Off The Grid is a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients. ✌️ 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
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Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living
Becca Piastrelli
Welcome to Belonging, a podcast that explores being alive in the age of loneliness. Becca Piastrelli is your host and guide on a journey of courageous reconnection as we explore topics like rites of passage, cultivating meaningful community, seasonal and cyclical living, and what it means to be a good ancestor in these times. She has thought provoking conversations with friends, teachers, elders, and ancestral medicine keepers to help support you in bringing more meaning and connection to yo ...
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Can you build a business based on… “calm?” On Beyond Margins, host Susan Boles looks beyond the usual metrics of success to help you build a business where calm is the new KPI. With over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, CFO, and COO, Susan shares the business strategies that lead to a business with comfortable margins—financial, emotional, energetic, and scheduling margins. Join her and her guests as they counter the prevailing “wisdom” about business growth, productivity, and succ ...
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The Air We Breathe: Finding Well-Being That Works for You
Heather Sayers Lehman, MS, NBC-HWC, NASM-CPT, CSCS, CIEC, CWP
The Air We Breathe: Finding Well-Being that Works for You is a podcast created to help you establish a trusted foundation of doable healthy habits and smart self-care skills that can endure every season and last you a lifetime. I'm your host, Heather Sayers Lehman, and my guests and I will share ways that you can focus on your physical and mental health with purpose, flexibility, and ease. The Air We Breathe is here to help you find out what’s most doable, frictionless, and effective for you ...
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Each week Grey brings you five important things happening in the world of social and digital media. This round table panel covers platform updates, creative inspiration, stories in the news, and more. Powered by Grey, Famously effective since 1917
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Using Efficient Systems to Create Calm with Amelia Hruby
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Why are efficient systems so essential for building a calmer business? And how do you go about finding the right systems and processes for yourself? We're continuing in our mini-series on my calmer framework for a calmer business. This week, we're focused on my favorite aspect of my CALMER framework -- efficient systems. We dive into the importance…
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🪦 Permission to Change — Why Endings Are Messy with Amy Kuretsky
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Welcome to the season four finale of Off the Grid! Today I'm joined by acupuncturist, herbalist, breathwork facilitator, + clinic co-owner Amy Kuretsky to talk about everything creative small business. In this conversation, Amy walks us through how she built a successful brick and mortar business AND a successful online business over the past decad…
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👋 How to Leave Social Media in 5 Steps or Less
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If Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook or X are giving you the ick... please let me offer this 5-step plan for leaving social media — without impacting your income! Tune in to learn all five steps in under ten minutes. Then grab our FREE Leaving Social Media Toolkit to make your plan for what comes next in your work, biz + life. XOXO, Amelia 💫 Have you eve…
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🧩 Decolonize Your Systems & Yourself — Neurodivergence & Notion with Podge Thomas
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"These were very colonized institutions that I feel brainwashed me. And they brainwash a lot of people. So now as a business owner, creative & Notion consultant, what I get to do is decolonize my business and help my clients look at their own businesses through a decolonization lens." Today I’m joined by Podge Thomas for a reflective conversation a…
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Reclaiming Motherhood As A Rite Of Passage With Jessie Harrold
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In today’s episode, I am joined by Jessie Harrold, a coach, doula and author of ‘Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage’. A couple of years ago, I followed Jessie’s course by the same name and it held me deeply in the depths of my postpartum identity shift. This conversation dives deep in the process of matrescence, the part commun…
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Dropping in off-schedule with a reflection/reminder/rallying-cry that we have power as small business owners, and we can stand against everything Trump is + represents — especially if we do it together. Tune in for gentle provocations and a special invitation to join me at a free event Wednesday, November 20 @ 12pm CT. I hope to see you there. 🩵…
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🎢 What To Do When Nothing’s Working — with Jenny Blake
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I’ve admired Jenny Blake’s work from afar for years. First for her seemingly endless success with book deals, big-name podcast guests, and six-figure corporate contracts. And now for her incredibly honest accounting of how her business dissolved during the pandemic and hasn’t rebounded since. So in today’s episode, Jenny joins us to share the highs…
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Transitioning to a 4-day Workweek with Nathalie Lussier
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What if you could build in more space to your business? An extra day off? More time to strategize? Less urgency and more rest? We're continuing in our mini-series on my calmer framework for a calmer business. This week, we're diving into margins -- financial margins, capacity margins, and energetic margins -- to decrease urgency and burnout and cre…
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🪄 3 Magical Rituals to Transform Your Business — with Brigitte, Cecily Sailor & Ash Canty
