Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

What happens when the work you love is no longer sustainable for the realities of your life?

Today on the pod, Jen Carrington takes us behind-the-scenes in her business to discuss how she’s radically changed her offerings to support her life as a mom with a chronic illness.

Tune in to learn:

• Why Jen’s business is 80% asynchronous
• Specific logistics on how asynchronous delivery works
• How to stop facilitating your own burnout
• The realities of fluctuating revenue & income
• Jen’s best marketing methods & how she “puts her lights on” to sell

   
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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:
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This week we’re diving into the world of email marketing and asking — has the era of the lead magnet come to an end?

Tune in to learn:

• What a lead magnet is
• Why you might want to create one ... or not
• Two business models that really don’t need a lead magnet
• Whether or not I’m a fan of lead magnets in 2024

Then we want to hear what you think about lead magnets! Love 'em? Hate 'em? Let us know!

💌 Email [email protected]

☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid

Mentioned in the episode: NSYNC, Investopedia, Email as a Love Language with grace allerdice, Email Marketing with Holly Wielkoszewski, To Substack or Not to Substack?, Tarzan Kay, Amanda Laird, Pretty Decent

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

Welcome to our #It'sGonnaBeMay monthly forecast episode! This is a pod-feed-exclusive 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, a preview of upcoming episodes, and more!

This month, you’ll hear:

• what happens when we focus on gathering 100 hell yes people (instead of growing a giant audience) 💯
• why I'm super into daily marketing practices right now 🗓️
• & how I'm preparing my business for an inevitable summer slump 😬

 
Plus! Listen to the end for the first-ever public mention of what I'll be launching for Off the Grid this summer.

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

💌 Email [email protected]

☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid

💞 Link love 💞 — 100 Hell Yes People from Jen Carrington  |  1000 True Fans | Ordinary Practice by Cody Cook-Parrott  |  Be School podcast & my episode  |  Making Things Together (Daily May Coworking) with Liz Bayan | Voxer

👋  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. ✨

 
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

If you like magical money conversations, this episode is for you!

Today I’m joined by Rachel Duncan, a certified Financial Therapist and Art Psychotherapist who runs a company called the Money Healing Club.

Together we talk about the psychological, emotional, practical, and magical aspects of healing your relationship with money.

Tune in to hear us explore:

• Where money meets creativity
• What financial therapy is
• Neurodivergence & addiction in relationship to money
• The psycho-emotional aspects of setting rates
• What to do when you hit a revenue plateau

And stick around to the end where Rachel guides us through a visualization for remapping our relationship to money! 🐨

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

If you want to feel more supported and supportive in your client work, this episode is for you.

Today I’m joined by Jess Jackson of Soft Path Healing to talk about trauma, trauma-informed care, and trauma-informed business.

Together, we explore how to make our business practices more trauma-informed AND we talk about how to approach social media marketing with nervous system regulation in mind.

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

Have you ever heard the phrase “intuitive business” or “spiritual business” and thought to yourself … “ok but what does that actually mean?!”

This happens to me all the time, so today on the podcast, I’m joined by vedic astrologer and business strategist Paula Crossfield to talk about her cosmic business framework.

In the first half of our conversation, Paula shares practical ways we can cultivate our intuition in our businesses. And then in the second half of the episode we talk about how doing that can help us make more money!

 
Sign up for the FREE Cosmic Business Salon happening next week, then tune in to hear us discuss:

• The cosmic business paradigm shift
• Paula’s 3-part process for connecting with your intuition
• How social media wrecks our self-trust
• Money karma & how to heal your relationship with money

 
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

“We don’t have to give up the wild, “non-marketable” parts of our practice in order to sustain them.”

This week, I am thrilled to be joined by anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator for the worldbuilders, Ayana Zaire Cotton of Seeda School.

In this spiralic conversation, Ayana guides us in how to tap into our zone of desire and design creative offers for new worlds in the now.

Tune in to hear about:

• World-building as a Black feminist practice
• Why “niching down” is a colonial technology (& how we can refuse to do it)
• The moments when discipline melts into devotion
• How to find the places where your curiosity rivals your fear

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

Welcome to our third monthly forecast episode! This is a pod-feed-exclusive 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, a preview of upcoming episodes, and more!

This month, you’ll hear:

• why I'm super into private podcasts right now 🙉
• the springtime joys of email debt forgiveness 📧
• & exactly how much money I made in Q1 2024 😬

Plus! Listen to the end so you can let me know if you're the guest I'm searching for...

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

💌 Email [email protected]

☎️ Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/offthegrid

💞 Link love 💞 — The Planets & Your Business Private Podcast | BS-Free Business Podcast & Staying Solo Private Podcast | Make a Private Podcast with Softer Sounds | The New Age Playbook For Spellbinding, Can't-Stop-Reading Copy from Holisticism | Celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day on 4/30

👋  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. ✨

 
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

Let’s launch YOUR offerings without social media! 🚀

This week on the pod, we hear from six listeners who are launching new things this spring and wanted my support figuring out how to do it without social media.

Tune in to hear how I would launch:

• A 60-minute workshop on cannabis & intuitive eating
• A membership for women releasing perfectionism
• A twice-monthly writing power hour
• A course about desire & pleasure
• A new business about nonviolent communication
• A first paid offer for an astrology business
• A seasonal 1:1 coaching program

🔥 Listener Hot Seat Links: Leah’s Cannabis & Intuitive Eating Workshop, Mathilde’s website, Bailey’s website, Sarah Diedrick’s website, Creativity Coaching with Sarah of Hawthorne Mountain Tarot

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

Welcome to our most-ever-requested episode! 🚀

This week, I'm teaching you my three-step process for launching your next big (or small, or just-the-right-sized) thing without social media.

Tune in to learn how to create a clear container for your work, clear communication about your offering or product, and clear outreach to your community ... all without social media.

We also cover how leaving social media helped me finally enjoy the launch process and two reasons I think I get this question so often.

Press play for a free 25-minute workshop on launching sans social, then join me in The Interweb for an hour-long class on this topic, including a comprehensive workbook and a live community call next month!

 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