The JOMOcast with Christina Crook

Cultivating Character, Presence, and Authenticity, with Screen Time Action Network's Jean Rogers

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:45 GMT

We can remember a time before the Internet. They can’t.

Today’s adolescents are living in the era of everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything—a time where AI blurs the lines of reality and digital capitalism drives the terms of social engagement to the extent that students are left wanting, wanting for something real.

This week’s guest is Jean Rogers – the director of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, a collaborative community of practitioners, educators, advocates and parents working to reduce excessive screen use in childhood. She is the author of “Kids Under Fire: Seven Simple Steps to Combat the Media Attack on Your Child,” a book that has helped parents empower their children to make healthy screen choices and

become responsible consumers of screen media. Jean believes that digital wellness in childhood translates to healthy, responsible, successful adults.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Screen Time Action’s mission and mandate

- Responsible advocacy versus personal responsibility

- The paid NextGen digital wellness advocacy opportunity for students

- Techno-voidance

- Authentic relationships, Character development, and Presence in the Digital Age

- The case for phone-free schools (Jonathan Haidt et al)

- Her digital wellness “Drive, date, discuss” tips

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Supported by JOMO(campus), Season 4 explores the landscape of students, smartphones and social media, asking global experts to explain the hard truths about the mental health decline among youth on campuses worldwide and inspire us with evidence-based strategies that will turn the tide. Get more JOMO at jomocast.com.

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Matching Nature Time with Screen Time, with 1000 Hours Outside founder Ginny Yurich

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:22 GMT

Ginny Yurich is a Michigan homeschooling mother of five and the founder and CEO of 1000 Hours Outside, a global movement focused on bringing back the balance between virtual life and real life. She hosts and produces the extremely popular The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, is a keynote public speaker, and is a zinnia enthusiast.

In this episode, we discuss:

- The 1000 Hours Outside origin story and vision for thriving through nature connection

- Ginny’s definition of digital well-being

- The biggest digital challenge facing youth today

- Her best strategy for fostering well-being

- Principles for wise digital decision-making that she uses with her children

- What brings her joy and how she prioritizes it

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This School Took Away Smartphones. The Kids Don’t Mind.

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:30:28 GMT

When the high schoolers who attend Buxton boarding school in Williamstown, Massachusetts, resumed in-person learning in the fall of 2020, the head of the school noticed that the kids had lost something important. After months of remote learning due to the pandemic, kids no longer knew how to interact with one another.

“The students had completely forgotten the basics of face-to-face interaction. They had spent so much time glued to their smartphones.”

Everybody’s attention was being sucked into their online lives — text messages, emails and social media apps — on their phones. The students struggled to converse with one another, and the ability to be with or sit with other people was gone entirely. They decided to conduct a social experiment: a smartphone ban for the entire campus - faculty, students and administration. Instead, each community member was given a Light Phone, a minimalist device designed to be used as little as possible. Where smartphones make it easier to do wrong things - like doom scroll and binge watch - the light phone makes it easier to pay attention to what matters - the people and experiences right in front of us.

The kids have never been happier.

In this episode with light phone co-founder Joe Hollier and Buxton School co-director John Kalapos, we discuss:

How smartphones and social media negatively impact campus culture: “The smartphone makes it easier to do the wrong things.”
Faculty-led concept of (and participation in) going smartphone-free
Student-written technology policies
Positive impacts of removing smartphones from campus: “Now, I don’t have to be a smartphone cop.”
How minimalist phones like Light make it easier to do the right things
Digital well-being advice for school leaders

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Well-Being for Each Student, with Jon Eckert

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:00:29 GMT

Jon Eckert is a Professor of Educational Leadership at Baylor University. He taught and coached intermediate and middle school students outside of Chicago and Nashville for 12 years. After completing his doctorate at Vanderbilt University, he was selected as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education, where he worked in both the Bush and Obama administrations on teaching quality issues.

Dr. Eckert has conducted research for the U.S. Department of Education, the Carnegie Foundation, the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, and the Center for Teaching Quality.

In this episode, we discuss Jon’s newest book, “Just Teaching: Feedback, Engagement, and Well-being for Each Student,” the threats to effective education in today’s digital climate and teaching strategies to address digital distraction and disengagement to bring out students’ best.

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Digital Wellness, with Harvard's Dr. Michael Rich

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:15 GMT

In this engaging podcast episode, Christina is joined by Dr. Michael Rich, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, at Harvard Medical School and Founder of the Digital Wellness Lab - an academic research center focused on media and technology as a powerful environmental health influence.

Dr. Rich guides Christina through the significant hurdles that modern students encounter and offers valuable insights on harnessing technology effectively.

Additionally, Dr. Rich discusses his current initiatives at the Digital Wellness Lab, along with his reasons for maintaining optimism about the Lab's mission to adapt swiftly in response to three dynamic factors: Human dynamics, the evolving media landscape, and shifts in behavior.

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Adolescent Mental Health with Laurie Fritsch

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:00:35 GMT

On today's mini-season premiere, Christina is joined by Laurie Fritsch, Digital Well-Being Specialist at Virginia Tech, who has witnessed adolescent mental health decline first hand.

Laurie guides Christina through the significant shifts she has seen in student wellness since starting her public health role over 20 years ago, shares what she believes has driven the changes and suggests how colleges and universities can address these challenges.

Plus, Laurie shares what she's putting into practice in her work at Virginia Tech — and why she remains optimistic that change is underway.

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The JOMO(cast) is back!

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:00:07 GMT

Hey, joy seekers!

On the JOMO(cast), digital wellness expert Christina Crook invites tech founders, creators, and thought leaders to share the ways they’re embracing the joy of missing out to flourish in a rapidly-changing world. This "mini-season", she'll be exploring campus mental health in support of her work with her newest initiative, JOMO(campus): a first-of-its-kind initiative specifically tailored for higher education.

Our season premiere debuts on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, with new episodes released bi-weekly. Subscribe now in your favourite podcast app for less FOMO, more JOMO.

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(Replay) The JOMO Origin Story, with Anil Dash

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:30:37 GMT

Today’s show is a replay of a conversation I had with Anil Dash. Anil is the person who coined the term ‘JOMO’, and hearing him explain what JOMO means to him in this episode makes me beam at the impact the JOMO movement has.

Anil is the Founder of Glitch, an app that helps developers code. We spoke about the origin of how the word ‘JOMO’ came to be and the beauty of missing out on the urgency of responding to messages and emails instantly.

