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Off The Grid: Leaving Social Media — 225 episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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🪱 Cultivating Compassion in Polycrisis — Preparedness & Self-Publishing with Kailea Loften & Kate Weiner

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🔒 How Do I Grow My Email List Without Social Media?

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🧶 Attachment Theory Explains Everything — Social Media & AI Addiction with Shannon Algeo

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🔒 Live-Building a Small Biz AI Policy — with Dr. Kate Henry

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🍓 Rewilding Your Business & How to Rest in Busy Times — with Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul

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👋 The Privilege of Leaving Social Media — Being a Working Writer & Valuing Art with River Selby

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

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👩‍🏫 Why Online Education is Broken (But We Can Fix It) — with Sally Burns of The Portal

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

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🧑‍🏫 How to Teach Online (& Why Learning to Teach is My Best Sales Hack)

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🔒 How I Make Ambitious Biz Plans Without Burning Out

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🗒️ How to Plan Without Becoming a Perfectionist — with Lauren of Nine to Kind

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🔑 Why Privacy Matters (Even if Google Knows Everything) — with Patricia Egger, Head of Security for Proton

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🌿 When the Ache Remains — The Joy/Grief of Social Media with Lisa Olivera [BEST OF]

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🔭 WTF is up with Summits? (& Why I’m Hosting One This Week)

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🔒 My Q1 Biz Recap — Highs, Lows & How Much $$ I Made

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🏦 Answering Your Biggest Tax Questions — with Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax

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💸 It’s Not Too Late to Do Your Taxes — Neurodivergent Bookkeeping with Aneisha Velazquez

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♾️ Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned… — A New Series with Nic Antoinette

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🤖 What AI Actually Costs: Transmuting Shame Into Erotic Self-Respect — with Ayana Zaire Cotton

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🔒 An Unexpected AI Conversation (About Chess) — with my spouse JJ Lang

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🤖 3 Reasons You Feel So Conflicted About AI

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🤖 Why AI isn’t an Oracle — with Casey Zabala

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🤖 How to Write a Thoughtful AI Policy

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🤖 AI Sobriety — with Mel Mitchell-Jackson

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⚡️ How to Change the Trajectory of Your Work/Money/Life — with Akua Nyame-Mensah

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🏒 The Practice of Attention — Healing Social Media Addiction with Cody Cook-Parrott

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✌️ Unpacking Insecurity, FOMO & How Social Media Harms Our Mental Health & Relationships — with Natalie Lue

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💭 Prestige or Freedom: The Delusion of “Living Your Dream” — with Mel Mitchell-Jackson

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🔒 A Pep Talk for Believing in Your Business & Your Art

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❤️‍🩹 Fractured Attention & Financial Scarcity — Quitting Instagram with Jenni Gritters

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🐚 Burnout as a Cycle Under Capitalism — with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

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💿 My Privacy-Focused, Algorithm-Lite Tech Stack

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🔒 3 Sticky Situations: A Rapid-Fire Feedback Clinic

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📄 Feedback that Doesn’t Feel Bad — with Morgan Evans

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🔒 Self-Publishing Off the Amazon Path

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➿ The Tension of Platforms & Why I Haven’t Left Substack (Yet)

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🕯️Centering Your Values & Staying off Social Media — with Harry Doull of Keap Candles

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🔒 How Do I Stay Visible Without Social Media?

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🧗🏻‍♀️ Getting Off the Online Business Growth Escalator [BEST OF]

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📉 Business Degrowth — Slowing Down & Noticing Patterns with Nic Antoinette

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🔒 How Much $$ I've Really Made in 5 Years of Self-Employment

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✊ 50 Ways Your Business Can Fight Fascism

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💎 How I Built This: 5 Years of Softer Sounds & Off the Grid

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🔒 Your 2026 Biz Astro Forecast — with Miana Melendez

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✨ A Quick Permission Slip to Release Your Expectations

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🔒 3 Ways I’m Reclaiming My Attention, Creativity & Workday in 2026

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🍒 What’s Next? 2026 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird

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📍 The Power of Local Events & Low-Key Networking in 2026 — with Arianna Smith

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📬 3 Rules for Email Marketing + Newsletters in 2026

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🔎 Searching the New Web: SEO, AI & Blogs in 2026 with Meg Casebolt

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🪩 Your 2026 Creative Marketing Toolkit!

