Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media
Off The Grid is a podcast for artists, writers & creative 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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📄 Feedback that Doesn’t Feel Bad — with Morgan Evans
<p>Welcome to our most personal episode yet! </p><p>Today I’m joined by Morgan Evans from Business Casual to talk about the seemingly-simple but often-fraught topic of: feedback.</p><p><br>We share a lot of personal experiences and business examples as we get into:</p>What feedback really isWhy reviews and random emails aren’t feedbackHow to give & receive feedback that doesn’t feel like 💩Ways to create business systems that invite feedbackHow to resolve conflict with clients/customers/team membersWhy feedback is actually a social justice toolPositive feedback and how to integrate it<p> <br>RESOURCES + LINKS<br>👋...
🔒 Self-Publishing Off the Amazon Path
<p>Last month, I was thrilled to join Karolina Wudniak of Paperwing Studio in the Indie Book Lab! </p><p><br>We talked about how I approached self-publishing without relying on Amazon — including the platforms I used, the (costly) mistakes I made, and how much money I’ve brought in from my book so far (revenue AND profit).</p><p><br>I also answered lots of attendee questions:</p>Why did you decide to avoid Amazon? & How much could you really?What size audience would you recommend having before going Amazon-less?Is it realistic to make sales without Amazon’s reach...
➿ The Tension of Platforms & Why I Haven’t Left Substack (Yet)
<p>If you're stressed about using Spotify, Substack, Google, Instagram, or any other platforms... this episode is for you!</p><p>Today I'm talking about how to choose platforms & tech tools without selling your soul — and why I'm still on Substack even though I kinda hate it. 🫠</p><p>Tune in to hear me break down:</p>Tools vs PlatformsQuestions to ask before you choose a new toolWhat to do about the bad politics of platformsWhy there's no purity on the internetFour strategies for rethinking your choicesTech stack harm reductionThe big decision I made about Substack<p>RESOURCES + LINKS<br>👋 Download...
🕯️Centering Your Values & Staying off Social Media — with Harry Doull of Keap Candles
<p>Harry Doull grew up living in a small family hotel in the French countryside. Then he worked for the UN and Google, before leaving tech behind to co-found his candle company, Keap.<br> <br>This week, he’s on the podcast to share why he left tech for candlemaking, and how he’s grown Keap without social media or Amazon — while still garnering plenty of customers, partners, and awards, including landing on Wirecutter’s best candles list.<br> <br>This one’s for all the product-makers out there and anyone who believes business without social media can’t scale. They can! We...
🔒 How Do I Stay Visible Without Social Media?
<p>Today I’m bringing you something really special—</p><p><br>A mini-coaching session and marketing conversation about how to stay visible without social media.</p><p><br>It comes from a wonderful conversation I had with Jenni Gritters’ community last month, where someone asked me:</p>"I just started a business and everyone I’ve talked to has said: ‘oh so you have to make an Instagram.’ My rebellious self is completely against it, but obviously it’s a very slow build without social media. Do you think it’s possible? How would you go about it?"<p> <br>I get this que...
🧗🏻♀️ Getting Off the Online Business Growth Escalator [BEST OF]
<p>Today, I'm bringing together everything I know about growing an online business to explore why sometimes we feel like our businesses just won't work... and then other times they grow wayyyy beyond our capacity.</p><p><br>Tune in to this Best Of episode to hear more about:</p>Realizing you're on the Wrong Path & how to get off itThe Online Business Growth EscalatorWhat to do when your escalator is brokenHow to chart your own path for business growthQuestions to get clear on where you want to go<p></p><p>RESOURCES + LINKS<br>👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Med...
📉 Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns with Nic Antoinette
<p>This week, Nic Antoinette returns to share what really happens when you take a year off your business… and why degrowth is their plan for 2026.</p><p>Join us for a 90-minute biz friend chat where we explore:</p>The original idea for Nic’s Gap YearHow stepping back from work changes your identityWhat slowing down really requires of usWhen making less money can be a goal (not a failure)Finding enoughness without succumbing to underearningHow we’re right-sizing our work in 2026& more!<br> <p>RESOURCES + LINKS<br>👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit<br>🌐 Get on the Interweb waitl...
🔒 How Much $$ I've Really Made in 5 Years of Self-Employment
<p>My least favorite thing about starting a business was the overwhelming fear and uncertainty I felt around making money.</p><p><br>In the early days, I was drowning in narratives of how most businesses fail, and I’d probably never earn enough to feel supported or successful.</p><p>But over time… My business started working. More money started flowing. And I built confidence in my ability to steward wealth.</p><p><br>Now — I’ve been working full-time in my business for almost five years. It feels wild to report that I’ve made over $550,000 in revenue during tha...
✊ 50 Ways Your Business Can Fight Fascism
<p>With the state of the world, it’s easy to believe that creative work is a waste of time. </p><p>But I believe our businesses, art, and lives can be powerful forces for change. Not just by default, but through simple-yet-radical practices.</p><p>To help us orient toward personal power and collective freedom, I shared a free class and compiled this list of 50 ways your creative work can be a force for liberation (and fight fascism in the process).</p><p>Remember: Your work matters. Your art matters. And it can change the world — if you make it. <...
💎 How I Built This: 5 Years of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid
<p>Welcome to season nine of Off the Grid!<br>We’re kicking this one off by talking about why I’m kinda closing my business…<br>Or more accurately: how pruning one tree helps another grow.</p><p> <br>Tune in to hear all about:</p>Abolishing ICE & Standing with MinnesotaWhat I did before I started Softer SoundsMy step-by-step transition from side hustle to small businessThe one strategy that brought in 6 months of $$$Why I started this podcast… and then almost quit making itThe 3 keys to Off the Grid’s successHow I’m turning this tiny indie show into my full-time...
