When my business becomes overwhelming, I turn my focus to my systems.

Why? Because systems are the how of everything I do in my work and life. I have a system for doing my laundry, a system for checking my inbox, and a system for making this podcast.

And even when I have no system for doing something… that’s still a no-system system!

Designing my systems with myself in mind has made my life so much better. And I really want that for you too!

So this week on the podcast, I’m joined by brigitte, a neurodivergent systems witch who’s here to help us all get through our work day with more ease.

Tune in to learn:

• What systems are & who needs them
• How to design systems that serve us instead of the status quo
• Examples of systems from brigitte & Amelia’s businesses
• How we can embed our values in our systems
• Brigitte’s 7-step process for creating your own systems!

 
 
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2025 has been a year of pivots, restarts, and beginning again. So this week on the pod, we’re talking about reinventing yourself and your website!

To do that, I’m joined by yoga-teacher-turned-meditation-studio-owner-turned-designer Anita Cheung AKA Neets!

Anita has pivoted business topics, models and personal brands many times over the past decade, and she’s here to share the lessons she’s learned, as well as to offer practical advice for adapting our virtual presence as we evolve.

Tune in to hear about:

• Anita’s biggest lessons learned from starting over multiple times
• Ways to embrace change and up-level your failure tolerance
• How to reinvent yourself when you want to…
• …VS How to pivot when it’s forced on you by hard times
• Whether or not you should brand yourself as your name
• & a HUGE permission slip to abandon your niche

 
Then in the second half of the episode, Anita teaches us her Top 10 Tips to Elevate Your Brand & Website. It’s a branding & web masterclass you won’t want to miss, just for Off the Grid listeners!

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Welcome to Off the Grid CPG edition! 🍜

Today on the show, I’m joined by Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods to talk about farmers’ markets, food retail, and the realities of consumer product goods businesses.

Molly is the co-founder and CEO of Taking Stock Foods, a functional beverage company based in St. Paul, MN. She is dedicated to being a leader in the conscious food movement, supporting and uplifting other founders in the maker space through intentional vulnerability and authentic connection.

Tune in to our conversation to learn:

• Molly’s lessons from selling at farmers’ markets
• The realities of getting shelf space in major retailers like Whole Foods
• How to cultivate a sustainable cofounder relationship
• Pros & cons of selling products through Amazon
• More about COGs, MOQs, UGC and all the retail acronyms
• & How Taking Stock Foods is changing their product line & pivoting away from IRL retail in 2025!

 
This episode is full of wisdom for anyone in the food and/or retail spaces. And it’s also a great listen for those of us in other industries who love to learn from values-aligned peers!

💓 Biz friend links from Molly: Kate LaBrosse, Lip Esteem, SJC Body Love, Mazaah, Heti

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Popping in with a behind-the-scenes bonus episode — where Jen Carrington and I pull back the curtain on everything that's been messy, feel-bad, and chaotic in our businesses this year!

We talk about exactly how much our revenue is down, the problems we've diagnosed with our marketing and messaging, and what we're focusing on to stay in business through 2025 and beyond.

Tune in to feel seen, heard, and (hopefully) less alone. 💓

If you enjoy the episode, make sure to grab Jen's free Design Your Part-Time Business Model toolkit. Then get the recording of my class where we explored How to Run Your Creative Business in Slow Times!

RESOURCES + LINKS
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🌀 Purchase the recording — How to Run Your Creative Business During a Recession (or any slow time)

 
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We talk about community all the time on this show. But what does it actually look like when relationships change the trajectory of your creative career?

In this episode, I’m joined by Lauren LoGrasso to unpack all the relationships that led her to her current roles as an award-winning podcaster, producer of We Can Do Hard Things, and VP of Programming and Development at Audacy.

Those relationships range from a random guy in Indiana to the agent who dumped her when she moved to LA to her “radio Jesus” who opened the door to everything Lauren is doing today.

Tune in as we map how a creative career is built in real-time. You’ll hear all about:

• How Lauren landed an internship on the Ellen show & the slump that followed her early success
• Why it’s important to learn all the angles of your job
• How Lauren nurtures & unleashes her creativity
• Amelia’s dance between being practical & being delusional
• Why we have to stop rebranding disappointment as failure
• Two ways to reclaim your voice from “creative monsters”
     

And stay tuned to the end where Lauren guides us through a self-love + inner child healing practice!

