Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

If you dread marketing your work or wish doing it felt way easier, then today’s episode is for you!

This week on the podcast, I’m joined by Amanda Laird, the founder and principal strategist of Slow & Steady Studio.

Amanda’s one of my favorite people to talk to about marketing, and her “just enough” method has taught me how to do less, sell more, and find delight in my marketing process.

We cover all that in the first half of the episode, and then in the second half we dive into two juicy questions — How do I do “just enough” social media marketing? And is leaving social media a privilege?

Tune in to learn:

• Why marketing feels so hard
• How to know if you’re doing too much or too little marketing
• The four parts of the “just enough” marketing method
• How to delight your customers & clients

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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If you want to get your work in front of more people, today’s episode is for you!

This week we’re kicking off our ‘24 in 2024’ series, where I’m going to walk you through 24 creative marketing ideas for every stage of the customer journey. We’re starting at the very beginning when the customer first hears about you. So this week is all about boosting visibility and audience growth!

Tune in as we explore:

• What it means to boost your visibility 👀
• When you want to grow your audience (& when you don’t) 📊
• 4 ways to prepare yourself for more visibility 🪞
• 20 refreshing ideas for getting your work (& yourself) in front of new people 👯‍♀️

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 Season 3 of Off the Grid! We’re kicking off 2024 by talking about everyone’s favorite topic — money money money! 💸🤑💰

In this episode, I share my money story and unpack how I’ve overcome underearning over the past decade. Then I open my books to tell you exactly how much money Softer Sounds made last year, and I share three things I’m doing differently in my business in 2024.

Tune in for a big dose of financial transparency without any icky income claim marketing. Let's practice talking about money together!

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

Happy New Year, friends! Amelia here, dropping into your pod feed with three exciting announcements:

#1 — Season 3 of Off the Grid is launching next week! 🥳 Surprise! I’m coming back from break early and will be posting awesome weekly episodes through the end of June.

#2 — If you’re thinking 2024 might be the year you finally leave social media… I made you a 5-day challenge to plan your hiatus or exit! It’s free for everyone through the end of the month.  (this challenge is no longer available for free)

#3 — Speaking of leaving social media … tune in to this bonus mini-sode for help feeling into if now’s the time for you to delete the apps. Lend me 15 minutes, and I’ll offer you a dozen reasons you might want to log off for a while or for good.

I’ll be back next week to officially kick off our third season. See ya then!

👋  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. ✨

Mentioned in the episode—

• Essays about leaving social media from Nic Antoinette, Marlee Grace, Emma Gannon and others
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

 
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 the season two finale of Off the Grid!

In this episode, I’m unpacking the difference between business and art … and arguing that maybe it’s actually all about being of service?!

Tune in as I weave together Unreasonable Hospitality, The Bear, the Online Business Growth Escalator & a Spell for Releasing Your Shoulds — to inspire you to keep finding your way forward in your practice & to make some money in the meantime.

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

Lately I've been feeling like mayyyybe I want to burn down my whole business... 

But I know that's not really true! I've just been growing in the wrong direction and at the wrong pace.

So today on the pod, I'm bringing together everything I know about Online Business with my own business growth journey to explore why sometimes we feel like our businesses just won't work... and then other times they grow wayyyy beyond our capacity.

Tune in to hear more about:

• Realizing you're on the Wrong Path & how to get off it
• The Online Business Growth Escalator
• What to do when your escalator is broken
• How to chart your own path for business growth
• Questions to get clear on where you want to go

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

Why does leaving social media feel so impossible? I think one reason is because of how joy and grief intermingle on these platforms.

So this week we’re grieving social media together, so we can remember what we loved, recognize what we miss, and prepare ourselves to step into what’s next.

Tune in to hear more about:

• What happened to social connection on social media
• Why we need to make space to grieve IG/Facebook/Twitter
• A 3-step practice for connecting with your feelings about social media
• Grieving vs Mourning & Embodying the 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

 
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

I just launched the next big thing for Off the Grid, so let me tell you exactly how I did it! 👀

Tune in to learn about The Interweb, our new annual membership for creatives, artists & small business owners who want to build a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media.

Then stay tuned as I reverse-engineer my process! So you can learn how to launch your own Next Big Thing with your talents, your capacity, your passions, and your community in mind.

👋  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

How do we actually tend to our wellbeing & burn-out when we’re self-employed? And what happens to our businesses when we step back to heal?

Today I’m joined by a writer, podcaster, self-employed creator & community gatherer that I’ve long admired — Nic Antoinette.

This year Nic has gone through a period of shutting down almost all of the longest-running parts of her business in order to tend to her mental health and well-being.

In the process, she’s been in a period of deep inquiry about what it means to run a tiny business, when to let our beloved creations end, and how to feel like we have enough in our work and our lives.

She also left Instagram! Tune in to our conversation for—

• A permission slip to step back from your business
• Ways to navigate periods of contraction in your work
• Why & how Nic left Instagram
• “How much money is enough?”
• Support making hard decisions

 
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

Everything’s better with friends, babe! Including making money in your busine$$.

Today I’m joined by my dear friend & biz cofounder Taylor Elyse Morrison to talk about the highs, the lows & the finances of working with your friends.

Taylor and I have been friends & collaborators for more than five years, partnering on everything from live workshops to brand partnerships to cofounding the Lifestyle Business League.

Tune in to our conversation to hear about—

• Different ways to collaborate with friends
• Potential partnership pitfalls & how to avoid them
• Our 2 Cs for successful collabs — Communication & Contracts
• The difference between pitching a partnership & working with a friend
• How to make new biz friends & deepen those relationships

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