How to Quiet Quit Social Media, pt. 2: Building Traffic, Leads, and Customers Off of Instagram
In Part One of this impromptu series, we explored the why behind quiet quitting Instagram—the philosophical shift from hoping to stay relevant through the feed to deeply serving your community. We talked about shifting from broadcasting your story to building meta-worlds (more on this soon). We talked about honoring your ecological niche instead of chasing vanity metrics.But here's what I see happen over and over again → entrepreneurs get inspired by these ideas, they decide to pull back from Instagram, and then... it crashes and burns. Not because the philosophy was wrong. Not because they weren't committed. But because they tried to leave without building the infrastructure first.Today, we're talking about how to solve the real problem with going offline so you can actually live out that quiet quitting philosophy without tanking your business.Links Mentioned:The Visionary Archetypes Quiz: Find out what season of vision you're in.The Worldbuilding School: Now Open for EnrollmentThe Missing Piece: A Free 2-Hour Done-With-You Training for Quiet-Quitting Insta
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How to Quiet-Quit Social Media
Join us for the Missing Piece free 2-hour, done-with-you workshop on quiet-quitting social media while building an online business.If you're an entrepreneur who's exhausted from chasing viral trends, optimizing every post, and pouring your heart into content that disappears into the void—you are not alone. There's a growing movement of service-based business owners who are choosing a different path: quiet-quitting social media.What Does It Mean to Quiet Quit Social Media?Borrowed from Gen Z workplace, quiet quitting social media means doing the bare minimum on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn without completely abandoning them overnight. You show up, but you stop giving more energy than required. Quiet Quitting is not disappearing entirely (which could genuinely hurt your business). Instead, it's about a philosophical shift in how you approach marketing.You stop:Hoping to go viralScrolling endlessly to study what others are doingFollowing every "expert" who promises the secret formulaPouring your heart and soul into every postTrying to game the algorithmYou start:Focusing radically on your missionSpeaking directly to the people you're meant to serveBuilding a world for your ideal clients, not for the massesDecentering yourself and making your audience the hero of their own storyReclaiming your energyJoin us for the Missing Piece free 2-hour, done-with-you workshop on quiet-quitting social media while building an online business.
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The Creative Rites of Autumn (+ a new podcast name change!)
Welcome to the Soft Earthen Futures podcast, previously called the Inner Circle Podcast. New era, new podcast name.About the Episode:So many creatives and entrepreneurs treat Autumn like extended Summer. A time to launch, to scale, to keep the momentum going. But Autumn is not here to help you maintain your pace. She's not asking you to stay consistent, to keep all the plates spinning, or to preserve the facade that everything is working perfectly.Autumn is the season of descent. She is the season of severance.She asks you to look around at what is changing, what is dying, what is composting back into the earth and to trust that this dying is not failure. It is a reconfiguration of the soul.The Worldbuilding School
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Marketing Medicine for Mercury in Scorpio: Clarifying Your Direction and Speaking to the Elephant in the Room
In this episode of our Marketing Medicine series, we dive deep into Mercury's extended journey through Scorpio from October through December 2024—a profound underworld transit that includes a retrograde cycle bringing us back for deeper excavation of truth.Mercury in Scorpio isn't just about communication challenges or technical difficulties. When Mercury becomes the psychopomp, guiding us into the depths of Pluto's underworld realm, we're confronted with raw, unvarnished truth about how we're really showing up in our work and businesses.This transit asks the uncomfortable questions: Is what you're doing really what you want to be doing? Is the money you're making truly aligned with your values? Is your impact authentic, or are you imitating someone else's path instead of owning your own voice and medicine?We'll explore the complete timeline of this transit, including why Mercury will make three passes through Scorpio themes between October and December, with the retrograde period from November 18th through November 29th intensifying the call for radical honesty and transparency.This episode connects Mercury in Scorpio to the larger context of this snake year—a time for shedding old skins and preparing for the philosophical shifts coming in 2026. We're being asked to get low to the earth, belly on the ground, and confront the deeper truths that want to be lived out and expressed before they come out sideways.If you've been feeling the pull to get more honest about your business practices, if surface-level marketing is leaving you feeling depleted, or if you're sensing that something deeper wants to emerge through your work, this episode offers guidance for navigating the underworld with Mercury as your guide.This isn't about things going wrong—it's about allowing what's been hidden to become visible so you can build from a foundation of authentic truth.
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Full Moon in Aries, Gate 21
This Full Moon in Aries, Gate 21 asks: where are you gripping for control when what you really need is to step into your authority?In this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Belpedio—Storywork Studio team member and my new co-host for the Lunar Rites series—for a deep dive into Gate 21, the gate of control, and what it means to release our grip on outcomes while staying grounded in our power.We explore:How Gate 21 shows up for entrepreneurs, visionaries, and anyone trying to control every detail of their work and lifeThe difference between ease and easy—and why people pleasing is just another form of controlSarah's personal story of surrendering the need to "have her own business" and how that opened doors to effortless, aligned workHow this eclipse season has been surgery, and this moon is inviting us to shake off what surfacedThe practice of de-manifestation and working with the waning moon cycleWhy releasing control doesn't mean abandoning your authority—it means accessing the finesse and precision of the hunterThis conversation weaves together human design, astrology, Daoist wisdom, and embodied practice to help you navigate this lunar portal with clarity and sovereignty.Mentioned in this episode:The Worldbuilding School (now open for enrollment)The Lunar Rites practiceEclipse Season ReflectionsConnect with us:www.storywork.studio | @storywork.studioDaje Aloh [www.thestorydoula.co / @thestorydoula]Sarah Belpedio: [www.sarahbelpedio.com / @sarah.belpedio]
Formerly known as the Inner Circle Podcast, Soft, Earthen Futures is for creatives, visionaries, and worldbuilders who are imagining new possibilities on the Earth.
Hosted by Daje Aloh—writer, teacher, and story doula—this podcast explores what it means to stand at the threshold between what has been and what wants to emerge. It's about tending the in-between, listening to what the Earth is dreaming through us, and building those visions into form.
Soft Earthen Futures is a design philosophy that awakens life-affirming potential in us. It champions design process that is listening, intuitive, grounded in nature, and centered on the embodied human experience. Design that brings out the best of what humanity can become.
Through reflections, seasonal transmissions, and conversations with other visionaries, this podcast offers frameworks for regenerative entrepreneurship, soul-led creativity, and visionary practice.
Topics include:
How to Shift Reality and Futurewriting
Visionary Entrepreneurship and Worldbuilding
Astrology as Divination Practice and Developmental Process
Creative Process and Weavership
Seasonal Rhythms and Regenerative Time.
The Creative Rites and Visionary Rites of Passage
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