OMG CROSSOVER EPISODE! 🫶 

Today on the show, I'm celebrating our 99th episode (and my four-years-off-social-media anniversary!) by sharing a conversation I had with Rebekah Taussig and Caitlin Metz for their podcast Scratch That.

We get into things I've NEVER talked about publicly before, including:

• How my three-year-old self picked my present-day career path
• The four-minute version of my leaving-social-media story
• What Instagram has meant to Rebekah as a space to share her life & disability advocacy
• How social media supports introverts like Caitlin with relationship-building & belonging
• Ways to express your (queer) identity without social media
• The value of breaking out of our echo chambers & building local community
• How to stop using social media to numb out 🙃

 
Tune in for an amazing, multi-faceted conversation, and if you're one of our parents listening, make sure you go subscribe to Scratch That: Parenting & ReParenting Off Script on Apple and Spotify for more incredible episodes!

   
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
  

 
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How do we imagine new possibilities when it feels like our well has gone dry?

This week I'm joined by author, tarotist, and Jungian creativity coach Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot. 

Together we explore:

• The lineage of radical imagination
• How to move through creative blocks in your business
• Ways to (re)connect with imagination even when the world is on fire
• Why collaboration might be the answer to everything
• How to bend toward change + embrace new ways of working
• Refusing to treat ourselves like spreadsheets

Let's un-slogify our lives together, friends! Tune in for a thoughtful conversation full of practical tips that will help you reinvigorate your creative business.

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

🫠 Do you ever feel stuck, like you’re caught in a loop of self-doubt and not sure how to move forward with your ideas? Get the FREE Creative Confidence Toolkit from Pascale of Dear Creative Mind today. (sponsored)

 
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ESCAPE THE TRANCE  ⁕  REMEMBER YOUR AGENCY  ⁕  BUILD COMMUNITY

Today on the pod we have a very special guest — Elise Granata of GROUP HUG!

Elise is here to chat with me about how social media erodes our agency + community building efforts — even if these platforms started as supportive relational hubs.

Join us as we wind through our teen years on Tumblr, how we dissociate on the apps, what inspires us to get offline, the dangers of optimized communities, adjusting our aesthetic expectations, "sweatshirt-level friends," and how to start your community practice.

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
 

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

What if selling didn't have to feel sleazy? And the words on your website could cast a magical spell for your ideal clients/customers instead?

Today, I'm joined by copywriter and podcaster Nicole Cloutier to talk about how to be more specific in our messaging and simple tips to write better sales pages.

Tune in to hear about:

• Nicole's journey from poetry MFA to copywriter
• Pain point marketing + if it's (un)ethical?
• How asking "so what?" can turn boring writing into compelling copy
• Ways that better messaging can improve your product sales (not just services!)
• The value of embracing "pleasure point marketing"
• How to write your first sales page (ever!) 
• 3 ways to improve your existing sales pages so you can (hopefully) make more $$$

And make sure to grab Nicole's FREE sales page bundle, exclusively for Off the Grid listeners!

RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show
 

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

Leaving social media isn’t always the most profitable decision… but maybe it taps into something even more lucrative?

In this episode, I’m joined by Leah Kern, an anti-diet dietitian who left social media a year ago and has experienced ups and downs in her business since.

For the first half of our conversation, we explore Leah’s path onto and off of social media, including how she used to get clients on Instagram and how she finds clients now.

Then in the second half of our chat, we discuss how intuitive eating actually led us both deeper into our values and why breaking up with diet culture was an important step toward breaking up with the apps altogether.

Tune in to hear a new perspective on what it's really like to leave social media with your business. And if you love this episode, be sure to tune in to Amelia on Leah's podcast Shoulders Down as well!

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

Today I’m joined by writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera to talk about how her work and life have shifted as her Instagram platform's grown to over 400,000 followers.

Together, we dive into:

• Two reasons Lisa joined Instagram + how it felt as her account grew
• The allure of online business + what we’re “supposed to do” when we have a big platform
• Unpacking the rise of the “instagram therapist” + the content-ification of therapy
• Why Lisa started her Substack newsletter + how it’s supported her work
• Social media addiction + the compulsion to post/like/share/scroll
• Facing the big hole that’s there when social media’s not there
• How to make the choice to stay on social media (or not)

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

How do we stay creative — when there’s so much to do and so much at stake?

Today I’m joined by writer, coach, and retreat leader Maria Bowler for a practical and philosophical conversation about:

• The difference between productivity & creativity
• Why we don’t want to focus on “being efficient” or “maximizing ROI”
• How to actually be present (without feeling like you’re just being told to “be present”)
• The pain of alienation & how it permeates our daily lives
• Distinguishing between creative friction & oppressive friction
• Why creating more isn’t about doing less
• How to stretch time, lose track of it, and be with yourself beyond the clock
• What Maria thinks about social media this year

 
If you love this conversation, make sure to get yourself a copy of Maria’s book, Making Time! Off the Grid listeners get a special discount and free shipping at this link. (sponsored)

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

It’s 2025 and everyone’s sick of social media… so what do we do now?

Today we’re kicking off season six with a conversation with poet, author, actor, and model Arielle Estoria. Over the past decade, Arielle has cultivated a multi-faceted creative career while growing her Instagram following to over 100K people.

In this vulnerable conversation, we explore:

• Arielle’s work as an artist & how social media turned her into an influencer
• What happened for Arielle when supporting Black creators was no longer “popular”
• The impact of social media trends on our identity + creative practice
• The boundaries Arielle's creating to stay focused on her art in 2025
• Plus! Arielle asks me if I miss anything about Instagram… and we chat about my newfound Youtube addiction 😬

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

TikTok's been banned (for a minute). Meta's removed fact-checking (for good?). 2025 has already been a big year in social media news, and if you're having some big feelings about it, this episode is for you.

Today we’re grieving social media together, so we can remember what we loved, recognize what we miss, and prepare ourselves to step into what’s next.

So whether you were abruptly kicked off TikTok or you've been inching away from social media for a while, tune in to this Best Of episode (with a new of-the-moment intro!) to hear more about:

• What the TikTok ban means for small business
• Why we need to make space to grieve our favorite social media apps
• A 3-step practice for connecting with your feelings about social media
• Grieving vs Mourning & Embodying the process

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
🔗 Get all the links mentioned in this episode here
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

Let's put the cherry on top of your 2025 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on 2025 Marketing Trends!

To do that, I'm joined by communications strategist Amanda Laird to chat about four things she's forecasting for the year ahead, including:

• AI operations & optimization — plus the need to disclose how we're using AI in our work 🤖
• Big shifts in the social media landscape — including the fall of X, the rise of Bluesky, "free speech" on Facebook & more 🪨
• Substack's slow & steady descent from newsletter service to social media platform... 🫠
• & The return to IRL events — plus more intimacy in our online spaces 🫂

   
Tune in for a gently-guided look into the murky crystal ball of online biz in 2025. Then join us in the Clubhouse for our members-only biz forecast episodes throughout the year!

MORE FROM AMANDA
🐌 Visit the Slow & Steady website
📩 Sign up for Amanda's newsletter
🎧 Listen to Amanda's previous appearance on Off the Grid (Apple Podcasts, Spotify)

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community
🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails
💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

 
🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)