We also discussed why it’s important to not let people project their personal views onto us or choose who we should be, and how he advocates for ethical tech within the industry.

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(Replay) JOMO for the Very Online, with Aaron Reynolds

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:30:26 GMT

Today’s show is a replay of a conversation I had with Aaron Reynolds back in 2019. Our interview took place in my home office, which really felt like a meeting of friends.

Aaron is a humourist, professional speaker, and the man behind the @EffinBirds and @swear_trek Twitter accounts. When he's not on Twitter, you can find him producing a series of podcasts and at ComicCons dressed as George Lucas.

Aaron states that his mission in life is “to make social media less of a hellscape, by making it more fun and playful”. We spoke about how we can learn from our passion projects and our pain points, and slowly but surely steer ourselves towards something more sustainable and joy-filled.

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(Replay) The Joy of Time Well Spent, with Cristian Villamarin and Alanna Harvey

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:30:52 GMT

Todays show is a replay of a conversation I had with Cristian Villamarin and Alanna Harvey. They are the creative minds behind Flipd, the app that demonstrates how digital well-being and productivity are naturally compatible. We talk about effective tech habits, tech addiction, as well as how JOMO can be about changing your relationship with tech to one that’s intentional, healthy, and positive.

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(Replay) The Joy of Missing Out on Loneliness, with Salimah Ebrahim

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:00:54 GMT

This week I replay a conversation I had back in season one of the JOMOcast with Salimah Yvette Ebrahim. Salimah is the co-founder of Artery.is, which matches performers with hosts of spaces to create unique neighbourhood experiences. She has been profiled by CBC Television as one of 25 Canadians who are changing the world, and declared by Chatelaine magazine one of 80 amazing Canadian women to watch.

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45: The Joy of Staying Human in an Online World, with Emma Gannon

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:00:34 GMT

Today, we welcome Sunday Times Bestselling author and Ctrl Alt Delete podcast host Emma Gannon, creativity personified. We’re talking about how she strikes a balance online and off as a multi-hyphen entrepreneur and go deep on her brand new book, “Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World.”

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44: Four Thousand Weeks, with Oliver Burkeman – A Guest Episode From Freedom Matters

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 08:00:32 GMT

This week is an episode from a podcast I love called Freedom Matters. It's a conversation between host Georgie Powell and her guest, Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman, author of the best-selling “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Humans.” Oliver talks about making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity (and 'productivity techniques' that mainly just make everyone feel busier).

Four Thousand Weeks (the approximate number we each have to live) is really about the power of embracing our limitations – about the difficult but life-giving choices we must make to miss out on some things to make space for what matters most.

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43: The Joy of Creative Focus, with Freedom

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:00:20 GMT

Fred Stutzman is the founder of the Freedom app, a suite of tools to help people limit and block distracting content and activities on their devices with the goal of gaining- and regaining- creative and productive focus. If you’re a full-time creative professional or have #creative goals, this is the episode for you.

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42: Keep Moving, with Maggie Smith

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:00:41 GMT

Many of us are entering 2022 optimistic but wary. I have felt this weariness in my bones. But you know the good thing about weariness? We must lay down our load and ask for help. We must surrender. And on the other side, we can find a fresh kind of freedom. I can’t think of a better guest to kick off the new year than poet Maggie Smith, author of the runaway success Keep Moving and the new Keep Moving journal. In true poetic fashion, her focus is less on achieving and more on trying. Because all we can ever do is try, right? Try to write a few good lines, try to launch a business, try to love better.

Let’s begin 2022 with a simple commitment: to do more of those things that bring joy. Keep moving.

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41: The Joy of Missing Out on Taking Things Too Seriously, with Mary Lemmer

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:00:41 GMT

Over the course of over a decade, with improv comedy and other techniques, Mary Lemmer retrained herself to find the fun, humour, and joy in life, which has helped her reduce anxiety and improve her health and overall life. Will you say “yes, and” (it’s an improv thing) to the Joy of Missing Out on Taking Things Too Seriously?

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40: The Joy of Being Unfussy, with Jacqueline Fisch

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:00:22 GMT

Intuitive entrepreneur Jacquie Fisch joins Christina to talk about the joys of living an unfussy life. Listen in.

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39: The Power of Subtraction in a Culture of More, with Leidy Klotz

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 13:06:09 GMT

Leidy Klotz joins me today to talk about the power of subtraction in a culture of more. In his new book SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of Less, Klotz shows how we systematically overlook the simple act of removing things when trying to improve elements of life, work, and the world. Listen in.

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38: The Joy of Missing Out on the Metaverse, with Georgia Dow

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 08:00:09 GMT

Psychotherapist and Apple Talk podcast host Georgia Dow joins Christina to unpack Mark Zuckerberg's Meta announcement. What is the Metaverse and how will it affect our culture, humanity, and lives?

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37: The Joy of Being Amazed, with Sarah Selecky

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:00:29 GMT

Sarah Selecky is a force of nature. She is the author of the novel Radiant Shimmering Light and the short story collection This Cake Is for the Party, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She earned her MFA from the University of British Columbia. In 2011 she founded the Sarah Selecky Writing School, which has become a creative community for more than 13,000 writers from around the world. Her mission? To inspire us to embrace the power of wonder and write what we most want to read.

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36: The Opposite Of Scrolling, With Kerry Clare

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:48:37 GMT

“With the people I choose to follow online, I don’t feel a lack. I feel inspired.” Kerry Clare doesn’t have the experience so many people have on social media: scrolling, comparing, and feeling inadequate. One huge reason is that she doesn’t use these platforms passively. Active engagement is the key to joy.

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35: The Joy of Turning OFF, with Chris Colin

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:00:29 GMT

We all dream about it: a life free of scrolling, tweeting, liking, faving, streaming, replying, apologizing for not replying, and other assaults on our poor, saturated brains. But what would an analog world actually look like? Award-winning writer, Chris Colin, paints a picture in his bedtime fantasy book for adults titled OFF: The Day the Internet Died.

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Season 3 Trailer - Good Burdens: How to Live Joyfully in the Digital Age

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Season 3 coming soon!

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34: The Joy of Designing A World Worth Wanting, with Erin Peace

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:00:00 GMT

“The individual user is not the one who should solve the problem.”

