

Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media
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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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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!

Sep 26, 2025 • 24min
🙅♀️ Why I’m Not Putting My Book on Amazon
🌈 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 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

Sep 25, 2025 • 36min
💥 Why I Turned Down a Book Deal
🌈 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 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

Sep 24, 2025 • 1h 10min
📔 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.

Sep 17, 2025 • 60min
🫶 Moving Past Perfectionism & Procrastination — Parts Work for Creative People with Tracy Candido
🌈 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 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

Sep 10, 2025 • 59min
✏️ Deleting Instagram, Practicing Attention & the Magic of Self-Publishing — with Cody Cook-Parrott
🌈 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 creative attention has shifted since, and what it really looks like to build a business (and publish a book) off the grid.Tune in to this episode to hear us explore:Why Cody deleted their account instead of deactivatingWhat it means to archive your work onlineThe realities of giving up social capitalSacred witnessing and ways to cultivate the feeling of being seenHow Cody is approaching their next book launch without social mediaWhy we love self-publishing & the fate of Amelia’s first zine project 🌟 If you love this chat, join Amelia & Cody LIVE ON ZOOM on September 20th to celebrate the return of Cody’s podcast Common Shapes! RSVP for FREE at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/EZ506H9WSaK0WZjhgWZEeQ#/registrationRESOURCES + 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

Sep 5, 2025 • 1h 3min
🏁 The State of Substack & How to Fall Back in Love with the Internet — with Seth Werkheiser
🌈 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 20+ years online — beginning with AOL, Tumblr, and Twitter all the way through Instagram, TikTok, and the current state of Substack.This one goes out to everyone feeling lost online and looking for the magic of the early internet era again. Join us for this journey through:Amelia’s cringe-inducing 2013 Tumblr blog & Twitter handle 😬Seth’s path from AOL Music to heavy metal email marketer 🤘The risks & rewards of bridging online connections into offline relationships 🥰Why Seth moved his paid subscribers off Substack & lessons he learned in the transfer process 🌶️The perils of the paywall 🚩If you love this conversation, join me and Seth for a LIVE Q&A on September 11th! Only $10 if you sign up right here. RESOURCES + LINKS👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails

Sep 3, 2025 • 25min
💫 How to (Self) Publish a Book Without Social Media
Welcome 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 sharing a preview of what's to come this fall and a juicy excerpt of a conversation I had on the Writing Your Resilience podcast earlier this year. Tune in and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss an episode! More soon. xoxo, Amelia 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

Aug 6, 2025 • 16min
🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Exclusive Book Preview!
It'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 six of Off the Grid. We'll be on break for the rest of August, but if you join the Clubhouse, you'll get our free summer reset series that starts next week! xoxo, AmeliaRESOURCES + 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