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🔒 What Happened? 2025 Marketing Trend Recap — with Amanda Laird

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🫂 How to Hold it All — Self-Employment in Hard Times with Shivani Mehta Bhatia

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💖 A Tiny Pep Talk for Black Friday Feelings (& Holiday Sales Season)

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🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas [BEST OF]

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🚰 Where You Labor is Where You Should Rest — with Jordan Maney

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🛍️ Attention Economics, Impulse Spending & Social Media — with Rachel Duncan

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🖤 How to Stop (Doom) Scrolling

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🌙 Calling in Your Business Spirit — A Community Tarot Reading from Cecily Sailer

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🍁 Reclaiming Your Magic Online & Offline — with Casey Zabala of Modern Witches

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🔒 Waitlist Experiments: What I’ve Learned from 8 Mini-Launches

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🌚 Business as Initiation & the Power of Deep Alignment — with grace allerdice

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👁️‍🗨️ A New Vision for Off the Grid

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📮 Email Mistakes We Need to Stop Making — with Dawn Richardson from Flodesk

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💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work & Life Off Social Media

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🦗 Quit Launching to Crickets — Simple Strategies for Stronger Sales with Nicole Cloutier

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🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Book Launch!

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🙅‍♀️ Why I’m Not Putting My Book on Amazon

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💥 Why I Turned Down a Book Deal

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📔 Demystifying Publishing: From Idea to Manuscript to Book in Your Hands — with Bailey Lang

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🫶 Moving Past Perfectionism & Procrastination — Parts Work for Creative People with Tracy Candido

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✏️ Deleting Instagram, Practicing Attention & the Magic of Self-Publishing — with Cody Cook-Parrott

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🏁 The State of Substack & How to Fall Back in Love with the Internet — with Seth Werkheiser

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💫 How to (Self) Publish a Book Without Social Media

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🌈 Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media — Exclusive Book Preview!

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🙌 21 Tiny Pep Talks for You & Your Creative Business

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🪞 Clear Channels, Secret Marketing & Making More Money Sans Socials — with Sarah Gottesdiener

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🔒 My Antidote for Feeling Like a Failure

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🤳 Put Down Your Phone & Abandon Your Brand — with Casey Johnston

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🔒 Why I DIY'd My Book Design & My Low-Key Launch Plans

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🚸 “How Do I Grow Without Social Media??” — Live Coaching with Melissa Wong

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🌻 3 Ways I’m Gently Reinventing My Work Right Now

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😊 How Your Business Can (& Can’t) Make You Happy — $300k+ Launches with Sam Vander Wielen

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🏦 How Freelance Work Can Solve Your Problems — with Sarah Jutras

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🛠️ How to Create Biz Systems (for Neurodivergent Entrepreneurs) — with brigitte

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👩‍💻 How to Reinvent Yourself (& Your Website) — with Anita Cheung

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↪️ Knowing When to Pivot — The Realities of Food-Based Retail with Molly Clark of Taking Stock Foods

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🌀 Navigating the Messy Middle — Small Business in Slow Times with Jen Carrington

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🗣️ The Relationships that Change Everything — Creatively Unleashing with Lauren LoGrasso

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💔 How to Break Up with Google, Amazon & Spotify

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🌻 Can We Still Thrive Online? — Digital Wellness & Ethical Marketing with Amelia Knott

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✊ Make the Movement Irresistible — Quiet Quitting Social Media with Edgar Fabián Frías

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📢 Amplifying Attention for Under-Recognized Voices (Including Yourself!) — with Cher Hale

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🙅‍♂️ How to Stop Feeling Stuck on Social Media — with Deanna deBara

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💏 You CAN Make Friends Without Social Media — with Caitlin Metz & Rebekah Taussig

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💭 Radical Imagination in Hard Times — with Sarah Arantza Amador

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🫂 Escaping the Social Media Trance — Community + Agency with Elise Granata

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🖌️ Copywriting, Pain Point Marketing & 3 Easy Ways to Improve Your Sales Pages — with Nicole Cloutier

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🌊 What Really Happens When You Leave Social Media — with Leah Kern

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🧿 Visibility & the Joy/Grief of an Online Life — with Lisa Olivera

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⏱️ Making Time: Creativity over Productivity — with Maria Bowler

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🌀 The Reality of Being an Artist-Influencer in 2025 — with Arielle Estoria

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🔒 The Tyranny of the Niche

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🪦 Grieving Social Media — How to Process Your Feelings About TikTok, Meta & Everything Else [BEST OF]

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🍒 What's Next? 2025 Marketing Trends with Amanda Laird

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💞 Relationship Marketing 101 with Michelle Warner [BEST OF]

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🎙️ Podcast Guesting for Business Growth with Taylor Elyse Morrison

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📮 All Things Email Marketing with Allea Grummert of Duett

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🪩 Your 2025 Marketing Toolkit!