Erin Peace is a product and service designer for Method, with user experience being her particular passion. Technology is both a vital tool in her work, but also the subject matter of every project - how can humans have a more joyful, or at least a less uncomfortable, experience engaging with technology?

A few years ago, Erin began thinking about how concepts like the attention economy and social media informed the worlds that designers like her were creating. Influenced at the time by the Time Well Spent campaign and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, she began to consider the impossible trap created by this ecosystem: that no amount of personal efforts can ultimately resist a pervasive system that one cannot reasonably escape, if that system remains harmful.

In this episode, Erin shares how this exploration informs her work and led to the creation of the site Dopamine.fun and the interactive story “Terms and Conditions,” darkly funny looks at the ubiquitous tools used to manipulate user behavior in unconscious and inescapable ways.

Key Takeaways:

The harmful aspects of social media and the attention economy more broadly must ultimately be addressed by the forces that design and foster them; end users cannot “wellness” their way out of a toxic environment that won’t change.
User experiences that engage the attention economy profit from capturing the maximum amount of your time and focus- but this model need not be of reciprocal value; wasting your time is as desirable as spending it.
“Speculative Design” is Erin’s prescription for addressing the harm of unbridled, profit-driven innovations: designing with a process of envisioning the potential futures, positive and negative, that a development could bring about.

Favorite Quotes:

“You can read about something all you want, you can hear politicians talk about it, but it’s not until you physically experience it or get a sense of it through some kind of experiential design that you really internalize it.”
“Facebook’s not the first person to make obscure terms and conditions but the fact that they’re hard to read, the fact that they’re put in teeny little text, widescreen… I don’t read them all. No one reads them all, but you’re signing away a lot of your data protection.”
“What should our future world be like, rather than how do we get there?”

ERIN PEACE

Dopamine.fun
Terms and Conditions: wrong-hands.netlify.app
Medium.com/@erinmpeace

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33: The Joy of Breaking Free, with James Williams

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:26:25 GMT

“I can never underestimate the creativity of people who want to take part of your life and monetize it.”

Summary

James Williams is the author of “Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy,” and cofounder of the ‘Time Well Spent’ campaign, a project that aims to steer technology design toward having greater respect for users’ attention, goals, and values.

Previously, James worked for over ten years at Google, where he received the Founder’s Award, the company’s highest honor. He is also a frequent speaker, consultant for companies and governments, and commentator on technology issues in the media.In this episode, James shares his firsthand experience of the inner workings of the attention economy and habit-forming technology, and his motivations to craft his passionate message for us to find a better way.

Key Takeaways:

It was designed this way. Social media and every facet of digital marketing, overt and covert, are designed to manipulate our emotions and maximize their hold on our attention- and its creators, when pressed, admit it.
The current generation of online technology, such as smartphones and social media, is intended to shape us as consumers. The business incentives that modern consumer technology create specifically incentivize the invention of systems that steer human behavior and shape our psyches in ways that favor their profitability.
Taking intentional, mindful control of our inputs is central to improving our individual situations. The fundamental source of nearly all harm from new media is the information overwhelm and the overconnectedness that disrupts our natural human instincts to find meaning and form bonds. The only solution is to change the dynamic to one of strictly thoughtful, rather than passive, consumption.

Favorite Quotes:

“As the Web matured, and these tech titans emerged… I saw that we were doing the same thing as before the internet… persuasion and manipulation as the business model amped up times a million because of the algorithmic logic and proliferation of data of everything we know about human psychology.”

“The core thing these platforms are doing… is shaping the human will and charting people’s paths through their lives.”

“The technologies that play the dirtiest are going to get the greatest part of our attention.”

“In terms of the sustainability of the attention economy, I don’t know if it worries me more whether it’s sustainable or unsustainable.”

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32: Navigate the Digital World with Joy, with Christina Crook

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:00:00 GMT

Here in 2020, we’re all confronting the challenges of technology more intensely than ever. Digital capitalism is working very hard to use our psychology and social environment against us - to hijack our attention and redirect it towards whatever they’re pushing. And it’s been working. These challenges are so new, it hasn’t been clear what the best solutions are. That’s why I created Navigate - a brand new digital well-being membership to provide you with the ongoing support you need to thrive with tech. We are going to live with technology for the rest of our lives but we get to decide how.

Exclusive Offer: JOMO(cast) listeners save 20% off an ANNUAL membership of Navigate with code: jomocast. Join today at christinacrook.com/navigate -- offer ends December 12, 2020.

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31: The Joy of Making It, with Jen Duffin

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:00:00 GMT

“It’s so important for folks to carve out time to be creative in their lives. I think it’s something that’s missing right now.”

Jen Duffin’s nom commercial is the imagination-stirring Nova Mercury, derived from her youngest daughter of the same name whose birth precipitated the maternity leave during which Jen launched her entrepreneurial venture. Creating a home business was the perfect pivot for Duffin, whose fibromyalgia made a traditional 9-to-5 job unsustainable.

Today, Nova Mercury is thriving, due in large part to Duffin’s social media positioning- with over 90,000 Instagram followers and over 3500 sales and a People’s Choice Award on Etsy, the digital marketplace is central to her success. On the JOMO(cast), Jen discusses her entrepreneurial journey and the careful blending of creativity, business, and family she learned along the way.

Key Takeaways:

Creative art-making is accessible to everyone. You don’t have to sell what you make or be a virtuoso; everyone can create something.
Creative art-making is inherently a mindful activity. Creative activity at any level gives huge dividends in better mental health, improved focus, centering, stress reduction, patience, discipline, and more.
Entrepreneurs use social media as a tool, not as a place to spend their creative and personal time. Successful creative merchants like Nova Mercury draw bright lines around the time they need to spend on social media building their brand and doing community engagement- and make sure their priority is on the creative work itself and other sources of genuine joy.

Favorite Quotes:

“It was this huge leap of faith, and all I can say is that my intuition was overwhelmingly telling me to do it.”
“I’m really lucky in the sense that I get to do a creative grounding process as a big chunk of… how I make my living.”
“...the tactile experience of making things can really double as a mindfulness practice. It’s very grounding, it requires you to be really present in the moment with what you’re doing so I think there are so many mental health benefits to art-making of any kind.”
“I’m in a space in my life right now where I try to have pretty firm boundaries on my online time. It can get away from you very quickly.”

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30: Digital Essentialism, with Greg McKeown

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:00:00 GMT

“If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.”

