Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Let’s talk about how bad social media really is for our mental health and relationships. 🫠

In this honest and vulnerable conversation, Natalie Lue of Baggage Reclaim helps us dig into:
Growing up without the internet
Realizing social media is a toxic, codependent relationship
How your subconscious “goes shopping for flaws and failures” while you scroll
The problems with hate-following
How to quit stalking ourselves, our friends, our exes, and total strangers online
Why we shop more when we’re active on Instagram or TikTok
Reclaiming your sense of self away from social media
Why it’s not your fault if you can’t cope with using the apps
   
This one goes out to anyone struggling with the harms of social media. Listen to the full episode on Baggage Reclaim here.
 
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!

 
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I met Mel Mitchell-Jackson in the best way: through a newsletter ad, a ‘wanna chat?’ email, and many texts and virtual coffees since.

Today, they’re here to talk about their path from art school to working at Apple HQ to leaving that behind for creative self-employment.

Tune in to hear us explore:
How to cultivate creative community
The realities of what it takes to “make it” in art school & beyond
Chronic illness, Long COVID & find a pace you can sustain
3 common traps of over-giving in online business
Ways to center anti-capitalist values & praxis in your work
The pros & cons of building an audience through Youtube
& much more!
   
LINKS & RESOURCES:
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails
📣 Learn more about advertising with Off the Grid
 

 
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A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a new business friend and peer that sent me into a total tailspin.

The TLDR; is that they said something relatively innocuous about my podcast & membership model…

And it had me questioning everything about I know about success in online business.

In this Clubhouse-exclusive episode, I share more of that story and the pep talk I’ve been giving myself since. To hear the whole thing, join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse
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** This episode was recorded & scheduled before the US joined Israel in bombing Iran over the weekend. At Off the Grid, we believe in food not bombs. We support the Iran people and protestors pursuing freedom in the face of extreme violence. But we don’t believe in the US pattern of interventionism through warfare. Nor in a President who posts assassination updates on a social media platform he owns. For our US listeners, please join us in calling your representatives to stop these unauthorized military strikes. **

Jenni Gritters recently hosted me for a Your Attention is Sacred book club, and I’m excited to share our conversation with you!

Tune in as we discuss:
Understanding the goals of the algorithms
Addiction as a lens to make sense of social media
Jenni’s decision to delete her Instagram account
The parallels between fractured attention and financial scarcity
Reckoning with combative platforms
How to protect your well-being if you’re still on social media
⭐️ & RSVP FOR MY BOOK READING IN SAN FRANCISCO ON MARCH 12TH! ⭐️ 
  
 
BOOKS MENTIONED (affiliate links):
Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media by Amelia Hruby
The Sustainable Solopreneur by Jenni Gritters
The Practice of Attention by Cody Cook-Parrott
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke, MD
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
 
LINKS & RESOURCES:
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails

 
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Today I’m joined by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson for a deep and thoughtful conversation about spiritual practice, small business, and social media.

Together we weave through:
How Cyrée crafted his career as a diviner, poet, herbalist + card reader
Healing burnout when living with chronic illness and neurodivergence
Why Instagram has no elders — and all communities are incomplete without elders
Discernment vs extreme skepticism — and how to navigate the internet’s slop era
How to blend online & IRL business models — including different ways to run a shop
The realities of experiencing transphobic and hateful comments on social media
Herbal and ecological support for tending to burnout ❤️‍🩹
   
LINKS & RESOURCES:
👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit
🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for courses + community
💓 Join the Clubhouse for more episodes + emails
📣 Learn more about advertising with Off the Grid

 
📣 Your art can resist the status quo. Find out how at RebelYellCreative.com!  (sponsored)