Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Listen to this episode before you begin holiday shopping or selling!Today I’m sharing a conversation I had with Rachel Duncan for the Money Healing Club Podcast where we go deeeeeep into how social media impacts our spending habits and finances.We talk about budgets, boundaries, and screentime. Then we explore why restriction isn’t necessarily the answer to addiction — and why rebellion and pleasure may be better antidotes for feeling too online.We also explore the core concepts of my book, including: what’s wrong with the attention economy, the negative impacts of extractive algorithms, and my 5 principles for gardening your attention.➡ 💸  Tune in, then join Rachel in the Money Healing Club for more support! You can use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off your MHC membership. We highly recommend it! (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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Let’s get into it with phone addiction and doomscrolling. 😵‍💫 In this episode, I’ll teach you two practices for raising your awareness around how you use your phone. Then I’ll offer two interventions for interrupting feel-bad habits and learning to scroll more mindfully. As our theme song says… I know that you really want to put your phone away (hey!). So let’s do that together today!    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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Let's get mystical, shall we? 🧿In honor of Halloween, today I'm resharing a community tarot reading that Cecily Sailer of Typewriter Tarot recorded for us last fall.  Cecily (she/her) is a creativity coach, writer and tarot reader. She runs a business called Typewriter Tarot, which is a sanctuary and learning community for creative mystics. She's also the author of Tarot for Creative Spirits.Tune in for a moment of spiritual connection and clarity. And don't forget!  🔔  This is your last call to buy Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media and get a ticket to the Off the Grid retreat next week. Learn more + join us at yourattentionissacred.com 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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Casey Zabala, author, artist, and founder of Modern Witches, shares her journey of transforming spirituality into a career. She discusses her decision to leave social media, citing energy drain and online toxicity. Casey delves into self-publishing her tarot deck and creating community anthologies, highlighting collaboration’s challenges and triumphs. They also explore the significance of reaching out to traditional publishers and the nuances of balancing creative work with personal limits. Her insights encourage listeners to reclaim their magic in both online and offline spaces.

Today we embrace the Dark Moon and step into our businesses to remember: “alignment is a dance.”To do that, I welcome grace allerdice back to the podcast for the fifth time. She’s a priestess, a podcaster, and one of my personal friends and guides.In this episode, she shares how her self-employment journey has also been a spiritual initiation and the many ways deep alignment has guided her into the portal of Now. We also explore our solar/lunar marketing styles and offer an example of what close biz friendship really sounds like.Tune in for an inner tune-up. Then RSVP for grace’s event, and purchase a book bundle to join us both at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th.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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Discover a revolutionary vision for disengaging from the attention economy. The host discusses reclaiming agency through a non-extractive internet and invites collaboration for a transformative retreat. Key topics include the sacredness of attention, centering relationships over algorithms, and embracing creative diversity. Learn how art and business can harmonize and the importance of community values. Tune in for a manifesto that empowers creators to thrive outside big tech's grasp!

Today we’re going right to the heart of email marketing and answering your burning questions!To do that, I’m joined by Dawn Richardson, Product Education Manager at Flodesk and owner of Tech Savvy Creative.Dawn is here to explain how your emails end up in spam, strategies to get better open rates, and why you should stop sending reengagement campaigns immediately.She’s got the stats from millions of emails sent through Flodesk, so you can stop guessing what works and use the strategies that are effective in 2025 (rather than repeating things that haven’t worked since 2015).Tune in and you’ll learn:Exactly how email deliverability works and why it matters (even for tiny lists!)Why you need to be sending your emails from a custom domain (not gmail)How to warm up your domain if you’re sending your first email in a long time (or ever)How to clean your list without wrecking your statsThe outdated email practice messing with Amelia’s open rates 👀Plus answers to more questions from Interweb members with businesses like yours! Full disclosure: Off the Grid is a Flodesk partner! So if it feels like the right tool for you, we’d love to share our affiliate link so you get 50% off your first year. We also recommend signing up before November 29th when their unlimited emails and checkout plans end.  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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Let'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 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!

Today 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 into the void together and discuss:What a launch really is (hint: it’s pretty simple)Why it’s so important to pre-launch and “warm up” your audienceNicole’s 3-part pre-launch framework (with timeline!)Behind-the-scenes stats like Amelia’s email open rates 👀The only 2 CTAs you need for your launchWaitlist strategies & the one email that you never want to skipWhy your launches don’t have to be perfectThe importance of great subject lines 📨 👉💰 If you want to improve your emails and launches, click here to get the Great Subject Line Experiment! RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails📔 Buy a copy of Amelia's new book — Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media

My 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 + community — and ways to make that stop. Tune in, then please ORDER THE BOOK!