💯 100 Ways to Share Your Work & Life Off Social Media
Welcome to Off The Grid, a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients. Hello, and welcome to Off The Grid, a podcast about leaving social media for artists, writers, healers, teachers, dreamers, and the small business owners among us. I'm your host, Amelia Hruby. And this month, I published a brand new book called Your Attention is Sacred except on Social Media. And as a part of my book launch, I am hosting the first ever Off the Grid retreat live on Zoom, November.
Amelia Hruby:The only way to come to
Amelia Hruby:the retreat is to buy a book bundle, which includes all the versions of the book and some very fun bonuses and a free retreat ticket. That bundle will go away on Monday, November 3. So I really wanna invite you to head to the show notes or go to yourattentionissacred.com to check out the book, buy yourself a copy, pick up the bundle so you can come to the retreat and hang out. And as thanks for you doing that and in celebration of the book and the many years of making this podcast that it took to write that book, I'm wanting to share a few bonus mini episodes this month. So there will be a few Friday releases on the feed, including this one, where I am going back or pulling forward or pulling through or reembracing or reinventing my list of 100 ways to share your work and life off social media.
Amelia Hruby:When I was preparing to leave Instagram in 2021, I felt a lot of fear. It was a scary decision for me because I had been selling books and courses and building my platform on Instagram. And I truly felt like, oh, shit. What am I gonna do? How am I gonna keep spreading the word about my work?
Amelia Hruby:How am I gonna keep up with my friends? How am I gonna keep telling people about the things that I'm doing if I'm not on social media? And I know many people have this question when they think about stepping back or away from social media. People also have this question when they've already left social media, and then they're like, oh, but now what? So no matter your relationship to social media, if you're curious about how else you might share your work and your life, this list is for you.
Amelia Hruby:And when I wrote this list, something I realized is that part of my fear around leaving social media was that I believed social media was the one and only answer for talking to my friends, sharing my book, getting the word out, sharing my politics, and so much more. Like, I just thought social media was the one thing I should be doing or the one place I needed to be. So when I wanted to leave, at first, I looked around for another one place or one thing that would solve all my problems. And then I realized that the one thingness perhaps was the problem. And so instead of coming up with one solution to what I was gonna do off of social media, I wrote this list of 100 things I could do off of social media.
Amelia Hruby:This list really was a practice in possibility modeling, and it was the seed that started this podcast and eventually led to my book. So when I finished the book, I wrote the three chapters that make up the argument and the practices. And at the end, I was like, I think I should put the 100 ways list in the book. That feels like the sort of one more piece that people might wanna take away from this. So at the very end of your attention is sacred except on social media, you will find an updated version of my list of 100 ways to share your work and life off social media.
Amelia Hruby:And it's still wild to me to think that this list that I made out of fear, quite honestly, has now become one of the most resonant things I've ever created. It has been linked to by some of the coolest people I know on the Internet. It has been viewed over 20,000 times on my website. You can get it totally for free in the leaving social media toolkit at offthegrid.fund/toolkit, and you can find it at the end of the book. So in this episode, I want to read you the list of 100 ways to share your work and life off social media.
Amelia Hruby:And I wanna invite you to just listen to the list. Let it wash over you and just notice which items grab your attention today. What stands out? What feels good? I am always insistent that this is not a to do list.
Amelia Hruby:It's more like a dessert cart where someone has rolled all of delicious things up to the table, and now you're gonna choose what you want. And maybe what you want is just one of these things. You listen to the whole list and you're like, yep, that one. Or maybe you look at the dessert cart and you're like, one of each, please. And so you pick 10 things off the list and you dive in to new sharing practices for this season and beyond.
Amelia Hruby:Either way, I hope that this list can inspire you in your journey divesting from social media, however you choose to do that. Let's dive in, shall we, to my list of 100 ways to share your work and life without social media.
Amelia Hruby:Start an email newsletter. Send a postcard. Call your friends and family. Create or update your website. Start a blog.
Amelia Hruby:Put up a flyer at a local coffee shop. Join a Discord server. Launch a podcast. Make stickers and stick them all over town. Find your local community college and see what continuing education courses or networking meetups they host.
Amelia Hruby:Take a workshop and tell people what you do when you introduce yourself. Join a pen pal exchange. Sign up to write letters to someone who's incarcerated. Make a zine. Host a workshop at a favorite local or virtual spot.
Amelia Hruby:Try out a community app. Ship a care package. Put a sign in your window. Put a sign in your yard. Volunteer your expertise to a nonprofit or mutual aid project.
Amelia Hruby:Write a fan letter or email to your favorite artist, author, podcaster, or local government official. Invite someone for coffee, virtual or in person. Learn about and implement SEO or search engine optimization so people actually find your website. Pitch an article about your work to a journalist or publication. Set up a calendar link so people can easily book time to chat with you.
Amelia Hruby:Write a book. Host a book club. Make a playlist. Set up a group text. Let your alumni association know what you've been up to.
Amelia Hruby:Place an ad on a radio station. Place an ad in a magazine. Place an ad on a billboard.
