#268: What We Learned Offline

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This past year Emma and I both spent a significant amount of time off social media after more than fifteen years working professionally as social media influencers and running online businesses. Today we’re going to share what we learned offline including the pros and cons and how we want to approach social media moving forward.

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Pros and cons:

Pros: Boredom is a gift, get into the flow easier, more time, learn more about yourself

Cons: Feels lonely, FOMO

What did you miss?

Emma: Catching up with random friends and not being up to date on current events

Elsie: Book Tok

Anything surprising?

How easy it was and how little it’s missed

Book Report:

Elsie - My Brilliant Friend (Neopolitan Series) by Elena Ferrante

Emma - Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen.
0:08.7	This past year, M&I both spent a significant amount of time off social media after more than 15 years of working professionally as social media influencers and running online businesses.
0:19.3	So we were chronically online. Today we're going
0:22.3	to share what we learned in our offline time, including the pros and cons and how we want to
0:26.9	approach social media moving forward. Cool. I think this will be like a fun and different episode.
0:33.4	So I'm excited to talk about this. It's kind of a hot subject, right?
0:37.8	Yeah, I think so.
0:38.6	Plus, earlier in the year, we did an episode where we interviewed our third sister, Elise,
0:44.3	and I'm sure we'll reference that because she was a catalyst for me with this because she also got off social media.
0:50.8	So if you have it listening to that, I would go back and listen to it.
0:54.7	It's an interesting listen anyway, but it also might make some of this make more sense. So the episode is
1:01.3	number 247 and it's called One Year Without Social Media with Elise Cripe. All right. So we just
1:08.1	wanted to say a quick note that this week I have a lot of construction noise in the background. We're really sorry for that. Honestly, like my house is a hellhole. And I cannot, I cannot tell them to stop. I can't. She needs it to keep going. I need. So we're sorry. We're trying to work around it and this is the best we
1:27.6	can do for you. If they come and they do work, I have to just let them do it. So please forgive us. And if not, you know, we'll just have once in one star review is the price we pay. Yeah. Okay. So before we dive in, I want to share, I just had a little solo writing retreat.
1:45.2	It was so magical.
1:47.0	And, yeah, I wanted to share about it.
1:49.0	As all my best stories do, it starts with me crying in the car to Jeremy.
1:54.1	Just the usual.
1:55.9	My novel, my novel, you know, I like, this man has been through it for this novel.
2:02.8	Boy, has he.
2:03.4	And, yeah, I love him so much for it.
2:05.7	So this day was just like, and especially things were really feeling difficult.
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