Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Latest Episodes:

🗺️ How to Map Your Business Ecosystem Jun 28, 2023

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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—

how to clear your fears around doing business differently 😎
what I consider the three fundamental parts of any sustainable business 🧶
how to map your business ecosystem 🗺️
when & why you might want to use this process 🤗

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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🎶 Let's Go Off The Grid [BONUS] Jun 26, 2023

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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. 🎶
#2 The Refresh is officially happening again in August, and registration is now open!

🌈 The Refresh already passed, but don't worry because now you can join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨

🌴 Planning a DIY Business Retreat — with Maggie Gentry Jun 21, 2023

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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—

How to get comfortable with uncertainty in our businesses
Why we ignore advice about "niching down" or "having one hero offer"
What led Maggie to plan her first solo business retreat
Retreat ideas for folks who don't have much time/money/capacity

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

💫 Align Your Marketing & Your Human Design — with Arianna Maag Jun 14, 2023

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At long last… it’s our episode on the best marketing practices for your Human Design!

Today I’m joined by Arianna Maag, a Human Design coach who works with individuals who are ready to stop questioning themselves and live in alignment with who they are and have always been.

This one’s a super generous, free workshop in personalizing your marketing practices. So pull up your Human Design chart, locate your type, then tune in to this episode to learn—

How to grow your audience, nurture your community & sell your offerings based on your HD type
The best marketing strategies & practices for each HD type
The difference between “waiting to respond” & “waiting for the invitation” for Generators & Projectors
How a defined or undefined throat center impacts your marketing strengths

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

♻️ Pivoting Your Business Away From Social Media — with Natalie Ross of Earth Speak Jun 07, 2023

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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—

How Natalie’s healing journey was reflected in her business
Shifting your perspective on marketing to support your strengths & desires
How being in business can bring out threat responses that lead us to hide behind social media instead of actively selling our offerings
The importance of learning to regulate your nervous system

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

💍 Pulling a Beyoncé & Following No One — Social Media Experiments with Melissa Word May 31, 2023

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What would happen if you unfollowed everyone on Instagram? And what feelings come up when you think about it?

In this episode, I have a fun and insightful conversation about doing just that with Melissa Word.

Melissa is an artist, dancer, writer, and somatic facilitator. Together, we talk about how social media experiments have affected her digital and creative habits.

Tune in to hear more about:

How unfollowing everyone created an intentional Instagram experience for Melissa
How much codependency and people-pleasing is tangled up in who we choose to follow or not
Protecting & respecting your attention

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

🛍 Can Retail Leave Social Media? — Advice for Product-Makers & Shop-Owners with Janine Mulone May 24, 2023

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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—

Whether or not social media currently provides meaningful traffic
Where social media for retail can actually shine (and where it definitely doesn’t)
Janine’s favorite non-social media marketing methods
Knowing your 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

🤝 You Need a Network, Not an Audience — Relationship Marketing with Michelle Warner May 17, 2023

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Today I’m welcoming business designer and networking expert Michelle Warner to the podcast to teach 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 5 minutes a day.

Together, Michelle and I talk about—

What relationship marketing is
The difference between relationship marketing & traffic marketing
Who needs to be in your network (& who doesn’t)
How to “borrow an audience” & why it’s so effective
The one type of content you need to have

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

🍉 How To Plan a Summer Sabbatical in 5 Simple Steps [2023 edition] May 10, 2023

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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.

Tune in to hear more about:

What is a sabbatical? 🌴
Why might you want to take one? ☁️
Your 5-step plan for taking a sabbatical! ✋

If you’re craving rest, release or peace, this episode is for you! And rest assured, it’s not too late to take a sabbatical THIS summer. This episode is a whole workshop in less than 60 minutes. So just tune in, follow the 5-step plan & you’ll be on break before you know it.

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

🧐 To Substack or Not to Substack? May 03, 2023

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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: