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Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

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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77:19

🚸 “How Do I Grow Without Social Media??” — Live...

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2025/07/09

🌀 OPT OUT: How to Quit Meta, Google or Amazon with Ease — 3 days of simple mindset shifts, step-by-step processes, and curated tools for a softer, surveillance-free life & business. Registration closes Friday, July 11th. Sign up here. 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 without social media?"Then she turns the mic

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39:10

🌻 Paradigm Shift Summer — 3 Ways I’m Reinventing My...

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2025/07/02

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 I'm releasing 2025-so-far and gently redesigning my work/life this summer. I'll guide you through the deep shifts and practical actions I have planned — all with the goal of having a more simple, specific, and spiritual business by the fall.Tune in to get inspired, and then join me

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56:00

😊 How Your Business Can (& Can’t) Make You Happy —...

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2025/06/25

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 show, I’m joined by Sam Vander Wielen, a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur who’s built a multi-seven-figure online business through consistently $100k+ funnels and launches.While income claims like that typically make me roll my eyes… Sam is such an smart, honest, and candid business owner

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60:53

🏦 How Freelance Work Can Solve Your Problems — with...

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2025/06/18

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 freelance career and/or land a few gigs to make ends meet.Together we unpack a few common Qs, including:What is freelancing? 🤺Who is freelancing good for? 💼How can I land my first freelance gig? 😎And is it really possible to turn freelancing into a sustainable career? 🧐I also ask

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57:26

🛠️ How to Create Biz Systems (for Neurodivergent...

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2025/06/11

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 inbox, and a system for making this podcast.And even when I have no system for doing something… that’s still a no-system system!Designing my systems with myself in mind has made my life so much better. And I really want that for you too!So this week on the podcast, I’m joined by brigitte,

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55:23

👩‍💻 How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with...

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2025/06/04

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-owner-turned-designer Anita Cheung AKA Neets!Anita has pivoted business topics, models and personal brands many times over the past decade, and she’s here to share the lessons she’s learned, as well as to offer practical advice for adapting our virtual presence as we evolve.Tune in to

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58:46

↪️ Knowing When to Pivot — The Realities of...

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2025/05/28

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.Molly is the co-founder and CEO of Taking Stock Foods, a functional beverage company based in St. Paul, MN. She is dedicated to being a leader in the conscious food movement, supporting and uplifting other founders in the maker space through intentional vulnerability and authentic

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74:21

🌀 Navigating the Messy Middle — Small Business in...

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2025/05/23

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 much our revenue is down, the problems we've diagnosed with our marketing and messaging, and what we're focusing on to stay in business through 2025 and beyond. Tune in to feel seen, heard, and (hopefully) less alone. 💓 If you enjoy the episode, make sure to grab Jen's free Design

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55:17

🗣️ The Relationships that Change Everything —...

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2025/05/21

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 all the relationships that led her to her current roles as an award-winning podcaster, producer of We Can Do Hard Things, and VP of Programming and Development at Audacy.Those relationships range from a random guy in Indiana to the agent who dumped her when she moved to LA to her

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47:50

💔 How to Break Up with Google, Amazon & Spotify

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2025/05/14

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 Jeff Bezos, letting Google track my behavior everywhere, or supporting Spotify in paying artists pennies.So in this episode, I share a bit more about my decision-making and how I’ve managed to stop using the services and tools that these companies create.To be clear — I’m not making a

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65:44

🌻 Can We Still Thrive Online? — Digital Wellness &...

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2025/05/07

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 of “digital wellness” and “ethical marketing.” And we have a nuanced conversation about how we really feel online and what it means to market with care (and without coercion).Join us as we get into:The problem with “wellness” & the possibility of cultivating well-being onlineHow to

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65:58

✊ Make the Movement Irresistible — Quiet Quitting...

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2025/04/30

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.Together, we explore:The works of art that changed our lives & nonlinear psychic collaborationBeing impersonated on Instagram & how that can impact your businessWhat happens when Meta starts suspending queer artistsHow Edgar blended career paths & built new channels away from

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62:59

📢 Amplifying Attention for Under-Recognized Voices...

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2025/04/23

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 business. In this conversation, we dive deep into the roots of attention and all the ways we can build community around our work — including how to amplify attention for ourselves and others.Tune in to hear Cher’s wisdom and advice on:How to be comfortable asking for attentionWays to

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54:17

🙅‍♂️ How to Stop Feeling Stuck on Social Media — with...

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2025/04/16

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 deBara from Season of Stuck podcast joins me to explore: 🫣 why we get stuck on social media🥸 how to stop doomscrolling & feeling trapped on the apps🤠 & ways to decide what YOUR next best step is online or offlineIf you're feeling stuck in any aspect of your business, marketing or

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67:53

💏 You CAN Make Friends Without Social Media — with...

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2025/04/09

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 podcast Scratch That.We get into things I've NEVER talked about publicly before, including:How my three-year-old self picked my present-day career pathThe four-minute version of my leaving-social-media storyWhat Instagram has meant to Rebekah as a space to share her life &

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58:39

💭 Radical Imagination in Hard Times — with Sarah...

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2025/04/02

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 explore:The lineage of radical imaginationHow to move through creative blocks in your businessWays to (re)connect with imagination even when the world is on fireWhy collaboration might be the answer to everythingHow to bend toward change + embrace new ways of workingRefusing to treat

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68:23

🫂 Escaping the Social Media Trance — Community +...

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2025/03/26

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 + community building efforts — even if these platforms started as supportive relational hubs. Join us as we wind through our teen years on Tumblr, how we dissociate on the apps, what inspires us to get offline, the dangers of optimized communities, adjusting our aesthetic expectations,

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62:05

🖌️ Copywriting, Pain Point Marketing & 3 Easy Ways to...

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2025/03/19

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 talk about how to be more specific in our messaging and simple tips to write better sales pages.Tune in to hear about:Nicole's journey from poetry MFA to copywriterPain point marketing + if it's (un)ethical?How asking "so what?" can turn boring writing into compelling copyWays that

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70:17

🌊 What Really Happens When You Leave Social Media —...

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2025/03/12

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 year ago and has experienced ups and downs in her business since.For the first half of our conversation, we explore Leah’s path onto and off of social media, including how she used to get clients on Instagram and how she finds clients now.Then in the second half of our chat, we discuss

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60:02

🧿 Visibility & the Joy/Grief of an Online Life — with...

Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media ·

2025/03/05

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 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 platformUnpacking the rise of the “instagram therapist” + the content-ification of therapyWhy Lisa started her Substack newsletter + how it’s supported

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