Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients

Today on the show, I’m joined by art psychotherapist Amelia Knott to explore and untangle the intersections of mental health, social media, creativity, and small business. We specifically take on the concepts of “digital wellness” and “ethical marketing.” And we have a nuanced conversation about how we really feel online and what it means to market with care (and without coercion). Join us as we get into: And if you enjoy this episode, make sure you get a copy of Amelia’s book, The Art of Thriving Online! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🕯️ Feeling the pull to bring more soul into your business—not just strategy and systems, but real alignment? Sarah Dittmore is your guide for Tarot wisdom, custom spell candles and magical rituals that help you feel spiritually supported as you grow your business. Learn more & get 30% off her services with the code OFFTHEGRID. (sponsored)

Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more. Today, they join me on the podcast to talk about the decision they made to quiet quit Instagram at the start of 2025. Together, we explore: nonlinear psychic collaborationYour Art is a Spell Tune in for an inspiring conversation in the spirit of Toni Cade Bambara, who teaches us that — “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.” RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 👯 Edgar’s artist shout-outs: Asher Hartman, Reina Prado of Healing Queen & Good Mexican Girl, Jeff Hinshaw ❣️ Having a solid strategy is the key to ensuring your marketing is effective - especially in these uncertain times. Get Slow and Steady Studio's FREE mini training for creating a one-line strategy statement at slowandsteady.studio/strategy.

Cher Hale is one of my favorite people on the internet, and her newsletter Doing It For the Attention has taught me SO MUCH about getting my work in front of new people in a way that aligns with my body AND my business. In this conversation, we dive deep into the roots of attention and all the ways we can build community around our work — including how to amplify attention for ourselves and others. Tune in to hear Cher’s wisdom and advice on: 20 Ways to Amplify Attention for Under-Recognized VoicesBecky Mollenkamp RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🌹 Introducing The Fiorire Retreat, a transformative creative retreat happening this September in the heart of Austin. If you're an artist of any kind craving inspiration + connection, learn more & join us. (sponsored)

Come on down for the 100th episode of Off the Grid!!! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone, we're returning to our roots with a fresh conversation about how to leave social media (if you so choose). Today Deanna deBara from Season of Stuck podcast joins me to explore: 🫣 why we get stuck on social media 🥸 how to stop doomscrolling & feeling trapped on the apps 🤠 & ways to decide what YOUR next best step is online or offline If you're feeling stuck in any aspect of your business, marketing or life, this episode is for you! Thanks for tuning in and celebrating 100 episodes with us. 💛 RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🏴‍☠️ ​Ready to join a merry band of creative entrepreneurs? Doors to CARE (the Consortium of Arts Related Entrepreneurs) are open through April 25. Head to rachelropeik.com/care to find out more. (sponsored)

OMG CROSSOVER EPISODE! 🫶 Today on the show, I'm celebrating our 99th episode (and my four-years-off-social-media anniversary!) by sharing a conversation I had with Rebekah Taussig and Caitlin Metz for their podcast Scratch That. We get into things I've NEVER talked about publicly before, including: Tune in for an amazing, multi-faceted conversation, and if you're one of our parents listening, make sure you go subscribe to Scratch That: Parenting & ReParenting Off Script on Apple and Spotify for more incredible episodes! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🫶 Looking for nuanced conversations about adult friendship? Listen + subscribe to Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship anywhere you get your podcasts (sponsored)

How do we imagine new possibilities when it feels like our well has gone dry? This week I'm joined by author, tarotist, and Jungian creativity coach Sarah Arantza Amador of Hawthorn Mountain Tarot. Together we explore: Let's un-slogify our lives together, friends! Tune in for a thoughtful conversation full of practical tips that will help you reinvigorate your creative business. RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🫠 Do you ever feel stuck, like you’re caught in a loop of self-doubt and not sure how to move forward with your ideas? Get the FREE Creative Confidence Toolkit from Pascale of Dear Creative Mind today. (sponsored) 🏦 Want to rewrite your money stories & make more biz friends this spring? Join The Interweb — your portal to launching, growing & running a successful business without relying on social media. Only $149/year and doors close April 8th.

ESCAPE THE TRANCE ⁕ REMEMBER YOUR AGENCY ⁕ BUILD COMMUNITY Today on the pod we have a very special guest — Elise Granata of GROUP HUG! Elise is here to chat with me about how social media erodes our agency + community building efforts — even if these platforms started as supportive relational hubs. Join us as we wind through our teen years on Tumblr, how we dissociate on the apps, what inspires us to get offline, the dangers of optimized communities, adjusting our aesthetic expectations, "sweatshirt-level friends," and how to start your community practice. RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 🌞 This summer, expand your Spanish fluency through the lens of Barcelona’s creative community. Sobremesa.Immersions is a highly curated cultural experience focused on language and creativity. Find out more at Sobremesa.Institute – the unconventional Spanish school. (sponsored)

What if selling didn't have to feel sleazy? And the words on your website could cast a magical spell for your ideal clients/customers instead? Today, I'm joined by copywriter and podcaster Nicole Cloutier to talk about how to be more specific in our messaging and simple tips to write better sales pages. Tune in to hear about: And make sure to grab Nicole's FREE sales page bundle, exclusively for Off the Grid listeners! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show ⊹₊ ⋆ GIVEAWAY TIME! You could win your own copy of the Inquire Within Reflection Deck. Just fill out this form by 3/25/25 to be entered to win. (sponsored)

