Off The Grid is a podcast for artists, writers & small 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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💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work & Life Off Social Media
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15:52Let's get visionary! 🪅 🪅 🪅 Today I'm revisiting and reimagining my list of 100 Ways to Share Your Work/Life Without Social Media — in celebration of my book launch! If you've been feeling unsure, uninspired, or unsatisfied lately, this episode is for you. Tune in for a quick dose of clarity and expansion. 🩵 RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Lea…
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🦗 Quit Launching to Crickets — Simple Strategies for Stronger Sales with Nicole Cloutier
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1:03:21Today we welcome copywriter Nicole Cloutier back to the podcast (yay!) to help us avoid the most dreaded small biz experience: putting something new into the world and hearing … nothing … in return. We talk through launch basics then go deep into the strategies that have helped grow our sales — even in this challenging year. Join us as we stare int…
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🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Book Launch!
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58:41My book is here! Learn more & buy your copy at offthegrid.fun/attention 🥳 🥳 🥳 In today's episode, I tell you all about the book AND the virtual retreat I'm hosting this fall. Then I share an amazing conversation I had with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer for her podcast Imagination State. It's all about how extractive algorithms wreck our creativity + comm…
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🙅♀️ Why I’m Not Putting My Book on Amazon
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24:25🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention The most radical choice I’ve made in self-publishing is not putting my book on Amazon. Tune in to this episode to learn: Why I made this decision What it means for my book How I’m going to find readers anyway &…
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🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome back to Book Week! In this behind-the-scenes episode (from the Clubhouse!), I tell you all about: The story of my first book (& why I had to rewrite that story to move forward) Why I decided to write th…
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📔 Demystifying Publishing: From Idea to Manuscript to Book in Your Hands — with Bailey Lang
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1:10:18🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Bailey Lang is a book coach, editor, and ghostwriter who helps business owners, creatives, and academics tell stories that matter. In this episode, Bailey and I pull back the curtain on the book-writing process…
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🫶 Moving Past Perfectionism & Procrastination — Parts Work for Creative People with Tracy Candido
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59:34🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Tracy Candido is a creative coach and the host of Hidden Parts, a podcast about the inner voices that shape how we live, work, and lead. Today she joins me on the podcast to help me unpack how my inner perfecti…
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✏️ Deleting Instagram, Practicing Attention & the Magic of Self-Publishing — with Cody Cook-Parrott
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59:22🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention This summer, Cody Cook-Parrott deleted their Instagram account. In doing so, they “lost” 80,000 followers and gained so. much. more. In this conversation, we dig into why Cody decided to delete IG, how their cr…
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🏁 The State of Substack & How to Fall Back in Love with the Internet — with Seth Werkheiser
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1:02:46🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Seth Werkheiser was one of the first 3000 people on Twitter. Now he runs Social Media Escape Club and helps people get off X, Facebook, Instagram, and more. In this conversation, we chart how we’ve each spent 2…
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💫 How to (Self) Publish a Book Without Social Media
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25:17Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! Season 7 of Off the Grid officially kicks off next week. 🥳 This season we'll be digging into all things (self)-publishing without social media. I'm talking to writers, coaches, witches, and more about the magic of bringing our ideas to life and selling them in the marketplace. 😬 To get you in the mood, I'm …
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🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Exclusive Book Preview!
