Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media
Off The Grid is a podcast for artists, writers & small 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
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
🏁 The State of Substack & How to Fall Back in Love with the Internet — with Seth Werkheiser
Seth Werkheiser was one of the first 3000 people on Twitter. Now he runs Social Media Escape Club and helps people get off X, Facebook, Instagram, and more.
In this conversation, we chart how we’ve ea…
💫 How to (Self) Publish a Book Without Social Media
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! Season 7 of Off the Grid officially kicks off next week. 🥳
This season we'll be digging into all things (self)-publishing without social media. I'm talking t…
🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Exclusive Book Preview!
It's finally here, my friends... your first preview of my book!
In this episode, I fill you in on exactly why Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media.
Then in a you-heard-it-here-first moment, …
🙌 21 Tiny Pep Talks for You & Your Creative Business
Welcome to part one of our season six finale!
Today I’m joined by TWENTY past guests sharing tiny pep talks recorded just for you.
Tune in for encouragement on everything from surviving Capitalism to f…
🪞 Clear Channels, Secret Marketing & Making More Money Sans Socials — with Sarah Gottesdiener
Here’s my truth— I am absolutely, positively obsessed with this episode.
Today on the pod, I’m joined by the one-and-only Sarah Faith Gottesdiener.
She’s popping over from Moonbeaming to pull back the …
🤳 Put Down Your Phone & Abandon Your Brand — with Casey Johnston
Casey Johnston is a weight-lifting memoirist and former editor at Vice, Ars Technica & the New York Times’ Wirecutter.
She’s been reporting on social media and smart phones for over a decade, and in t…
🚸 “How Do I Grow Without Social Media??” — Live Coaching with Melissa Wong
Welcome to an episode unlike any other!
Today I'm joined by Melissa Wong of Coherence Studio for a live advising session where I help her work through the age-old question: "how do I really grow my b…
🌻 3 Ways I’m Gently Reinventing My Work Right Now
Welcome to Paradigm Shift Summer! 😎
This month on the podcast, we're rooting into radical change with ease, softness, and poolside vibes.
Today I'm taking you behind-the-scenes of my business and shari…
😊 How Your Business Can (& Can’t) Make You Happy — $300k+ Launches with Sam Vander Wielen
I’m not a fan of the #girlboss. But I am a fan of women who build wildly successful businesses. And I especially appreciate when they offer eyes-open advice about what it really took to get there.
Tod…
🏦 How Freelance Work Can Solve Your Problems — with Sarah Jutras
I started my self-employment journey by freelancing… but somehow I’ve never talked about it on the pod!
So today I’m joined by Sarah Jutras of Huzzah Studio and Freelance for Life to dive into how to …
🛠️ How to Create Biz Systems (for Neurodivergent Entrepreneurs) — with brigitte
When my business becomes overwhelming, I turn my focus to my systems.
Why? Because systems are the how of everything I do in my work and life. I have a system for doing my laundry, a system for checki…
👩💻 How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with Anita Cheung
2025 has been a year of pivots, restarts, and beginning again. So this week on the pod, we’re talking about reinventing yourself and your website!
To do that, I’m joined by yoga-teacher-turned-meditat…
↪️ Knowing When to Pivot — The Realities of Food-Based Retail with Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods
Welcome to Off the Grid CPG edition! 🍜
Today on the show, I’m joined by Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods to talk about farmers’ markets, food retail, and the realities of consumer product goods busin…
🌀 Navigating the Messy Middle — Small Business in Slow Times with Jen Carrington
Popping in with a behind-the-scenes bonus episode — where Jen Carrington and I pull back the curtain on everything that's been messy, feel-bad, and chaotic in our businesses this year!
We talk about …
🗣️ The Relationships that Change Everything — Creatively Unleashing with Lauren LoGrasso
We talk about community all the time on this show. But what does it actually look like when relationships change the trajectory of your creative career?
In this episode, I’m joined by Lauren LoGrasso …
💔 How to Break Up with Google, Amazon & Spotify
I broke up with Amazon and Google when I left social media in 2021, and this year I decided it was also time to quit using Spotify.
Why? Well because my values are not aligned with enriching billionai…
🌻 Can We Still Thrive Online? — Digital Wellness & Ethical Marketing with Amelia Knott
Today on the show, I’m joined by art psychotherapist Amelia Knott to explore and untangle the intersections of mental health, social media, creativity, and small business.
We specifically take on the …
✊ Make the Movement Irresistible — Quiet Quitting Social Media with Edgar Fabián Frías
Edgar Fabián Frías is an artist, therapist, educator, curator, witch and so much more.
Today, they join me on the podcast to talk about the decision they made to quiet quit Instagram at the start of 2…
📢 Amplifying Attention for Under-Recognized Voices (Including Yourself!) — with Cher Hale
Cher Hale is one of my favorite people on the internet, and her newsletter Doing It For the Attention has taught me SO MUCH about getting my work in front of new people in a way that aligns with my b…
🙅♂️ How to Stop Feeling Stuck on Social Media — with Deanna deBara
Come on down for the 100th episode of Off the Grid!!! 🎉
To celebrate this milestone, we're returning to our roots with a fresh conversation about how to leave social media (if you so choose).
Today Dea…