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Happy Halloween, business witches! 🧙 While I typically keep things pretty practical here at Off the Grid, this week I wanted to lean into the mystical, magical and alchemical aspects of creative business. To do that, I invited three brilliant practitioners to each share a unique and powerful biz magic ritual with us! ✨ Brigitte starts us off with s…
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🧿 How to Cultivate Creative Resilience — with Pascale Coté
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Often when business isn’t going well, we think that we can fix it with a new marketing strategy or growth tactic. We look to new courses, fancy platforms, or expensive mentors to “save” us … but in my experience, what we actually need in these times is to tend to our inner reserves in deeper and more nuanced ways. So today I’m joined by Pascale Cot…
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Building Systems of Care with Heather O'Neill
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Taking care of people in or around your business isn't the default when it comes to business and what we're taught business should be. How is this way of doing business actually hurting us? And, how can we change our systems to be more authentically people-first? We're continuing in our mini-series on my calmer framework for a calmer business. This…
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In today’s episode, I am joined by Stevie Storck, founder of the Cross Quarter Club, a creative seasonal living community focused on gardening and nature connection. When Stevie and I first connected through my circle facilitation training Circle Craft, she introduced me to the concept of the Sharing Table, a tradition that encourages community mem…
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🔑 Social Media Boundaries & Success on Substack — with Dacy Gillespie
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This one goes out to all our listeners who are still trying to make it work on social media! Today I’m joined by Dacy Gillespie, a weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist who has grown her business online over the past decade and is now navigating a major shift from Instagram to Substack. Together, we talk about: The high-stress worlds of musi…
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Taking My Own Advice and Taking a Mental Health Break with Health Coach Heather Sayers Lehman
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Send us a text I'm in a whirlwind of change, peeps. After an exhausting journey juggling content creation, business management, and an overwhelming move from Phoenix to Southern California, I decided to take a step back to reevaluate my priorities. In this episode, I open up about the emotional and physical toll of these transitions and the liberat…
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🤖 Getting Out of Your Algorithm — with Kate Smalley
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This week on the show we're getting into it with everyone’s least favorite internet friend — THE ALGORITHM 🙈 To do that I'm joined by Kate Smalley, a small business advisor, educator, and facilitator, who recently wrote a great piece about getting out of your algorithm that had me thinking more about what algorithms actually do and how we can work …
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Engineering an Autonomous Work Culture with Marissa Goldberg
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Can we create calm workplaces that are not only remote, but also asynchronous? And can we do it while avoiding micromanaging from afar? We're continuing in our mini-series on my calmer framework for a calmer business. This week, we're diving into autonomy. Why is autonomy essential for a calmer business? What does an autonomous work environment eve…
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E59. Dumping Sneaky Habits That Steal Our Peace with Registered Dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon
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Send us a text What if the secret to a better self-image isn't in the mirror but in being kind to yourself? Registered dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon joins me in untangling the messy world of body image and food. As the host of "Find Your Food Voice," Julie helps people ditch diet culture and society's unrealistic expectations. We dive deep into body…
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🔮 How to Build an Intuitive Business — with Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz of Holisticism
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Happy October! This week we're kicking off Spooky Season with one of my favorite business witches — Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz of Holisticism! Michelle has taught me so much about online business, magical meaning-making systems, and spiritual practices. She's one of my favorite people to pay attention to on the internet, and I invited her on the sh…
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Today on the pod, I'm breaking down binary thinking and talking about why self-employment is a spectrum. Because your only options aren't 'have a full-time job' or 'have a full-time business'. In fact, there are about a million other ways you can support yourself! So if you've ever felt like an imposter or a failure or just been confused about how …
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Why Clarity Matters: Creating a Calmer Business Environment
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How can defining your business values and success more clearly lead to a calmer operation? This episode kicks off our miniseries on deconstructing the common elements that all calm businesses share. We're starting with the most foundational element: clarity. Clarity in business is often summarized by a simple yet powerful term: "freedom from ambigu…
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👩🌾 “The Plants Made Me Do It” — Leaving Instagram with Liz Migliorelli of Sister Spinster
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“I don’t want to perform my job. I want to be rooted in my work.” Liz Migliorelli is an herbalist, educator and storyteller who has crafted an herbal product line under the name Sister Spinster for over a decade. In this episode, Liz joins me to talk about how her business flourished on Instagram — growing to over 30k followers! — and the ways that…
