Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

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Oct 22, 2025 • 1h 7min

🌚 Business as Initiation & the Power of Deep Alignment — with grace allerdice

😎 How to Feel Better on the Internet — a brand new workshop premiering at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th! The only way to attend is to buy a book bundle. Get Your Attention is Sacred + a bonus retreat ticket today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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!
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Oct 17, 2025 • 16min

👁️‍🗨️ A New Vision for Off the Grid

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!
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Oct 15, 2025 • 1h 9min

📮 Email Mistakes We Need to Stop Making — with Dawn Richardson from Flodesk

😎 How to Feel Better on the Internet — a brand new workshop premiering at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th! The only way to attend is to buy a book bundle. Get Your Attention is Sacred + a bonus retreat ticket today at offthegrid.fun/attention 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!
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Oct 10, 2025 • 16min

💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work & Life Off Social Media

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!
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Oct 8, 2025 • 1h 3min

🦗 Quit Launching to Crickets — Simple Strategies for Stronger Sales with Nicole Cloutier

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
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Oct 1, 2025 • 59min

🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Book Launch!

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! 
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Sep 26, 2025 • 26min

🙅‍♀️ Why I’m Not Putting My Book on Amazon

😎 How to Feel Better on the Internet — a brand new workshop premiering at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th! The only way to attend is to buy a book bundle. Get Your Attention is Sacred + a bonus retreat ticket 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 decisionWhat it means for my bookHow I’m going to find readers anyway& Exactly how many books I’m hoping to sellThen join me in my journey of self-publishing without giving Jeff Bezos more money… by getting a copy of the book at yourattentionissacred.com!  Mentioned in the episode:Postcards from: Carolyn Yoo, Debora Figueiredo, Kening Zhu & Chelsie TammsFifty Feminist MantrasIngramSpark & LuluHow to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine 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   
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Sep 25, 2025 • 38min

💥 Why I Turned Down a Book Deal

😎 How to Feel Better on the Internet — a brand new workshop premiering at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th! The only way to attend is to buy a book bundle. Get Your Attention is Sacred + a bonus retreat ticket 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 this book (instead of just making more podcast episodes)My process for writing the 15,000 word manuscript in ONE WEEK (a wild choice)How I ended up getting a book offer from my last publisher…And the exact sentence that made me turn that offer down 🙃   Tune in, then get a copy of the book at yourattentionissacred.com!     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
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Sep 24, 2025 • 1h 12min

📔 Demystifying Publishing: From Idea to Manuscript to Book in Your Hands — with Bailey Lang

Bailey Lang, a book coach and ghostwriter, guides aspiring authors through the publishing maze. In a lively chat, she reveals the four crucial phases of publishing: writing, editing, publishing, and marketing. Bailey emphasizes the importance of gathering ideas from various sources and waiting for a full draft before diving into edits. She also discusses the value of beta readers and shares effective marketing strategies outside of social media, urging authors to be realistic about expectations while celebrating the power of storytelling.
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Sep 17, 2025 • 1h 1min

🫶 Moving Past Perfectionism & Procrastination — Parts Work for Creative People with Tracy Candido

😎 How to Feel Better on the Internet — a brand new workshop premiering at the Off the Grid Retreat on November 5th! The only way to attend is to buy a book bundle. Get Your Attention is Sacred + a bonus retreat ticket 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 perfectionist, procrastinator, and hyper-achiever showed up in the book writing process.To do that, she teaches us a lot about Parts Work. Tune in to learn:What Parts Work is (and how it’s different than Internal Family Systems)How to identify protector partsTracy’s 3-step methodology for quieting mental chatterHow Parts Work can heal overachiever patterns & visibility wounds   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

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