Amelia Hruby:Write an op ed for the local newspaper. Create your own newspaper and put it in free little libraries around town. Ask a local business if you can put up a flyer or leave business cards by their register. See what's happening at your local library or rec center and show up for a community
Amelia Hruby:gathering. Host your own online community on a platform like Mighty Networks. Schedule a weekly friend date or open office hours for virtual or IRL time together. Write an essay for an online or print publication. Pitch yourself as a guest for a podcast.
Amelia Hruby:Ask a friend to share your work with their community. Collaborate with a friend or colleague on an event or offering. Leave reviews for businesses, podcasts, and books you love.
Amelia Hruby:Ask customers, clients, or admirers to leave you reviews.
Amelia Hruby:Create a yearbook or annual report, develop an app, create a magazine, host a webinar, stand outside and shout to the sky. Okay. That was the first 50. Shall we
Amelia Hruby:take a deep breath together? I hope that maybe one of those has stood out to you so far. Now let's hear the second half of the list. Rent a booth at a local craft fair, business fair, farmer's market, or trade show. Create or update your business
Amelia Hruby:cards. Join a local coworking space. Make bumper stickers, make graphic tees, make fanny packs. Ask everyone you know to tell one other person about your work. Send holiday cards.
Amelia Hruby:Make some funny memes. Hang out on a live streaming platform like Twitch. Read
Amelia Hruby:or write fan fiction for your favorite series. Hang out at a local coffee shop or bookstore, bakery, or bar, and befriend the babes who work there.
Amelia Hruby:Send Valentine's. Host a fundraiser for a favorite local organization. Start a free little library, pantry, or love fridge with your neighbors. Share some of your photos, sounds, or words with a creative commons license for free use by others. Go to a virtual conference and actively participate.
Amelia Hruby:Put up flyers on
Amelia Hruby:the street corners around where you live.
Amelia Hruby:Practice telling people who you are. Record an audio note of yourself saying it over and over again. Write it down 10 or 100 times. Practice telling people how they can work with you.
Amelia Hruby:Record an audio note of yourself saying it over and over again. Write it down 10 or 100 times. Create a free presentation about something you're good at and share it so others can learn from you. Spend time writing or speaking about your ideal client or friend. Imagine them into existence.
Amelia Hruby:Go for a walk and look around. Take a drive and look around. Buy
Amelia Hruby:domain names for popular things you do and reroute them to your website. Reconsider what you really want to
Amelia Hruby:share. Reconsider who you really want to share with. Write yourself a theme song. Invest in a session with a healer or coach you admire. Put all your info and links in your email signature.
Amelia Hruby:Use a service like Flodesk to set up a free download that you share with people who join your email list. Drink something warm and care for your voice. Make a list of people who do similar things as you and reach out to see
Amelia Hruby:if you can collaborate on something. Make a list of people who do way different things than you and reach out to see if you can collaborate on something.
Amelia Hruby:Make immediate kit. Take new headshots or promo photos you love. Create a Discord or Slack server for your community. Launch a course on a searchable platform like Teachable or Skillshare, host a game night or online trivia, create
Amelia Hruby:a useful tool or template using a service like Notion or Airtable, and send it to everyone you think might appreciate it.
Amelia Hruby:Chalk the sidewalk. Commission a mural. Write a guest post for a friend or colleague's blog. Film a commercial for TV or just for your website. Make a giant sign and hire a sign spinner or do it yourself.
Amelia Hruby:Reach out to one new person a day for a whole month. Reconnect with one person you already know each day for a whole month. Take a deep breath, then another one and another one. Actually do something or a lot of things on this list. And finally, write your own list of 100 ways to share.
Amelia Hruby:Alright, friends. That was the list of 100 ways to share your work and life off social media. Again, you can download it for free in the leaving social media toolkit, which you can find at offthegrid.fun/toolkit, or you can read it at the end of my book. Your attention is sacred except on social media. Whenever I feel stuck or limited or unsure of what to do next in my business or my personal life, if it has to do with relationships and feeling close to people, I go back to this list and I ask myself, what could I do from here now?
Amelia Hruby:There are a 100 options and I certainly haven't done all of them. Although I am considering putting up a billboard for my book, which would be a very fun one to mark off of the list for me personally. But again, remember that it's not a to do list, it's a dessert cart, and it's an invitation into expansive visionary practice and remembering that social media is not the answer to everything. Whether you are on the apps or not, there are so many other ways to connect with your community and your customers or clients. So thank you so much for tuning in to this episode today.
Amelia Hruby:And until next time, I will see you off the grid. Thanks for listening to off the grid. Don't forget to grab your free leaving social media toolkit at offthegrid.fun/toolkit. This podcast is a softer sounds production. Our music is by Melissa Kaitlyn Carter of making audio magic, and our logo is by N'Atelier Studio.
Amelia Hruby:I'm your host, Amelia Hruby. And until next time, I'll see you off the grid and on the interweb.
Melissa Kaitlyn Carter:Let's go off the grid. Okay. Let's go off the grid. Okay. I know that you really wanna put your phone away.
Melissa Kaitlyn Carter:Yeah. Let's go off the grid.
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