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🌾 Sacred Labor, Small Business & Anti-Capitalism — with Megan Leatherman
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If you love your work but wish you never had to work, today’s episode is for you! This week I’m incredibly excited to be joined by anticapitalist teacher, writer, vocational guide, and naturalist: Megan Leatherman of A Wild New Work. In this conversation, we begin by defining capitalism and anti-capitalism alongside Silvia Federici’s book Caliban a…
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👀 How to Be Seen Off Social Media — Visibility & Bias with N. Chloé Nwangwu
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Welcome to season four of Off the Grid! Today I’m joined by everybody’s favorite brand scientist, N. Chloé Nwangwu of NobiWorks. Chloé is here to talk about what brands are, why they matter, and how we can craft one that breaks past visibility biases. This conversation is also an extension of our season three finale where I explored how to feel see…
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E58. Healing When You Don't Know How Much You're Hurting with Health Coach Heather Sayers Lehman
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Send us a text We all know how hard change and loss can be. 😞 The emotions are overwhelming, and things feel out of control, so we do many things to feel in control. Plot twist: controlling things is usually not helpful because we don’t just need to “feel” in control. We need to acknowledge what we’ve lost and mourn. In this episode, we’ll peel bac…
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Essential Elements of Building a Calm Business
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What if you could design a business that inherently operates on calm, not chaos? What are the essential elements to make this possible, and how can they be systematically incorporated into your business model? As we dive into our new series on creating calmer businesses, we explore the foundational elements that make businesses serene and sustainab…
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Welcome welcome welcome back to Off the Grid! Amelia, here. I’m popping into your pod feed today to let you know that we’re kicking off season four of the show next week. 🎉 Starting September 4th, I’ll be sharing a new interview every Wednesday through the end of November, featuring amazing guests like: N. Chloé Nwangwu, Liz Migliorelli of Sister S…
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E57. Menopause, Hormones, and Mental Health: Oh My! with Menopause Specialist Dr. Leigh Lewis
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Send us a text Did you get the instruction manual for menopause? 📕 ME NEITHER! I’ve got a great episode wit some direction and clarity to guide you through. Today on the pod, I have Dr. Leigh Lewis, a certified menopause practitioner credentialed through the North American Menopause Society and a naturopath. We discuss what perimenopause and menopa…
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Hidden Funding: Grants for Creatives, Consultants & Agency Owners with Danielle Desir Corbett
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Can grants really fund your service business? This episode wraps up our deep dive into unique funding options for service businesses, exploring an often overlooked resource—grants. Meet Danielle Desir Corbett. She's a former grants administrator turned 4x grant-funded creative entrepreneur. She curates a monthly newsletter called "Grants For Creato…
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“I Became Allergic To My Computer”- A Conversation On Land & Community With Sarah Wildeman
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Immersing myself deeply in the season of Summer here on the East coast has meant that I went on a little hiatus when it comes to sharing about my journey with moving my whole family across the country, purchasing land, learning farming, building community, and everything else. So, for this episode, I asked my friend Sarah Wildeman, who’s been a bel…
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E56. Redefining Fitness: Learn to Listen to Your Body with Body Liberation Coach Hannah Husband
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Send us a text Are you tired of focusing on your weight or body size? 😩 Well, Hannah Husband and the Body Liberation Playground are here to help! Today on the pod, Hannah shares their relationship with exercise. Like most of us, it began as their desire to change and control their body. Over time, it shifted to their desire to liberate it and feel …
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In this special 100th episode of Beyond Margins, host Susan Boles delivers her first solo discussion on utilizing debt thoughtfully to fund service businesses. Drawing from her experience as a fractional CFO, she explores the benefits and strategic uses of debt, shares real-world examples, and provides practical tips for business owners facing cash…
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🤔 WTF is happening on LinkedIn?? (& Why I Left the Platform After 14 Years)
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This one goes out to my all my Top Voices™️ out there. Today we’re talking about LinkedIn! Tune in to hear me unpack: A timeline of LinkedIn’s evolution The difference between Social Networking & Social Media The phenomena of LinkedIn Cringe™️ How LinkedIn has changed thought leadership at large Why I decided to (finally) leave LinkedIn And ICYMI —…
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E55. Busting Myths to Empower Reproductive Health with Registered Dietitian Rachelle Mallik and Health Coach Heather Sayers Lehman
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Send us a text Fertility health is an area rife with nutrition misinformation and opportunistic influencers. 💸💸💸 I have registered dietitian Rachelle Mallik on the pod, and she is here to share her vast knowledge of nutrition and reproductive health! Rachelle’s experience while pregnant left her wishing there was more support and information on nut…
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Crowdfunding For Service Businesses with Lena West
