Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media

🧢 Be Your Own Daddy — Energetic Sovereignty & Creative Constraints with Catherine LaSota

This week we’re debuting our new brand! And rolling the metaphorical tape allllll the way back to the beginning of the show to revisit energetic sovereignty through a new lens. To do that, I’m joined by creative coach Catherine LaSota who’s here to teach us how to “be your own daddy” AKA ways to cultivate energetic sovereignty in your work and life. Together we discuss: What “Be Your Own Daddy” really means Saturnian influences on our energy + creativity How to make aligned choices within constraints Cultivating the permission to radically change our lives Ways to move through our fears (+ experiences) of judgment Consistency and presence as gifts of this work ⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, join me at Catherine's next Be Your Own Daddy retreat on October 23rd! Or grab her free Design Your Daddy workshop here. RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

♾️ Foraging for What’s Next — Creative Seasons & Why the Internet’s So Boring Now with Nic Antoinette

Nic Antoinette is back on the pod this week as we continue our year-long series around enoughness, grief, and deep evolution. This time, we’re focused on creative burnout, seasonality in business, and why we find the internet so boring these days. If you haven’t listened to the series before, here are links to those episodes: ♾️ Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns ♾️ Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned… Grief, Joy & Money in 2026 ♾️ “You Needing Money Doesn't Make Stuff Sell” — Consistency & Collapse in Online Business ♾️ Take the Break Before the Break Takes You — Learning How to Pause & Quit And if this makes you want more biz friend community, check out the Interweb and put yourself on the waitlist before doors open next week! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails 🔥 Learn more about ad opportunities with Off the Grid OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🤠 Reinventing Yourself & Your Work — From Dog Trainer to Retail Store Owner to Business Strategist with Heather Bax

For the third and final installment in our business pivots + evolutions series, I’m talking to Heather Bax of Small Business Rodeo! Heather is a business advisor, human design reader, notion lover, and occasional artist. Her expertise spans decades of service, product, and brick & mortar small business stewardship, and she’s supported all kinds of creative businesses along the way. In this conversation, we explore: How self-employment journeys often begin in bad-fit jobs Why Heather & Amelia both took detours through coding bootcamps The benefits of a bridge job as you grow or change your business A quick checklist on how Heather started her retail shop (& you can too!) Why Heather had a full-time job for the first 8 months of running the store The realities of transitioning to e-commerce during COVID Hiring + grieving at the same time Leaning on the community of your business in hard times When quitting ISN’T failing How big changes in our work can impact our self-trust For the astro-curious, Heather is a 6/2 Projector and a Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, and Gemini Rising. You can book a Human Designed Business Session with her and use code OFFTHEGRID for 10%! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🌅 The Grief of Sunsetting a Business & The Joy of Being Multipassionate — with Chereen Leong Schwarz

Chereen Leong Schwarz is a founder, maker, outdoor adventurer, and rewilding guide. She’s a former chef who started a knitwear brand and then moved into creative retreats — after a period of prolonged grief. In this conversation, we dive deep into what pivoting really feels like as we explore: Chereen’s chef career from fine dining to farms How moving to Colorado spurred her love of knitting The realities of turning a hobby into a side hustle Specific ways to center your values in your business How multiple losses + a health crisis led Chereen through a transformative grief portal Different methods of building community in and around your business How to evolve when your work is wrapped up in your ego + identity The grief the comes when your industry changes and it hurts your business Why Chereen & Amelia both took sabbaticals before deciding to close their companies How we grapple with public opinions + projection as we share our work online RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails ⭐️ Use this link to book a free 30-minute session with Chereen: https://calendar.app.google/UydiFHhcLgqzvNUr9 ⭐️ RSVP for the free workshop with Podge in October: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fTY89RN7TfS1grKD7Vs64g OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🔒 Why & How I Closed My Business — Letting Go of Softer Sounds

Softer Sounds is officially closed, my friends. And in this Clubhouse-exclusive episode, I'm telling you all about that journey. This one's mostly-personal and a-little-bit-logistical – heavy on story with a checklist at the end. Tune in to an episode preview here, and become a paid subscriber of the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse to get all the details. 👇 👇 👇 👇 When you join the Clubhouse, you'll get access to over 50 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show. Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

🪸 Seasons of Change in Self-Employment — Embracing Pivots & Destigmatizing Bankruptcy with Luca J. Davis

Today I’m joined by Luca J. Davis to talk about success, failure, and what 13 years of self-employment really entails. Together we explore: Luca’s path from health teacher to personal trainer How they opened a gym with a dream and a GoFundMe The radically honest reality of brick-and-mortar finances When filing for bankruptcy is the best choice for you & your biz Luca’s detour as a Virtual Assistant & how they started their web design business The systems that help them book our their services while marketing only once a year How Luca’s Substack walks the line between personal sharing & biz promotion ➡️ If you'd like to hire Luca for website support in 2026/2027, just mention Off the Grid for $200 off your package! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🚩 Business Triage: What to Do When Your Biz Isn’t Working

Welcome to Season 11 of Off the Grid! This month, we're exploring strategies + stories of business pivots. Today we start with my business triage process. It's a checklist of things to consider when your business feels bad and/or isn't making enough money. Then for the next three weeks, we'll hear from business owners who have made major pivots in their self-employment journeys, including: quitting a dream job, filing for bankruptcy, closing a retail store, and more. Tune in for lots of support, camaraderie + inspiration. And check the links below for extra resources 👇 RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

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⏰ This episode will disappear in 5 days...

