Let’s be more transparent about how we are and aren’t using AI in our work!

In this episode, I walk you through key considerations and a simple process for writing a thoughtful AI policy for your creative business.

You’ll also hear how I crafted the Interweb AI policy, as well as why I was really inspired by Mel Mitchell-Jackson’s AI policy in that process.

Press play, then click right here for more notes and resources!

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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

How are we feeling about AI these days, friends?

Ambivalent? Over it? Hopefully curious? 🧐

Today on the show, we’re kicking off a 3-week AI series, where we’ll explore the good, bad and ugly of LLMs.

Our first guest is Mel Mitchell-Jackson — who returns to the show to share their practice of AI Sobriety.

We get into why AI is a labor issue, how it’s impacting our creativity, and why we’re hopeful that locally-hosted small language models might save the day.

We also talk about addiction, accessibility, and why I’m practicing GPT-sobriety this year.

*This episode is part of our AI Series. Find the the full series at: offthegrid.fun/ai-series

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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

If you’ve had a tough 2026 so far, this episode is for you.

Today, I’m sharing a nuanced and practical chat with Akua Nyame-Mensah about how we can move from a reactive to a reflective mindset and shift our trajectory in the process.

Tune in to hear Akua’s advice for changing the narrative of your business — without repressing or ignoring what’s happening in the world (or your body or your bank account).

I also share some examples of how I reshaped my relationship to money through storytelling and ritual.

You can hear the whole conversation in the Clubhouse right here. Thanks to Akua for joining me on the show!

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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

This week, Cody Cook-Parrott returns to the show to share their new book, The Practice of Attention!

We go deep into creative attention, social media addiction, and why we can’t stop checking our email. Tune in as we discuss:

• Why creative attention is different than distraction or focus
• How tending to your attention helps you finish projects
• Experimenting with tech breaks, the Wisephone, and the Brick
• Which apps grab us: Pinterest vs Youtube
• Ways to cultivate hobbies, movement regimens & research practices
• How stepping back from social media empowers us to resist political violence

 
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

Let’s talk about how bad social media really is for our mental health and relationships. 🫠

In this honest and vulnerable conversation, Natalie Lue of Baggage Reclaim helps us dig into:

• Growing up without the internet
• Realizing social media is a toxic, codependent relationship
• How your subconscious “goes shopping for flaws and failures” while you scroll
• The problems with hate-following
• How to quit stalking ourselves, our friends, our exes, and total strangers online
• Why we shop more when we’re active on Instagram or TikTok
• Reclaiming your sense of self away from social media
• Why it’s not your fault if you can’t cope with using the apps

   
This one goes out to anyone struggling with the harms of social media. Listen to the full episode on Baggage Reclaim here.
 
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

I met Mel Mitchell-Jackson in the best way: through a newsletter ad, a ‘wanna chat?’ email, and many texts and virtual coffees since.

Today, they’re here to talk about their path from art school to working at Apple HQ to leaving that behind for creative self-employment.

Tune in to hear us explore:

• How to cultivate creative community
• The realities of what it takes to “make it” in art school & beyond
• Chronic illness, Long COVID & find a pace you can sustain
• 3 common traps of over-giving in online business
• Ways to center anti-capitalist values & praxis in your work
• The pros & cons of building an audience through Youtube
• & much more!

   
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a new business friend and peer that sent me into a total tailspin.

The TLDR; is that they said something relatively innocuous about my podcast & membership model…

And it had me questioning everything about I know about success in online business.

In this Clubhouse-exclusive episode, I share more of that story and the pep talk I’ve been giving myself since. To hear the whole thing, join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse

When you do, you'll get access to over 40 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show.

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

 
 
** This episode was recorded & scheduled before the US joined Israel in bombing Iran over the weekend. At Off the Grid, we believe in food not bombs. We support the Iran people and protestors pursuing freedom in the face of extreme violence. But we don’t believe in the US pattern of interventionism through warfare. Nor in a President who posts assassination updates on a social media platform he owns. For our US listeners, please join us in calling your representatives to stop these unauthorized military strikes. **

Jenni Gritters recently hosted me for a Your Attention is Sacred book club, and I’m excited to share our conversation with you!

Tune in as we discuss:

• Understanding the goals of the algorithms
• Addiction as a lens to make sense of social media
• Jenni’s decision to delete her Instagram account
• The parallels between fractured attention and financial scarcity
• Reckoning with combative platforms
• How to protect your well-being if you’re still on social media

⭐️ & RSVP FOR MY BOOK READING IN SAN FRANCISCO ON MARCH 12TH! ⭐️ 

BOOKS MENTIONED (affiliate links):

• Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media by Amelia Hruby
• The Sustainable Solopreneur by Jenni Gritters
• The Practice of Attention by Cody Cook-Parrott
• Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
• Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
• The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

 
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

Today I’m joined by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson for a deep and thoughtful conversation about spiritual practice, small business, and social media.

Together we weave through:

• How Cyrée crafted his career as a diviner, poet, herbalist + card reader
• Healing burnout when living with chronic illness and neurodivergence
• Why Instagram has no elders — and all communities are incomplete without elders
• Discernment vs extreme skepticism — and how to navigate the internet’s slop era
• How to blend online & IRL business models — including different ways to run a shop
• The realities of experiencing transphobic and hateful comments on social media
• Herbal and ecological support for tending to burnout ❤️‍🩹

   
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/

I’ve spent the past 5 years trying to navigate the internet without handing my data (& life) over to surveillance capitalism.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing my current tech stack — the browsers, search engines, email providers, and other tools that I use to share my wrk online without Google, Facebook, or AI overlords.

As you listen, please know this effort is a work in progress and always evolving! You can learn my entire process by taking my class OPT OUT: 5 Steps to Break Up with Big Tech Today.

 
My current privacy-focused tech stack

• Kagi search + Orion browser
• Proton Mail (affiliate link) + Zoho Mail
• Signal

Find everything else mentioned here: offthegrid.fun/shownotes/privacy-focused-tech-stack

 
 
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

 
🎧 Tune in to 31 Days of Black Business on NoseyAF podcast! Find all the episodes here: https://www.noseyaf.com/episodes/season/9/