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Do you need funding for your business but loathe the idea of giving up a piece of your company to someone else? I get it. You built this baby with your own two hands, most likely giving up nights, weekends, early mornings, and time with your friends and family to do it. So the idea of handing over part of that to someone who wasn’t sweating it out …
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E54. Why It’s So Difficult To Let Go of Perfectionism and Steps to Stop with Health Coach Heather Sayers Lehman
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Send us a text You know how "perfect" is supposed to be the ultimate compliment? 🙋🏻♀️ You LOOK perfect! 😍 Your WORK is perfect! 👍🏼 Your KIDS did perfect! 🏆 Your HOME is perfect! 🏡 Then one day you wake up so exhausted from chasing perfection that you chuck it all out the window...but then you get so afraid of NOT being perfect that you scoop it al…
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Finding the Money to Grow with Eda Henries
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Cash is only easy to come by when you don't really need it. When things are going well, banks are happy to finance loans and lines of credit, and investors are easy to find when you're profitable and growing quickly. But we all know things aren’t always going well. For service-based businesses, where our products aren’t widgets but more often the i…
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This week we wrap season three with some #deepthoughts on what it means to feel seen and how social media is messing with our sense of self-worth and community connection. Tune in as I break down why visibility ≠ connection (or $ales), and I share many ways that we can find connection in our work and our lives without being on all the apps. And if …
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E53. Breaking Free: Authentic Living Without Social Media with Amelia Hruby
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Send us a text Have you ever considered breaking up with social media, but you are left thinking, what if I am missing out by leaving? You are not alone. Today on the pod, I am joined by Amelia Hruby! Amelia is a writer, educator, and podcaster with a PhD in philosophy. She is the founder of Softer Sounds, a feminist podcast studio for entrepreneur…
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The Structure & Policies That Support Your Team with Kate Tyson
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Consider this scenario: a key employee unexpectedly needs to take an extended leave. Is your business financially and structurally prepared to handle that without a hitch? This is a challenge many small businesses face, and it's crucial to be prepared. As we wrap up our series on sabbaticals, leaves, and breaks, we will examine the policies and fin…
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🤸 Join the Clubhouse & our Summer of Substack!
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Hey friends, I'm popping into your pod feed on a Monday to share that... THE OFF THE GRID CLUBHOUSE IS NOW OPEN! 🤸 Head to offthegridclubhouse.substack.com for weekly episodes, secret emails + community comment threads all summer long. Only $5/mo or $50/year. Join us today!By Softer Sounds
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♻️ Success is a Cycle (& Sometimes That Sucks)
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Hey there, biz bestie. If you (like me) have never discovered a milestone or a metric that makes you a Success™️….today’s episode is for you! Tune in to hear: Why I hate SMART goals How to FEEL successful When to embrace fluctuation + failure What alignment’s got to do with it The exact definition of success that guides my work + life & How to writ…
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🌹 The Deep Integration of Art, Business & Friendship — with Kening Zhu
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This week I’m joined by Kening Zhu, an artist, web designer, and dear friend who I’ve known for over 15 years. Together, we have a deep and thoughtful conversation about money, energy, human design, creative practice, and the magical nature of the world wide web. This episode is for anyone craving connection, expansion, and deeper meaning in their …
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E52. Navigate Body Comments & Talk Back to Body Talk with Health Coach Heather Sayers Lehman
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Send us a text Have you ever been at a loss for words after comments on someone’s body (maybe yours)? 👀 Did you find something you wanted to say, or were you left speechless waking up at 3 am thinking, “THIS is what I should have said…” 🤦🏻♀️ Well, I am here to help you navigate the uncomfortable world, that is, body talk. What if I am the one comm…
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Ritualizing Challenging Life Transitions With Lara Vesta
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In today’s episode, I am joined by Lara Vesta, author of ‘The Year of the Dark Goddess’ and ‘The Moon Divas Guidebook’ (among other titles). In this conversation, we explore navigating difficult rites of passage, learning its culture through myths, fairytales and other symbolism and calling in our webs of support - whether they be human, spiritual,…
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Lazy Training, Fire Drills & Expecting the Unexpected with Layla Pomper
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What happens when you unexpectedly need to step away from your business's operations? How can you prepare your business not just to survive but to thrive, even when key team members are away? In our continuing series on planning for leaves, sabbaticals, and breaks from your business, we’re shifting our focus from the personal side to the backbone o…
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🫠 When Leaving Social Media Doesn't Solve Your Problems — with Cody Cook-Parrott
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Today I’m joined by Cody Cook-Parrott, a writer, artist, dancer, and teacher who’s here to share how they grew their Instagram account to over 80k followers while navigating big feelings, multiple book deals & many social media breaks in the process. In this conversation, Cody and I meet deep in the both/and of when being ON social media feels bad …
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