Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients
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If Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook or X are giving you the ick... please let me offer this 5-step plan for leaving social media — without impacting your income!
Tune in to learn all five steps in under ten minutes. Then grab our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit to make your plan for what comes next in your work, biz + life.
XOXO, Amelia
"These were very colonized institutions that I feel brainwashed me. And they brainwash a lot of people. So now as a business owner, creative & Notion consultant, what I get to do is decolonize my business and help my clients look at their own businesses through a decolonization lens."
Today I’m joined by Podge Thomas 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 is a queer, POC, neurodivergent Notion consultant. Her clients are progressive and radical self-identifying women and non-binary business leaders. When she’s not Notion-izing, she is renovating her 1780’s home in New England with her partner.
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!
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Dropping in off-schedule with a reflection/reminder/rallying-cry that we have power as small business owners, and we can stand against everything Trump is + represents — especially if we do it together.
Tune in for gentle provocations and a special invitation to join me at a free event Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT.
I hope to see you there. 🩵
I’ve admired Jenny Blake’s work from afar for years.
First for her seemingly endless success with book deals, big-name podcast guests, and six-figure corporate contracts.
And now for her incredibly honest accounting of how her business dissolved during the pandemic and hasn’t rebounded since.
So in today’s episode, Jenny joins us to share the highs and lows of her 13 years of self-employment. And together we go deep into all the practical, intuitive, and creative things she’s tried to keep her business going… even though nothing’s really working (except maybe Substack).
This conversation is a must-listen for anyone who has struggled or is struggling in business. ❤️🩹 Big hugs to all of us!
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🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year.
💸 Charge for your work with real numbers, more compassion, and less guesswork. Rest easy in your rates with the free 5-day anticapitalist, pro-human email course from Rest Day Creative. (sponsored)
💠 RSVP for our FREE EVENT — Crystal Clear: How Our Businesses Create Change on Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT
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
👋 Thinking of leaving social media? You don't have to go it alone! Download our free Leaving Social Media Toolkit today
🤸 THE CLUBHOUSE IS OPEN! Join us on Substack for members-only episodes + secret, curated emails. Only $5/mo or $50/year.
💸 Charge for your work with real numbers, more compassion, and less guesswork. Rest easy in your rates with the free 5-day anticapitalist, pro-human email course from Rest Day Creative. (sponsored)
💠 RSVP for our FREE EVENT — Crystal Clear: How Our Businesses Create Change on Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT