Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

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Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media episodes

June 10🪱 Cultivating Compassion in Polycrisis — Preparedness & Self-Publishing with Kailea Loften & Kate Weiner
Today I’m thrilled to have Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner of Loam on the podcast to discuss their new book, Compassion in Crisis, which just came out with Heyday Books.

Together we have a gentle, honest, and deep conversation exploring:
The meaning of ‘polycrisis’
Why it’s important to think about preparedness
Ways to prepare without slipping into hypervigilance (even if you’re an anxious person)
The role social media plays in both community building and community surveillance
Why we still turn to social media for resource sharing and rapid response
The spread of misinformation & disinformation online during disasters
Publishing as a way of getting ‘off the grid’
Free Family Preparedness Information from Summer Starr

If you enjoy this episode, please get yourself a copy of Compassion in Crisis! You can also join Kate & Kailea for book-related events across the US this summer!

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
1 hr 7 min
June 08 🔒 How Do I Grow My Email List Without Social Media?
Today I’m bringing you something really special—

A mini-coaching session where I answer a question about how to grow your email list before, during, and after leaving social media.
The question comes from the wonderful Kate of Queen Bee Hormone Health who wrote to me and asked:
"Thanks to Off the Grid, I’ve backed wayyyy off posting on social media. I feel so much better, but I'm really struggling to get people moved onto my email list and wondering what advice you have for this part of the process? I don’t want to just ghost everyone. But I’m ready to get off the platform."

I share the question and a few thoughts here, but to hear exactly how I’d help Kate leave social media and grow her email list... you have to join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse!
When you do, you'll get access to over 50 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 :)

6 min
June 03🧶 Attachment Theory Explains Everything — Social Media & AI Addiction with Shannon Algeo
I often say I left social media because I was anxiously-attached to Instagram… but what does that actually mean?!
Today I’m joined by psychotherapist and author Shannon Algeo to explore why Attachment Theory explains so much about technology and smartphone addiction.
We discuss their new book, The Power in Your Hands, as we talk about:
What it means to be anxious, avoidant, or securely-attached
How algorithms hack our attachment needs to get us addicted to platforms
Why it’s so harmful to outsource self-trust to social media or AI
Depth psychology & why human relationships are necessary for healing

⭐️ If you’re curious about these topics, please join us for a FREE BOOK CLUB with Shannon on June 10th! We’ll talk more about attachment + technology. No reading is required. Find the details and RSVP here.

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
1 hr 7 min
June 01 🔒 Live-Building a Small Biz AI Policy — with Dr. Kate Henry
Today I’m doing something fun and different…
Live-writing an AI policy with my friend and colleague, Dr. Kate Henry of Honing In!
After listening to the Off the Grid AI series, Kate reached out to ask if I she could hire me to help her write an AI policy. I said no, because I’m not doing 1:1 advising right now… but I proposed that we record a chat about it for the Clubhouse instead!
So in this video and audio episode, you get to join me and Kate as we co-write the first draft of her AI policy for her business.
Free subscribers can hear our reflections on AI in creative business, and paid subscribers get to come along as we write Kate’s AI policy in real time (with a template for you, too!).

When you join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse, you'll get access to over 50 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 Off the Grid! And find this specific episode 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

24 min
May 27🍓 Rewilding Your Business & How to Rest in Busy Times — with Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul
LINDSAY MACK IS HERE!
And while you’ve probably heard them talk about tarot on their wildly popular podcast…
Today they’re taking us deep behind the scenes of their work to explore:
How they built their creative tarot business
The key inflection points that led to successful biz growth
The realities of being a breadwinner ~in this economy~
Why they’re finally releasing a tarot deck and book
& The tarot archetypes carrying Lindsay through this busy season

Tune in, then get a copy of Tarot for the Wild Soul and the Soul Tarot deck. (affiliate links)

You can also hear Lindsay on my tarot podcast later this week! Find my tiny tarot practice on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you like to listen.

