Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

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

  
✨ Ready to work with your capacity instead of against it? Learn how with the FREE Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington.

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

  
✨ Ready to work with your capacity instead of against it? Learn how with the FREE Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington.

Real talk: I can be kind of avoidant when it comes to feedback.
I don’t love giving it. I prefer not receiving it.

But sometimes that lands me in sticky interpersonal situations. 
…Maybe you can relate?

If yes, you’re going to love this Clubhouse episode, because I’m sharing a follow-up to my conversation with Morgan Evans — where we go through three real-life (and real-biz) examples of how to navigate tough conversations.

Tune in to this preview as we talk through: 
How to offer feedback when a service provider isn’t getting the assignment 🚩
Ways to handle emails that feel like misguided attacks 🙅‍♀️
Why we should start all collaborations by defining the terms and responsibility 👩‍💼
& How self-reflection can help us shortcut the feedback process 💰
 
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I’ve spent the past 5 years trying to navigate the internet without handing my data (& life) over to surveillance capitalism.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing my current tech stack — the browsers, search engines, email providers, and other tools that I use to share my wrk online without Google, Facebook, or AI overlords.
As you listen, please know this effort is a work in progress and always evolving! You can learn my entire process by taking my class OPT OUT: 5 Steps to Break Up with Big Tech Today.

 
My current privacy-focused tech stack
Kagi search + Orion browser
Proton Mail (affiliate link) + Zoho Mail
Signal
Find everything else mentioned here: offthegrid.fun/shownotes/privacy-focused-tech-stack
 
 
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!

  
✨ Ready to work with your capacity instead of against it? Learn how with the FREE Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington.

Welcome to our most personal episode yet!
Today I’m joined by Morgan Evans from Business Casual to talk about the seemingly-simple but often-fraught topic of: feedback.

We share a lot of personal experiences and business examples as we get into:
What feedback really is
Why reviews and random emails aren’t feedback
How to give & receive feedback that doesn’t feel like 💩
Ways to create business systems that invite feedback
How to resolve conflict with clients/customers/team members
Why feedback is actually a social justice tool
Positive feedback and how to integrate it
 
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!

  
✨ Ready to work with your capacity instead of against it? Learn how with the FREE Simple & Spacious Library from Jen Carrington.