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    ⛓️‍💥 It's Time to Decolonize Your Teaching Style — with Podge Thomas

    08/05/2026 | 56 mins.
    If you’ve been paying attention around here…
    You likely know that next week I’m teaching a new intensive called COME TO CLASS!
    It’s a 3-day workshop on how to teach online with confidence and care, and it’ll guide you through everything I’ve learned in 20 years of teaching — with a special focus on how learning to teach can help you improve your sales.
    One of the bonuses that COME TO CLASS students get is behind-the-scenes conversations with my favorite online facilitators and course creators, and today I’m thrilled to bring you one of those conversations totally for free!
    Tune in to hear the brilliant teacher and Notion designer Podge Thomas and I discuss:
    How Podge fell in love with teaching — even though she hated school
    Why studying metacognition is the secret to better classrooms
    How to stop recreating the harms of traditional education models
    What to do when a student says “I don’t get this”
    Why your teaching style doesn't have to be for everyone
     
    If you like this conversation, sign up for COME TO CLASS! It's only $299 to sign up (payment plans available) and registration closes May 12th.
     
    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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    👩‍🏫 Why Online Education is Broken (But We Can Fix It) — with Sally Burns of The Portal

    06/05/2026 | 54 mins.
    I’ve had SO MANY conversations about the problems with online course platforms.
    Mighty Networks vs Circle vs Kajabi vs Teachable — none of us like the existing options, and we’re waiting for someone to build something better.

    So today I’ve invited Sally Burns to the show, because she’s building an alternate platform for teaching and learning online — a digital neighborhood called The Portal.

    Tune in to hear about:
    Why Sally left corporate e-learning to build The Portal
    How to stop piecing a million tools together to host your course
    The false promises of Online Course Culture™️
    Why we have to break down teacher/student hierarchy
    How The Portal helps you fill your classes — especially if you have a small audience
    What it actually takes to bootstrap a learning platform
    Ways to help old offerings reach new audiences
    👉 If you’re excited about The Portal, learn more and join here!

    👉 👉 And if you want to COME TO CLASS, here’s your link to sign up. Registration closes May 12th.

     
    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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    ♾️ “You Needing Money Doesn't Make Stuff Sell” — Consistency & Collapse in Online Business with Nic Antoinette

    01/05/2026 | 1h 20 mins.
    My monthly-ish series with Nic Antoinette continues!
    This time we’re talking about what it means to be “consistent” when you’re running a business in this economy.
    We get into:
    How we simultaneously rage against consistency and attribute our success to it
    The relationship between consistency and cultivating trust with your audience
    Ways to build better (for you) rhythms in your business
    What to do when your launch plans line up with a major (horrible) event
    Why it’s important to get off the do-or-die, boom-or-bust, sell-or-go-bankrupt hamster wheel
    Cute baby sheep, gardening and cooking as tiny balms for the present moment
     
    LINKS MENTIONED:
    Nic’s newsletter on the baby sheep
    Amelia’s Gentle Business Planning workshop
    Needy by Mara Glatzel (affiliate link)
    Jen Carrington
    Off the Grid episode: Nice, Necessary, Ideal framework
    Off the Grid episode: How to plan a summer sabbatical in 5 simple steps
    COME TO CLASS earlybird list
    COOK90 (affiliate link)
       
    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!
     

     
    ✌️ Create and sell your meaningful work online — safe in the knowledge you’re not lining the pockets of billionaires. Explore The Portal: a digital learning neighborhood.  (sponsored)
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    🧑‍🏫 How to Teach Online (& Why Learning to Teach is My Best Sales Hack)

    29/04/2026 | 34 mins.
    If you want to build a business around your know-how…

    You have to learn how to teach.

    In today’s episode, I’m talking about why learning to teach is the best sales “hack” I know — and I’m introducing you to my upcoming spring intensive, COME TO CLASS.

    In just 30 minutes, I walk you through:
    Why online courses aren’t ‘dead’ or ‘over’
    How to figure out what you want to teach
    What you need to know about boundaries before you start teaching
    Ideas for nonhierarchical and nonlinear classrooms
    Why writing a syllabus is like writing a sales page
    & more!
    Tune in then drop your email right here for access to earlybird pricing through May 1st. Can’t wait to see you in class!

     
    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!
     

     
    ✌️ Create and sell your meaningful work online — safe in the knowledge you’re not lining the pockets of billionaires. Explore The Portal: a digital learning neighborhood.  (sponsored)
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    🔒 How I Make Ambitious Biz Plans Without Burning Out

    27/04/2026 | 14 mins.
    Today I’m very excited to share a workshop on gentle business planning — AKA how I make ambitious plans for my biz while also healing my burnout!
     
    In this audio (and video!) workshop, I walk you through:
    Why we’re always planning (even when we think we’re “behind”)
    My 6 tenets for Gentle Business Planning
    List-making prompts for the season ahead in your work
    How to turn reflective prompts into a clear marketing & sales calendar
    & How I use the Nine To Kind Digital planner to organize my projects
     
    Tune in here to hear my 6 tenets of Gentle Business Planning. Then head to the Clubhouse to enjoy the entire workshop. The recording is free for everyone this week only and available to paid Clubhouse supporters forever. 
    Paid subscribers also get an edited audio version of the workshop AND a Notion doc with all the prompts to make this process super easy to do any time.
     
    So press play for a preview, then head to the Clubhouse to support the show! You can find this specific episode here :)

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About Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media

Off The Grid is a podcast for artists, writers & creative business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their income. ✌️ Our host, Amelia Hruby PhD, shares stories, strategies & experiments for growing your business with radical generosity & energetic sovereignty. 🌐 Get the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit at offthegrid.fun/toolkit
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