Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Welcome back to season two of Off the Grid! This week I’ve got a thot take (that's a thoughtful hot take) of an episode for all our newsletter writers out there.By popular request, I’m exploring the rise of Substack. And I’m asking whether this newsletter/podcast/threads/notes platform is good for small businesses or bad for them.I’m also helping you answer the question, Is Substack right for me? Tune in to hear more about:The pros of SubstackThe promises Substack makes to its creatorsWhether or not Substack is social mediaHow Substack might be harming small businesses more than helping them👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨  

Hey hey babes — this week we're welcoming my friend & collaborator, grace allerdice, back to the pod for a conversation at the intersection of creative practice and self-employment.Grace and I have a chat about what's been happening in our businesses lately, then discuss what it means to be a creator-led business, how constraints help our creativity flourish, and why we want to make less content, not more.Join us for a friendly chat between two business BFFs, then click here to get on the mailing list for Living Systems. 🌬👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

Today I’m welcoming Christy Harrison MPH, RD, CEDS to the pod to talk about how social media platforms have lead to mass misinformation being spread online — and why that’s harmful to all of us, whether we think we fall prey to it or not.Together, we talk about the parallels between wellness culture and social media culture, how misinformation spreads online, and the way that social media weakens our inner authority. We also get into our personal and business relationships to social media, and have a candid chat about why Christy’s still on Instagram.Tune in to hear more about:The aspirational nature of wellness & social mediaWhy false information spreads faster & farther than the truth onlineHow to values personal stories and scientific evidence simultaneouslyThe value of solitude in reconnecting to ourselvesWhy Christy’s still on social media  👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

Welcome back, babes! Today I am excited to have our first guest of the season, SEO expert Emily Gertenbach.Together, we talk about Search Engine Optimization — what it is, how it works, and how you can make it work for your business in a mindful way. We also get into what it means that search engines are implementing more AI. And we have a candid chat about data privacy online.Tune in to hear more about:SEO for beginners & prosEmily’s 3-step process for optimizing your siteDemystifying keywords & getting your site to rankWhy Emily stopped using Google AnalyticsAI’s potential impact on the future of SEO (spoiler: no need to be scared)👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

I’m a firm believer in transparency around the way my business (and this podcast) makes money. So in today’s episode, I’m opening up the books to give you the cold, hard / warm, soft facts of how much money I’ve made from this show and exactly how I’ve made it.If you've ever wanted a peek behind the scenes of Off the Grid strategy, you'll definitely want to tune in & hear:How I’ve grown the Off the Grid audienceReal dollar amounts & download stats for the podWhich offerings make the most money and whyThe big failure of a VIP Day I launched last springTips for how you can apply these lessons to your own business and/or podcast👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

Sometimes, we learn through trial and error, babes. Last season I was optimistic about what Pinterest could do for my small business. So I invested a little time, a lot of effort, and a few thousand dollars into pins on the platform.But after giving it a go… I have some new thoughts. Tune in for my freshest take on the effectiveness of Pinterest as a small business marketing strategy, including:The data from my personal experience with paid Pinterest adsHow Pinterest is morphing into a social media platformThe price leap oversight in my strategyThe importance of keeping an experimental mindset👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

This week we’re taking on everybody’s favorite marketing strategy and we’re not holding back! If you’re an online business owner, you’re probably familiar with content marketing. It’s everywhere, and we get it…sometimes it’s effective. But also…is it really?In this episode, I unpack ten reasons content marketing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and I share lots of ideas for what you can do instead.Tune in to hear more about:What content marketing is & why people love itHow content marketing takes over our time & devalues our workWhy we need to step back from over-giving & learn how to sell our offeringsCommon issues with social media, lead magnets & SEO👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today.🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨ 

Welcome to season two of Off the Grid! To kick things off, this week we’re diving into the emotional depths of breaking ties with social media. Turns out, it’s a process.Tune in to hear more about:The stages of grieving that come before the stages of leavingOur 5 stages of leaving: burn out, content creation, return to human pace, loving it + relationship renewalThe magic that can happen when the space currently filled with social media is free againMy personal experience of loneliness setting in two years after leaving social mediaKnow someone who’s thinking of taking the leap? Share this episode with them! 👋 And if you're thinking of leaving yourself, make sure to download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit! 🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨  

How can we release ourselves from the outer forces, inner voices, and productivity gurus driving us toward more-more-more? And when we do choose another path, how do we set up our work so that we actually bring our dreams to life — without getting lost in ambiguity, confusion or overwhelm?In this episode, I’m joined by grace allerdice, my friend, mentor + co-teacher of our upcoming course Living Systems. Together we discuss how we live + work in alignment with our internal rhythms, energetic capacities + ever-changing seasons.We dive deep into:Creating systems where we can’t help but flourishThe difference between productivity culture (boo) + regenerative systems (yay)How to identify + resolve friction points in your workThe foundational, resilient, clarifying power of the Earth elementWhy we love Projects + how Projects help us bring our purpose to lifeThis episode is for anyone who wants to do life, work + business your way, and needs support figuring out what your way really is. 🌱 Links & resources—Want to get on the mailing list for Living Systems? Sign up for messages here🌈 Want support building a successful, sustainable business without relying on social media? Join The Interweb — our affordable, annual membership for creatives, artists & business owners, who want to share their work & make money without social media. ✨  

D’Ana Joi, a creative life coach and host of the Multi-Passionate Mastery podcast, shares her inspiring journey of leaving social media to cultivate meaningful business connections. She dives into the fears and challenges faced when stepping away from platforms like Instagram and discusses how this shift has rejuvenated her creativity. Joi reveals innovative strategies for finding clients offline and emphasizes the importance of building organic communities, allowing for authentic and sustainable success without the digital clutter.