Tune in for a quick reminder to join the Interweb waitlist before doors close on August 31st! If you do, I'll also tell you exactly what's coming to Off the Grid this fall... Because the show will be back with season 11 very soon! At least that's the plan! Thanks for being here, and I hope to see you in the Interweb. More soon xx RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails

✳️ How to Refresh Your Ambition & Avoid Burnout in the Process — with Amina AlTai

Let's refresh our creative ambition before fall! Today we're wrapping our Back to Biz Refresh series with leadership expert Amina AlTai. Amina is the author of The Ambition Trap: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living. Together we discuss: What ambition actually is and why it's neutral How core wounds create painful ambition — even if you love what you do Ways to figure out if your ambition is helping or harming you Finding aliveness when you don't feel ambitious What it takes to stay in business through hard times RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails ✏️ Looking for a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind. Get 50% off their digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid (sponsored) OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

💽 Set Up Your Tiny Biz Tech for $50/year or Less — My Guide to More Affordable Systems & Software

This episode is meant to save you money! Today, I’m sharing my guide to more affordable business systems and software that can help you set up online for under $50/year — or lower your overhead with strategic tool swaps. Tune in to hear my tech recommendations and how I think through software needs. Also: These recs don’t include Google! Some of them are privacy focused, others are not. Some include AI functionality, others do not. Most of them are based in the US. All prices mentioned in the episode were as of August 2026 and may change. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT Free Checklist For Tool Decisions from Asha Noel-Hart Free Simple Tech Stacks Field Guide from Heather Bax Join the Interweb for more tech support from Amelia RECOMMENDED TOOLS Namecheap for domain Carrd for website (affiliate link) Zoho for email inbox Sender or Email Octopus for email newsletter list Canva (free plan) for simple design needs Notion for internal systems and client docs/dashboards Zoom, Proton Meet, or Whereby (free plans) for video calls Tidycal for scheduling, paid bookings, and digital products Novo for free business banking and invoicing — Use my affiliate link to get $40 when you open and fund your new account Stripe for payment processing and invoicing Breezedoc for contracts and invoicing together RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

💼 How to Refresh Your Office & Your Whole Work Vibe — with Taylor Apolonio

Today we're refreshing our offices with the wonderful Taylor Apolonio of Habitat Interiors Co. Taylor works at the intersection of interior design and psychology as a 'design psychologist'. They create physical spaces that are grounded in human behavior to genuinely support folks. This might look like improved circulation and functionality, better acoustics, or intentionally designing for gathering and memory-making. Tune in to this episode for tips on tapping into the purpose of your work space and improving the layout, acoustics, and visuals. And if you'd like Taylor's free list of 25+ low-lift recommendations that better support sensory overwhelm in your office, fill out this form with the message 'OFF THE GRID' ☺️ RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails ✏️ Looking for a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind. Get 50% off their digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid (sponsored) OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🦚 The Quick (and Free!) Brand Refresh Your Biz Needs — with Alex McGinness

Have you ever put on a new outfit and felt like a totally different (and way better) person? Today we're gonna do that for your business. 💁‍♀️ Join me and Alex McGinness of Arcoíris Design Studio as we talk through the four parts of a resonant brand refresh: essence, execution, expression, and experience. ALSO! When it comes to DIY branding, we recommend: Coolors for creating color palettes Canva for choosing fonts and designing graphics Squarespace for websites (or Carrd [affiliate link] if you want a quick, cheap one-page site) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

✌️ How to Make Pivoting Fun — Welcome to Our Back to Biz Refresh Series!

Hello hello and happy mid-August, friends! Today we're kicking off a new Biz Refresh series — five episodes in five days to get you ready for fall in a fun, aligned way! Press play to hear why I'm embracing a pivot, and tune in this week to learn: How to refresh your brand (for free!) Ideas for updating your home office & work vibe My guide to more affordable systems & software for your tiny biz A new approach to ambition that let's you dream big without burning out You'll hear from amazing guests like Alex McGinness, Taylor Apolonio, and Amina AlTai. It's basically a mini-of-the-moment-creative-business-masterclass all for free on the pod feed this week! So please subscribe and share it with a friend xo RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails ✏️ Looking for a planner that's about permission not perfection? Check out Nine to Kind. Get 50% off their digital planners with code OFFTHEGRID50 & 25% off analog products with code OFFTHEGRID25. Learn more & claim your discount at: https://www.ninetokind.com/pages/offthegrid (sponsored)

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⚡️ Making Content, Raising Revenue & Moving Off Substack — with Lex Roman of Revenue Rulebreaker