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
1 hr 4 min
May 20👋 The Privilege of Leaving Social Media — Being a Working Writer & Valuing Art with River Selby
“My constant longing to be without social media is actually a longing to be in deeper connection with the world.”
River Selby was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. They worked as a wildland firefighter for seven years, and their debut memoir, Hotshot: A Life of Fire, was published in 2025 by Grove Atlantic.
Today, River joins me to talk about the realities of being an author from a working class, no-safety-net background — and how that has shaped their relationship to social media.
Together, we explore:
The gifts (and perils) of refusing to niche down
How to quit performing & projecting on social media
What to do when compare & despair becomes unavoidable
How financial insecurity might impact your social media options
Why many authors have to hire publicists (but we couldn’t afford to)
Ways social media impacts your financial well-being
Why we have to stop commodifying books

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
55 min
May 08⛓️‍💥 It's Time to Decolonize Your Teaching Style — with Podge Thomas
If you’ve been paying attention around here…
You likely know that next week I’m teaching a new intensive called COME TO CLASS!
It’s a 3-day workshop on how to teach online with confidence and care, and it’ll guide you through everything I’ve learned in 20 years of teaching — with a special focus on how learning to teach can help you improve your sales.
One of the bonuses that COME TO CLASS students get is behind-the-scenes conversations with my favorite online facilitators and course creators, and today I’m thrilled to bring you one of those conversations totally for free!
Tune in to hear the brilliant teacher and Notion designer Podge Thomas and I discuss:
How Podge fell in love with teaching — even though she hated school
Why studying metacognition is the secret to better classrooms
How to stop recreating the harms of traditional education models
What to do when a student says “I don’t get this”
Why your teaching style doesn't have to be for everyone

If you like this conversation, sign up for COME TO CLASS! It's only $299 to sign up (payment plans available) and registration closes May 30th.

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
57 min
May 06👩‍🏫 Why Online Education is Broken (But We Can Fix It) — with Sally Burns of The Portal
I’ve had SO MANY conversations about the problems with online course platforms.
Mighty Networks vs Circle vs Kajabi vs Teachable — none of us like the existing options, and we’re waiting for someone to build something better.

So today I’ve invited Sally Burns to the show, because she’s building an alternate platform for teaching and learning online — a digital neighborhood called The Portal.

Tune in to hear about:
Why Sally left corporate e-learning to build The Portal
How to stop piecing a million tools together to host your course
The false promises of Online Course Culture™️
Why we have to break down teacher/student hierarchy
How The Portal helps you fill your classes — especially if you have a small audience
What it actually takes to bootstrap a learning platform
Ways to help old offerings reach new audiences
👉 If you’re excited about The Portal, learn more and join here!

👉 👉 And if you want to COME TO CLASS, here’s your link to sign up. Registration closes May 30th.

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
55 min
May 01♾️ “You Needing Money Doesn't Make Stuff Sell” — Consistency & Collapse in Online Business with Nic Antoinette
My monthly-ish series with Nic Antoinette continues!
This time we’re talking about what it means to be “consistent” when you’re running a business in this economy.
We get into:
How we simultaneously rage against consistency and attribute our success to it
The relationship between consistency and cultivating trust with your audience
Ways to build better (for you) rhythms in your business
What to do when your launch plans line up with a major (horrible) event
Why it’s important to get off the do-or-die, boom-or-bust, sell-or-go-bankrupt hamster wheel
Cute baby sheep, gardening and cooking as tiny balms for the present moment

LINKS MENTIONED:
Nic’s newsletter on the baby sheep
Amelia’s Gentle Business Planning workshop
Needy by Mara Glatzel (affiliate link)
Jen Carrington
Off the Grid episode: Nice, Necessary, Ideal framework
Off the Grid episode: How to plan a summer sabbatical in 5 simple steps
COME TO CLASS earlybird list
COOK90 (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 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
1 hr 20 min
April 29🧑‍🏫 How to Teach Online (& Why Learning to Teach is My Best Sales Hack)
If you want to build a business around your know-how…

You have to learn how to teach.

In today’s episode, I’m talking about why learning to teach is the best sales “hack” I know — and I’m introducing you to my upcoming spring intensive, COME TO CLASS.

In just 30 minutes, I walk you through:
Why online courses aren’t ‘dead’ or ‘over’
How to figure out what you want to teach
What you need to know about boundaries before you start teaching
Ideas for nonhierarchical and nonlinear classrooms
Why writing a syllabus is like writing a sales page
& more!
Tune in then drop your email right here for access to earlybird pricing through May 1st. Can’t wait to see you in class!

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
34 min

About Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

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Off the Grid is a podcast for artists, writers & creative business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their income. ✌️ Our host, Amelia Hruby PhD, shares stories, strategies…