right moves we are making or how avidly we are participating in social media or the other tactics and strategies presented to us — we’re still doing that from underneath an invisibility cloak. ✨ You have to be the obvious choice before you make yourself an opportunity magnet. You don’t just want to be visible. You want to be noticed. You want to be remembered. And then you want people to be influenced by that memory to act. There’s a whole process. 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. Doors close September 15. | |||
| 11 May 2022 | 🎙 How your podcast can bring you clients & make you money — with Chelsea Riffe | 00:47:21 | |
Wondering how your podcast can be a creative outlet and bring you new clients? In this episode, Chelsea Riffe of In My Non-Expert Opinion joins Amelia to talk about how her podcast integrates storytelling and sales.
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| 06 Sep 2023 | 🏚️ 3 Cracks in Your Business Foundation — How to Align Your Model & Your Marketing with Jessica Lackey | 00:53:42 | |
Let me tell you something I learned from my business coach... the only “secret” of business growth is building stronger foundations. It's been a really transformative lesson for me, so today I’ve invited Jessica Lackey (my coach) to the pod to explore why so many small business owners feel like they're working all the time... and still not achieving success. Tune in to learn—
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 25 May 2022 | 🛠 Business systems can solve your problems — with Patty Ryan Lee of The Fiery Well | 00:55:12 | |
Have you ever felt confused, overwhelmed, or lost in business? A system might be the answer to all your problems! 🤯 In this episode, Patty Ryan Lee of The Fiery Well joins Amelia to talk about business systems, SOPs & the good kind of audits.
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| 13 Jul 2022 | 🛁 Self-care for staying on social media — with Taylor Elyse Morrison of Inner Workout | 00:42:29 | |
We’re all about leaving social media, but we know that’s not the right choice for everyone! 😬 So in this episode, Taylor Elyse Morrison of Inner Workout joins Amelia to talk about how she approaches social media mindfully, why she developed the Instead deck for scrolling less, and how she takes care of herself and her business while posting & engaging on social media.
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| 26 Apr 2023 | 🙅♀️ Saying Yes to the No — Creativity, Constraints & Content with grace allerdice | 00:58:02 | |
Hey hey babes — this week we're welcoming my friend & collaborator, grace allerdice, back to the pod for a conversation at the intersection of creative practice and self-employment.
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 06 Apr 2022 | ⚡️ Cultivating energetic sovereignty & email as a love language — with grace allerdice | 00:56:40 | |
Join us in welcoming our first guest! grace allerdice is an artist, consulting astrologer, writer, podcaster + energetic practitioner.
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| 01 Mar 2024 | ✨ March Biz Forecast — Launch Season, Newsletter Ads & Maybe Everything is Free Now? | 00:36:23 | |
Welcome to our second monthly forecast episode! This is an experiment I'm trying exclusively on the pod feed where I check in on the first Friday of each month to share a few fun marketing trends, this month's biz-care to-dos, and listener Q&A!
Plus! Some great listener comments about cultivating visibility and community off social media.
💌 Email hi@softersounds.studio ☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid
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| 23 May 2025 | 🌀 Navigating the Messy Middle — Small Business in Slow Times with Jen Carrington | 01:15:40 | |
Popping in with a behind-the-scenes bonus episode — where Jen Carrington and I pull back the curtain on everything that's been messy, feel-bad, and chaotic in our businesses this year!
We talk about exactly how much our revenue is down, the problems we've diagnosed with our marketing and messaging, and what we're focusing on to stay in business through 2025 and beyond.