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🫶 How to Feel Seen Off Social Media [BEST OF]

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👋 The 5 Stages of Life After Social Media [BEST OF]

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✌️ Why I Left Instagram & a 5-Step Plan So You Can Too [BEST OF]

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🪦 Permission to Change — Why Endings Are Messy with Amy Kuretsky

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🔒 Is TikTok Wrecking Taste?

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📌 How to Quit Social Media in 5 Steps or Less

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🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas

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💠 Let Me Be Crystal Clear...

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🎢 What To Do When Nothing’s Working — with Jenny Blake

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🪄 3 Magical Rituals to Transform Your Business — with Brigitte, Cecily Sailor & Ash Canty

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🧿 How to Cultivate Creative Resilience — with Pascale Coté

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🔑 Social Media Boundaries & Success on Substack — with Dacy Gillespie

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🤖 Getting Out of Your Algorithm — with Kate Smalley

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🔒 That Time I Almost Became a Youtuber...

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🔮 How to Build an Intuitive Business — with Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz of Holisticism

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🌈 Self-Employment is a Spectrum

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👩‍🌾 “The Plants Made Me Do It” — Leaving Instagram with Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster

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🌾 Sacred Labor, Small Business & Anti-Capitalism — with Megan Leatherman

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🔒 How I Manage Having 3 Brands & 4 Podcasts...

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👀 How to Be Seen Off Social Media — Visibility & Bias with N. Chloé Nwangwu

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✌️ Why Leaving Social Media is Going Mainstream

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🤔 WTF is happening on LinkedIn?? (& Why I Quit the Platform After 14 Years)

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👀 How to Feel Seen Off Social Media

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🤸 Join the Clubhouse & our Summer of Substack!

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♻️ Success is a Cycle (& Sometimes That Sucks)

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🌹 The Deep Integration of Art, Business & Friendship — with Kening Zhu

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🫠 When Leaving Social Media Doesn't Solve Your Problems — with Cody Cook-Parrott

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✨ June Biz Forecast — Slowing Down, Sliding Scales & Sponsor Love

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😅 Social Media for the Anxiously Attached — with Becca Piastrelli

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🌾 Grow Through Generosity & Collaboration — with Chelsie Tamms of Lettering Works

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🪺 (Re)Building Your Business Around Your Capacity — with Jen Carrington

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☠️ Are Lead Magnets Dead?

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✨ May Biz Forecast — Daily Practice, Asynchronous Everything & Avoiding the Summer Slump

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🏦 Heal Your Relationship with Money — Rates & Revenue with Rachel Duncan

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❤️‍🩹 What is a Trauma-Informed Business? — with Jess Jackson

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🪐 How to Trust Yourself — Cosmic Business & Money Karma with Paula Crossfield

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👁️‍🗨️ Creative Business as a World-Building Practice — with Ayana Zaire Cotton

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✨ April Biz Forecast — Shiny Sales Copy, Private Pods & my Q1 $$$ Update

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🔥 Launch Without Social Media — Listener Hot Seat!

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🚀 How to Launch Your Next Big Thing Without Social Media

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🌱 Embracing Seasonal Transitions & Shifts in Your Business — with Yarrow Magdalena

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🤷‍♀️ How Much is Enough? — Money & Social Media Part Two with Nic Antoinette

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🔊 Escaping the Attention Economy — Resonance Over Reach with Jay Acunzo

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✨ March Biz Forecast — Launch Season, Newsletter Ads & Maybe Everything is Free Now?

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🦋 How to Show Up As Your Full Self in Business & Life — with Samara Bay

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🌀 24 Ways to Make More Sales in 2024

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🙃 Is Leaving Social Media a Privilege? — with Shivani Mehta Bhatia

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🌈 Finding Creative Freedom & Success Beyond Social Media — with Kristen Drozdowski of Worthwhile Paper

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🪴 24 Ways to Nurture Your Biz Community in 2024

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✨ February Biz Forecast — Fun Trends, Biz-Care Recs & Taking Social Media Breaks like Celebrities

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🏷️ How To Do “Just Enough” Marketing — with Amanda Laird

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👁️ 24 Ways to Boost Your Visibility in 2024

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💰 Overcoming Underearning — How Much Money I Made Last Year & What I’m Doing Differently This Year

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💫 Is This the Year You Leave Social Media? [Free 5-Day Challenge]

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🥸 Am I a Business Owner or an Artist? (or a Secret Third Thing)

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🧗🏻‍♀️ Getting Off the Online Business Growth Escalator

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🪦 Grieving Social Media — How to Process Your Feelings About IG/Facebook/Twitter/TikTok

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🏄‍♀️ Here's Exactly How I Launch a New Offering [BONUS]

