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ESCAPE THE TRANCE ⁕ REMEMBER YOUR AGENCY ⁕ BUILD COMMUNITY
Today on the pod we have a very special guest — Elise Granata of GROUP HUG!
Elise is here to chat with me about how social media erodes our agency + community building efforts — even if these platforms started as supportive relational hubs.
Join us as we wind through our teen years on Tumblr, how we dissociate on the apps, what inspires us to get offline, the dangers of optimized communities, adjusting our aesthetic expectations, "sweatshirt-level friends," and how to start your community practice.
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
Nicole's journey from poetry MFA to copywriterPain point marketing + if it's (un)ethical?How asking "so what?" can turn boring writing into compelling copyWays that better messaging can improve your product sales (not just services!)The value of embracing "pleasure point marketing"How to write your first sales page (ever!) 3 ways to improve your existing sales pages so you can (hopefully) make more $$$And make sure to grab Nicole's FREE sales page bundle, exclusively for Off the Grid listeners!
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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Leaving social media isn’t always the most profitable decision… but maybe it taps into something even more lucrative?
In this episode, I’m joined by Leah Kern, an anti-diet dietitian who left social media a year ago and has experienced ups and downs in her business since.
For the first half of our conversation, we explore Leah’s path onto and off of social media, including how she used to get clients on Instagram and how she finds clients now.Then in the second half of our chat, we discuss how intuitive eating actually led us both deeper into our values and why breaking up with diet culture was an important step toward breaking up with the apps altogether.
Tune in to hear a new perspective on what it's really like to leave social media with your business. And if you love this episode, be sure to tune in to Amelia on Leah's podcast Shoulders Down as well!
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
Two reasons Lisa joined Instagram + how it felt as her account grewThe allure of online business + what we’re “supposed to do” when we have a big platformUnpacking the rise of the “instagram therapist” + the content-ification of therapyWhy Lisa started her Substack newsletter + how it’s supported her workSocial media addiction + the compulsion to post/like/share/scrollFacing the big hole that’s there when social media’s not thereHow to make the choice to stay on social media (or not)
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
How do we stay creative — when there’s so much to do and so much at stake?
Today I’m joined by writer, coach, and retreat leader Maria Bowler for a practical and philosophical conversation about:
The difference between productivity & creativityWhy we don’t want to focus on “being efficient” or “maximizing ROI”How to actually be present (without feeling like you’re just being told to “be present”)The pain of alienation & how it permeates our daily livesDistinguishing between creative friction & oppressive frictionWhy creating more isn’t about doing lessHow to stretch time, lose track of it, and be with yourself beyond the clockWhat Maria thinks about social media this year
If you love this conversation, make sure to get yourself a copy of Maria’s book, Making Time! Off the Grid listeners get a special discount and free shipping at this link. (sponsored)
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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.
Arielle’s work as an artist & how social media turned her into an influencerWhat happened for Arielle when supporting Black creators was no longer “popular”The impact of social media trends on our identity + creative practiceThe boundaries Arielle's creating to stay focused on her art in 2025Plus! Arielle asks me if I miss anything about Instagram… and we chat about my newfound Youtube addiction 😬
In this vulnerable conversation, we explore:
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
What the TikTok ban means for small businessWhy we need to make space to grieve our favorite social media appsA 3-step practice for connecting with your feelings about social mediaGrieving vs Mourning & Embodying the process
RESOURCES + LINKS
🔗 Get all the links mentioned in this episode here
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
AI operations & optimization — plus the need to disclose how we're using AI in our work 🤖Big shifts in the social media landscape — including the fall of X, the rise of Bluesky, "free speech" on Facebook & more 🪨Substack's slow & steady descent from newsletter service to social media platform... 🫠& The return to IRL events — plus more intimacy in our online spaces 🫂
Tune in for a gently-guided look into the murky crystal ball of online biz in 2025. Then join us in the Clubhouse for our members-only biz forecast episodes throughout the year!
MORE FROM AMANDA
🐌 Visit the Slow & Steady website
📩 Sign up for Amanda's newsletter
🎧 Listen to Amanda's previous appearance on Off the Grid (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
Today we're revealing the third tool in your 2025 marketing toolkit, and I'm resharing our BEST OF episode where Michelle Warner teaches us all about relationship marketing!
With an MBA from one of the world’s top business schools and 15+ years experience growing small businesses, Michelle designs tiny companies that are built to last. She’s also the creator of Networking That Pays, the introvert-friendly connection system that brings in reliable leads, consistent referrals and meaningful connections for your business — in just 5 minutes a day.
Together, Michelle and I talk about:
What relationship marketing isThe difference between relationship marketing & traffic marketingHow a network can support your businessWho needs to be in your network (& who doesn’t)How to “borrow an audience” & why it’s so effectiveThe one type of content you need to have for relationship marketing to work
MORE FROM MICHELLE⏱️ Get Michelle’s free workshop 5 Minutes A Day to a Network That Pays
🎧 Listen to Michelle's podcast Sequence Over Strategy
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
What podcast guesting is (and what it isn’t)How to know if you should start a podcast or focus on podcast guestingA pep talk for boosting your confidence on the mic3 things to do before you focus on podcast guestingExamples of how to develop pitch topics for a few different types of businesses + creators
And if you’re ready to put all this into action, please let me recommend Taylor’s new course, Grow Your Brand by Podcast Guesting! I’m a guest expert on one of the sections, and you can use the code OFFTHEGRID FOR $50 off if you sign up by the end of January.MORE FROM TAYLOR
👀 Read Taylor’s blog posts on how podcast guesting fits into your marketing strategy + how to make the most of being a podcast guest
📈 Use the code OFFTHEGRID for $50 off Grow Your Brand By Podcast Guesting (code expires 1/31/25)
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
Welcome to our 2025 Marketing Toolkit! Today on the pod, we’re talking all things email marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett.
Tune in to learn:
5 reasons email might be the best marketing channel for your businessWhat a welcome sequence is + why it’s different than a nurture sequenceHow to find the right email platform for youWhy email segments + tags help you be your best, most multi-passionate selfHow Allea solves Amelia’s biggest email problem in 2 minutesIntermediate + advanced email strategies like link triggers, nested sequences and automated sales funnels
Whether you're an email beginner just starting your list or a seasoned pro hoping to bump up those click rates, this episode has supportive, implementable advice for you! I hope you'll tune in and share it with a friend xo
MORE FROM ALLEA
📩 Get all the email goods from Allea + Duett right here
🎧 Listen to Allea's podcast Happy SubscribersRESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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:
Our top 3 marketing strategies for 2025Need-to-know advice for email marketing beginners & prosHow to be a better guest on better podcastsWhy relationships always matter& What trends will grab extra attention in the year ahead!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
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link) -
In this BEST OF episode, we dive deep what it means to feel seen and how social media is messing with our sense of self-worth and community connection.
Tune in to hear me break down:
What it means to "feel seen" online & offlineWhy visibility ≠ connection (or $ales)Ways to find connection in your work & life without being on the appsAnd if you're thinking of stepping back from social media, go ahead & download our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit today! 🩵
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
Today we’re diving into the emotional depths of what happens after you break up with social media. Because it turns out that logging off the apps is only the first step...
Tune in to this BEST OF episode to hear more about:
The stages of grieving that come before the stages of leavingEverything that comes up after you leave social media AKA burn out, creation, return to human pace, loving it + relationship renewalThe magic that can happen when the space currently filled with social media is free againMy personal experience of loneliness setting in two years after leaving social media
Know someone who’s thinking of getting off social media? Share this episode with them! 👋 And if you're thinking of leaving yourself, make sure to download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit!
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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.
Why I spent ten years investing in social mediaHow Instagram makes us anxiously-attached & codependentMy #1 rule for leaving social media& where to get your 5-step plan for exiting any social platform
Tune in to hear about—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! 🩵
And if you're looking for our Flodesk link, here you go! 💌
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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.
In this conversation, Amy walks us through how she built a successful brick and mortar business AND a successful online business over the past decade. Then she explains what led her to wind down + close her online business a little over a year ago — including how endings can be messy, no matter how much permission you give yourself to change.
So the first 55 minutes is a deep dive into Amy's business journey and the many, many lessons she's learned. Then in the last 40 minutes, Amy offers us her best advice for brick and mortar businesses, including how to grow your space, lead a team, and market to IRL communities.
You absolutely do not want to miss this episode, and at 95 minutes it's a nice snack to chew on while the show goes on break until January. 🩵 See you in 2025, friends! xo, Amelia
Thinking of leaving social media? Download our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 👋 Want more Off the Grid episodes + emails? Join us in the Clubhouse on Substack 🤸Ready to build a successful, sustainable business without relying on social? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership full of courses + community support 🌈 Want to share your work with hundreds of amazing artists and small business owners? Place an ad on Off the Grid next season! 🧲
🪩 Explore our resources + offerings:
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
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
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"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.
The coercive effects of traditional education ⛓️💥Why Amelia did School like Ken did Beach 🏖️How to de-condition & decolonize our businesses 🧲The importance of situating self-knowledge amidst community values 🎗️Why Notion is a liberatory tool 👾Task management for non-linear thinkers 😵💫& so much more!
Together we explore:
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year.
🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored) -
Dropping in off-schedule with a reflection/reminder/rallying-cry that we have power as small business owners, and we can stand against everything Trump is + represents — especially if we do it together.
Tune in for gentle provocations and a special invitation to join me at a free event Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT.I hope to see you there. 🩵
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I’ve admired Jenny Blake’s work from afar for years.
First for her seemingly endless success with book deals, big-name podcast guests, and six-figure corporate contracts.
And now for her incredibly honest accounting of how her business dissolved during the pandemic and hasn’t rebounded since.
So in today’s episode, Jenny joins us to share the highs and lows of her 13 years of self-employment. And together we go deep into all the practical, intuitive, and creative things she’s tried to keep her business going… even though nothing’s really working (except maybe Substack).
This conversation is a must-listen for anyone who has struggled or is struggling in business. ❤️🩹 Big hugs to all of us!
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year.
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