Tune in to feel seen, heard, and (hopefully) less alone. 💓
If you enjoy the episode, make sure to grab Jen's free Design Your Part-Time Business Model toolkit. Then get the recording of my class where we explored How to Run Your Creative Business in Slow Times! RESOURCES + LINKS | |||
| 21 Jun 2023 | 🌴 Planning a DIY Business Retreat — with Maggie Gentry | 00:49:42 | |
When was the last time you took intentional time away from your business to work on it, rather than in it? Recently? Not so recently? Either way, it might be time to plan a solo business retreat! In this episode, I’m joined by Maggie Gentry, a thought partner to coaches & creative entrepreneurs looking to intentionally scale with a focus on marketing operations. She's shares her four-step process for planning a solo business retreat. We also chat about—
💌 Want a gorgeous email service provider with easy segmentation options? Use my affiliate link to get 50% off your Flodesk subscription 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 07 May 2025 | 🌻 Can We Still Thrive Online? — Digital Wellness & Ethical Marketing with Amelia Knott | 01:06:24 | |
Today on the show, I’m joined by art psychotherapist Amelia Knott to explore and untangle the intersections of mental health, social media, creativity, and small business. We specifically take on the concepts of “digital wellness” and “ethical marketing.” And we have a nuanced conversation about how we really feel online and what it means to market with care (and without coercion). Join us as we get into:
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| 24 Jan 2024 | 👁️ 24 Ways to Boost Your Visibility in 2024 | 00:42:03 | |
If you want to get your work in front of more people, today’s episode is for you!
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| 29 Jul 2024 | 🤔 WTF is happening on LinkedIn?? (& Why I Left the Platform After 14 Years) | 00:28:29 | |
This one goes out to my all my Top Voices™️ out there. Today we’re talking about LinkedIn!
And ICYMI — this episode has been pulled out from behind the paywall of Off the Grid Clubhouse! 🤸 Join today for weekly episodes like this + secret emails all summer long. Only $5/mo or $50/year. | |||
| 10 May 2023 | 🍉 How To Plan a Summer Sabbatical in 5 Simple Steps [2023 edition] | 00:46:05 | |
Let’s give you that break you deserve, babe! In this episode, I share why I’ve decided to take a 3-week break from my business this summer. Then I walk you through my 5-step process for planning your own summer sabbatical.
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 26 Oct 2022 | 🙏 Your Next Client Isn’t In Your DMs — Coaching Success without Social Media with D’Ana Joi | 00:56:45 | |
What does leaving social media look like when you’re used to using it for collaboration & business growth? And is it really possible for coaches and service providers to find new clients offline? In this episode, I’m joined by D’Ana Joi, a coach for multi-passionate creatives. Together we discuss our journeys leaving Instagram and embracing more aligned ways of creating community and growing our businesses. We dive deep into:
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| 21 May 2025 | 🗣️ The Relationships that Change Everything — Creatively Unleashing with Lauren LoGrasso | 00:56:36 | |
We talk about community all the time on this show. But what does it actually look like when relationships change the trajectory of your creative career? In this episode, I’m joined by Lauren LoGrasso to unpack all the relationships that led her to her current roles as an award-winning podcaster, producer of We Can Do Hard Things, and VP of Programming and Development at Audacy. Those relationships range from a random guy in Indiana to the agent who dumped her when she moved to LA to her “radio Jesus” who opened the door to everything Lauren is doing today. Tune in as we map how a creative career is built in real-time. You’ll hear all about:
And stay tuned to the end where Lauren guides us through a self-love + inner child healing practice!
