Leaving Instagram with Amelia Hruby, PhD, Host of Off The Grid & Founder of Softer Sounds Studio

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week I spoke to writer and podcaster Amelia Hruby. She’s also the author of the book Fifty Feminist Mantras. In this conversation we primarily focus on one aspect of her work, the topic of her show: Off the Grid: Leaving Social Media Without Losing All Your Clients. We discuss her experience of leaving social media and the feelings that come with navigating Instagram both personally and professionally. She shares how the boundaries she set up for herself failed her and how the pros of leaving Instagram outweighed the cons. We unpack the nuances of the social capital of instagram, parasocial relationships on it, how our use of it evolved since we first got it, and the emotions tied up in using it socially. We spent so much time on this topic, that she will be back for part two where we will focus on podcasting, from what makes a good conversation to where she sees the future of the industry and more.

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0:00.0	Our work is to align with ourselves and then to cultivate the courage to step out of things that are not for us. Let me let it out, let it out, I'm
0:21.6	let it out, I'm Let it go out. Hello. Hello. My name is Katie Delvout, if you're new here.
0:53.3	This week, I have a conversation with writer and podcast producer and host Amelia Hrube.
1:00.6	She is incredible.
1:03.3	She is so wise.
1:05.7	She has her PhD.
1:07.8	She's incredibly smart.
1:08.9	She's written a book called 50 Feminist Mantras, and she's the
1:12.6	founder of softer sounds, a podcast studio that makes some of my favorite shows. And in this
1:20.0	conversation, we primarily focus on one asset of her work, one topic of her show off the grid, leaving social media without losing
1:31.9	all your clients. And we spend pretty much all of this conversation you're about to hear
1:39.2	discussing her experience of leaving social media completely, leaving Instagram, and all the feelings that
1:47.0	came with that, which as you can imagine, was a pretty broad conversation.
1:53.0	And I spoke a lot about how my relationship to that platform has evolved since I downloaded it on my phone in college
2:05.6	and posted inside jokes with my friends to what it is now, which is really not that different.
2:11.6	But we get into using social media personally and with work and the lines between that being
2:22.2	extremely blurred, or at least they are for me and so many people. And it's more of a
2:27.0	conversation than an interview. We really talk about this topic and she's actually going to
2:33.5	air this on her feed of off the grid as well
2:37.0	and something of a swap cast but we get to the end of the hour and I realize you'll hear
2:44.0	it in a few minutes if you listen to the end but I'm like oh man we didn't even get to talk
2:50.2	about the medium that we
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