Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Let’s give you that break you deserve, babe! In this episode, Amelia shares her 5-step process for planning a summer sabbatical. 

Listen in as she invites you to consider—

• What is a sabbatical? 🌴
• Why might you want to take one? ☁️
• Your 5-step plan for taking a sabbatical! ✋

If you’re craving rest, release or peace, this episode is for you! And rest assured, it’s not too late to take a sabbatical THIS summer.

This episode is a whole workshop in less than 60 minutes. So just tune in, follow the 5-step plan & you’ll be on break before you know it.

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

Have you ever felt confused, overwhelmed, or lost in business? A system might be the answer to all your problems! 🤯 In this episode, Patty Ryan Lee of The Fiery Well joins Amelia to talk about business systems, SOPs & the good kind of audits.

Together, they discuss— 

• What business systems are & why they make your life way easier 😎
• How to create your first SOP (aka Standard Operating Procedure or, as we like to think of it, Streamlined Opportunity for Play) 🌈
• How to audit your existing systems & an introduction to the A.U.D.I.T. process ✅
• PLUS our advice for making your systems more magical AND our fave tech tools for supporting your systems 🔮

This episode is great for new-to-business babes who want to build with intention AND long-time business owners who want more ease in their day-to-day. Tune in then click through to the episode webpage for links to all the great tools we mention!

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

Searching for a marketing channel for easy, long-term business growth? In this episode, Brooke Basso of Embody Socials joins Amelia to talk about how Pinterest connects you with your ideal clients, boosts the longevity of your content, and drives traffic toward your offerings. 😎

Together, they discuss— 

• Pinterest as a growth tool & what types of businesses thrive on the platform
• How to get started on Pinterest & best practices for successful pins
• Ads & how to make the most of your budget — with advice directly from Pinterest!
• PLUS they finally answer the age old question: Is Pinterest social media?

This episode is FULL of actionable advice. If you’re considering getting your biz on Pinterest, wishing your pins would perform better, or wondering how to start running ads, you definitely want to tune in!

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)

Update— Brooke has closed her business and unfortunately the Pinterest Starter Kit is no longer available. Check out an updated perspective on Pinterest in our more recent episode, Why I Broke Up with Pinterest 💔
 

 
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

Wondering how your podcast can be a creative outlet and bring you new clients? In this episode, Chelsea Riffe of In My Non-Expert Opinion joins Amelia to talk about how her podcast integrates storytelling and sales.

Together, they discuss— 

• Why Chelsea launched In My Non-Expert Opinion  🎙 
• How her podcast helps her sell courses & coaching 👩🏼‍🏫
• When she uses social media for her business (& when she doesn’t) 🤳 

Tune in for an open & honest convo between two business owners podcasting their way to success. Then catch Amelia on Chelsea’s podcast for more stories, advice & hot-takes about leaving social media.

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

Let’s make our marketing slower and more sustainable! In this episode, Amelia breaks down her 3 fave things about podcasting for small businesses, exploring how— 

1. Podcasting is embodied 🧘‍♀️ 
2. Podcasting helps us slow down 🐌 
3. Podcasting invites us to get support 💞 

She also explains why podcasting is her favorite sustainable marketing strategy and shares some precious gems of wisdom from her clients at Softer Sounds. 

 
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

Want a peek behind-the-scenes at Softer Sounds? In this episode, Amelia opens up our metaphorical doors and walks you through 10 ways we grow our audience & market our business. 

Here's what we get into— 

1. Using the tools in the Leaving Social Media Toolkit 
2. Pitching & direct sales via email 
3. Creating SEO-optimized blog posts 
4. Joining cool online communities 
5. Growing your email list with free, lead magnets 
6. Using Pinterest to drive traffic to your business 
7. Offering free workshops 
8. Placing paid ads in newsletters 
9. Guesting on podcasts 
10. Launching your own podcast 

Tune in to learn how we use each of these at Softer Sounds, and to get lots of inspiration & actionable advice for marketing off social media. 
 

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

Join us in welcoming our first guest! grace allerdice is an artist, consulting astrologer, writer, podcaster + energetic practitioner.

In this episode, we discuss why she left Instagram and how exiting social media impacted her business (spoiler: less than you’d expect!). We also dive into—

• how we center relationships in our marketing 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
• why email is mary grace’s love language 💌
• what energetic sovereignty means to us 🔋
• & how to cultivate more of it in your business & life ⚡️

Tune in for a soulful business convo & plenty of actionable advice. Then send a voice message to let us know how we can support you in upcoming episodes!

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

We’ve been talking about leaving social media so we can feel better in our businesses…but what if we’re so burned-out that doing business feels impossible?

In this episode, Amelia unpacks how we can fill our own cups and build businesses based on radical generosity. She also shares— 

• a super helpful & easy-to-use framework for planning your projects & weekly schedule around your energy levels
• a breakdown of necessary, nice & ideal tasks in product & service-based businesses
• how to let go of perfectionism and set yourself up for success in your business

Tune in for a giant permission slip to do less slower, so that you can be radically generous and expansively successful without burning out. 
 

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

Bummer news, babes. When you leave social media, you still have to market your business… But we promise it doesn’t have to be a drag!

In this episode Amelia shares— 

• How to create a fun, feel-good marketing plan
• Why you want to embrace creative marketing experiments 
• The 3 questions you should ask yourself before you start any marketing task/plan/project

If you love a plan, this episode is for you! And if you don’t...we’ve got advice on how to make planning more fun for yourself. Grab your Leaving Social Media Toolkit, and tune in for a fun, feel-good time!

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