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| 23 Aug 2023 | 🌊 Channel the Flow — Money, Energy & Team Work with grace allerdice | 01:00:01 | |
Welcome to our late summer interview series! For the next six weeks on the pod, I'm talking to my fave small business owners, artists & influencers about their fave creative business tools & practices. This week we're welcoming my dear friend & collaborator grace allerdice back to the show for a watery convo about how to:
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 05 Mar 2025 | 🧿 Visibility & the Joy/Grief of an Online Life — with Lisa Olivera | 01:02:32 | |
Today I’m joined by writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera to talk about how her work and life have shifted as her Instagram platform's grown to over 400,000 followers. Together, we dive into:
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| 15 Mar 2023 | 👋 The 5 Stages of Leaving Social Media | 00:41:17 | |
Welcome to season two of Off the Grid! To kick things off, this week we’re diving into the emotional depths of breaking ties with social media. Turns out, it’s a process. Tune in to hear more about:
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| 28 Aug 2024 | 🥨 OMG Off the Grid is Back! | 00:23:35 | |
Welcome welcome welcome back to Off the Grid! Amelia, here. I’m popping into your pod feed today to let you know that we’re kicking off season four of the show next week. 🎉 Starting September 4th, I’ll be sharing a new interview every Wednesday through the end of November, featuring amazing guests like: N. Chloé Nwangwu, Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster, Megan Leatherman, Podge Thomas, Kate Smalley, Michelle Pellizzon, Jenny Blake, Amy Kuretsky, and more! In this preview episode, I tell you more about what’s to come in season four, including two themes we’ll be exploring — 🎢 Why leaving social media is going mainstream... and how to avoid the grifters glomming onto that 🍁 How online business is changing in hard times... and ways to feel less alone in this moment And stick around to the end to learn about some big updates for the Interweb, our annual membership that’s getting a glow-up before we close the doors to new members on September 15th. Plus! The next ten folks who join using the code LUCKYTEN can get their first year at our founding member rate of only $99. | |||
| 15 May 2024 | 🪺 (Re)Building Your Business Around Your Capacity — with Jen Carrington | 00:53:36 | |
What happens when the work you love is no longer sustainable for the realities of your life? Today on the pod, Jen Carrington takes us behind-the-scenes in her business to discuss how she’s radically changed her offerings to support her life as a mom with a chronic illness. Tune in to learn:
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. | |||
| 19 Apr 2023 | ❤️🩹 Misinformation Hurts All of Us — Unpacking Social Media & Wellness Culture with Christy Harrison | 00:51:05 | |
Today I’m welcoming Christy Harrison MPH, RD, CEDS to the pod to talk about how social media platforms have lead to mass misinformation being spread online — and why that’s harmful to all of us, whether we think we fall prey to it or not. Together, we talk about the parallels between wellness culture and social media culture, how misinformation spreads online, and the way that social media weakens our inner authority. We also get into our personal and business relationships to social media, and have a candid chat about why Christy’s still on Instagram. Tune in to hear more about:
🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ | |||
| 14 Feb 2024 | 🌈 Finding Creative Freedom & Success Beyond Social Media — with Kristen Drozdowski of Worthwhile Paper | 00:51:32 | |
This episode goes out to all my creative babes out there, because today I’m joined by one of my favorite visual artists and print goods purveyors, Kristen Drozdowski of Worthwhile Paper. In this heartfelt conversation, Kristen shares how she started her business, her highest and lowest points as an artist and boss, and why she’s decided to leave Instagram after amassing over 50,000 followers there in the past decade. We also discuss what it means to step off the online business growth escalator and grow horizontally rather than scaling vertically. Tune in to stoke the flames of your creative liberation and believe in your business again.
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| 04 Jun 2025 | 👩💻 How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with Anita Cheung | 00:57:53 | |
2025 has been a year of pivots, restarts, and beginning again. So this week on the pod, we’re talking about reinventing yourself and your website! To do that, I’m joined by yoga-teacher-turned-meditation-studio-owner-turned-designer Anita Cheung AKA Neets!
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| 02 Oct 2024 | 🔮 How to Build an Intuitive Business — with Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz of Holisticism | 01:08:22 | |
Happy October! This week we're kicking off Spooky Season with one of my favorite business witches — Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz of Holisticism! Michelle has taught me so much about online business, magical meaning-making systems, and spiritual practices. She's one of my favorite people to pay attention to on the internet, and I invited her on the show so I could ask her every question I've ever had about how she runs her company. In this episode, we get real-real about:
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| 26 Jun 2023 | 🎶 Let's Go Off The Grid [BONUS] | 00:08:36 | |
Happy Monday Funday, friends. I'm hopping into your pod feed today to share two exciting announcements— #1 Off the Grid has a new theme song!! It's cool. It's catchy. It's by the amazing Melissa Kaitlyn Carter. You're gonna love it. 🎶 | |||
| 13 Mar 2024 | 🤷♀️ How Much is Enough? — Money & Social Media Part Two with Nicole Antoinette | 01:13:26 | |
This week on the pod, Nicole Antoinette is back to update us on how her business has changed since she left social media and took a $30k pay-cut last year.