The author of the globally best-selling “Essentialism” and the upcoming “Effortless” joins the JOMO(cast) to proudly announce that JOMO and the philosophy of essentialism are natural companions. He’s spoken at multinational brands, top-tier universities, and organizations around the world to share the simple, powerful message that individuals, teams, and societies function at their absolute best when they make the conscious and mindful decision every day to make room only for what matters most.

He believes you can not only design an essential life, you can do it with ease and joy, too.

Highlights from this episode:

“I think what JOMO and.. essentialism represents to people is they read about it and go, I’ve spent my whole life doing it this way because that was the default option. I didn’t know there was a way out of this.”
The CEO of Uncharted brought his reading of Essentialism to work. “He applied it to the company, got everyone to read it, and they experimented and.. Moved to a four-day workweek. When he shared with me the things people are doing instead of that day of work.. Volunteering, learning languages, time spent with family, it’s been this much higher quality of life, and they haven’t had to give up their value contribution at work.”
“I think lots will feel stretched too thin at work or at home, will feel busy but not necessarily productive, will feel that their day is being constantly hijacked by other people… if the answer is ‘yes’ to any of those things, then the way out is essentialism.”
“instead of trying to do it all for everyone all the time, instead of trying to follow the undisciplined pursuit of more, you follow the disciplined pursuit of less.”

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29: The Joy of Living Fearless, with Ony Anukem

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:00:00 GMT

"I always try and say to myself ‘Don't’ let your anxiety and your fears of rejection and people not liking your work stop you from doing something."

Growing up as the first of four daughters — gender equality and leadership came naturally to British-import Ony Anukem. By day, she is the Advocacy Manager at the International Confederation of Midwives — but she also wears another hat as the Show Host of the Twenty5 Podcast, a bi-weekly interview podcast that she started to guide young women through their mid-twenties. In this episode, we break down the power of mentorship and what mutually supportive relationships look like.

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28: The Joy of Being an Attention Activist, with Jay Vidyarthi

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT

“The forces all around you are… pushing you to be a different way than you want to be. That’s a design problem.”

Jay Vidyarthi was one of the creators of Muse, a headband utilizing biofeedback to guide and train meditation that introduced thousands of beginners to an accessible world of mindfulness practice. He’s also had a hand in the development and strategic launch of more than a dozen other apps and event platforms connecting consumers around the world to mindfulness technologies and communities. As an important companion to this impressive CV, though, Jay is also on the board of America Offline, a nonprofit organization of tech leaders working hard to expand the presence of offline social, educational, and vocational experiences, especially for American children, and continues to develop and advise the Healthy Minds Program, the University of Madison-Wisconsin’s world-renowned research institute exploring the mind-body connection to lifelong health and well-being.

Jay views all the accomplishments of the many projects he’s brought to life- as well as the harm and suffering that continues to arise out of our collective struggle to relate with technology in a healthy way- as design challenges. In this episode, Jay shares how the lens of design can be used to find balance, mindfulness, and joy in how we choose to consume our tech.

Highlights from this episode:

* “We’re all… on our own journey, and wherever these tools might arise that help support us, I think at best they’re gonna help us get to the next step… but ultimately we have to keep our vigilance if we’re aiming for something more than just the superficial, and getting to the depth that… you and me and everyone needs to reach for if our society is going to get back on track.” Mindfulness exercises like meditation should be seen as a gateway to deeper reflection on ourselves and intentional living.
* “...the organizations that are currently leading social media are operating off a preferred situation of making themselves rich, and only now are they starting to understand the existing situation and how it’s impacting people’s lives.” Bad design methodology focuses on the indirect consequences of a creation (like profit) rather than the specific impact the design will have- whether intentional or unintentional.
* “Vote with your time… and then you start the hard journey of disconnecting from things that may seem tempting but are not good for you, loved ones, community, or society, and that’s a big challenge we’re all facing in our lives.” Things like social media exist and take the forms they do because we demand and sustain them. If we make better individual choices for ourselves, the ecosystem will always follow.

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27: How to be Indistractable, with Nir Eyal

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir previously taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and was dubbed by The M.I.T. Technology Review as, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology."

He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

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26: The Joy of Creating Congregations, with Jillian Richardson

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:00:00 GMT

Jillian Richardson created The Joy List when she moved to New York City to connect herself to the events and gatherings around the city that would give her the best chance to forge meaningful human connections and “find her people.” Since then, she’s made it her business to create “facilitated human connection”- intentional gatherings carefully curated and designed to foster friendship. Key Takeaways:

Creating a meaningful event - or building a community- requires intentionality and structure.
The connections created through intentional interaction are different and have greater potential for depth and meaning.
A congregation or community of people is not simply a gathering; they are group relationships based in unconditional mutual support
As younger people move away from the traditional communities of faith or neighborhood, gaining the healthy benefits of community membership requires intentional work to provide the opportunity for it to emerge.
Membership in a community imparts a wealth of benefits- trust, belonging, emotional outlet, and deep connection- that casual or incidental contact does not.

Favorite Quotes:“A joyful gathering is a thing that has an intentional container… where the creator put thought into how people are coming together.”“Screaming over loud music doesn’t foster meaningful connection.”“Gathering people is a courageous act.”“We’ve been very conditioned to not say anything challenging, or unpleasing, or just don’t talk, period.”

Resources:SIGN UP for The Joy List.READ The Joy List blog.Jillian’s book, Un-Lonely Planet.Jillian’s articles on MediumArticle: “Lonely? You're not alone. America's young people are suffering from a lack of meaningful connection.” NBC News.Blog: “JILLIAN RICHARDSON: 5 WAYS TO CREATE DEEP AF FRIENDSHIPS” on MaddyMoon.LISTEN to Jillian’s podcast appearances:“Unlonely Planet” on The Soul Frequency Show.“Why We’re Lonely And What We Can Do About It” on The Unmistakable Creative.CONNECTFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/joylistnycInstagram – Joy List: http://www.instagram.com/joylistnycInstagram – Jillian: http://www.instagram.com/thatJillianWATCHAs promised in the episode, Jillian’s old improv performance in Boston.Strike A Chord: Social Isolation

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25: The Joy of Environmental Stewardship, with Lindsay Coulter

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 09:00:00 GMT

For 14 years, Lindsay Coulter was the Suzuki Foundation’s “Queen of Green,” the creator of newsletters and blog posts for the Foundation under that name with a readership of tens of thousands. Through her unique blend of spirituality, evidence-based science, and practical action, Lindsay has helped educate a generation on the immediate, impactful ways they can come to terms with their feelings, fears, and goals for the environment and how to effect positive change at every scale.

Lindsay comes to the JOMO(cast) to share her philosophical, spiritual, and practical lessons for how to take on stewardship for the Earth and our fellow humans, and find our own joy as we do so.

Key Takeaways:

We are all inseparably linked to nature and the consequences of each other’s actions, whether we think about it or not.
Effective environmental stewardship cannot occur without the presence of strong human connections and relationships.
Realizing our interconnected nature gives us permission to be forgiving, patient, and kind- to ourselves and others.
The most important element of being a leader of change is being accepting and loving of ourselves.
Change and creating value begins with having courageous conversations within trusting human relationships.
We cannot control the existence of negative things in the world, but we can control whether we add to them, and model this to others.

Favorite Quotes:

“How can we build more nature [into our lives]? You can’t not do it. You breathe air every day. You eat food.”

“Go out today and find something that elicits awe.”

“I think you need to find more practices that help you realize this connection- that there’s more than just you.”

“When you’re able to create more of a stable mind, the chances are you’re more likely to do less harm, not just to nature but to yourself.”

“You don’t have to fix people, and you don’t have to know all the answers.”

“How can you not add any more confusion or aggression in the world?”

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Links:

Lindsay’s actionable tips and projects for a greener world on The Queen Of Green (The Suzuki Foundation)
How to make 10 all-natural homemade house cleaners you’ll use every day (Chatelaine 2015)
Lindsay’s biography, (Kickass Canadians 2015)
The Good Grief Network, discussed in the episode
Instagram: @saneaction

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24: The Joy of Good Burdens, with Albert Borgmann

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:00:00 GMT

Born in Germany in 1937, technology philosopher Albert Borgmann has seen technological transitions and upheavals unknown to many listening to this podcast. Throughout his long life, he’s studied and written about the impact of technological advancement on every aspect of the societies that have evolved around him, especially the often-unseen second-order effects of tech that ostensibly improves life, such as the reduced need and incentive for families to spend time close together in a home after the advent of central heating.

Dr. Borgmann joins the JOMOcast to discuss the cost-benefit analysis of technology’s ability to lift our burdens, and why good burdens are vital to preserve if we want to live intentionally and remain able to access joy.

Key Takeaways:

The lifting of every burden by technology comes with an associated cost
Good burdens are those for which we are rewarded with joy for successfully carrying or negotiating them; if we eliminate good burdens, an avenue to joy is lost
Any mediating technology that brings human interaction further from direct personal engagement is diminishing or eliminating the value and benefit of such interaction
Our ability to communicate clearly, understand, process, and remember information is measurably impaired by reliance on mediating technology to perform these tasks for us.

Favorite Quotes:
“Information is like junk food- it’s everywhere, it’s so tempting, and we’re getting so used to it.”
“The world pre-internet seemed to be more articulate and more eloquent… so I think the task today is to try to recover that articulation of reality and its eloquence.”
“These focuses that we value need to be sustained by a practice, and the practice should be communal… that’s the good life.”
“Joy is the other side of burden.”

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Resources:Interview with Albert Borgmann, 2010 (Figure/Ground)
Albert’s books:

Crossing The Postmodern Divide (2013)
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (2008)
Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of Technology (2003)
Holding Onto Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (2007)
Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility For Our Country (2010)
The Philosophy of Language: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues (2012)
An essay on Borgmann’s focal practices, “Focal Things,” 2012 (Vertas Liberabit)
“Technology and the Inadequacy of Values Talk,” a discussion of Borgmann’s book Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry, 2019 (L.M. Sacasas)

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23: The Joy of Emotional Intelligence, with Pamela Pavliscak

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Pamela Pavliscak specializes in emotionally intelligent design and emotion-sensing artificial intelligence. Her research has been featured on CBC's Spark, Salon, and Quartz. Her book, Emotionally Intelligent Design, focuses on how to design a future that has as much EQ as it does IQ. Pamela is a TEDx speaker and has spoken at SxSW , Web Summit, Google Creative Labs. She teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Information in NYC and serves on an international committee to develop IEEE standard 7000 for ethically-aligned AI.

Join us as Pamela discusses the ways that our relationships with technology are shaped by our perception of its role, power, and purpose, the ways healthy people engage their tech, and how we can help guide the ongoing evolution of technology that becomes increasingly enmeshed in our lives.

Key Takeaways:

A critical component of our problem with modern technology is negative distortion- the lack of friction (by design) causes us to feel that time slips away or is stolen from us, and the motive to creative viral content places us in an unnaturally-constant state of arousal and outrage.
Rather than disengage or “quit” technology, it may be more realistic- and more positive- to develop the skills of regularly reflecting on our emotional responses to it and defining our relationship with greater intentionality.
There are emotionally healthy- and unhealthy- ways in which people engage with the exact same technologies, suggesting the harm does not lie fundamentally in the technology itself.

Favorite Quotes:
“We’ve evolved to take signals that are threats and feel that intensely and react.. But when we’re constantly in a state of that, it feels like we’re not ourselves, and our reality is not the same- it’s distorted.”
“Because so much of our technology is shaped by how we interact with it, that if we did that work of self-reflection and tried to match up what we do more with how we want to live, we could probably train the algorithms a little bit to respond to that.”
“There are always going to be some tradeoffs involved in the process of thinking about what can I do that’s positive, and do the positives outweigh the negatives?”
“We’re all really kind of in this giant experiment together, of technology, and it’s come on really quickly, and it’s challenged us on a personal level, in our workplace, as parents, on all these levels, and I think it’s quite extraordinary to live in this time.”

Support:
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Resources
Visit Pamela’s website
Follow on LinkedIn
Read Pamela’s book, Emotionally Intelligent Design: Rethinking How We Create Products
An article, “On the danger and promise of emotional technology.” (Zendesk)
Watch an interview with Pamela by JOMOcast alumna Ingrid Fetell Lee

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22: The Joy of Parenting With Love, with Rachel Macy Stafford

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Rachel Macy Stafford is the author of “Hands Free Life,” “Hands Free Mama,” “Only Love Today,” and the new “Live Love Now,” all books sharing Rachel’s powerful message of how learning self-love is the inflection point for nearly every part of how we live our lives that brings us closer to or farther from joy.
In this episode, Rachel discusses some of the most important points from “Live Love Now” and her research with children of all ages to discover how parents can heal and care for themselves to make their children feel truly loved. Key Takeaways:

Self-awareness that leads to self-love is critical to healthier parenting, and must come first.
Our parenting style is a product of our inner narratives, many unexamined thoughts we’ve carried for years.
The ways in which we fail to love ourselves - being hypercritical, having unrealistic expectations, despising our weaknesses - become the unhealthy components of our parenting.

Favorite Quotes:“The truth is not the end; the truth is the beginning.”“That part of us - our dreamer, our inner child - is still within reach.”“That life of selflessness came at such a cost that I was not just hurting myself, but my children.”“Awareness changes everything because then you can make a different choice.” Support:This podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast. Go Deeper:Sign Up for 7 Days of JOMO Quests, a free series of science-backed challenges to reclaim joy: experiencejomo.com/free-resources. Follow @experiencejomo on Instagram, Facebook + Twitter. Resources:Read the Hands-Free Mama blogGet the Book discussed in this episode, “Live Love Now”Follow the Hands Free Revolution on FacebookFollow the Hands Free Revolution on InstagramListen to the JenRiday podcast episode “Emotional Resiliency” featuring Rachel

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21: The Joy of Paying Attention, with Kunal Gupta

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:06:56 GMT

Kunal Gupta is the founder of Polar, a digital advertising agency that develops Social Display technology for hundreds of brands, generating millions of ads every year. He’s also on the board of CAMH, Canada’s Center for Addiction and Mental Health, where he advocates for public health policy rooted in ‘mindtech,’ a technology-enabled model for compassionate and effective mental health care. He writes the blog By Kunal, where he shares reflections on leadership, mindfulness, technology, and culture. He’s the co-host of Year Zero, the podcast that explores Kunal and co-host Jay Vidyarthi’s vision for the world after COVID-19. Lastly, he hosts a guided meditation every single weekday at 9:30 am EST for everyone in the world who cares to show up. Kunal comes to the JOMO(cast) to share his study, exploration, and practices in attention, mental health, and the frameworks through which we can create and consume content and social media in positive, affirming ways.
Key Takeaways:

Mental health is an experience of three distinct traits: mental illness, mental wellness, and mental performance
Attention is the fuel for every activity; wellness, performance, and joy must begin with sustained attention fueled by mental performance
The impact of social media on our mental health is a function of which style of relationship we have to it- consumer, consumer/creator, or creator
We are expressing ourselves in every waking moment, whether we curate our outward behavior or not; understanding this will help us to spend more time being intentional.

Favorite Quotes:“We all come to a place of attention, intention, and mindfulness from different perspectives."“It’s not our fault that we’re addicted to technology.”“I think we all owe it to ourselves to experience what it feels like to not have it [internet] in our life.”“If we see everything- conscious and unconscious- as an expression of who we are and our identity, it’s actually quite beautiful.”
Support:This podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast.
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Resources:Learn more about Kunal at www.bykunal.comFollow Kunal on Twitter @kunalfrompolarListen to the Year Zero Podcast: anchor.fm/yearzero

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20: The Joy of Shared Values, with Pivot for Humanity's Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:00:00 GMT

“You have to earn the trust of people to share with you what it’s like to be them out in the world.” Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the Founder and President of Pivot for Humanity. This comes after a diverse and winding career in advertising, marketing, digital design, and entrepreneurship, which Jumana decided to synthesize into a mission focused on bringing ethical reform to the tech industry through professionalization: creating a body of shared community standards and oversight, just as medical and legal industries do. By creating a defined set of values, including ones of social responsibility, and a framework of shared accountability, Jumana believes that Pivot for Humanity’s mission can guide the evolution of the most influential industry -- technology -- in all our lives into one that honors the power and responsibility it holds in society.
Key Takeaways:

How the commercialization of the Web brought the concept of friction to the forefront of every aspect of commercial design- for better or worse;
How the race to reduce friction has willingly sacrificed human interaction, perspective, and patience;
How eliminating friction in digital design naturally creates mindless, habitual, and addictive behavior around those technologies;
How an “efficient” and “time-saving” outlook has directly impacted creative thinking, team cohesion, innovation, and work satisfaction;How trust and the concept of psychological safety - between teams, organizations, and communities - may be more valuable to productivity and innovation than any other value;
How the professionalization of tech jobs can create and define an ethical, prosocial framework for the wealthiest and most influential industry

Favorite Quotes:“We’re engaging with things without thinking about them, almost as though we’re on autopilot when we’re doing it.”“Growth comes from friction. Understanding, openness comes from friction. Experience really begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”“You have to earn the trust of people to share with you what it’s like to be them out in the world.”“When Google makes most of its money on advertising… a lot of what it does is designed to please those advertisers, which turns us into products.” Support:This podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast.
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Resources:Pivot For Humanity website: https://www.pivotforhumanity.com/Medium articles: https://medium.com/@jumana_27507Follow Jumana on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/jumanatagLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumanaabughazaleh/

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19: The Joy of Being Mindful, with Harvard's Dr. Ellen Langer

Wed, 27 May 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Dr. Ellen Langer, a social psychology professor at Harvard University, is widely considered the “mother of mindfulness”, researching the topic since the 70’s. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, the Liberty Science Center Genius Award, the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology award from the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the James McKeen Cattel Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize. She’s the author of the book that arguably introduced the concept of mindfulness to the public consciousness, Mindfulness, now in its 25th-anniversary edition. In this episode Dr. Langer shares what mindfulness really is, how we can get there, and how it can help us get through this and every moment with more joy.

Key Takeaways

What mindfulness really is (hint: it’s not a practice or an activity, it’s a state)
How mindfulness and its attendant benefits to well-being all connect to the ability to exist in the present
How stress, mood, and life satisfaction are entirely the result of our personal interpretation of experience
How to enter a state of mindfulness, and condition ourselves to live that way (and why it’s one of the healthiest things we can do)

Favorite Quotes
“All we have is moments. All of our stress is based on the future.”
“Hoping for something has built into it the expectation that it is unlikely.”
“If we just make the moment better, everything will fall into place for us.”
“Information changes depending on context”
“Events don’t cause stress. What causes stress are the views we take of events.”
“When you’re mindful, you’re averting the danger not yet arisen… you’re there so you can take advantage of opportunities to which you’d otherwise be blind.”
“Mindfulness is not a practice. Mindfulness is actively noticing new things.”
“Most of the things we worry about are not worth the time.”

