Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

There are so many things to do when you run a small business. And even more things you “should” do according to marketing “experts,” online business influencers, and the voices that arrive when you need to make a big decision.

In this episode, I’m joined by Natalie Miller to talk about the “shoulds” that so many of us face in our lives and our businesses. And we offer practices for taking your “shoulds” seriously, so you can cultivate the magic you need to finally release them.

Join us for a soulful conversation where we explore—

• The "should" that inspired this podcast
• Practices for discovering & examining your shoulds
• Why “best practices” might be bullshit
• How pausing & slowing down can help you discover who you are & what you desire
• Betting on yourself to build self-trust

 
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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While I was off on summer break a big thing happened in the social media world — Meta launched Threads! And everybody had some feelings about it.

So in this episode, I’m sharing my answer to the question, “Should you be on Threads?” And I’m reminding us that while we don’t need to judge who is or isn’t on an app, our choices can reflect our values in meaningful and powerful ways.

Tune in for a gently-no-nonsense pep talk in our signature Off the Grid style.

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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Hey friends! Amelia here.

Last week, I was on one of my very favorite podcasts, Let It Out with Katie Dalebout! Katie and I talked all about my journey with social media, why I've decided to leave Instagram, and why I think that might be an easy choice for us to make as business owners and a hard choice for us to make as people who want to maintain relationships in the year 2023.

I'm excited to give you a little preview of that conversation here on the feed. If you love it, click here to listen to the whole conversation on Let It Out pod!

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Do you ever wish your creative path felt clearer? Your work felt more intentional? Your business felt more integrated?

This week on the pod, I'm teaching you my favorite activity for finding biz clarity — AKA my 3-step process for mapping your business ecosystem. Tune in to learn—

• how to clear your fears around doing business differently 😎
• what I consider the three fundamental parts of any sustainable business 🧶
• how to map your business ecosystem 🗺️
• when & why you might want to use this 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

Happy Monday Funday, friends. I'm hopping into your pod feed today to share two exciting announcements—

#1 Off the Grid has a new theme song!! It's cool. It's catchy. It's by the amazing Melissa Kaitlyn Carter. You're gonna love it. 🎶
 
#2 The Refresh is officially happening again in August, and registration is now open!
 
🌈 The Refresh already passed, but don't worry because now you can 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:
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When was the last time you took intentional time away from your business to work on it, rather than in it? Recently? Not so recently? Either way, it might be time to plan a solo business retreat!

In this episode, I’m joined by Maggie Gentry, a thought partner to coaches & creative entrepreneurs looking to intentionally scale with a focus on marketing operations.

She's shares her four-step process for planning a solo business retreat. We also chat about—

• How to get comfortable with uncertainty in our businesses
• Why we ignore advice about "niching down" or "having one hero offer"
• What led Maggie to plan her first solo business retreat
• Retreat ideas for folks who don't have much time/money/capacity

 
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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link) 

 
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

At long last… it’s our episode on the best marketing practices for your Human Design!

Today I’m joined by Arianna Maag, a Human Design coach who works with individuals who are ready to stop questioning themselves and live in alignment with who they are and have always been.

This one’s a super generous, free workshop in personalizing your marketing practices. So pull up your Human Design chart, locate your type, then tune in to this episode to learn—

• How to grow your audience, nurture your community & sell your offerings based on your HD type
• The best marketing strategies & practices for each HD type
• The difference between “waiting to respond” & “waiting for the invitation” for Generators & Projectors
• How a defined or undefined throat center impacts your marketing strengths

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

 
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

Today on the podcast, I’m talking to Natalie Ross about what to do you do when you’ve built a successful business on Instagram … but it turns out that social media is wrecking your life.

Natalie is the cofounder of Earth Speak, a podcast and membership collective she co-created to bring intuition into everyday life. She grew Earth Speak to over six figures in annual revenue, 37,000 Instagram followers, and millions of podcast downloads… then decided to step back from social media and pivot the business.

Together we talk about stepping off the social media hamster wheel, how healing her trauma required changing her business, and why we need to rewire the survival instincts that make it feel so scary to connect authentically and vulnerably with others.

Tune in to hear more about—

• How Natalie’s healing journey was reflected in her business
• Shifting your perspective on marketing to support your strengths & desires
• How being in business can bring out threat responses that lead us to hide behind social media instead of actively selling our offerings
• The importance of learning to regulate your nervous system

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

💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + ecommerce! Use this link for 25% off your first year. (affiliate link)

 
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

What would happen if you unfollowed everyone on Instagram? And what feelings come up when you think about it?

In this episode, I have a fun and insightful conversation about doing just that with Melissa Word.

Melissa is an artist, dancer, writer, and somatic facilitator. Together, we talk about how social media experiments have affected her digital and creative habits. 

Tune in to hear more about:

• How unfollowing everyone created an intentional Instagram experience for Melissa
• How much codependency and people-pleasing is tangled up in who we choose to follow or not
• Protecting & respecting your attention

 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

Hold on to your bucket hats, my friends. Because today we’re talking all things social media, retail and product-based business with Janine Mulone!

Janine is an indie retail advisor, the founder of Feel Good Retail, and the host of Retail For The Rest Of Us.

Tune in to hear us discuss how social media has rapidly shifted for retailers and why chasing the algorithm might be the worst sales strategy in your playbook. We also get into—

• Whether or not social media currently provides meaningful traffic
• Where social media for retail can actually shine (and where it definitely doesn’t)
• Janine’s favorite non-social media marketing methods
• Knowing your numbers

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