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I broke up with Amazon and Google when I left social media in 2021, and this year I decided it was also time to quit using Spotify.

Why? Well because my values are not aligned with enriching billionaires like Jeff Bezos, letting Google track my behavior everywhere, or supporting Spotify in paying artists pennies.

So in this episode, I share a bit more about my decision-making and how I’ve managed to stop using the services and tools that these companies create.

To be clear — I’m not making a case for why you “should” quit any of these platforms. But if this is a shift you WANT to make, I am offering a few suggestions.

Tune in to hear:

• The 3 mindset shifts that make it possible to leave Google, Amazon & Spotify
• My 5-step process for breaking up with these companies & their services
• All the tools I used to replace Google
• The ways I still use Amazon even though I canceled Prime years ago
• How quitting Spotify changed my music-listening (more on that here)

 
For a quick summary & links to my fave tools, check out the blog post I wrote when I first made this decision: http://www.ameliahruby.com/blog/getting-off-google-facebook-amazon

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🌀 Sign up for OPT OUT — 90 minutes of simple mindset shifts, step-by-step processes, and curated lists of alternate tools that will help you redesign your tech stack for a softer, surveillance-free life (and business). Happening live July 15-17 (with recordings).

Today on the show, I’m joined by art psychotherapist Amelia Knott to explore and untangle the intersections of mental health, social media, creativity, and small business.

We specifically take on the concepts of “digital wellness” and “ethical marketing.” And we have a nuanced conversation about how we really feel online and what it means to market with care (and without coercion).

Join us as we get into:

• The problem with “wellness” & the possibility of cultivating well-being online
• How to do an attention audit & figure out how you really feel about social media
• Our thoughts on the major cultural shifts around social media this year
• Ethical marketing frameworks from a mental health practitioner perspective
• Practical tips to make your marketing language more trauma-informed

 
And if you enjoy this episode, make sure you get a copy of Amelia’s book, The Art of Thriving Online!

 
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Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more.

Today, they join me on the podcast to talk about the decision they made to quiet quit Instagram at the start of 2025.

Together, we explore:

• The works of art that changed our lives & nonlinear psychic collaboration
• Being impersonated on Instagram & how that can impact your business
• What happens when Meta starts suspending queer artists
• How Edgar blended career paths & built new channels away from social media (including their podcast Your Art is a Spell!)
• Feeling safer after stepping back from so much public sharing
• Why the era of social media is dying

 
Tune in for an inspiring conversation in the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara, who teaches us that — “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

 
 
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👯 Edgar’s artist shout-outs: Asher Hartman, Reina Prado of Healing Queen & Good Mexican Girl, Jeff Hinshaw

 
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Cher Hale is one of my favorite people on the internet, and her newsletter Doing It For the Attention has taught me SO MUCH about getting my work in front of new people in a way that aligns with my body AND my business.
 

In this conversation, we dive deep into the roots of attention and all the ways we can build community around our work — including how to amplify attention for ourselves and others.

Tune in to hear Cher’s wisdom and advice on:

• How to be comfortable asking for attention
• Ways to get more attention for your business
• Divesting, directing & demanding attention as liberatory tactics for building new worlds
• 20 Ways to Amplify Attention for Under-Recognized Voices
• Fun ideas for shouting-out and h/t-ing your friends
• Childcare trades & a new way to mastermind that I learned from Becky Mollenkamp

 
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Come on down for the 100th episode of Off the Grid!!! 🎉

To celebrate this milestone, we're returning to our roots with a fresh conversation about how to leave social media (if you so choose).

Today Deanna deBara from Season of Stuck podcast joins me to explore:

🫣 why we get stuck on social media
🥸 how to stop doomscrolling & feeling trapped on the apps
🤠 & ways to decide what YOUR next best step is online or offline

If you're feeling stuck in any aspect of your business, marketing or life, this episode is for you! Thanks for tuning in and celebrating 100 episodes with us. 💛

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