Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

Softer Sounds
Softer Sounds
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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. 4d ago

    🧢 Be Your Own Daddy — Energetic Sovereignty & Creative Constraints with Catherine LaSota

    This week we’re debuting our new brand! And rolling the metaphorical tape allllll the way back to the beginning of the show to revisit energetic sovereignty through a new lens. To do that, I’m joined by creative coach Catherine LaSota who’s here to teach us how to “be your own daddy” AKA ways to cultivate energetic sovereignty in your work and life. Together we discuss: What “Be Your Own Daddy” really meansSaturnian influences on our energy + creativityHow to make aligned choices within constraintsCultivating the permission to radically change our livesWays to move through our fears (+ experiences) of judgmentConsistency and presence as gifts of this work⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, join me at Catherine's next Be Your Own Daddy retreat on October 23rd! Or grab her free Design Your Daddy workshop 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

    🧢 Be Your Own Daddy — Energetic Sovereignty & Creative Constraints with Catherine LaSota

  2. Oct 2

    ♾️ Foraging for What’s Next — Creative Seasons & Why the Internet’s So Boring Now with Nic Antoinette

    Nic Antoinette is back on the pod this week as we continue our year-long series around enoughness, grief, and deep evolution. This time, we’re focused on creative burnout, seasonality in business, and why we find the internet so boring these days. If you haven’t listened to the series before, here are links to those episodes: ♾️ Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns ♾️ Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned… Grief, Joy & Money in 2026 ♾️ “You Needing Money Doesn't Make Stuff Sell” — Consistency & Collapse in Online Business ♾️ Take the Break Before the Break Takes You — Learning How to Pause & Quit And if this makes you want more biz friend community, check out the Interweb and put yourself on the waitlist before doors open next week!  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🔥 Learn more about ad opportunities with Off the Grid  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

  3. Sep 30

    🤠 Reinventing Yourself & Your Work — From Dog Trainer to Retail Store Owner to Business Strategist with Heather Bax

    For the third and final installment in our business pivots + evolutions series, I’m talking to Heather Bax of Small Business Rodeo! Heather is a business advisor, human design reader, notion lover, and occasional artist. Her expertise spans decades of service, product, and brick & mortar small business stewardship, and she’s supported all kinds of creative businesses along the way. In this conversation, we explore: How self-employment journeys often begin in bad-fit jobsWhy Heather & Amelia both took detours through coding bootcampsThe benefits of a bridge job as you grow or change your businessA quick checklist on how Heather started her retail shop (& you can too!)Why Heather had a full-time job for the first 8 months of running the storeThe realities of transitioning to e-commerce during COVIDHiring + grieving at the same timeLeaning on the community of your business in hard timesWhen quitting ISN’T failingHow big changes in our work can impact our self-trust For the astro-curious, Heather is a 6/2 Projector and a Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, and Gemini Rising. You can book a Human Designed Business Session with her and use code OFFTHEGRID for 10%!   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

  4. Sep 23

    🌅 The Grief of Sunsetting a Business & The Joy of Being Multipassionate — with Chereen Leong Schwarz

    Chereen Leong Schwarz is a founder, maker, outdoor adventurer, and rewilding guide. She’s a former chef who started a knitwear brand and then moved into creative retreats — after a period of prolonged grief. In this conversation, we dive deep into what pivoting really feels like as we explore: Chereen’s chef career from fine dining to farmsHow moving to Colorado spurred her love of knittingThe realities of turning a hobby into a side hustleSpecific ways to center your values in your businessHow multiple losses + a health crisis led Chereen through a transformative grief portalDifferent methods of building community in and around your businessHow to evolve when your work is wrapped up in your ego + identityThe grief the comes when your industry changes and it hurts your businessWhy Chereen & Amelia both took sabbaticals before deciding to close their companiesHow we grapple with public opinions + projection as we share our work online   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 ⭐️ Use this link to book a free 30-minute session with Chereen: https://calendar.app.google/UydiFHhcLgqzvNUr9 ⭐️ RSVP for the free workshop with Podge in October: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fTY89RN7TfS1grKD7Vs64g   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

  5. Sep 21 ·  Bonus

    🔒 Why & How I Closed My Business — Letting Go of Softer Sounds

    Softer Sounds is officially closed, my friends. And in this Clubhouse-exclusive episode, I'm telling you all about that journey. This one's mostly-personal and a-little-bit-logistical –  heavy on story with a checklist at the end. Tune in to an episode preview here, and become a paid subscriber of the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse to get all the details. 👇  👇  👇  👇 When you join the 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 the show! 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 exclusive bonus episodes + emails

  6. Sep 16

    🪸 Seasons of Change in Self-Employment — Embracing Pivots & Destigmatizing Bankruptcy with Luca J. Davis

    Today I’m joined by Luca J. Davis to talk about success, failure, and what 13 years of self-employment really entails. Together we explore: Luca’s path from health teacher to personal trainerHow they opened a gym with a dream and a GoFundMeThe radically honest reality of brick-and-mortar financesWhen filing for bankruptcy is the best choice for you & your bizLuca’s detour as a Virtual Assistant & how they started their web design businessThe systems that help them book our their services while marketing only once a yearHow Luca’s Substack walks the line between personal sharing & biz promotion     ➡️ If you'd like to hire Luca for website support in 2026/2027, just mention Off the Grid for $200 off your package!  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

  7. Sep 9

    🚩 Business Triage: What to Do When Your Biz Isn’t Working

    Welcome to Season 11 of Off the Grid! This month, we're exploring strategies + stories of business pivots. Today we start with my business triage process. It's a checklist of things to consider when your business feels bad and/or isn't making enough money. Then for the next three weeks, we'll hear from business owners who have made major pivots in their self-employment journeys, including: quitting a dream job, filing for bankruptcy, closing a retail store, and more. Tune in for lots of support, camaraderie + inspiration. And check the links below for extra resources 👇   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

  8. Aug 21

    ✳️ How to Refresh Your Ambition & Avoid Burnout in the Process — with Amina AlTai

    Let's refresh our creative ambition before fall! Today we're wrapping our Back to Biz Refresh series with leadership expert Amina AlTai. Amina is the author of The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living. Together we discuss: What ambition actually is and why it's neutralHow core wounds create painful ambition — even if you love what you doWays to figure out if your ambition is helping or harming youFinding aliveness when you don't feel ambitiousWhat it takes to stay in business through hard times  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 ✏️ Looking for a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind. Get 50% off their digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid (sponsored)  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

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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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