Support
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Resources
Homepage: www.ellenlanger.com
Book: Mindfulness -- 25th Anniversary Edition
Ellen speaks on the On Being podcast about mindlessness and mindfulness: link The Langer Mindfulness Institute
Follow Ellen on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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18: The Joy of Getting Real About Work, with David Heinemeier Hansson

Wed, 13 May 2020 06:00:00 GMT

David Heinemeier Hansson is a leading mind in the tech world inspiring the world to reconsider it’s working relationship with, well, work. As the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, co-founder & CTO at Basecamp -- a saner way to manage projects and communicate company-wide -- and bestselling author, along with Basecamp co-founder Jason Fried, of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, Rework (which is also the name of the Basecamp podcast) + Remote, a book arguing that the time is right for the expansion of remote work and how to navigate the pitfalls. Check out our interview with the one and only @DHH! Key Takeaways:- How allowing our expectations to continuously evolve and adapt is crucial to maintaining joy in an ever-changing reality- How creating healthy habits require self-reflection and honesty with ourselves about how “self-disciplined” and consistent we really can be, and why sometimes missing out is far easier than attempting to moderate- How healthier and more joyful patterns of life require us to fill the voids left when we miss out- How negotiating with competing demands of well-being, productivity, temptation, and “bad for you” things requires becoming okay with short-term inconsistency and imperfection- How our goals for well-being, balance, and self-actualization must always be based on a strong understanding and acceptance of who we really are, not an idealized version of ourselves Favorite Quotes“All deadlines are made up… and when the world changes, you can change your opinion too, about what that deadline means or whether it even makes sense.”“If you spend enough time on Twitter… especially if you spend enough time on Twitter arguing with strangers, you get to a place where… you just get angry.”“Paper for me has been the incarnation of the joy of missing out… I just sit down with that book.”“There are all these lessons that you cannot teach by words… they have to be taught by feelings, by experiences, by consequences.”
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Resources- David on Twitter: @dhh- You can learn to code- yes, you: check out David’s community-friendly Ruby On Rails- Check out David’s books including Getting Real, Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

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17: What We Need to Do to Create a Better Internet, with Damian Bradfield

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:00:00 GMT

Damian Bradfield, Chief Creative Officer at WeTransfer and Author of the Trust Manifesto, on what we need to reclaim to create a better Internet for all. We’re at a very unusual moment in modern history, where a roughly equal number of generations alive today have either a lived experience of near-total personal privacy, and with it, great consumer power over the way they were marketed to- or a lived experience of nearly every experience, action, and statement being collected, analyzed, and sold as commodities by the entities selling us their goods, ideas, and policies, to the point that we can be offered something before we consciously know we want it. How did that happen? Damian Bradfield is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of WeTransfer and WePresent, the author of The Trust Manifesto, host of the Influence podcast, and the creator of Empty Day. Damian’s file-sharing company WeTransfer sends over 1.5 million files a day. In 2016, he moved from Amsterdam to California to set up WeTransfer's U.S. headquarters in Venice, Los Angeles, where he’s been instrumental in shaping the company's policy in support of the creative community. Damian is proud that companies like his recognize and value our rights to personal privacy and their responsibilities to their community- but he’s painfully aware, as a creator, consumer, and parent, that the landscape is anything but benevolent. Damian is a powerful amplifier of the responsibility of tech companies, in their roles as creators of some of the most powerful and influential presences in our lives, to not hurt us, not trick us, not manipulate us, and to own the staggering impact their products have on the very fabric of our societies. In his new book, The Trust Manifesto: What We Need To Do to Create a Better Internet, which I devoured, he describes the web as our new collective city and asks: are these the conditions we want to live under? Key takeaways from this conversation:- How our well-being depends on us cultivating much greater intentionality towards our tech use: when, where, how, and how much;- How online technology from social media to gaming to video streaming is deliberately designed to engage the addictive systems of the human mind to hijack our intentionality as consumers- and how we should rightly see this as unethical;- How convenience is packaged to create an attractive tradeoff for our privacy, autonomy, and personal data points;
Favorite Quotes:“No matter what you can do with technology, no matter how much fun you can have with it, no matter how much you can consume or learn or discover or be entertained by, none of it is a replacement for physical connection.”“...what a lot of tech companies are producing is obsessive, compulsive, addictive pieces of software without really any concern or care for what it was going to do to people’s minds or emotional well-being.”
SupportThis podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast. Thank you for supporting the content that supports you. Go Deeper Sign Up for 7 Days of JOMO Quests, a free series of science-backed challenges to reclaim joyexperiencejomo.com/free-resources Follow @experiencejomo on Instagram, Facebook + Twitter

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16: The Joy of Learning in Every Era, with Dr. Kate Tilleczek

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:17:40 GMT

Canadian researcher Kate Tilleczek, Canada Research Chair on Youth, Education & Global Good, addresses the impact of online education on child development, during COVID-19 and beyond. Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, millions more children than ever are learning at home- and online. But the transition to increasingly digital and online environments for youth education was happening, and as usual, it happened with little pause to consider how much digital is a good thing, and how the personal and physical can find a balance with the remote and digital to best serve learning and well-being. Dr. Tilleczek offers wise counsel to parents and educators everywhere: “With the pandemic, we really have a moment to reset, and see what makes the most sense for us as a society.”
Key takeaways from this conversation:- How young people are processing their own immersion in digital channels of communication, socialization, and learning- How the social distancing-created explosion of remote learning has created an opportunity to observe the impact of the always-online life- The observed and measurable impact of globalized tech immersion in young people, including the decline of social skills and increased anxiety, isolation, and marginalization- How current research is exploring the rising self-awareness of the detrimental effects of tech overload across generations and finding solutions within that consciousness- The ways young people can, post- and mid-COVID, build balance and wellness into their digital-enabled lives
SupportThis podcast is made possible by you — our listeners all over the world — from Brazil to Australia, the USA to Singapore. Please support the JOMO(cast) for just $3 a month. Sign up at patreon.com/jomocast. Thank you for supporting the content that supports you.
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ResourcesThe references and ideas mentioned in this episode: Learn, contribute, and participate with the Young Lives Research Laboratory at York UniversityRead Kate’s most recent book: Youth in the Digital Age: Paradox, Promise, Predicament (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)Follow Young Lives Research Laboratory on FacebookKate on Research MinuteKate recommends: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff
Favorite Quotes:“It says a lot to me about some of the limits that we’re reaching in technology when something so easy and simple [as handwritten letters to students] looks like a major breakthrough to people.”“Young people are suggesting to me that they want to reassess how technology is helping with… health, mental health, employment, environment, etc.”“With the pandemic, we really have a moment to reset, and see what makes the most sense for us as a society.”