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| 20 Jul 2022 | 🕸 Unpacking the Social Dilemma — Alignment & Algorithms with Vickie Curtis | 00:44:14 | |
We all know social media makes us feel bad sometimes…but is something more problematic happening on these platforms? 🌪 In this episode, Vickie Curtis, writer of The Social Dilemma, joins Amelia to talk about how social media algorithms cloud the truth and misdirect our attention, with devastating effects for our global communities. Together, they discuss—
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| 09 Mar 2022 | ✌️ How I left Instagram & my 5-step plan so you can too | 00:36:50 | |
Let’s talk about leaving Instagram! In this episode, Amelia shares how getting a book deal made her invest time, money & energy in Instagram...and why that made her exit the platform altogether a year later. Tune in to hear about—
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| 16 Apr 2025 | 🙅♂️ How to Stop Feeling Stuck on Social Media — with Deanna deBara | 00:55:22 | |
Come on down for the 100th episode of Off the Grid!!! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone, we're returning to our roots with a fresh conversation about how to leave social media (if you so choose). Today Deanna deBara from Season of Stuck podcast joins me to explore: 🫣 why we get stuck on social media If you're feeling stuck in any aspect of your business, marketing or life, this episode is for you! Thanks for tuning in and celebrating 100 episodes with us. 💛
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| 29 Mar 2023 | 💔 Why I Broke Up With Pinterest | 00:25:31 | |
Sometimes, we learn through trial and error, babes. Last season I was optimistic about what Pinterest could do for my small business. So I invested a little time, a lot of effort, and a few thousand dollars into pins on the platform. But after giving it a go… I have some new thoughts. Tune in for my freshest take on the effectiveness of Pinterest as a small business marketing strategy, including:
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| 05 Apr 2023 | 💸 How This Podcast Makes Money Without A Big Audience | 00:42:38 | |
I’m a firm believer in transparency around the way my business (and this podcast) makes money. So in today’s episode, I’m opening up the books to give you the cold, hard / warm, soft facts of how much money I’ve made from this show and exactly how I’ve made it.
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| 02 Feb 2024 | ✨ February Biz Forecast — Fun Trends, Biz-Care Recs & Taking Inspo from Selena Gomez | 00:23:18 | |
Welcome to our first monthly forecast episode! This is a new ~~experiment~~ I'm trying exclusively on the pod feed where I check in on the first Friday of each month to share a few fun marketing trends, this month's biz-care to-dos, and hopefully some listener Q&A! Tune in to hear why I'm super into worldbuilding, Selena Gomez & tax prep right now. And click through all the links below for a browser full of fun! Get in touch with Amelia: 💌 Email hi@softersounds.studio ☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid
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| 31 Jan 2024 | 🏷️ How To Do “Just Enough” Marketing — with Amanda Laird | 00:56:24 | |
If you dread marketing your work or wish doing it felt way easier, then today’s episode is for you! This week on the podcast, I’m joined by Amanda Laird, the founder and principal strategist of Slow & Steady Studio.
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| 24 Jun 2024 | 🤸 Join the Clubhouse & our Summer of Substack! | 00:10:49 | |
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| 10 Aug 2022 | 🧞♀️ Social-media-free launches, human design to get offline & control vs collaboration [Listener Q&A pt 2] | 00:42:38 | |
The season one finale is here! In this episode, Amelia answers more of your questions about leaving social media & wraps up the first season of Off the Grid. Tune in to hear her respond to Qs like—
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| 16 Oct 2024 | 🔑 Social Media Boundaries & Success on Substack — with Dacy Gillespie | 01:07:32 | |
This one goes out to all our listeners who are still trying to make it work on social media!
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| 19 Feb 2025 | 🌀 The Reality of Being an Artist-Influencer in 2025 — with Arielle Estoria | 01:00:32 | |
It’s 2025 and everyone’s sick of social media… so what do we do now? Today we’re kicking off season six with a conversation with poet, author, actor, and model Arielle Estoria. Over the past decade, Arielle has cultivated a multi-faceted creative career while growing her Instagram following to over 100K people.