Leaving social media isn’t always the most profitable decision… but maybe it taps into something even more lucrative? In this episode, I’m joined by Leah Kern, an anti-diet dietitian who left social media a year ago and has experienced ups and downs in her business since. For the first half of our conversation, we explore Leah’s path onto and off of social media, including how she used to get clients on Instagram and how she finds clients now. Then in the second half of our chat, we discuss how intuitive eating actually led us both deeper into our values and why breaking up with diet culture was an important step toward breaking up with the apps altogether. Tune in to hear a new perspective on what it's really like to leave social media with your business. And if you love this episode, be sure to tune in to Amelia on Leah's podcast Shoulders Down as well! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show 🫠 Do you ever feel stuck, like you’re caught in a loop of self-doubt and not sure how to move forward with your ideas? Get the FREE Creative Confidence Toolkit from Pascale of Dear Creative Mind today. (sponsored)

Today I’m joined by writer, therapist, and creative Lisa Olivera to talk about how her work and life have shifted as her Instagram platform's grown to over 400,000 followers. Together, we dive into: her Substack newsletter RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

How do we stay creative — when there’s so much to do and so much is at stake? Today I’m joined by writer, coach, and retreat leader Maria Bowler for a practical and philosophical conversation about: If you love this conversation, make sure to get yourself a copy of Maria’s book, Making Time! Off the Grid listeners get a special discount and free shipping at this link. (sponsored) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show off the grid : coworking club starts March 10th! 🌸 join us on Mondays & Wednesdays at 10am CT for space to focus & space to connect. pay-what-you-can pricing starts at $20 for all 8 weeks. learn more + register here

It’s 2025 and everyone’s sick of social media… so what do we so now? Today we’re kicking off season six with a conversation with poet, author, actor, and model Arielle Estoria. Over the past decade, Arielle has cultivated a multi-faceted creative career while growing her Instagram following to over 100K people. In this vulnerable conversation, we explore: RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Learn more about purchasing ad space + sponsoring the show

TikTok's been banned. Meta's removed fact-checking. 2025 has already been a big year in social media news, and if you're having some big feelings about it, this episode is for you. Today we’re grieving social media together, so we can remember what we loved, recognize what we miss, and prepare ourselves to step into what’s next. So whether you were abruptly kicked off TikTok today or you've been inching away from social media for a while, tune in to this Best Of episode (with a new of-the-moment intro!) to hear more about: RESOURCES + LINKS 🔗 Get all the links mentioned in this episode here 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

Today we're putting the cherry on top of your 2025 marketing toolkit with a long-form episode on 2025 Marketing Trends! To do that, I'm joined by communications strategist Amanda Laird to chat about four things she's forecasting for the year ahead, including: Tune in for a gently-guided look into the murky crystal ball of online biz in 2025. Then join us in the Clubhouse for our members-only biz forecast episodes throughout the year! MORE FROM AMANDA 🐌 Visit the Slow & Steady website 📩 Sign up for Amanda's newsletter 🎧 Listen to Amanda's previous appearance on Off the Grid (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

Today we're revealing the third tool in your 2025 marketing toolkit, and I'm resharing our BEST OF episode where Michelle Warner teaches us all about relationship marketing! With an MBA from one of the world’s top business schools and 15+ years experience growing small businesses, Michelle designs tiny companies that are built to last. She’s also the creator of Networking That Pays, the introvert-friendly connection system that brings in reliable leads, consistent referrals and meaningful connections for your business — in just 5 minutes a day. Together, Michelle and I talk about: MORE FROM MICHELLE ⏱️ Get Michelle’s free workshop 5 Minutes A Day to a Network That Pays 🎧 Listen to Michelle's podcast Sequence Over Strategy RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

Today at long last, we’ve got an episode exploring all things podcast guesting! And to do that I’m joined by return guest, portfolio career expert, and founder of Inner Workout, Taylor Elyse Morrison. Together we get into: And if you’re ready to put all this into action, please let me recommend Taylor’s new course, Grow Your Brand by Podcast Guesting! I’m a guest expert on one of the sections, and you can use the code OFFTHEGRID FOR $50 off if you sign up by the end of January. MORE FROM TAYLOR 👀 Read Taylor’s blog posts on how podcast guesting fits into your marketing strategy + how to make the most of being a podcast guest 📈 Use the code OFFTHEGRID for $50 off Grow Your Brand By Podcast Guesting (code expires 1/31/25) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

Welcome to our 2025 Marketing Toolkit! Today on the pod, we’re talking all things email marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett. Tune in to learn: Whether you're an email beginner just starting your list or a seasoned pro hoping to bump up those click rates, this episode has supportive, implementable advice for you! I hope you'll tune in and share it with a friend xo MORE FROM ALLEA 📩 Get all the email goods from Allea + Duett right here 🎧 Listen to Allea's podcast Happy Subscribers RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

Happy New Year & welcome to season five of Off the Grid! Today we're kicking off this year-in-biz with a fun new format — five episodes in five days! Press play to hear all about it, and tune in this week to learn: You'll hear from amazing guests like Allea Grummert, Taylor Elyse Morrison, Michelle Warner, and Amanda Laird. It's basically a mini-of-the-moment-marketing-masterclass all for free on the pod feed this week! So please subscribe and share it with a friend xo RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Join the Interweb for courses + community 🌸 Peep the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails 💌 Try Flodesk for easy email marketing, forms + e-commerce & use this link for 50% off your first year (affiliate link)

In this BEST OF episode, we dive deep what it means to feel seen and how social media is messing with our sense of self-worth and community connection. Tune in to hear me break down: And if you're thinking of stepping back from social media, go ahead & download our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit today! 🩵

Today we’re diving into the emotional depths of what happens after you break up with social media. Because it turns out that logging off the apps is only the first step... Tune in to this BEST OF episode to hear more about: Know someone who’s thinking of getting off social media? Share this episode with them! 👋 And if you're thinking of leaving yourself, make sure to download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit!