Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

This episode is meant to save you money!

Today, I’m sharing my guide to more affordable business systems and software that can help you set up online for under $50/year — or lower your overhead with strategic tool swaps.

Tune in to hear my tech recommendations and how I think through software needs.

Also: These recs don’t include Google! Some of them are privacy focused, others are not. Some include AI functionality,...

Today we're refreshing our offices with the wonderful Taylor Apolonio of Habitat Interiors Co.

Taylor works at the intersection of interior design and psychology as a 'design psychologist'. They create physical spaces that are grounded in human behavior to genuinely support folks. This might look like improved circulation and functionality, better acoustics, or intentionally designing for gathering and memory-making.

Tune in to t...

Have you ever put on a new outfit and felt like a totally different (and way better) person?

Today we're gonna do that for your business. 💁‍♀️

Join me and Alex McGinness of Arcoíris Design Studio as we talk through the four parts of a resonant brand refresh: essence, execution, expression, and experience.

ALSO! When it comes to DIY branding, we recommend:

• Coolors for creating color palettes
• Canva for choosing fonts and designing g...

Hello hello and happy mid-August, friends! 

Today we're kicking off a new Biz Refresh series  —  five episodes in five days to get you ready for fall in a fun, aligned way!

Press play to hear why I'm embracing a pivot, and tune in this week to learn:

• How to refresh your brand (for free!)
• Ideas for updating your home office & work vibe
• My guide to more affordable systems & software for your tiny biz
• A new ...

Today we’re talking about why I left Substack! Through a conversation with the amazing Lex Roman of Revenue Rulebreaker.

Together we explore:

• Lex’s journey from working in tech to starting an agency to launching a membership for journalists to now running an indie media company
• The state of small business media (& why there are so many opportunities there!)
• Why we’re committed to being creators even though...

Join me as I convince myself it's ok to sunset my business 😬
 
In this quarterly recap episode, I walk through the highs, lows, and finances of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid so far this year...
 
And I figure out how to make the money work as I pivot my business model from service provider to content creator!
 

Tune in to an episode preview here, and become a paid subscriber of the Clubhouse at offt...

Nic Antoinette is back to help me wrap season nine, and we’re talking about the breaks we are (and aren’t) taking this summer.

Tune in to hear us unpack:

• Why nobody talks about the moments we don’t like our business 😬
• How fear keeps us from slowing down or taking breaks 🐌
• When being honest actually f*cks with your sales 📉
• Different types of breaks we’ve taken and want to take ⛓️‍💥
• How to figure out wha...

HEY HI HELLO! 🍕

Today I’m thrilled to be joined by best-selling author, super-fun illustrator, and illustrious host of Creative Pep Talk podcast, Andy J Pizza!

In this upbeat conversation, we chat about:

• How Andy makes money as an artist
• The strategic choices he made to grow his podcast
• Why we can’t “What-Would-David-Bowie-Do” our way into a successful business
• Andy’s musician-model for thinking abo...

If I had to name ONE THING that increased my sales more than anything else in the past year...

It'd be learning to polish my copywriting and pre-launch my offerings with Nicole Cloutier and her class Open Loop.

Open Loop is how I doubled Interweb sign-ups in 2026.
Open Loop is how I made over $10k on COME TO CLASS last month.
Open Loop is why I feel so confident selling this year.

And that's why I'm THRILLED to share that Ope...

Natalie Brite (they/them) is the founder and creative director of DoGoodBiz — an ethical creative studio for conscious leaders and the movements they're building.

On their Substack newsletter, they write about creativity, ecosystems, and doing work rooted in care. They also excoriate social media! But in a soft, supportive way, of course.

Today Natalie joins me to talk about why social media managers burn out so hard. And how t...

What do we do when business slows down over the summer? And how do we navigate that when a global recession and supply chain breakdown are happening at the same time??

In this Clubhouse-exclusive workshop replay, I share my best strategies for running your business during slow times — including somatic self-soothing ideas, ways to reduce expenses, and a framework for experimenting with new offerings.

I'm sharing a preview here...

Today I’m thrilled to have Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner of Loam on the podcast to discuss their new book, Compassion in Crisis, which just came out with Heyday Books.

Together we have a gentle, honest, and deep conversation exploring:

• The meaning of ‘polycrisis’
• Why it’s important to think about preparedness
• Ways to prepare without slipping into hypervigilance (even if you’re an anxious ...

Today I’m bringing you something really special—

A mini-coaching session where I answer a question about how to grow your email list before, during, and after leaving social media.

The question comes from the wonderful Kate of Queen Bee Hormone Health who wrote to me and asked:

I often say I left social media because I was anxiously-attached to Instagram… but what does that actually mean?!

Today I’m joined by psychotherapist and author Shannon Algeo to explore why Attachment Theory explains so much about technology and smartphone addiction.

We discuss their new book, The Power in Your Hands, as we talk about:

• What it means to be anxious, avoidant, or securely-attached
• How algorithms hack our ...

Today I’m doing something fun and different…

Live-writing an AI policy with my friend and colleague, Dr. Kate Henry of Honing In!

After listening to the Off the Grid AI series, Kate reached out to ask if I she could hire me to help her write an AI policy. I said no, because I’m not doing 1:1 advising right now… but I proposed that we record a chat about it for the Clubhouse instead!

So in this video and audio...

LINDSAY MACK IS HERE!

And while you’ve probably heard them talk about tarot on their wildly popular podcast…

Today they’re taking us deep behind the scenes of their work to explore:

• How they built their creative tarot business
• The key inflection points that led to successful biz growth
• The realities of being a breadwinner ~in this economy~
• Why they’re finally releasing a tarot deck and book
• & The tarot arc...

“My constant longing to be without social media is actually a longing to be in deeper connection with the world.”

River Selby was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. They worked as a wildland firefighter for seven years, and their debut memoir, Hotshot: A Life of Fire, was published in 2025 by Grove Atlantic.

Today, River joins me to talk about the realities of being an author from a working class, n...

If you’ve been paying attention around here…

You likely know that next week I’m teaching a new intensive called COME TO CLASS!

It’s a 3-day workshop on how to teach online with confidence and care, and it’ll guide you through everything I’ve learned in 20 years of teaching — with a special focus on how learning to teach can help you improve your sales.

One of the bonuses that COME TO CLASS st...

I’ve had SO MANY conversations about the problems with online course platforms.

Mighty Networks vs Circle vs Kajabi vs Teachable — none of us like the existing options, and we’re waiting for someone to build something better.

So today I’ve invited Sally Burns to the show, because she’s building an alternate platform for teaching and learning online — a digital neighborhood called The Portal.