Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Latest Episodes:

🙅‍♀️ Saying Yes to the No — Creativity, Constraints & Content with grace allerdice Apr 26, 2023

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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.

Grace and I have a chat about what's been happening in our businesses lately, then discuss what it means to be a creator-led business, how constraints help our creativity flourish, and why we want to make less content, not more.

Join us for a friendly chat between two business BFFs, then click here to get on the mailing list for Living Systems. 🌬

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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❤️‍🩹 Misinformation Hurts All of Us — Unpacking Social Media & Wellness Culture with Christy Harrison Apr 19, 2023

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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:

The aspirational nature of wellness & social media
Why false information spreads faster & farther than the truth online
How to values personal stories and scientific evidence simultaneously
The value of solitude in reconnecting to ourselves
Why Christy’s still on social media

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

🤖 SEO Basics, Web Analytics & the AI of It All — with Emily Gertenbach Apr 12, 2023

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Welcome back, babes! Today I am excited to have our first guest of the season, SEO expert Emily Gertenbach.

Together, we talk about Search Engine Optimization — what it is, how it works, and how you can make it work for your business in a mindful way. We also get into what it means that search engines are implementing more AI. And we have a candid chat about data privacy online.

Tune in to hear more about:

SEO for beginners & pros
Emily’s 3-step process for optimizing your site
Demystifying keywords & getting your site to rank
Why Emily stopped using Google Analytics
AI’s potential impact on the future of SEO (spoiler: no need to be scared)

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

💸 How This Podcast Makes Money Without A Big Audience Apr 05, 2023

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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.

If you've ever wanted a peek behind the scenes of Off the Grid strategy, you'll definitely want to tune in & hear:

How I’ve grown the Off the Grid audience
Real dollar amounts & download stats for the pod
Which offerings make the most money and why
The big failure of a VIP Day I launched last spring
Tips for how you can apply these lessons to your own business and/or podcast

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

💔 Why I Broke Up With Pinterest Mar 29, 2023

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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:

The data from my personal experience with paid Pinterest ads
How Pinterest is morphing into a social media platform
The price leap oversight in my strategy
The importance of keeping an experimental mindset

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

☠️ 10 Things I Hate About Content Marketing Mar 22, 2023

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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.

Tune in to hear more about:

What content marketing is & why people love it
How content marketing takes over our time & devalues our work
Why we need to step back from over-giving & learn how to sell our offerings
Common issues with social media, lead magnets & SEO

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

👋 The 5 Stages of Leaving Social Media Mar 15, 2023

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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:

The stages of grieving that come before the stages of leaving
Our 5 stages of leaving: burn out, content creation, return to human pace, loving it + relationship renewal
The magic that can happen when the space currently filled with social media is free again
My personal experience of loneliness setting in two years after leaving social media

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

🏔 Releasing #Productivity & Making Your Work More Seasonal — with grace allerdice Jan 30, 2023

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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?

In this episode, I’m joined by grace allerdice, my friend, mentor + co-teacher of our upcoming course Living Systems. Together we discuss how we live + work in alignment with our internal rhythms, energetic capacities + ever-changing seasons.

We dive deep into:

Creating systems where we can’t help but flourish
The difference between productivity culture (boo) + regenerative systems (yay)
How to identify + resolve friction points in your work
The foundational, resilient, clarifying power of the Earth element
Why we love Projects + how Projects help us bring our purpose to life

This episode is for anyone who wants to do life, work + business your way, andneeds support figuring out what your way really is. 🌱

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

🙏 Your Next Client Isn’t In Your DMs — Coaching Success without Social Media with D’Ana Joi Oct 26, 2022

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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:

The fears that come up when you think about leaving social media
All the ways your creative energy returns once you get offline
How Joi finds coaching clients without social media — and exactly how many she’s booked since she left IG with the help of Off the Grid!
The joy of creating organic community in your daily life & work

This episode is great if you’re considering leaving social media, but aren’t sure that the benefits will outweigh the drawbacks. Tune in for a big ole permission slip to do business your way. 🎟

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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🧞‍♀️ Social-media-free Launches, Human Design to Get Offline & Control vs Collaboration [Listener Q&A pt 2] Aug 10, 2022

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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—