Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Today we visit the Off the Grid archives and Podge Thomas returns for a reflective conversation about why being self-employed invites (and requires) decolonizing how we learn, how we communicate, how we operate, and how we relate to others. Podge has recently created a FREE email course on Metacognitive Learning Design. I want you to get the course, check out her Decolonized Learning Glossary, and then tune in to the episode. Together we explore:The coercive effects of traditional education ⛓️‍💥Why Amelia did School like Ken did Beach 🏖️How to de-condition & decolonize our businesses 🧲The importance of situating self-knowledge amidst community values 🎗️Why Notion is a liberatory tool 👾Task management for non-linear thinkers 😵‍💫& so much more! 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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

If you’re tired of being tired, this episode is for you. Today I’m joined by Jordan Maney, the Radical Joy Coach™ and creator of the RestLab. Through her facilitation and coaching, she helps people who give a damn (including you, dear listener!) learn the radical practice of rest. In this conversation, we get into:Why we can’t talk about rest without talking about workThe self-fulfilling prophesy of “invisible labor”How to rest when you really love what you doWhy creative work requires creative restRest equity as a guiding principleRejecting “calm supremacy”Why a sabbatical probably isn’t the antidote for burnout…  Tune in then, join Jordan in RestLab 101 for support slowing down and sustaining your creative work, your community advocacy, and your rest.  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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Happy Halloween/Samhein week, friends 🌙Today, I’m joined by one of my favorite witches, Casey Zabala of Modern Witches and Wanderers Tarot.Casey and I have a rich conversation tracing her spiritual path and how it became her career. We explore community, magic, and the power of self-publishing, as well as why Casey left social media earlier this year.We also get into the nitty gritty details of bringing both a tarot deck and a community anthology to life — exploring the highs and lows of collaborative creativity and manifestation.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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Here's the thing: Off the Grid isn't just a marketing podcast. 🥸It's a rallying cry to break free from the attention economy and reclaim your agency.It's also a vision of the internet where we create, connect, and make money online without extractive algorithms.In this bonus episode, I'm sharing the new vision for Off the Grid! And inviting you to co-create it with me at our upcoming retreat.Listen in. Read the vision. Buy a book bundle. Let's get free. 🩵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!

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!  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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!

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

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! 

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  UPDATE: I’ve amended the start of this episode to share the unfortunate news that — if you distribute your book through IngramSpark, IT WILL ALWAYS be available on Amazon. This was not clear before my publication date, but after many support tickets to IngramSpark they’ve clarified that “our distribution program is ‘All or nothing’ which that we are unable to leave out any of our distribution partners.”  I was able to stop the ebook and audiobook from going to Amazon, but the paperback version is now unavoidably there. Please buy it elsewhere! 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   

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  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

Bailey Lang is a book coach, editor, and ghostwriter who helps business owners, creatives, and academics tell stories that matter.In this episode, Bailey and I pull back the curtain on the book-writing process. I share the messy middle and behind-the-scenes challenges of bringing my own book to life, while Bailey offers grounded guidance on what to do (and what not to do) if you’re dreaming of writing one yourself.If you’ve ever thought “maybe I have a book in me” — this one’s for you.Tune in, then get a copy of Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media. Its on sale now! 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  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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, listen to Cody’s podcast Common Shapes! (The party Amelia & Cody hosted has passed.)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  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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  📲 Support for this show comes from Podcast Magic. It’s a way to save your fave pod moments AND help shows like Off the Grid grow. If a line sticks with you today, screenshot your player, email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app, and you’ll get a transcript + clip you can share. Try it 3 times for free, and use the code OFFTHEGRID for 10% off more. Enjoy! (sponsored)

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

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