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🤷‍♀️ How Much Is Enough? — Leaving Instagram & Right-Sizing Your Work with Nic Antoinette

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💸 How to Make $$$ with Your Friends — with Taylor Elyse Morrison

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🧠 Creative Work Practices for AuDHD Artists & Entrepreneurs —with Mattia Maurée

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🌿 Embodying Liberation from the Social Media Matrix — with Lauren Ash of Black Girl in Om

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🙃 Are Blogs in Again? — 7 Ways Social Media Just Can't Compete with Kasia Manolas

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🏚️ 3 Cracks in Your Business Foundation — How to Align Your Model & Your Marketing with Jessica Lackey

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📧 Email Marketing Made Easier, Better & More Fun — with Holly Wielkoszewski

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🌊 Channel the Flow — Money, Energy & Team Work with grace allerdice

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❤️‍🩹 Healing FOMO, Newsletters vs Email Marketing & My Take on Paid Ads [Listener Q&A]

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🪤 3 Traps of an Insta-Bae Business & How to Avoid Them

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🔮 A Spell for Releasing Your Shoulds Around Social Media (& Everything Else) — with Natalie Miller

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😶‍🌫️ Social Media is Not Neutral — aka the Threads episode

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🌀 Putting Your Phone Down & Letting It All Out — with Katie Dalebout [BONUS]

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🗺️ How to Map Your Business Ecosystem

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🎶 Let's Go Off The Grid [BONUS]

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🌴 Planning a DIY Business Retreat — with Maggie Gentry

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💫 Align Your Marketing & Your Human Design — with Arianna Maag

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♻️ Pivoting Your Business Away From Social Media — with Natalie Ross of Earth Speak

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💍 Pulling a Beyoncé & Following No One — Social Media Experiments with Melissa Word

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🛍 Can Retail Leave Social Media? — Advice for Product-Makers & Shop-Owners with Janine Mulone

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🤝 You Need a Network, Not an Audience — Relationship Marketing with Michelle Warner

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🍉 How To Plan a Summer Sabbatical in 5 Simple Steps [2023 edition]

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🧐 To Substack or Not to Substack?

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🙅‍♀️ Saying Yes to the No — Creativity, Constraints & Content with grace allerdice

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❤️‍🩹 Misinformation Hurts All of Us — Unpacking Social Media & Wellness Culture with Christy Harrison

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🤖 SEO Basics, Web Analytics & the AI of It All — with Emily Gertenbach

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💸 How This Podcast Makes Money Without A Big Audience

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💔 Why I Broke Up With Pinterest

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☠️ 10 Things I Hate About Content Marketing

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👋 The 5 Stages of Leaving Social Media

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🏔 Releasing #Productivity & Making Your Work More Seasonal — with grace allerdice

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🙏 Your Next Client Isn’t In Your DMs — Coaching Success without Social Media with D’Ana Joi

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🧞‍♀️ Social-media-free Launches, Human Design to Get Offline & Control vs Collaboration [Listener Q&A pt 2]

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👻 Un-Ghosting Your Followers, Getting Rid of FOMO & the “Right Time” to Leave Social Media [Listener Q&A pt 1]

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🛼 Let’s Get Transparent Again — Our New Top 10 Marketing Practices at Softer Sounds

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🕸 Unpacking the Social Dilemma — Alignment & Algorithms with Vickie Curtis

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🛁 Self-care for Staying on Social Media — with Taylor Elyse Morrison

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꩜ How it FEELS to Leave Social Media — Embodiment + Nervous System Regulation with Elle Bower Johnston

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🍉 How to Plan a Summer Sabbatical in 5 Simple Steps

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🛠 Business Systems Can Solve Your Problems — with Patty Ryan Lee of The Fiery Well

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📌 How Pinterest Can Grow Your Business + a Paid Ads Primer — with Brooke Basso

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🎙 How Your Podcast Can Bring You Clients & Make You Money — with Chelsea Riffe

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🎧 3 Ways Podcasting Can Radically Change Your Marketing

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🛼 Let’s Get Transparent — Our Top 10 Marketing Practices at Softer Sounds

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⚡️ Cultivating Energetic Sovereignty & Email as a Love Language — with grace allerdice

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🌸 Gentle Productivity, Radical Generosity & the Necessary, Nice & Ideal Framework

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🌈 How to Create a Fun, Feel-Good Marketing Plan to Grow Your Business

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💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work Off Social Media

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✌️ How I Left Instagram & a 5-step Plan So You Can Too

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🐲 4 Myths & a Truth About Social Media for Small Businesses

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🆕 Introducing— Off the Grid!