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 & experiments for growing your business with radical generosity & energetic sovereignty. 🌐 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit at offthegrid.fun/toolkit

  1. MAY 8

    ⛓️‍💥 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 schoolWhy studying metacognition is the secret to better classroomsHow to stop recreating the harms of traditional education modelsWhat 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 courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!    FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    59 min

  2. MAY 6

    👩‍🏫 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 PortalHow to stop piecing a million tools together to host your courseThe false promises of Online Course Culture™️Why we have to break down teacher/student hierarchyHow The Portal helps you fill your classes — especially if you have a small audienceWhat it actually takes to bootstrap a learning platformWays 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 courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!    FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    57 min

  3. MAY 1

    ♾️ “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 itThe relationship between consistency and cultivating trust with your audienceWays to build better (for you) rhythms in your businessWhat to do when your launch plans line up with a major (horrible) eventWhy it’s important to get off the do-or-die, boom-or-bust, sell-or-go-bankrupt hamster wheelCute baby sheep, gardening and cooking as tiny balms for the present moment  LINKS MENTIONED: Nic’s newsletter on the baby sheepAmelia’s Gentle Business Planning workshopNeedy by Mara Glatzel (affiliate link)Jen CarringtonOff the Grid episode: Nice, Necessary, Ideal frameworkOff the Grid episode: How to plan a summer sabbatical in 5 simple stepsCOME TO CLASS earlybird listCOOK90 (affiliate link)   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!    FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    1h 22m

  4. APR 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 teachWhat you need to know about boundaries before you start teachingIdeas for nonhierarchical and nonlinear classroomsWhy 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 courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com!    FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    35 min

  5. APR 27 ·  BONUS

    🔒 How I Make Ambitious Biz Plans Without Burning Out

    Today I’m very excited to share a workshop on gentle business planning — AKA how I make ambitious plans for my biz while also healing my burnout! In this audio (and video!) workshop, I walk you through: Why we’re always planning (even when we think we’re “behind”)My 6 tenets for Gentle Business PlanningList-making prompts for the season ahead in your workHow to turn reflective prompts into a clear marketing & sales calendar& How I use the Nine To Kind Digital planner to organize my projects Tune in here to hear my 6 tenets of Gentle Business Planning. Then head to the Clubhouse to enjoy the entire workshop. The recording is free for everyone this week only and available to paid Clubhouse supporters forever.  Paid subscribers also get an edited audio version of the workshop AND a Notion doc with all the prompts to make this process super easy to do any time.  So press play for a preview, then head to the Clubhouse to support the show! You can find this specific episode here :)

    14 min

  6. APR 24

    🗒️ How to Plan Without Becoming a Perfectionist — with Lauren of Nine to Kind

    This is probably my fave conversation I’ve ever had with a therapist. Today Lauren Ruth Martin, LPC-MHSP is here to talk about the anti-perfectionist planners she created for her company Nine to Kind. We discuss: Why most planners force us into a productivity mindsetHow gentle scaffolding can help us plan without perfectionismThe therapeutic exercises Lauren included in her plannersWhy we prefer DBT to CBT personallyHow to redistribute your f*cks — instead of trying to care less If you enjoy our conversation, make sure to explore Nine to Kind planners! Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid    RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails 💫 RSVP for the 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit   FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    32 min

  7. APR 22

    🔑 Why Privacy Matters (Even if Google Knows Everything) — with Patricia Egger, Head of Security for Proton

    We talk a lot about privacy at Off the Grid… but what does that actually mean in practice? Today I’m joined by Patricia Egger, Head of Security at my fave privacy-focused tech company Proton.  Together, we have a non-technical-person-friendly conversation about: Why Proton insists on ‘privacy by default’The difference between online privacy & securityWhy we love Proton Mail & want you to use it (affiliate link)What it actually means when emails/messages are encryptedProton’s Born Private initiative (& how to claim a $1 email address for your kids)Why AI has major privacy problems  RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails🙅‍♀️ I wanna help you leave Gmail with this workshop 👉 OPT OUT:  5 Steps to Break Up with Big Tech Today     FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    48 min

  8. APR 17 ·  BONUS

    🌿 When the Ache Remains — The Joy/Grief of Social Media with Lisa Olivera [BEST OF]

    Today I’m resharing my conversation with writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera in honor of her upcoming book — When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway— which is out on April 28th.  Lisa and I talk about how her work and life changed as her Instagram platform grew to over 400,000 followers. Together, we dive into: Two reasons Lisa joined Instagram + how it felt as her account grewThe allure of online business + what we’re “supposed to do” when we have a big platformSocial media addiction + the compulsion to post/like/share/scrollFacing the big hole that’s there when social media’s not thereHow to make the choice to stay on social media If you enjoy this episode, please preorder Lisa's book! Here's my affiliate link, and here's more info on her website.   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!     FREE GIFTS OF THE WEEK ❊ Creative Containers video series from Catherine LaSota ❊ We Are a Murmuration from Adrienne Sloan — call (505) 557-2445 for a free listening practice! ❊ The Art of Listening from Ruthie Farfel ❊ More free resources from Close Biz Friends!

    47 min
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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 & experiments for growing your business with radical generosity & energetic sovereignty. 🌐 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit at offthegrid.fun/toolkit

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