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15:41It's finally here, my friends... your first preview of my book! In this episode, I fill you in on exactly why Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media. Then in a you-heard-it-here-first moment, I play you the beginning of the audiobook! And I implore you to get a copy at yourattentionissacred.com. Thank you so much for tuning in to season si…
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🙌 21 Tiny Pep Talks for You & Your Creative Business
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1:12:20Welcome to part one of our season six finale! Today I’m joined by TWENTY past guests sharing tiny pep talks recorded just for you. Tune in for encouragement on everything from surviving Capitalism to fixing your sales page to overcoming overwhelm and getting exactly what you want. You’ll hear from: [6:30] Blaize Hall of Weeping Willow Wellness [12:…
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🪞 Clear Channels, Secret Marketing & Making More Money Sans Socials — with Sarah Gottesdiener
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55:07🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Here’s my truth— I am absolutely, positively obsessed with this episode. Today on the pod, I’m joined by the one-and-only Sarah Faith Gottesdiener. She’s popping over from Moonbeaming to pull back the curtain o…
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🤳 Put Down Your Phone & Abandon Your Brand — with Casey Johnston
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49:25🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Casey Johnston is a weight-lifting memoirist and former editor at Vice, Ars Technica & the New York Times’ Wirecutter. She’s been reporting on social media and smart phones for over a decade, and in that time, …
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🚸 “How Do I Grow Without Social Media??” — Live Coaching with Melissa Wong
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1:17:23🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome to an episode unlike any other! Today I'm joined by Melissa Wong of Coherence Studio for a live advising session where I help her work through the age-old question: "how do I really grow my business wit…
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🌻 3 Ways I’m Gently Reinventing My Work Right Now
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38:41🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome to Paradigm Shift Summer! 😎 This month on the podcast, we're rooting into radical change with ease, softness, and poolside vibes. Today I'm taking you behind-the-scenes of my business and sharing 3 ways…
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😊 How Your Business Can (& Can’t) Make You Happy — $300k+ Launches with Sam Vander Wielen
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55:31🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention I’m not a fan of the #girlboss. But I am a fan of women who build wildly successful businesses. And I especially appreciate when they offer eyes-open advice about what it really took to get there. Today on the …
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🏦 How Freelance Work Can Solve Your Problems — with Sarah Jutras
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1:00:24🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention I started my self-employment journey by freelancing… but somehow I’ve never talked about it on the pod! So today I’m joined by Sarah Jutras of Huzzah Studio and Freelance for Life to dive into how to build a fr…
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🛠️ How to Create Biz Systems (for Neurodivergent Entrepreneurs) — with brigitte
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58:14🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 inbo…
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👩💻 How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with Anita Cheung
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57:20🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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…
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↪️ Knowing When to Pivot — The Realities of Food-Based Retail with Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods
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58:13🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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. Mol…
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🌀 Navigating the Messy Middle — Small Business in Slow Times with Jen Carrington
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1:15:06🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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…
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🗣️ The Relationships that Change Everything — Creatively Unleashing with Lauren LoGrasso
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56:02🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 …
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💔 How to Break Up with Google, Amazon & Spotify
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49:24🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 J…
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🌻 Can We Still Thrive Online? — Digital Wellness & Ethical Marketing with Amelia Knott
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1:05:51🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 o…
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✊ Make the Movement Irresistible — Quiet Quitting Social Media with Edgar Fabián Frías
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1:06:58🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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. Toget…
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📢 Amplifying Attention for Under-Recognized Voices (Including Yourself!) — with Cher Hale
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1:03:14🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 …
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🙅♂️ How to Stop Feeling Stuck on Social Media — with Deanna deBara
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54:48🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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 deBar…
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💏 You CAN Make Friends Without Social Media — with Caitlin Metz & Rebekah Taussig
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1:08:37🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention OMG CROSSOVER EPISODE! 🫶 Today on the show, I'm celebrating our 99th episode (and my four-years-off-social-media anniversary!) by sharing a conversation I had with Rebekah Taussig and Caitlin Metz for their pod…
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💭 Radical Imagination in Hard Times — with Sarah Arantza Amador
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58:44🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention How do we imagine new possibilities when it feels like our well has gone dry? This week I'm joined by author, tarotist, and Jungian creativity coach Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot. Together we …
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🫂 Escaping the Social Media Trance — Community + Agency with Elise Granata
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1:08:41🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention ESCAPE THE TRANCE ⁕ REMEMBER YOUR AGENCY ⁕ BUILD COMMUNITY Today on the pod we have a very special guest — Elise Granata of GROUP HUG! Elise is here to chat with me about how social media erodes our agency + co…
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🖌️ Copywriting, Pain Point Marketing & 3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Sales Pages — with Nicole Cloutier
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1:02:30🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention What if selling didn't have to feel sleazy? And the words on your website could cast a magical spell for your ideal clients/customers instead? Today, I'm joined by copywriter and podcaster Nicole Cloutier to ta…
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🌊 What Really Happens When You Leave Social Media — with Leah Kern
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1:10:42🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Leaving social media isn’t always the most profitable decision… but maybe it taps into something even more lucrative? In this episode, I’m joined by Leah Kern, an anti-diet dietitian who left social media a yea…
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🧿 Visibility & the Joy/Grief of an Online Life — with Lisa Olivera
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1:01:58🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Today I’m joined by writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera to talk about how her work and life have shifted as her Instagram platform's grown to over 400,000 followers. Together, we dive into: Two reasons…
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⏱️ Making Time: Creativity over Productivity — with Maria Bowler
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58:16🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention How do we stay creative — when there’s so much to do and so much at stake? Today I’m joined by writer, coach, and retreat leader Maria Bowler for a practical and philosophical conversation about: The difference…
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🌀 The Reality of Being an Artist-Influencer in 2025 — with Arielle Estoria
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59:59🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention It’s 2025 and everyone’s sick of social media… so what do we do now? Today we’re kicking off season six with a conversation with poet, author, actor, and model Arielle Estoria. Over the past decade, Arielle has…
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🪦 Grieving Social Media — How to Process Your Feelings About TikTok, Meta & Everything Else [BEST OF]
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33:30🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention TikTok's been banned (for a minute). Meta's removed fact-checking (for good?). 2025 has already been a big year in social media news, and if you're having some big feelings about it, this episode is for you. To…
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🍒 What's Next? 2025 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird
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1:20:53🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Let's put the cherry on top of your 2025 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on 2025 Marketing Trends! To do that, I'm joined by communications strategist Amanda Laird to chat about four things she's for…
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💞 Relationship Marketing 101 with Michelle Warner [BEST OF]
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52:49🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Today we're revealing the third tool in your 2025 marketing toolkit, and I'm resharing our BEST OF episode where Michelle Warner teaches us all about relationship marketing! With an MBA from one of the world’s …
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🎙️ Podcast Guesting for Business Growth with Taylor Elyse Morrison
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52:59🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention At long last, we’ve got an episode exploring all things podcast guesting! And to do that I’m joined by return guest, portfolio career expert, and founder of Inner Workout, Taylor Elyse Morrison. Together we get…
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📮 All Things Email Marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett
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1:12:25🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome to our 2025 Marketing Toolkit! Today on the pod, we’re talking all things email marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett. Tune in to learn: 5 reasons email might be the best marketing channel for your bus…
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Happy New Year & welcome to season five of Off the Grid! Today we're kicking off this year-in-biz with a fun new format — five episodes in five days! Press play to hear all about it, and tune in this week to learn: Our top 3 marketing strategies for 2025 Need-to-know advice for email marketing beginners & pros How to be a better guest on better pod…
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🫶 How to Feel Seen Off Social Media [BEST OF]
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32:54🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention In this BEST OF episode, we dive deep what it means to feel seen and how social media is messing with our sense of self-worth and community connection. Tune in to hear me break down: What it means to "feel seen…
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👋 The 5 Stages of Life After Social Media [BEST OF]
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34:02🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Today we’re diving into the emotional depths of what happens after you break up with social media. Because it turns out that logging off the apps is only the first step... Tune in to this BEST OF episode to hea…
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✌️ Why I Left Instagram & a 5-Step Plan So You Can Too [BEST OF]
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32:03🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome new friends from We Can Do Hard Things! In this BEST OF episode, I'm sharing the story of why I spent a decade investing my time, money & energy into Instagram...and how I eventually decided to leave al…
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🪦 Permission to Change — Why Endings Are Messy with Amy Kuretsky
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1:35:17🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention Welcome to the season four finale of Off the Grid! Today I'm joined by acupuncturist, herbalist, breathwork facilitator, + clinic co-owner Amy Kuretsky to talk about everything creative small business. In this …
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📌 How to Leave Social Media in 5 Steps or Less [MINI]
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9:08If Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook or X are giving you the ick... please let me offer this 5-step plan for leaving social media — without impacting your income! Tune in to learn all five steps in under ten minutes. Then grab our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit to make your plan for what comes next in your work, biz + life. XOXO, Amelia…
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🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas
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53:55🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention "These were very colonized institutions that I feel brainwashed me. And they brainwash a lot of people. So now as a business owner, creative & Notion consultant, what I get to do is decolonize my business and h…
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Dropping in off-schedule with a reflection/reminder/rallying-cry that we have power as small business owners, and we can stand against everything Trump is + represents — especially if we do it together. Tune in for gentle provocations and a special invitation to join me at a free event Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT. I hope to see you there. 🩵…
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🎢 What To Do When Nothing’s Working — with Jenny Blake
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54:34🌈 Amelia's new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, is officially here! Order your copy today at offthegrid.fun/attention I’ve admired Jenny Blake’s work from afar for years. First for her seemingly endless success with book deals, big-name podcast guests, and six-figure corporate contracts. And now for her incredibly honest accou…
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