Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Podge Thomas, a Notion consultant and operations practitioner, engages in a thought-provoking discussion about decolonizing learning and business practices. She critiques traditional education's coercive nature and its links to colonial structures. Podge emphasizes the importance of self-knowledge, particularly for neurodivergent individuals, as a form of resistance. She also explores how Notion can serve as a liberatory tool for diverse thinking styles. Their conversation touches on the need for flexibility in task management and the significance of rest as resistance against societal pressures.

Jordan Maney, a Radical Joy Coach™ and creator of the Rest Lab, dives into the transformative power of rest. She challenges the notion of static work-life balance, advocating for a fluid approach to managing labor and rest. Jordan highlights emotional labor and its impact on burnout, revealing why sabbaticals aren’t the universal solution. She introduces the concept of 'creative rest' for creators and emphasizes daily restorative practices. Ultimately, she frames rest as both a political and spiritual act, promoting rest equity for all.

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!  COMING UP:✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care COMMUNITY SPONSORS:🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid 

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!  COMING UP:✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care COMMUNITY SPONSORS:🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid 

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!  COMING UP:✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care COMMUNITY SPONSORS:🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid 

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.

Big launches have been all the rage this year. But I’ve been working very quietly behind the scenes, growing my membership with small launches to a private waitlist.How’s it gone? Pretty great, actually! I’ve invited in 6-18 new members every 4-6 weeks all year long. That’s over 70 new people! Bringing in over $10,000 in revenue! And my nervous system has stayed regulated the entire time.So, as I do… I’m here to tell you exactly how I’ve done it. 🤓In this episode, I share how my waitlist works, and the 5 lessons I’ve learned from opening the doors to the Interweb 8 times this year.Then I walk you through the 5-email sequence I’ve honed through my waitlist experiments and offer thoughts on starting a waitlist strategy of your own.This episode is basically 9 months of hard-won wisdom offered to you in less than 40 minutes! But you'll only get a brief preview here. To hear the whole episode, join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouseWhen you do, you'll get access to over 30 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show.Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :)

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!  COMING UP:✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care COMMUNITY SPONSORS:🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid 

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!  COMING UP:✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care COMMUNITY SPONSORS:🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid