Category: Social Media Escape ClubCategory: Social Media Escape Club

One third interview, two thirds group Q&A with AMELIA HRUBY, PHD – feminist writer, prolific podcaster, and founder of Softer Sounds!
📅 Thursday, September 11

🕑 2:00–3:00 PM EDT

This hour-long call is part interview, part community Q&A. 

Together we’ll talk about what it looks like to leave social media, build cozy websites (and blogs?!?), and keep making magic without relying on big platforms to spread the word.

This is for paid members only, but you can get a trial membership for just $10 and get all this:

▪️ Access to 3+ live calls every week with creative folks curious about leaving social media – community!
▪️ Personalized email feedback from me (two rounds included)
▪️ Free access to my upcoming MAKING COZY VIDEOS PIZZA PARTY (normally $50)
▪️ Stay connected between sessions in our members-only Discord.

Get your 30 day trial for just $10 here

You’ll get an email with the Zoom link right after you sign up.

This week on our weekly Escape Pods, we kicked things off on Monday by talking about letting go of misaligned content and making space for better signals. We explored the tension between short-term platform growth and long-term creative sustainability, and how even small changes (like a new name or format) can breathe life back into stalled projects.

On Thursday, we were joined by my friend and Peabody Award–winning producer Sean Cannon, who traced his path from my little music blog to AOL Music chaos to deep-dive investigative podcasting. We talked about chasing weird stories (Run the Jewels + cat rap, and boxing Ted Leo), and how getting just 5% better each time can transform your work.

Then on Saturday’s Escape Pod Mini, we brought things back to the local level, like flyers on bulletin boards, in-person readings, and rebuilding creative energy offline. We talked about the sting of unsubscribes, the strange dance of asking friends and family for support, and how renaming your newsletter or project might be exactly what opens our next chapter.

If you’d like join our Zoom calls, sign up for a 30 day trial here. That’ll give you time to sit in on a few calls, and even get two free replies of my Email Guidance offering.

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One third interview / two thirds Q&A Zoom call with special guest Peabody-winning producer, journalist, and cat rap pioneer Sean Cannon. This coming Thursday, August 21 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT.

I’m starting to do these monthly with my members (and already have next month’s guest lined up)!

Not a member? Grab a 30 day trial membership to the Social Media Escape Club for just $10.

• ​You’ll get to hang out on this call and take part in the Q&A
• Free pass to my workshop on Aug 27th
• ​Access to our weekly Zoom hangouts (3 per week)
• ​Member-only resources, our private podcast replay feed, and more

​Join me (Seth Werkheiser) for a 90 minute interactive workshop on the endless decisions that come with running a newsletter in 2025.

​Should you import your list to Substack?
What should you put in my welcome email?
Which analytics even matter?
Should you switch platforms?
What the heck is SPF/DKIM/DMARC?!

​Instead of writing, we’re getting lost hours in CSV files and platform settings instead of actually connecting with your readers.

Wednesday, August 27 from 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

Get more info here: https://lu.ma/uqrfb65q

We did it. During two Escape Pod Zoom calls this week I asked guests to read something for one minute.

This was inspired by Lindsey Adler’s recent post, where she attended a party where the host had folks get up in front of people and read something.

So folks in our Escape Pod Zoom calls read poetry, newsletters, dialogue, unpublished work, and more.

I used to think Social Media Escape Club was going to be all about tactics and strategy, but it’s become about community, communication, reading, making, collaborating, making room for things just outside our comfort zones, which are some pretty good ways to spend our time online and off.