✨ A Quick Permission Slip to Release Your Expectations

Amelia HrubyWelcome to off the grid, a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients. Hey. Hi. Hello, beloved off the grid listener. Amelia here, your host, your social media free guide, your perhaps fave marketing podcaster.

I am popping on with a quick update, which is that last week, I shared five episodes in five days for our 2026 creative marketing toolkit. And then I promised you that a brand new season of the show would start today, less than a week after I finished that whole major series. And I arrive to you today humbled by my own limited capacity to say that the next season of Off The Grid will not begin until the end of January. I need a few weeks to catch up on my editing and my recording and to hang out with my interweb members who joined us last week and my folks in the clubhouse who actually are going to be getting like three episodes between now and when the public show will return. So I have to pause here for a moment.

I invite myself and you to take a deep breath. And perhaps to release some of our expectations for what we might get done in January. There's a lot going on right now. I wrote about this a bit in the clubhouse earlier in the week, but here in the US, we are witnessing so much federal violence. We are mourning the deaths of people at the hands of ICE and we are fighting back. We are resisting DHS, ICE, TSA, and these border police.

I know a lot of off the grid listeners are witnessing this or living through it themselves, and I want you to know that the show stands against ICE and with you. Whether you are getting back to work this week or pausing to take it all in and fight back, I am sending you so much care and encouragement. As I mentioned, I will be taking two weeks off the public feed, not even really off. I'm just not coming back from break as soon as promised. And I will be sharing in the clubhouse.

So this is a great moment. If you want more Off The Grid right now, you can have it. You just have to join the Off The Grid Clubhouse on Substack. It costs $5 a month or $50 a year, and you get so many great bonus episodes. Already this year, Clubhouse members have gotten my six predictions for 2026, which were totally different than what I shared here on the main feed.

They were my personal and political thoughts about what I think is going to happen with the internet and online business this year. And then today, Clubhouse members got a brand new exclusive episode about the three ways I'm reclaiming my attention, creativity, and workday in 2026, which was a really fun episode I made just for them and that you can hear if you become a paid member of the Clubhouse. And in the next week, Clubhouse members will also get a follow-up conversation that I had with Amanda Laird all about the announcements that Amy Porterfield and Jenna Kutcher made that they were ending some of their major programs. Jenna's ending her podcast, Amy's closing the Digital Course Academy, and Amanda and I talked through what we think that means for online business, and also how the hot take culture around it is actually kind of harmful, and we don't really want to do that anymore. I mean, we've never really done it, but we don't want people to do it anymore.

And I also recorded a brand new Clubhouse exclusive episode with astrologer and brand designer, Miana Melendez, that will be bringing you your 2026 astro transits for creative business, and that'll be live in the Clubhouse next week as well. So there's a lot to come for Clubhouse members even as things are quiet here on the feed. And if you like off the grid, if you love these episodes, if you want more episodes, I would truly appreciate your support in the Clubhouse. Again, it's only $5 a month or $50 a year. You can join us on Substack and hang out in the comments, read all the newsletters, use the app if you want, or you can just sign up, put the private podcast feed in your podcast player of choice, and never look at Substack again.

I'm gonna be talking more in the upcoming season about why I'm still on Substack, my thoughts about the platform, how I may be getting off at some point. So that's all coming up in the season that will start on January 28. When I return for that episode, I'm gonna tell you why I'm taking a sabbatical from Softer Sounds this year. I'm gonna talk to you about how I grew my business, how it's going now, what's happening behind the scenes, and then I have lots of more amazing conversations to share. So once again, thank you so much for being an Off the Grid listener.

Thank you so much for tuning into these episodes. Thank you so much if you became an Interweb member last week. And if you love what we're up to here, I would greatly appreciate your support in the Clubhouse. I send you so much care through these cold months in the Northern Hemisphere and these hard times here in the US. I believe in you and your creative practice and your small business, and we will be together again soon, friends.