Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

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 exclusive 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

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 exclusive 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’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 exclusive 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

Real talk: I can be kind of avoidant when it comes to feedback.

I don’t love giving it. I prefer not receiving it.

But sometimes that lands me in sticky interpersonal situations. 

…Maybe you can relate?

If yes, you’re going to love this Clubhouse episode, because I’m sharing a follow-up to my conversation with Morgan Evans — where we go through three real-life (and real-biz) examples of how to navigate tough conversations.

Tune in to this preview as we talk through: 

• How to offer feedback when a service provider isn’t getting the assignment 🚩
• Ways to handle emails that feel like misguided attacks 🙅‍♀️
• Why we should start all collaborations by defining the terms and responsibility 👩‍💼
• & How self-reflection can help us shortcut the feedback process 💰

 
To hear the whole episode, 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 :)

Welcome to our most personal episode yet!

Today I’m joined by Morgan Evans from Business Casual to talk about the seemingly-simple but often-fraught topic of: feedback.

We share a lot of personal experiences and business examples as we get into:

• What feedback really is
• Why reviews and random emails aren’t feedback
• How to give & receive feedback that doesn’t feel like 💩
• Ways to create business systems that invite feedback
• How to resolve conflict with clients/customers/team members
• Why feedback is actually a social justice tool
• Positive feedback and how to integrate it

 
RESOURCES + LINKS

👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit

🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community

💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive 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

Last month, I was thrilled to join Karolina Wudniak of Paperwing Studio in the Indie Book Lab! 

We talked about how I approached self-publishing without relying on Amazon — including the platforms I used, the (costly) mistakes I made, and how much money I’ve brought in from my book so far (revenue AND profit).

I also answered lots of attendee questions:

• Why did you decide to avoid Amazon? & How much could you really?
• What size audience would you recommend having before going Amazon-less?
• Is it realistic to make sales without Amazon’s reach? How do you handle discoverability?
• What does fulfillment look like without a big platform?
• What about international sales?
• Is this only viable for nonfiction or niche audiences? What about debut authors?
• How much more work is it, realistically?
• And finally… why is your paperback actually on Amazon anyway?

It was a great conversation, and I’m excited to share the recording — exclusively with paid subscribers in the Clubhouse :)

Tune in here for a preview, and to hear the whole episode, 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 :)

If you're stressed about using Spotify, Substack, Google, Instagram, or any other platforms... this episode is for you!

Today I'm talking about how to choose platforms & tech tools without selling your soul — and why I'm still on Substack even though I kinda hate it. 🫠

Tune in to hear me break down:

• Tools vs Platforms
• Questions to ask before you choose a new tool
• What to do about the bad politics of platforms
• Why there's no purity on the internet
• Four strategies for rethinking your choices
• Tech stack harm reduction
• The big decision I made about Substack

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

Harry Doull grew up living in a small family hotel in the French countryside. Then he worked for the UN and Google, before leaving tech behind to co-found his candle company, Keap.

This week, he’s on the podcast to share why he left tech for candlemaking, and how he’s grown Keap without social media or Amazon — while still garnering plenty of customers, partners, and awards, including landing on Wirecutter’s best candles list.

This one’s for all the product-makers out there and anyone who believes business without social media can’t scale. They can! We’re proving it! Buy a candle & join us!

ALSO — If you want to try a Keap candle, use the code OFFTHEGRID for 15% off your first purchase. My faves are: Timur Moon, Wood Cabin, Wild Figs & the brand new Grapefruit + Yuzu (affiliate links)
 
And if you want to partner with Keap, check out their Mindful Creators program.

 
 
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

Today I’m bringing you something really special—

A mini-coaching session and marketing conversation about how to stay visible without social media.

It comes from a wonderful conversation I had with Jenni Gritters’ community last month, where someone asked me:

 
I get this question a lot, and I wanted to speak to it here! So tune in to this episode preview to learn exactly how I’d grow this business without social media, including what I think comes before you ever begin working on visibility.

To hear the whole episode, join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse

When you do, you'll get access to over 30 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 :)

Today, I'm bringing together everything I know about growing an online business 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 this Best Of episode 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 courses + community
💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails
📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!

 
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