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Updated Jan 23

1D AGO

📉 Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns with Nic Antoinette

This week, Nic Antoinette returns to share what really happens when you take a year off your business… and why degrowth is their plan for 2026. Join us for a 90-minute biz friend chat where we explore: The original idea for Nic’s Gap YearHow stepping back from work changes your identityWhat slowing down really requires of usWhen making less money can be a goal (not a failure)Finding enoughness without succumbing to underearningHow we’re right-sizing our work in 2026& more! 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!📣 I wanna promote your work! Learn more about advertising with Off the Grid. 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

1d ago

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1h 31m
JAN 28

💎 How I Built This: 5 Years of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid

Welcome to season nine of Off the Grid!We’re kicking this one off by talking about why I’m kinda closing my business…Or more accurately: how pruning one tree helps another grow. Tune in to hear all about: Abolishing ICE & Standing with MinnesotaWhat I did before I started Softer SoundsMy step-by-step transition from side hustle to small businessThe one strategy that brought in 6 months of $$$Why I started this podcast… and then almost quit making itThe 3 keys to Off the Grid’s successHow I’m turning this tiny indie show into my full-time job in 2026 LINKS & RESOURCES: 💠 Free Class: How Our Businesses Create Change ✊ Stand with Minnesota 📲 5calls.org (use the app, it’s great!) 💕 Join us in the Off the Grid Clubhouse 💫 Get the free Leaving Social Media Toolkit 📔 Buy my book: Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media 🫂 Also big hugs to my biz friends Taylor Elyse Morrison & Nic Antoinette📣 Learn more about advertising with Off the Grid 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

Jan 28

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1h 6m
6D AGO

✊ 50 Ways Your Business Can Fight Fascism

With the state of the world, it’s easy to believe that creative work is a waste of time. But I believe our businesses, art, and lives can be powerful forces for change. Not just by default, but through simple-yet-radical practices. To help us orient toward personal power and collective freedom, I shared a free class and compiled this list of 50 ways your creative work can be a force for liberation (and fight fascism in the process). Remember: Your work matters. Your art matters. And it can change the world — if you make it. Tune in to hear this list (or read it right here). Then make your own! 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

6d ago

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16 min
JAN 9

🍒 What’s Next? 2026 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird

Today we're putting the cherry on top of your 2026 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on trends! To do that, I'm joined by growth marketing strategist Amanda Laird to chat about five things we’re forecasting for the year ahead, including: New ways of building trust 👷Why we’re bringing big YOLO energy to our marketing ☝️How online business is going analog 📻Why Patreon might be the platform to watch 👀If done-for-you services are making a comeback 🤝And how courses might fare in 2026 🤔Tune in for a gently-guided look into the murky crystal ball of online biz. Then head to offthegrid.fun/2026 for this whole series! RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📣 I wanna promote your work! Learn more about advertising with Off the Grid. 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

Jan 9

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1h 14m
4D AGO · BONUS

✷ the power of pause + the pace of change w/Cecily Sailer

Happy February, my tiny tarot friends. I'm popping into your pod feed, because I wanted share a snippet of the conversation I had with Cecily Sailer on her podcast Your Creative & Magical Life. It's all about the Hanged One and feels perfect for this late winter season. Cecily is currently inviting us into a 2026 Decan Walk that begins in March. If you enjoy this conversation, I think you'd love that journey! Click here to learn more. Thank you for listening xo 💫 Embark on an astrological pilgrimate through the tarot! Join Cecily Sailer of Typewriter Tarot for a year-long Decan Walk exploring tarot, astrology, and divine archetypes. Beginning in March 2026. Learn more & sign up at: https://www.typewritertarot.com/creative-magic-collective-decan-walk

4d ago · Bonus

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19 min
JAN 8

📍 The Power of Local Events & Low-Key Networking in 2026 — with Arianna Smith

You don’t have to be an extrovert to host events. (I promise.) In today’s episode, I’m talking to licensed therapist and intuitive copywriter Arianna Smith about the event series she’s been hosting since 2023 and how in-person networking has changed her business for the better. If you’re thinking about how to be less online and more IRL in 2026, this episode is for you! Tune in to learn all about: Why Arianna decided to host in-person events & how she found her first venuesDifferent approaches to RSVPs & free vs paid eventsWhy relationships are the only timeless marketing “strategy”How to tend to yourself while hosting eventsDifferent types of events to host depending on your personalityWhat to do if nobody shows up RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Get 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!🎶 Listen to Social Media by SurferBOY 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

Jan 8

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1h 6m
JAN 6

🔎 Searching the New Web: SEO, AI & Blogs in 2026 with Meg Casebolt

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 & LLMEOHow 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 alreadyHow to think about search if you’re not interested in using AIWhy 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👋 Get 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!🎶 Listen to Social Media by SurferBOY 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

Jan 6

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1h 8m
JAN 7

📬 3 Rules for Email Marketing + Newsletters in 2026

What are we doing with email this year? And how are we adapting to all the inbox changes? In this episode, Amelia shares her top 3 rules for email marketing and newsletters in 2026. This isn’t another overview of the basics. It’s part-hot-take and part-informed-opinion on things like: Why welcome sequences matterReasons to let people opt-out of sales cyclesThe best way to use a waitlistAn argument for breaking up with the weekly newsletter& more! Tune in for a free email education, then listen to these episodes for more: 📧 Email Marketing Made Easier, Better & More Fun — with Holly Wielkoszewski 📮 All Things Email Marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett 📥 Email Mistakes We Need to Stop Making — with Dawn Richardson from Flodesk RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community🎶 Listen to Social Media by SurferBOY 😎 Want to learn my waitlist strategy? Join the Clubhouse for this exclusive episode: 🔬 Waitlist Experiments: What I’ve Learned from 8 Mini-Launches 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

Jan 7

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30 min
11/19/2025

🚰 Where You Labor is Where You Should Rest — with Jordan Maney

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 workThe self-fulfilling prophesy of “invisible labor”How to rest when you really love what you doWhy creative work requires creative restRest equity as a guiding principleRejecting “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 courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com! 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

11/19/2025

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58 min
12/03/2025

🫂 How to Hold it All — Self-Employment in Hard Times with Shivani Mehta Bhatia

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 courses + community💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails📔 Buy Amelia's book at yourattentionissacred.com! 📚 You're invited to The Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington. This 'I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-pay-for-this' resource hub will deeply support you to thrive in your business at a pace that works best for you. Join for free today.

12/03/2025

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1h 4m

Softer Sounds is a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneurs and creatives. This channel features our original shows. To see our clients' work find us online at softersounds.studio

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Top Shows

📉 Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns with Nic Antoinette

💎 How I Built This: 5 Years of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid

✊ 50 Ways Your Business Can Fight Fascism

🍒 What’s Next? 2026 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird

✷ the power of pause + the pace of change w/Cecily Sailer

📍 The Power of Local Events & Low-Key Networking in 2026 — with Arianna Smith

🔎 Searching the New Web: SEO, AI & Blogs in 2026 with Meg Casebolt

📬 3 Rules for Email Marketing + Newsletters in 2026

🚰 Where You Labor is Where You Should Rest — with Jordan Maney

🫂 How to Hold it All — Self-Employment in Hard Times with Shivani Mehta Bhatia

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