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| 10 Jan 2025 | 🍒 What's Next? 2025 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird | 01:21:27 | |
Let's put the cherry on top of your 2025 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on 2025 Marketing Trends! To do that, I'm joined by communications strategist Amanda Laird to chat about four things she's forecasting for the year ahead, including:
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| 30 Aug 2023 | 📧 Email Marketing Made Easier, Better & More Fun — with Holly Wielkoszewski | 01:01:09 | |
This week we’re talking all things email and answering that pesky marketing question — should I send a weekly newsletter??? To do that I’m talking to Holly Wielkoszewski, a writer, a yoga teacher, and the founder of Daypack Digital. Together, we get into why we love email, how often we send emails, our hot takes on nurture sequences, and so much more! Tune in to learn about—
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| 05 Apr 2024 | ✨ April Biz Forecast — Shiny Sales Copy, Private Pods & my Q1 $$$ Update | 00:29:11 | |
Welcome to our third monthly forecast episode! This is a pod-feed-exclusive where I check in on the first Friday of each month to share a few fun marketing trends, this month's biz-care to-dos, a preview of upcoming episodes, and more!
Plus! Listen to the end so you can let me know if you're the guest I'm searching for...
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💞 Link love 💞 — The Planets & Your Business Private Podcast | BS-Free Business Podcast & Staying Solo Private Podcast | Make a Private Podcast with Softer Sounds | The New Age Playbook For Spellbinding, Can't-Stop-Reading Copy from Holisticism | Celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day on 4/30 👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today | |||
| 02 Apr 2025 | 💭 Radical Imagination in Hard Times — with Sarah Arantza Amador | 00:59:17 | |
How do we imagine new possibilities when it feels like our well has gone dry? This week I'm joined by author, tarotist, and Jungian creativity coach Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot. Together we explore:
Let's un-slogify our lives together, friends! Tune in for a thoughtful conversation full of practical tips that will help you reinvigorate your creative business.
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| 17 Apr 2024 | 🪐 How to Trust Yourself — Cosmic Business & Money Karma with Paula Crossfield | 01:01:00 | |
Have you ever heard the phrase “intuitive business” or “spiritual business” and thought to yourself … “ok but what does that actually mean?!” This happens to me all the time, so today on the podcast, I’m joined by vedic astrologer and business strategist Paula Crossfield to talk about her cosmic business framework. In the first half of our conversation, Paula shares practical ways we can cultivate our intuition in our businesses. And then in the second half of the episode we talk about how doing that can help us make more money!
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| 17 Jan 2024 | 💰 Overcoming Underearning — How Much Money I Made Last Year & What I’m Doing Differently This Year | 00:48:23 | |
Welcome to Season 3 of Off the Grid! We’re kicking off 2024 by talking about everyone’s favorite topic — money money money! 💸🤑💰 In this episode, I share my money story and unpack how I’ve overcome underearning over the past decade. Then I open my books to tell you exactly how much money Softer Sounds made last year, and I share three things I’m doing differently in my business in 2024. Tune in for a big dose of financial transparency without any icky income claim marketing. Let's practice talking about money together!
