Offline, With Alison Rice

Dearest you.

To be clear, I'm not an AI advocate. The way LLMs were built is unethical and it's abhorrent that a handful of people are choosing the pace of this for all of us. But I am an advocate for evolution, and I believe we need to start having a more sophisticated conversation about what this technology is asking of us.

The question I've been asking on this podcast since 2018 — who are we outside of what we do for a living — is no longer optional.

In this episode I explain why I believe the time is now to stop focusing on professional development, and instead, start focusing on spiritual development and community. Local and in-person, if possible.

Alison xo

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To help us find our way back to each other the point of a human life in the age of AI, I've opened the Get Offline Community through my Substack. Knowledge sessions, reading rooms, hobby classes, in-person gatherings, a spiritual book club and a physical library you can borrow from. I hope you say yes. It's $35 a month and you can come and go as you please. Join here.
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Dearest you.

This is a response episode to a question from a co-creator inside serve that's also very alive for me right now:

What do we do when we feel like we can't relate to our friends or chosen communities because we've come off social media and don't know what's happening in social culture?

My take — and what I get into in this episode — is this is short-term problem. We're heading toward small, chosen micro-communities full of people that have also made the same values-driven decisions as us. We are simply experiencing the complexity that comes with being early.

I also get honest about the cost of coming off Instagram as it was my main conversion channel. If you're thinking about your own break, I offer some advice.

Alison xo

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Dearest you.

I recorded this conversation with Laura Poole in 2021. I'm bringing it back now — five years later — to demonstrate how subtle making contact with the need we are each here to meet actually is.

So many people are wondering what their purpose is. What their contribution could be. This episode provides guidance.

You also get to hear me make contact with the idea for my service business practice room and program, SERVE, and Laura cognise what has now gone on to become her shared field of belonging for Vedic meditators and teachers, Radiate.

Alison xo

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Dearest you.

When I realised my screen time was at 10 hours a day and six of those were spent on Instagram, I deleted the app off my phone almost immediately. How did I get here and is this the best use of me?

In this episode I share my earliest observations and reflections of what life feels like without Instagram, what I've gained and as it relates to my business, what I might lose.

I also talk about why I'm pouring into my Substack and the result of seven days of sustained focus on that platform. It's been very revealing to say the least.

Alison xo

Substack essay: If I stay off Instagram, I get 12 years back

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Dearest you.

We're consuming more than ever and tending almost none of it.

In this episode, I introduce the concept of a digital garden — a personal, non-linear, evolving collection of the things that genuinely matter to you. A place for your thinking to live, grow and develop into something that is entirely your own.

I explore why our inner worlds have become so fragmented, what we're losing when ideas never get to connect and why building something slow and self-authored is one of the most rebellious things we can do in the age of the algorithm.

If the seasonal curriculum is your planting plan, the digital garden is where things actually take root.

A full guide to building your own — including a Notion template — is coming to Substack soon. Subscribe below.

Alison xo

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Seasonal Curriculum episode on Spotify here and Apple here
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