Today we’re talking about why I left Substack! Through a conversation with the amazing Lex Roman of Revenue Rulebreaker. Together we explore: Lex’s journey from working in tech to starting an agency to launching a membership for journalists to now running an indie media company The state of small business media (& why there are so many opportunities there!) Why we’re committed to being creators even though it’s a challenging business model How Lex helped me decide to leave Substack What newsletter and podcast tools might work for you If you like this episode, please go check out the new Off the Grid Clubhouse on Ghost! 👉👉 👉 offthegrid.ghost.io Then sign up for Revenue Rulebreaker and get 20% off your paid subscription with code OFFTHEGRID 👉👉 👉 https://www.revenuerulebreaker.com/off-the-grid RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🔒 My Q2 Biz Recap — Highs, Lows & How Much $$ I Made

Join me as I convince myself it's ok to sunset my business 😬 In this quarterly recap episode, I walk through the highs, lows, and finances of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid so far this year... And I figure out how to make the money work as I pivot my business model from service provider to content creator! Tune in to an episode preview here, and become a paid subscriber of the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse to get all the $$$ details. 👇 👇 👇 👇 When you join the Clubhouse, you'll get access to over 50 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show. Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :) RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

♾️ Take the Break Before the Break Takes You — Learning How to Pause & Quit with Nic Antoinette

Nic Antoinette is back to help me wrap season nine, and we’re talking about the breaks we are (and aren’t) taking this summer. Tune in to hear us unpack: Why nobody talks about the moments we don’t like our business 😬 How fear keeps us from slowing down or taking breaks 🐌 When being honest actually f*cks with your sales 📉 Different types of breaks we’ve taken and want to take ⛓️‍💥 How to figure out what’s not working and why 📍 The fantasy of the finish line 🏁 Communicating your break to your clients and/or audience 📣 Cancer scares, carpal tunnel & caffeine addiction ☕️ RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🍕 Making Money as a Creative — Strategic Planning & Social Media with Andy J Pizza

HEY HI HELLO! 🍕 Today I’m thrilled to be joined by best-selling author, super-fun illustrator, and illustrious host of Creative Pep Talk podcast, Andy J Pizza! In this upbeat conversation, we chat about: How Andy makes money as an artist The strategic choices he made to grow his podcast Why we can’t “What-Would-David-Bowie-Do” our way into a successful business Andy’s musician-model for thinking about your creative business through singles, albums, tours & merch Why you should pre-order Andy’s new book, Mysterious Things! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

✨ This One Thing Totally Transformed My Sales — Learning How to Pre-Launch with Nicole Cloutier [BEST OF]

If I had to name ONE THING that increased my sales more than anything else in the past year... It'd be learning to polish my copywriting and pre-launch my offerings with Nicole Cloutier and her class Open Loop. Open Loop is how I doubled Interweb sign-ups in 2026. Open Loop is how I made over $10k on COME TO CLASS last month. Open Loop is why I feel so confident selling this year. And that's why I'm THRILLED to share that Open Loop is happening again in July and you can hop on the waitlist right here right now! So if you'd like to make more money from your launches in 2026 and beyond... Tune in to this 'best of' episode to hear me and Nicole give you lots of free advice on how to launch anything you want to sell online. Then click this wonderful (affiliate) link to learn more about Open Loop. I hope to see you at an alum call bragging about your successful launches in the fall. ✨ RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🌸 Creative Ecosystems, Community-Based Business & Breaking Up with Your Personal Brand — with Natalie Brite

Natalie Brite (they/them) is the founder and creative director of DoGoodBiz — an ethical creative studio for conscious leaders and the movements they're building. On their Substack newsletter, they write about creativity, ecosystems, and doing work rooted in care. They also excoriate social media! But in a soft, supportive way, of course. Today Natalie joins me to talk about why social media managers burn out so hard. And how their business when changed they let go of most of their retainer clients. Together we explore: The consequences of social media dependence A step-by-step breakdown of how Natalie reinvented their marketing strategy What it actually means to take an ecosystems approach to business Creative ecosystems vs personal brands A random Lord of the Rings metaphor that I spend way too long making…. & lots more! RESOURCES + LINKS 👋 Download the FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit 🌐 Get on the Interweb waitlist for creative business courses + community 💓 Join the Clubhouse for exclusive bonus episodes + emails OCTOBER COMMUNITY SPONSOR: ✨ Stop scrolling and start shuffling. Come home to your mind, body, and business with Be With Your Body Tarot. Get 25% off the deck and/or autumn planner with code OFFTHEGRID at: bewithyourbody.com/off-the-grid

🔒 How to Run Your Creative Business During the Summer Slump (or Any Slow Time)

What do we do when business slows down over the summer? And how do we navigate that when a global recession and supply chain breakdown are happening at the same time?? In this Clubhouse-exclusive workshop replay, I share my best strategies for running your business during slow times — including somatic self-soothing ideas, ways to reduce expenses, and a framework for experimenting with new offerings. I'm sharing a preview here, but to watch the whole thing (and get the workbook!), you have to join the Clubhouse at offthegrid.fun/clubhouse When you do, you'll get access to over 50 bonus episodes (and counting), curated tech + creative business newsletters, and more. Plus your own private podcast feed, comments threads, and behind-the-scenes updates on the show. Please join the Clubhouse to support the show! And find this specific episode here :)