Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Bailey Lang is a book coach, editor, and ghostwriter who helps business owners, creatives, and academics tell stories that matter.

In this episode, Bailey and I pull back the curtain on the book-writing process. I share the messy middle and behind-the-scenes challenges of bringing my own book to life, while Bailey offers grounded guidance on what to do (and what not to do) if you’re dreaming of writing one yourself.

If you’ve ever thought “maybe I have a book in me” — this one’s for you.

Tune in, then get a copy of Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media. Its on sale now!

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👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

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Tracy Candido is a creative coach and the host of Hidden Parts, a podcast about the inner voices that shape how we live, work, and lead.

Today she joins me on the podcast to help me unpack how my inner perfectionist, procrastinator, and hyper-achiever showed up in the book writing process.

To do that, she teaches us a lot about Parts Work. Tune in to learn:

• What Parts Work is (and how it’s different than Internal Family Systems)
• How to identify protector parts
• Tracy’s 3-step methodology for quieting mental chatter
• How Parts Work can heal overachiever patterns & visibility wounds

   
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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This summer, Cody Cook-Parrott deleted their Instagram account. In doing so, they “lost” 80,000 followers and gained so. much. more.

In this conversation, we dig into why Cody decided to delete IG, how their creative attention has shifted since, and what it really looks like to build a business (and publish a book) off the grid.

Tune in to this episode to hear us explore:

• Why Cody deleted their account instead of deactivating
• What it means to archive your work online
• The realities of giving up social capital
• Sacred witnessing and ways to cultivate the feeling of being seen
• How Cody is approaching their next book launch without social media
• Why we love self-publishing & the fate of Amelia’s first zine project

 
🌟 If you love this chat, listen to Cody’s podcast Common Shapes! (The party Amelia & Cody hosted has passed.)

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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Seth Werkheiser was one of the first 3000 people on Twitter. Now he runs Social Media Escape Club and helps people get off X, Facebook, Instagram, and more.

In this conversation, we chart how we’ve each spent 20+ years online — beginning with AOL, Tumblr, and Twitter all the way through Instagram, TikTok, and the current state of Substack.

This one goes out to everyone feeling lost online and looking for the magic of the early internet era again. Join us for this journey through:

• Amelia’s cringe-inducing 2013 Tumblr blog & Twitter handle 😬
• Seth’s path from AOL Music to heavy metal email marketer 🤘
• The risks & rewards of bridging online connections into offline relationships 🥰
• Why Seth moved his paid subscribers off Substack & lessons he learned in the transfer process 🌶️
• The perils of the paywall 🚩

If you love this conversation, join me and Seth for a LIVE Q&A on September 11th! Only $10 if you sign up right here.
 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

 
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Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! Season 7 of Off the Grid officially kicks off next week. 🥳

This season we'll be digging into all things (self)-publishing without social media. I'm talking to writers, coaches, witches, and more about the magic of bringing our ideas to life and selling them in the marketplace. 😬

To get you in the mood, I'm sharing a preview of what's to come this fall and a juicy excerpt of a conversation I had on the Writing Your Resilience podcast earlier this year.

Tune in and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss an episode!  More soon. xoxo, Amelia

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

It's finally here, my friends... your first preview of my book!

In this episode, I fill you in on exactly why Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media.

Then in a you-heard-it-here-first moment, I play you the beginning of the audiobook! And I implore you to get a copy at yourattentionissacred.com.

Thank you so much for tuning in to season six of Off the Grid. We'll be on break for the rest of August, but if you join the Clubhouse, you'll get our free summer reset series that starts next week!

xoxo, Amelia

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👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

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

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Welcome to part one of our season six finale!

Today I’m joined by TWENTY past guests sharing tiny pep talks recorded just for you.

Tune in for encouragement on everything from surviving Capitalism to fixing your sales page to overcoming overwhelm and getting exactly what you want.

You’ll hear from:
[6:30] Blaize Hall of Weeping Willow Wellness

[12:00] Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz of Holisticism

[14:55] Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorne Mountain Tarot

[18:20] Arielle Estoria

[19:35] Mattia Maurée of AuDHD Flourishing

[21:30] Michelle Warner of Sequence Over Strategy

[23:55] Amanda Laird of Slow and Steady & Personal Biz

[26:15] Chelsie Tamms of Lettering Works

[27:30] Elise Granata of GROUP HUG

[30:45] Shivani Mehta Bhatia

[33:30] Maria Bowler

[37:10] grace allerdice of home—body

[39:50] Megan Leatherman of A Wild New Work

[43:40] Maggie Gentry of Rest Day Creative

[46:40] Natalie Ross

[49:30] Natalie Miller of Mind Witchery

[52:45] Rachel Duncan of the Money Healing Club

[55:50] Nicole Cloutier of Copy Poetics

[60:15] Yarrow Magdalena of Pink Well Studio

[63:10] Chelsea Riffe

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

💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

Here’s my truth— I am absolutely, positively obsessed with this episode.

Today on the pod, I’m joined by the one-and-only Sarah Faith Gottesdiener.

She’s popping over from Moonbeaming to pull back the curtain on how the Moon Studio has made more money than ever this year — with a secret marketing strategy and a super minimal social media presence.

Hear us get smart on:

• Inside/outside marketing strategies
• Keeping your best work a secret
• Business models that are DOA
• Why we love our client communities
• How to cultivate a clear channel for your marketing
• & Working with the best people

 
Tune in, then sign up for Sarah’s class Clear Channels! Registration closes in August.

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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Lately I’ve found myself stuck in an outdated story around success, failure, and where I think I “should” be by now.

This seems to happen every summer when sales/downloads/open-rates dip right as my creative energy surges. And while I can notice that pattern… it doesn’t make the feelings go away.

So to support myself through it, last week I re-listened to my episode on Success Being a Cycle and put up my feelers for some creative wisdom on how to orient yourself when everything seems to go dark.

And I found inspiration from a few unlikely places!

So in this Clubhouse-exclusive minisode, I weave together:

• Tilda Swinton on softening your dreams
• Scottie Scheffler on finding satisfaction outside your work
• Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
• & adrienne maree brown on being satisfiable

I hope this episode can serve as the pep talk you/me might need to pause, reorient, and keep working toward our dreams.

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

Casey Johnston is a weight-lifting memoirist and former editor at Vice, Ars Technica & the New York Times’ Wirecutter.

She’s been reporting on social media and smart phones for over a decade, and in that time, she built her career on Twitter then left it behind in favorite of a paid newsletter and a phone with fewer than ten apps on it.

In this conversation, we dig into the the major shifts that Casey’s witnessed in digital media since 2010, as well as how she created a “DIY Dumb Phone” to help her kick her phone addiction last year.

Specifically, we explore:

• How Twitter helped Casey start her writing career
• Why Casey launched a newsletter & how it’s become her primary income stream
• Virality, memes & how they push us to always be online
• The difference between a Beat, a Brand, and a Business
• The successes & failures of journalists on Substack
• Casey’s “DIY Dumb Phone” method
• How algorithms convince us we have problems
• Why Casey quit being a defender of social media

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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

 
OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR:
✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid