Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

We heard you might be stressed about the IRS… so we’re arriving with extra support before US taxes are due on April 15th!
 
Today I’m joined by Aneisha Velazquez of Yellow Sky Business Services, who’s here to talk about finances for microbusinesses, including:
What bookkeeping really is (& what it’s not)
The financial systems solopreneurs need to have in place
Tips for neurodivergent business owners struggling with bookkeeping
Why we love Profit First (and Amelia recommends her fave bank Novo)
Aneisha's top two bookkeeping tips for beginners
A pep talk for tax season & not being afraid of the IRS
   
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!
 

 COMING UP:
✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom
✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid

Nic Antoinette is back! And we’re finally beginning the monthly series we promised you back in January.
For April, it's a long-form chat with plenty of laughter and maybe a few tears along the way. So settle in, subscribe to Nic’s newsletter, and press play to hear us talk about:
How we coped when Q1 didn’t go as planned
Financial plans in the turmoil of 2026
How to talk about grief in public
The most divisive Instagram post Amelia ever made
What’s bringing us joy
The upcoming 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit
& lots 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!
 

 COMING UP:
✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom
✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid

If we stop trying to get ahead online, what becomes possible?
 
Today Ayana Zaire Cotton of Seeda School returns to the podcast to explore why she quit using ChatGPT and other AI tools.
 
She helps us slowwww down, unpack shame, and align our desire with our capacity — a process and methodology she created and calls Erotic Engineering.
 
Tune in to reconnect with your values, reclaim self-respect, and step off the path of certainty with us.
 
I also highly recommend reading Ayana’s essay — and learning more about The Powerhouse Portal at: https://www.seedaschool.com/ph
 
 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
👉 Join our conversation about AI in the Clubhouse
 

 COMING UP:
✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom
✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid

Today I’m doing something I said I’d never do… inviting my partner on the podcast!
In this Clubhouse-exclusive episode, my spouse JJ Lang joins me for an unexpected conversation about AI.
JJ is a high-level chess player and works for US Chess. They’re here to talk about how algorithms and AI engines have been a big part of the chess world for decades — and also why JJ doesn’t use Generative AI or LLMs in their work today.

I wanted to share this conversation, because:
It’s fun to give you a cute behind-the-scenes in to my personal life!
It’s good to talk to someone being told to use AI at their job alongside our conversations centering self-employment.
The origin of contemporary AI (at least at Deep Mind) was building chess engines. So JJ can help us understand algorithms vs AI and what computers are actually “doing” when they answer a question.
This is a nerdy, sweet conversation, and I hope you enjoy it. To hear the whole thing, join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse
When you do, you'll get access to over 40 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show.
Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :)

 COMING UP:
✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom
✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid

Let's get into all our feels about AI. 🌀
In this episode, I share some of the messages I've gotten from people who are using AI but feeling bad about it.
And I talk through three reasons I think many of us (especially listeners of this show) feel so much tension about these technologies.
Tune in for a lot of empathy and even more clarity. Then join our community conversation about AI in the Clubhouse!

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
Find all the episodes in our AI series here
The Tension of Platforms & Why I Haven’t Left Substack (Yet)
Cut Off the Spigot: ChatGPT Alternatives
What is Moral Injury? (from the Moral Injury Project)
AI is African Intelligence: The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back (from 404 Media)
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy
AI has an environmental problem (from the UN)
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work— It Intensifies It (from HBR)
If you want to learn about ethical approaches to AI, I recommend:Shae Omonijo's work — Find her on Substack or listen to Critical Thinking in the Age of AI (on Apple & Spotify)
& Aggressively Human Podcast with Jessica Lackey and Meg Casebolt

 
RESOURCES + LINKS
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
👉 Join our conversation about AI in the Clubhouse
 

 COMING UP:
✨ RSVP for the FREE 2026 Astro & Biz Planning Summit, happening April 17 & 24 on Zoom
✏️ Get on the waitlist for COME TO CLASS, a spring workshop on how to teach & sell online with confidence & care

COMMUNITY SPONSORS:
🌞 Craving a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind Planners today. Get 50% off digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid