Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Search has always driven web traffic… but what is SEO in the era of AI? And how will that impact our creative businesses in 2026?

Today I’m joined by SEO expert, podcaster and romance novelist (!) Meg Casebolt, who’s here to help us understand the current landscape of search and how AI is remapping the web.

Tune in to learn:

• What's shifting in the world of SEO — including AIO, GEO, AEO & LLMEO
• How these changes might just liberate us from Google…
• Why you never need to use keyword tools again!
• Tips for optimizing your digital presence in 2026 — whether you’re just starting out or have a lot online already
• How to think about search if you’re not interested in using AI
• Why Meg is returning to blogging in 2026
   

This conversation made me stop stressing about AI and quit worrying if anyone will ever find my website again. Tune in, read Meg’s blog, and enjoy! 🙏

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

 
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Happy New Year & welcome to a brand new season of Off the Grid! 

Today we're kicking off this year-in-biz with our annual creative marketing toolkit  —  five episodes in five days to set you up for success in 2026!

Press play to hear all about it, and tune in this week to learn:

• Our top 3 marketing strategies for 2026
• Need-to-know advice on SEO, AI & blogging in this era of the internet
• My rules for email marketing + newsletters right now
• How to network better + host fun events (even if you're an introvert)
• & What trends will grab extra attention in the year ahead!

 
You'll hear from amazing guests like Meg Casebolt, Arianna Smith, and Amanda Laird. It's basically a mini-of-the-moment-marketing-masterclass all for free on the pod feed this week! So please subscribe and share it with a friend xo

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

📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!
🎶 Listen to Social Media by SurferBOY

Back on January 8th, Amanda Laird and I recorded an episode about the four marketing trends she was forecasting for the year ahead.

Now that it’s December, we’re revisiting those trends to talk about what actually happened!

Tune in as we recap what happened in the world of creative small business, specifically around: AI, social media, Substack, and IRL events.

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This week, we end season seven of Off the Grid with an honest conversation about self-employment amidst polycrisis.

I’m joined by the inimitable Shivani Mehta Bhatia — who returns to the show to help us weave our experiences of grief, witnessing, conflict, rest, deep sorrow, and profound joy.

It’s been a long year, and we quite literally laugh and cry as we reflect on how 2025 has clarified our commitments — including how we’ve (imperfectly) kept working through it all.

Tune in, then if you want to process together: join me for a free end-of-year journalling session on December 9th. We'll gather, look back at 2025, and do our best to hold it all collectively. 🫂

LINKS TO GO DEEPER:
explore Shivani's work

the nine rules of generative conflict: a manifesto

how do we hold it all?

Is Leaving Social Media a Privilege?

Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Framework

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
🕯️ Free Journalling Session w/Amelia on 12/9

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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Fifteen minutes to center us in radical generosity + energetic sovereignty before the biggest shopping + selling days of the year.

Tune in for a tiny pep talk, and to hear more about the Off the Grid Small Biz Gift Guide!

& If you want to shop Off the Grid deals through the weekend:
📖 Your Attention is Sacred ebooks are $10 + paperbacks are $20!
🎙️ Your Podcast is a Portal is only $99!

Wishing you the coziest weekend. xoxo, Amelia

 
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Today we visit the Off the Grid archives and Podge Thomas returns for a reflective conversation about why being self-employed invites (and requires) decolonizing how we learn, how we communicate, how we operate, and how we relate to others.
 

Podge has recently created a FREE email course on Metacognitive Learning Design. I want you to get the course, check out her Decolonized Learning Glossary, and then tune in to the episode.

 
Together we explore:

• The coercive effects of traditional education ⛓️‍💥
• Why Amelia did School like Ken did Beach 🏖️
• How to de-condition & decolonize our businesses 🧲
• The importance of situating self-knowledge amidst community values 🎗️
• Why Notion is a liberatory tool 👾
• Task management for non-linear thinkers 😵‍💫
• & so 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

 
OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR:
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If you’re tired of being tired, this episode is for you.
 

Today I’m joined by Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach™ and creator of the RestLab. Through her facilitation and coaching, she helps people who give a damn (including you, dear listener!) learn the radical practice of rest.
 

In this conversation, we get into:

• Why we can’t talk about rest without talking about work
• The self-fulfilling prophesy of “invisible labor”
• How to rest when you really love what you do
• Why creative work requires creative rest
• Rest equity as a guiding principle
• Rejecting “calm supremacy”
• Why a sabbatical probably isn’t the antidote for burnout…

 
Tune in then, join Jordan in RestLab 101 for support slowing down and sustaining your creative work, your community advocacy, and your rest.

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

Listen to this episode before you begin holiday shopping or selling!

Today I’m sharing a conversation I had with Rachel Duncan for the Money Healing Club Podcast where we go deeeeeep into how social media impacts our spending habits and finances.

We talk about budgets, boundaries, and screentime. Then we explore why restriction isn’t necessarily the answer to addiction — and why rebellion and pleasure may be better antidotes for feeling too online.

We also explore the core concepts of my book, including: what’s wrong with the attention economy, the negative impacts of extractive algorithms, and my 5 principles for gardening your attention.

➡ 💸  Tune in, then join Rachel in the Money Healing Club for more support! You can use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off your MHC membership. We highly recommend it! (affiliate link)

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

Let’s get into it with phone addiction and doomscrolling. 😵‍💫

 
In this episode, I’ll teach you two practices for raising your awareness around how you use your phone.
 

Then I’ll offer two interventions for interrupting feel-bad habits and learning to scroll more mindfully.

 
As our theme song says… I know that you really want to put your phone away (hey!).

 
So let’s do that together today!

 
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

Let's get mystical, shall we? 🧿

In honor of Halloween, today I'm resharing a community tarot reading that Cecily Sailer of Typewriter Tarot recorded for us last fall. 

Cecily (she/her) is a creativity coach, writer and tarot reader. She runs a business called Typewriter Tarot, which is a sanctuary and learning community for creative mystics. She's also the author of Tarot for Creative Spirits.

Tune in for a moment of spiritual connection and clarity. And don't forget!  🔔  This is your last call to buy Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media and get a ticket to the Off the Grid retreat next week. Learn more + join us at yourattentionissacred.com

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