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| 06 Jul 2022 | ꩜ How it FEELS to leave social media — Embodiment + nervous system regulation with Elle Bower Johnston | 00:43:49 | |
How can we handle the feelings that arise when we’re on social media? And what happens to our bodies when we log off temporarily or for good? 🤯 In this episode, Elle Bower Johnston joins Amelia to talk about how social media impacts our nervous systems and our lives. Together, they discuss—
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| 22 May 2024 | 🌾 Grow Through Generosity & Collaboration — with Chelsie Tamms of Lettering Works | 00:51:49 | |
It’s radical generosity week here at Off the Grid! Today on the pod, I welcome Chelsie Tamms of Lettering Works for a conversation about how our businesses become more profitable through creative collaborations. This one is packed with self-employed wisdom, so pop in your airpods and tune in to learn:
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| 02 Aug 2023 | 🔮 A Spell for Releasing Your Shoulds Around Social Media (& Everything Else) — with Natalie Miller | 00:56:15 | |
There are so many things to do when you run a small business. And even more things you “should” do according to marketing “experts,” online business influencers, and the voices that arrive when you need to make a big decision. In this episode, I’m joined by Natalie Miller to talk about the “shoulds” that so many of us face in our lives and our businesses. And we offer practices for taking your “shoulds” seriously, so you can cultivate the magic you need to finally release them. Join us for a soulful conversation where we explore—
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| 08 Jan 2025 | 🎙️ Podcast Guesting for Business Growth with Taylor Elyse Morrison | 00:53:32 | |
At long last, we’ve got an episode exploring all things podcast guesting! And to do that I’m joined by return guest, portfolio career expert, and founder of Inner Workout, Taylor Elyse Morrison. Together we get into:
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| 23 Apr 2025 | 📢 Amplifying Attention for Under-Recognized Voices (Including Yourself!) — with Cher Hale | 01:03:48 | |
Cher Hale is one of my favorite people on the internet, and her newsletter Doing It For the Attention has taught me SO MUCH about getting my work in front of new people in a way that aligns with my body AND my business. In this conversation, we dive deep into the roots of attention and all the ways we can build community around our work — including how to amplify attention for ourselves and others.
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| 23 Oct 2024 | 🧿 How to Cultivate Creative Resilience — with Pascale Coté | 01:03:43 | |
Often when business isn’t going well, we think that we can fix it with a new marketing strategy or growth tactic.
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| 18 Oct 2023 | 🏄♀️ Join Me On The Interweb & Learn Exactly How I Launch a New Offering [BONUS] | 00:25:49 | |
I just launched the next big thing for Off the Grid, so let me tell you exactly how I did it! 👀 Tune in to learn about The Interweb, our new annual membership for creatives, artists & small business owners who want to build a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media. Then stay tuned as I reverse-engineer my process! So you can learn how to launch your own Next Big Thing with your talents, your capacity, your passions, and your community in mind.
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| 06 Mar 2024 | 🔊 Escaping the Attention Economy — Resonance Over Reach with Jay Acunzo | 00:41:54 | |
Consider this: What if marketing isn’t actually about getting in front of people? 🥸 Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Jay Acunzo, a writer, speaker and award-winning storyteller, who invites us to consider that marketing is all about making people care. Tune in to learn:
And then join The Interweb before March 21st, so you can come to our Spring Social and meet other folks asking these same questions! 👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 👩🎨 Get the support you need to create the brand your business deserves. Learn more about Lettering Works branding services today. (sponsored) | |||
| 07 Feb 2024 | 🪴 24 Ways to Nurture Your Biz Community in 2024 | 00:38:59 | |
If you want to build better business relationships in 2024, today’s episode is for you! This week we’re continuing our ‘24 in 2024’ series, where I’m walking you through 24 ideas for every stage of the customer journey. Last time we discussed audience growth, so today we’re building trust and nurturing our communities. Tune in as we explore:
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| 13 Sep 2023 | 🙃 Are Blogs in Again? — 7 Ways Social Media Just Can't Compete with Kasia Manolas | 00:53:52 | |
Blogs are back, baby! And maybe they’re great for business again? Today I’m joined by Kasia Manolas, writer of Girl in the Dark Room & Good Fortune, and owner of Narrative, a content marketing agency serving values-aligned companies. Together we revisit my 10 Things I Hate About Content Marketing episode to consider why blogs might be a form of content marketing we don’t have to hate. And Kasia shares why for many small businesses blogs > social. Tune in to learn how—
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| 14 May 2025 | 💔 How to Break Up with Google, Amazon & Spotify | 00:48:16 | |
I broke up with Amazon and Google when I left social media in 2021, and this year I decided it was also time to quit using Spotify. Why? Well because my values are not aligned with enriching billionaires like Jeff Bezos, letting Google track my behavior everywhere, or supporting Spotify in paying artists pennies.
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| 26 Jul 2023 | 😶🌫️ Social Media Is Not Neutral — aka the Threads episode | 00:24:48 | |
While I was off on summer break a big thing happened in the social media world — Meta launched Threads! And everybody had some feelings about it. So in this episode, I’m sharing my answer to the question, “Should you be on Threads?” And I’m reminding us that while we don’t need to judge who is or isn’t on an app, our choices can reflect our values in meaningful and powerful ways. Tune in for a gently-no-nonsense pep talk in our signature Off the Grid style.
