Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Latest Episodes:

♾️ “You Needing Money Doesn't Make Stuff Sell” — Consistency & Collapse in Online Business with Nic Antoinette May 01, 2026

Show notes

My monthly-ish series with Nic Antoinette continues!

This time we’re talking about what it means to be “consistent” when you’re running a business in this economy.

We get into:

How we simultaneously rage against consistency and attribute our success to it
The relationship between consistency and cultivating trust with your audience
Ways to build better (for you) rhythms in your business
What to do when your launch plans line up with a major (horrible) event
Why it’s important to get off the do-or-die, boom-or-bust, sell-or-go-bankrupt hamster wheel
Cute baby sheep, gardening and cooking as tiny balms for the present moment

LINKS MENTIONED:

Nic’s newsletter on the baby sheep
Amelia’s Gentle Business Planning workshop
Needy by Mara Glatzel (affiliate link)
Jen Carrington
Off the Grid episode: Nice, Necessary, Ideal framework
Off the Grid episode: How to plan a summer sabbatical in 5 simple steps
COME TO CLASS earlybird list
COOK90 (affiliate link)

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

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🧑‍🏫 How to Teach Online (& Why Learning to Teach is My Best Sales Hack) Apr 29, 2026

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If you want to build a business around your know-how…

You have to learn how to teach.

In today’s episode, I’m talking about why learning to teach is the best sales “hack” I know — and I’m introducing you to my upcoming spring intensive, COME TO CLASS.

In just 30 minutes, I walk you through:

Why online courses aren’t ‘dead’ or ‘over’
How to figure out what you want to teach
What you need to know about boundaries before you start teaching
Ideas for nonhierarchical and nonlinear classrooms
Why writing a syllabus is like writing a sales page
& more!

Tune in then drop your email right here for access to earlybird pricing through May 1st. Can’t wait to see you in class!

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

🔒 How I Make Ambitious Biz Plans Without Burning Out Apr 27, 2026

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Today I’m very excited to share a workshop on gentle business planning — AKA how I make ambitious plans for my biz while also healing my burnout!
In this audio (and video!) workshop, I walk you through:

Why we’re always planning (even when we think we’re “behind”)
My 6 tenets for Gentle Business Planning
List-making prompts for the season ahead in your work
How to turn reflective prompts into a clear marketing & sales calendar
& How I use the Nine To Kind Digital planner to organize my projects

Tune in here to hear my 6 tenets of Gentle Business Planning. Then head to the Clubhouse to enjoy the entire workshop. The recording is free for everyone this week only and available to paid Clubhouse supporters forever.

Paid subscribers also get an edited audio version of the workshop AND a Notion doc with all the prompts to make this process super easy to do any time.

So press play for a preview, then head to the Clubhouse to support the show! You can find this specific episode here :)

🗒️ How to Plan Without Becoming a Perfectionist — with Lauren of Nine to Kind Apr 24, 2026

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This is probably my fave conversation I’ve ever had with a therapist.

Today Lauren Ruth Martin, LPC-MHSP is here to talk about the anti-perfectionist planners she created for her company Nine to Kind.

We discuss:

Why most planners force us into a productivity mindset
How gentle scaffolding can help us plan without perfectionism
The therapeutic exercises Lauren included in her planners
Why we prefer DBT to CBT personally
How to redistribute your f*cks — instead of trying to care less

If you enjoy our conversation, make sure to explore Nine to Kind planners! Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

🔑 Why Privacy Matters (Even if Google Knows Everything) — with Patricia Egger, Head of Security for Proton Apr 22, 2026

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We talk a lot about privacy at Off the Grid… but what does that actually mean in practice?

Today I’m joined by Patricia Egger, Head of Security at my fave privacy-focused tech company Proton.

Together, we have a non-technical-person-friendly conversation about:

Why Proton insists on ‘privacy by default’
The difference between online privacy & security
Why we love Proton Mail & want you to use it (affiliate link)
What it actually means when emails/messages are encrypted
Proton’s Born Private initiative (& how to claim a $1 email address for your kids)
Why AI has major privacy problems

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

🌿 When the Ache Remains — The Joy/Grief of Social Media with Lisa Olivera [BEST OF] Apr 17, 2026

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Today I’m resharing my conversation with writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera in honor of her upcoming book — When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway— which is out on April 28th.

Lisa and I talk about how her work and life changed as her Instagram platform grew to over 400,000 followers. Together, we dive into:

Two reasons Lisa joined Instagram + how it felt as her account grew
The allure of online business + what we’re “supposed to do” when we have a big platform
Social media addiction + the compulsion to post/like/share/scroll
Facing the big hole that’s there when social media’s not there
How to make the choice to stay on social media

If you enjoy this episode, please preorder Lisa's book! Here's my affiliate link, and here's more info on her website.

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails
📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!

🔭 WTF is up with Summits? (& Why I’m Hosting One This Week) Apr 15, 2026

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Today I'm answering a question from Kate Henry about why summits often feel sketchy... and how I designed our upcoming Astro & Biz Planning Summit to be the opposite of that!

Tune in to learn:

How the summit model works ⚡️
Why affiliate strategies can make summits feel weird 🧐
The questions I ask before agreeing to participate in any event 🙋‍♀️
How to make sure a summit benefits the host, speakers AND audience ♻️
& Why you should RSVP for the Astro & Biz Planning Summit ASAP (if you want to) 🤗

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

🔒 My Q1 Biz Recap — Highs, Lows & How Much $$ I Made Apr 13, 2026

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This year I’m making big changes in my business…

So I wanted to bring back my quarterly recaps to share the highlights, challenges, and financial details of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid each season!

Tune in to this episode preview to hear about the highs & lows of winter in my biz. Then become a paid subscriber of the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouseto get all the details on how much $$ I made.

When you join the Clubhouse, you'll get access to over 40 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show.

Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :)
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

🏦 Answering Your Biggest Tax Questions — with Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax Apr 10, 2026

Show notes

Earlier this spring, I asked Interweb members: 'What are your thorniest tax questions?'

Then I brought those questions to Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax, so we could get answers from an actual tax expert!

Tune in to this episode to learn:

How to know if you should be an LLC or an S-Corp
The best way to calculate your quarterly estimated taxes
When you need to use Quickbooks (& when you don’t)
Why tax protests don’t benefit you in the short term or the long run
What to do if you don’t file your taxes on time and need to pay back taxes

At the end we also play a game of ‘asking for a friend…can I expense this?’ — and Hannah has great answers on what we can write off for our creative biz!

RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails