Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Latest Episodes:

🤷‍♀️ How Much is Enough? — Money & Social Media Part Two with Nic Antoinette Mar 13, 2024

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This week on the pod, Nic 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.

We talk about embracing change, letting relationships evolve, and how we’re calculating our enough numbers right now.

Tune in to hear about:

What Nic misses (& doesn’t miss) about social media
The evolution of our parasocial relationships
What we do when revenue shifts from “more than enough” to “just enough” or “less than enough”
Amelia & Nic’s current “enough numbers”

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

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🔊 Escaping the Attention Economy — Resonance Over Reach with Jay Acunzo Mar 06, 2024

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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:

Why resonance matters more than reach
How to meet people where they’re at & shift their perspective
What to do when your work doesn’t get the audience you feel it deserves

And then join The Interweb before March 21st, so you can come to our Spring Social and meet other folks asking these same questions!

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RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

✨ March Biz Forecast — Launch Season, Newsletter Ads & Maybe Everything is Free Now? Mar 01, 2024

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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!

This month, you’ll hear:

why I'm super into newsletter ads right now
how to plan your spring sales calendar
my process for deciding what’s free and what’s paid in my business ecosystem

Plus! Some great listener comments about cultivating visibility and community off social media.

Tune in, then get in touch to share your Qs for next month…

💌 Email hi@softersounds.studio

☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid

💞 Link love 💞 — Newsletter ads with ilovecreatives, Ann Friedman, Podcasting by the Moon, PodNews & Paved | Jessica Lackey’s List of Business Books by Women & Non-Binary Writers | Edison Research report on Black podcast listenership | Off the Grid episode 58 with Samara Bay | Everything Is Free by Gillian Welch | Kim Barman | Off the Grid episode 56 with Kristen Drozdowski

👋 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. ✨

🦋 How to Show Up As Your Full Self in Business & Life — with Samara Bay Feb 28, 2024

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If you’ve ever struggled with showing up as your full self or being seen in your business, this episode is for you.

Today on the podcast, I’m joined by award-winning vocal coach and author, Samara Bay. Samara has coached everyone from Hollywood celebrities to US Congresswomen to high school girls. And her book Permission to Speak has been a guiding text for my business and life.

In this potent conversation, she teaches us her tried-and-true methods for showing up and speaking out. We also unpack the personal and political challenges that make showing up so challenging.

Tune in to learn:

How to bring your full self to your work/life/biz
Samara’s 4-step process for preparing to speak
What it means to be deliberately vulnerable
Why self-promotion isn’t actually about you

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RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

🌀 24 Ways to Make More Sales in 2024 Feb 21, 2024

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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.

Tune in as we explore:

Why we need new sales archetypes
4 ways to prepare your business (& yourself) for more sales
20 refreshing ideas for helping more people decide to purchase from you
3 things to consider before you offer a discount or raise your rates

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RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

🙃 Is Leaving Social Media a Privilege? — with Shivani Mehta Bhatia Feb 16, 2024

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📯 Bonus episode time! 📯 Today I’m joined by health equity expert and my biz friend Shivani Mehta Bhatia to unpack a question that’s been popping up on the pod lately…

Is leaving social media a privilege?

Tune in to hear how we’re unraveling this question through our conceptions of power, privilege, and social capital.

At the end, we also talk about the call to witness and how we’re thinking about social media in relationship to our personal, political and business values.

✨ Mentioned in the episode ✨ — Shivani Mehta Bhatia | The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza | Bear Hebert | How To Do “Just Enough” Marketing — with Amanda Laird

👋 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. ✨

🌈 Finding Creative Freedom & Success Beyond Social Media — with Kristen Drozdowski of Worthwhile Paper Feb 14, 2024

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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.

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

🪴 24 Ways to Nurture Your Biz Community in 2024 Feb 07, 2024

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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:

Why community matters for your business
How to decide who you want to build community with
24 fun ways to deepen relationships that will support your business

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RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

✨ February Biz Forecast — Fun Trends, Biz-Care Recs & Taking Social Media Breaks like Celebrities Feb 02, 2024

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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

💕 Link love 💕 — Kening Zhu’s website | Seeda School website, newsletter & podcast | Selena Gomez’s social media breaks | Cody Cook-Parrott’s newsletter | Marmoset’s post about donating money in Gaza

👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today

🏷️ How To Do “Just Enough” Marketing — with Amanda Laird Jan 31, 2024

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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.

Amanda’s one of my favorite people to talk to about marketing, and her “just enough” method has taught me how to do less, sell more, and find delight in my marketing process.

We cover all that in the first half of the episode, and then in the second half we dive into two juicy questions — How do I do “just enough” social media marketing? And is leaving social media a privilege?

Tune in to learn: