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Happy Halloween, business witches! 🧙
While I typically keep things pretty practical here at Off the Grid, this week I wanted to lean into the mystical, magical and alchemical aspects of creative business.
To do that, I invited three brilliant practitioners to each share a unique and powerful biz magic ritual with us!
✨ Brigitte starts us off with some practical magic as she shares her opening + closing rituals for each workday and workweek. [9:00]
✨ Then Cecily Sailer offers a tarot spread and community reading for connecting with our business spirits. [17:00]
✨ And finally, Ash Canty gifts us a meditative practice that serves anyone asking — “what do I do when everything goes quiet? or when things feel slow? or when I put something out there and nothing happens in response to it?” [31:45]
I hope you’ll press play then keep reading to learn more about our magical contributors and find all the links to their work! 🪄
Contributors:
- Brigitte (she/her) is a systems and self-care witch who builds intentional systems for neurodivergent creatives who want to feel proud, successful, and get shit done. She makes Notion templates and custom workspaces that are a launchpad to helping you cross the finish line on your projects and goals.
- Cecily Sailer (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.
- Ash Canty (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous, queer, trans-masculine, psychic medium, mentor, and death guide. Ash is also the co-creator of his business, The Sovereign Spirit Medium, and all the millions of umbrellas that are underneath that, that he manages and runs and also lets go of all the time.
Additional Resources & Links:
- From Brigitte: notion daily dashboard template, custom notion workspace consult, website, youtube
- From Cecily: typewriter tarot website, fifth spirit tarot deck, podcast
- From Ash: the sovereign spirit medium website, substack, portland grief house
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Often when business isn’t going well, we think that we can fix it with a new marketing strategy or growth tactic.
We look to new courses, fancy platforms, or expensive mentors to “save” us … but in my experience, what we actually need in these times is to tend to our inner reserves in deeper and more nuanced ways.
So today I’m joined by Pascale Coté of Dear Creative Mind to teach us how to cultivate creative resilience in our artistic, marketing and business practices.
If you’ve ever had an unexpected pivot, a disappointing launch, or a period of deep burnout in your business, this episode is for you. Tune in to learn about:
- What creative resilience is
- How to expand your window of tolerance in business
- Common creative blocks to work with — like perfectionism, procrastination, self-sabotage & more
- How social media causes creative blocks
- Ways to redefine success & measure it differently
- Navigating positive & negative feedback
- The importance of pacing ourselves & our expectations
- Additional resources from Pascale ♡
📲 Wish you could leave social media, but not quite ready yet? You need to read ➡ The Art of Thriving Online: Creative Exercises to Help You Stay Grounded and Feel Joy in the World of Social Media by Amelia Knott. Out now with Sounds True. (sponsored)
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This one goes out to all our listeners who are still trying to make it work on social media!
Today I’m joined by Dacy Gillespie, a weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist who has grown her business online over the past decade and is now navigating a major shift from Instagram to Substack.
Together, we talk about:
- The high-stress worlds of music, teaching, arts admin & academia
- Why Dacy started working in fashion — even though she felt like a total outsider
- The role that Instagram plays in Dacy’s business
- How Dacy has right-sized her business for her capacity
- Ways to navigate the highs & lows of a fluctuating client load
- Why Dacy started her Substack newsletter & how it’s grown to over 10,000 subscribers
- How to market your work when you hate the feeling of selling yourself
- “is it possible to be an ethical influencer?”
📲 Wish you could leave social media, but not quite ready yet? You need to read ➡ The Art of Thriving Online: Creative Exercises to Help You Stay Grounded and Feel Joy in the World of Social Media by Amelia Knott. Out now with Sounds True. (sponsored)
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This week on the show we're getting into it with everyone’s least favorite internet friend — THE ALGORITHM 🙈
To do that I'm joined by Kate Smalley, a small business advisor, educator, and facilitator, who recently wrote a great piece about getting out of your algorithm that had me thinking more about what algorithms actually do and how we can work with them rather than against them.
Today Kate's here to help me explore:
- What an algorithm even is
- How algorithms function on social media
- Why it feels like "The Algorithm" is working against us
- Collaborating with algorithms for expanded possibilities
- How it feels to be stuck in your algorithm & ways to get unstuck
- Our fave non-algorithmically-mediated spaces
Mentioned in the episode: Algorithms by Panos Louridas, The Social Dilemma, Are.na, Sublime, Readwise
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Happy October! This week we're kicking off Spooky Season with one of my favorite business witches — Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz of Holisticism!
Michelle has taught me so much about online business, magical meaning-making systems, and spiritual practices. She's one of my favorite people to pay attention to on the internet, and I invited her on the show so I could ask her every question I've ever had about how she runs her company.
In this episode, we get real-real about:
- How Michelle started Holisticism with a BFA in dance
- Evolving from newsletter to booking platform to online courses & community
- The 4 Pillars of Intuitive Business
- The realities of Radical Generosity
- Why some ideas aren't meant to be businesses
- Exactly how Michelle markets her paid membership, The North Node
- Why Holisticism moved their newsletter + podcast to Substack
- The magic of the low-cost class as lead magnet
- How Michelle has grown (& shrunk) her team over the past 5 years
- Planning a self-employed maternity leave
- The meeting creep & how to correct it
- Navigating chronic illness & family emergencies as a business owner
- How Michelle organizes her offerings
- Running multiple businesses at once
- & so much more!
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