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| 21 Feb 2024 | 🌀 24 Ways to Make More Sales in 2024 | 00:45:37 | |
If you want to make more sales in 2024, this episode is for you! Today we’re improving our sales skills, so we can make better investments, bigger decisions, and more $$$ in 2024 and beyond.
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| 30 Mar 2022 | 🌸 Fill your cup, babe — Radical generosity & the necessary, nice & ideal framework | 00:30:22 | |
We’ve been talking about leaving social media so we can feel better in our businesses…but what if we’re so burned-out that doing business feels impossible? In this episode Amelia unpacks how we can fill our own cups and build businesses based on radical generosity. She also shares—
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| 18 Sep 2024 | 👩🌾 “The Plants Made Me Do It” — Leaving Instagram with Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster | 01:14:11 | |
“I don’t want to perform my job. I want to be rooted in my work.”
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| 28 Jun 2023 | 🗺️ How To Map Your Business Ecosystem | 00:28:18 | |
Do you ever wish your creative path felt clearer? Your work felt more intentional? Your business felt more integrated? This week on the pod, I'm teaching you my favorite activity for finding biz clarity — AKA my 3-step process for mapping your business ecosystem. Tune in to learn—
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| 24 May 2023 | 🛍 Can Retail Leave Social Media? — Advice for Product-Makers & Shop-Owners with Janine Mulone | 00:50:18 | |
Hold on to your bucket hats, my friends. Because today we’re talking all things social media, retail and product-based business with Janine Mulone! Janine is an indie retail advisor, the founder of Feel Good Retail, and the host of Retail For The Rest Of Us. Tune in to hear us discuss how social media has rapidly shifted for retailers and why chasing the algorithm might be the worst sales strategy in your playbook. We also get into—
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| 04 May 2022 | 🎧 3 ways podcasting can radically change your marketing | 00:35:43 | |
Let’s make our marketing slower and more sustainable! In this episode, Amelia breaks down her 3 fave things about podcasting for small businesses, exploring how—
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| 03 Apr 2024 | 🔥 Launch Without Social Media — Listener Hot Seat! | 01:06:04 | |
Let’s launch YOUR offerings without social media! 🚀
🔥 Listener Hot Seat Links: Leah’s Cannabis & Intuitive Eating Workshop, Mathilde’s website, Bailey’s website, Sarah Diedrick’s website, Creativity Coaching with Sarah of Hawthorne Mountain Tarot | |||
| 20 Nov 2024 | 🪦 Permission to Change — Why Endings Are Messy with Amy Kuretsky | 01:35:51 | |
Welcome to the season four finale of Off the Grid! Today I'm joined by acupuncturist, herbalist, breathwork facilitator, + clinic co-owner Amy Kuretsky to talk about everything creative small business.
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| 12 Jul 2023 | 🌀 Letting It Out with Katie Dalebout [BONUS] | 00:16:16 | |
Hey friends! Amelia here. If you're hungry for more Off the Grid, I wanted to offer you a little snack while we're on break. 🧀 Last week, I was on one of my very favorite podcasts, Let It Out with Katie Dalebout! Katie and I talked all about my journey with social media, why I've decided to leave Instagram, and why I think that might be an easy choice for us to make as business owners and a hard choice for us to make as people who want to maintain relationships in the year 2023. I'm excited to give you a little preview of that conversation here on the feed. If you love it, click here to listen to the whole conversation on Let It Out pod!
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| 15 Nov 2024 | 📌 How to Leave Social Media in 5 Steps or Less [MINI] | 00:09:08 | |
If Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook or X are giving you the ick... please let me offer this 5-step plan for leaving social media — without impacting your income! Tune in to learn all five steps in under ten minutes. Then grab our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit to make your plan for what comes next in your work, biz + life. XOXO, Amelia | |||
| 30 Oct 2024 | 🪄 3 Magical Rituals to Transform Your Business — with Brigitte, Cecily Sailor & Ash Canty | 00:58:09 | |
Happy Halloween, business witches! 🧙 To do that, I invited three brilliant practitioners to each share a unique and powerful biz magic ritual with us! ✨ Brigitte starts us off with some practical magic as she shares her opening + closing rituals for each workday and workweek. [9:00] ✨ Then Cecily Sailer offers a tarot spread and community reading for connecting with our business spirits. [17:00] ✨ And finally, Ash Canty gifts us a meditative practice that serves anyone asking — “what do I do when everything goes quiet? or when things feel slow? or when I put something out there and nothing happens in response to it?” [31:45] I hope you’ll press play then keep reading to learn more about our magical contributors and find all the links to their work! 🪄 Contributors:
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| 19 Jun 2024 | ♻️ Success is a Cycle (& Sometimes That Sucks) | 00:37:00 | |
Hey there, biz bestie. If you (like me) have never discovered a milestone or a metric that makes you a Success™️….today’s episode is for you!
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| 03 May 2023 | 🧐 To Substack or Not to Substack? | 00:41:27 | |
Welcome back to season two of Off the Grid! This week I’ve got a thot take (that's a thoughtful hot take) of an episode for all our newsletter writers out there. By popular request, I’m exploring the rise of Substack. And I’m asking whether this newsletter/podcast/threads/notes platform is good for small businesses or bad for them. I’m also helping you answer the question, Is Substack right for me? Tune in to hear more about:
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| 12 Jun 2024 | 🌹 The Deep Integration of Art, Business & Friendship — with Kening Zhu | 01:16:50 | |
This week I’m joined by Kening Zhu, an artist, web designer, and dear friend who I’ve known for over 15 years.
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| 13 Nov 2024 | 🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas | 00:54:29 | |
"These were very colonized institutions that I feel brainwashed me. And they brainwash a lot of people. So now as a business owner, creative & Notion consultant, what I get to do is decolonize my business and help my clients look at their own businesses through a decolonization lens." Today I’m joined by Podge Thomas for a reflective conversation about why being self-employed invites (and requires) decolonizing how we learn, how we communicate, how we operate, and how we relate to others. Podge is a queer, POC, neurodivergent Notion consultant. Her clients are progressive and radical self-identifying women and non-binary business leaders. When she’s not Notion-izing, she is renovating her 1780’s home in New England with her partner.
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| 22 Mar 2023 | ☠️ 10 Things I Hate About Content Marketing | 00:32:15 | |
This week we’re taking on everybody’s favorite marketing strategy and we’re not holding back! If you’re an online business owner, you’re probably familiar with content marketing. It’s everywhere, and we get it…sometimes it’s effective. But also…is it really? In this episode, I unpack ten reasons content marketing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and I share lots of ideas for what you can do instead.
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| 08 May 2024 | ☠️ Are Lead Magnets Dead? | 00:38:03 | |
This week we’re diving into the world of email marketing and asking — has the era of the lead magnet come to an end?
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| 06 Jan 2025 | 🪩 Your 2025 Marketing Toolkit! | 00:11:45 | |
Happy New Year & welcome to season five of Off the Grid! Today we're kicking off this year-in-biz with a fun new format — five episodes in five days! Press play to hear all about it, and tune in this week to learn:
You'll hear from amazing guests like Allea Grummert, Taylor Elyse Morrison, Michelle Warner, and Amanda Laird. It's basically a mini-of-the-moment-marketing-masterclass all for free on the pod feed this week! So please subscribe and share it with a friend xo | |||
| 09 Oct 2024 | 🤖 Getting Out of Your Algorithm — with Kate Smalley | 00:50:45 | |
This week on the show we're getting into it with everyone’s least favorite internet friend — THE ALGORITHM 🙈 To do that I'm joined by Kate Smalley, a small business advisor, educator, and facilitator, who recently wrote a great piece about getting out of your algorithm that had me thinking more about what algorithms actually do and how we can work with them rather than against them. Today Kate's here to help me explore:
Mentioned in the episode: Algorithms by Panos Louridas, The Social Dilemma, Are.na, Sublime, Readwise
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