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15: Coming Closer in Crisis

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:02:03 GMT

Christina Crook on how Covid-19 has helped us leave the FOMO-fuelled Age of You behind.
Welcome to the Age of Us. In this episode, we explore the many ways the COVID-19 crisis can teach us about ourselves- and joy. Just as we’ve had to give up expectations for normalcy when this began, we will have the privilege of deciding what to take with us back into ‘normal life’ and what to leave behind. What are you discovering matters to you a lot more than you thought it did? What do you barely miss at all? How are you holding it together? Can we finally move past FOMO? Maybe we already have.
Key takeaways from this conversation: - How the end of the “decade of FOMO” bookends a crisis that’s making us take a hard look at what we really value- How we can show up for the responsibility of joy- How paying attention to what gives and takes joy in this difficult time can help us craft the best way to get through our days- How to come through this crisis with a better, clearer sense of what JOMO means
Go Deeper JOMO membership is a monthly tune-up for your digital life. JOMO(cast) host Christina Crook provides you with the inspiration, accountability, and practical tools to support your digital well-being. Visit patreon.com/experiencejomo Learn more about 100 Days of JOMO + Share Your Storyexperiencejomo.com/100-days-of-jomo Sign Up for 7 Days of JOMO Quests, a free series of science-backed challenges to reclaim joyexperiencejomo.com/free-resources
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Resources The references and ideas mentioned in this episode: - Age Of You from 2019-2020 exhibition at Toronto MOCA- Dr. Albert Borgmann on Taming Technology - An Interview- Dennis Miloseski- Shannon Vallor
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14: The Joy of Missing Out on Being An Internet Tycoon, with Glitch founder/CEO and JOMO creator Anil Dash

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Glitch CEO Anil Dash joins me to reflect on the past, present, and future of who we are when we’re with our tech, starting with the inception of that crazy little acronym -- JOMO.

In this episode, we discuss:

How the domination of the digital landscape by social media and marketing was neither a natural nor inevitable progression
How Anil’s moments of unplugged silence have made him realize how missing out is its own reward
The double-edged sword of fame, social influence, and self-censorship
The ways mindful tech use can be harnessed for social good
How the digital landscape can evolve in the coming decade to build community
Why YOU have a part to play in helping individual voices reclaim the web

Links: JOMOcast.com | Glitch.com

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13: The Joy of Missing Out on Burnout, with Folk Rebellion founder Jess Davis

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:00:00 GMT

Folk Rebellion founder Jess Davis and I reconnected after she emerged from a year-long hermitage away from the impossible pace of her work building a ‘hustle-free movement.’ A stress-induced heart condition, which caused her to collapse in an airport between speaking engagements, was telling her that enough was enough. Jess’ Folk Rebellion is an expression of the very problems that her hustle-induced illness caused: that the way we relate to technology right now is not serving us at all. Exactly one year ago, Jess wrote: “The zeitgeist is here. People are waking up. Thought leaders are joining the conversation. Brands are hopping on the moment. Tech companies are starting to acknowledge the humans in their users. Seth Godin says it’s a digital swirl with an enormous cognitive load we haven’t figured out yetVitamin Water is giving $100,000 to anyone who cannot touch a smartphone in 2019 - and prove it with a lie detector...lululemon updated their messaging on their bag and now includes digital well-being. This was all I wanted. An awakening. A Rebellion. And yet. We aren’t anywhere where we need to be. We are digitally overwhelmed. The internet has turned everyone into a product for selling. Talking heads everywhere hawking their goods and services and expertise. Us included. I can’t help but think we are a part of the problem. That maybe abstinence is the only way.” And then she disappeared from the Internet. Until now. In this episode, we discuss:

Where Jess went and why
The next move for Folk Rebellion
How hustle culture is literally killing us
How a health breakdown and a digital detox made Jess realize the destructive effects of her relationship to technology
How to negotiate the desire for opportunity and the ability to create change with the hidden costs and distortion of the messages we seek to bring to the world

GO DEEPER Sign up + join the JOMO community at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools to live joyfully in a digital age. Favorite Quotes“I’m less talking about the technology, and more talking about what’s lost or gained due to your relationship with it.”“Now, anyone can write anything, everywhere… that’s a great thing, and that’s also an awful thing.”“Deep thoughts are becoming little snippets all over the place that are now being cannibalized and used by the marketing industry.”“My joy is first and foremost in owning my time.” Follow Jess Davis + Folk Rebellion: Folk Rebellion: https://www.folkrebellion.com/https://folkrebellion.substack.com/p/coming-soonInstagram: @folkrebellion Follow JOMO:Instagram: @experience_jomo SUPPORTIf you enjoyed this episode, we’d love your support. Subscribe + Write a 5-star review. Every rating helps attract new listeners, which helps us keep making the show! If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/jomocast

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12: The Joy of Delayed Gratification, with John Morse-Brown

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 07:00:00 GMT

Letters are intimate and a delight to receive. Thanks to their miraculous homing instincts, pigeons have a long and honourable track record delivering letters. The ancient Greeks sent them out to broadcast the names of victorious athletes at the original Olympic Games. And Julius Caesar employed pigeon post during his conquest of Gaul. In recent centuries, of course – ever since 1660, when King Charles II established the Post Office – the poor old pigeon’s been somewhat edged out. My guest today, thinks it’s time to reintroduce Pigeon Post. Graphic designer John Morse-Brown is the creator of Pigeon, a line of stationery designed to revive the tradition of letter writing, updated for the modern age. They combine John’s love of origami, great design, and his passion for bringing back the art of beautiful, intentional, personal written communication. John came up with the idea of Pigeon after falling out of love with social media. For all of the frenetic activity he and his friends were putting in, he felt wasn’t fostering any genuine sense of connection. There was something about it that left him feeling hollow and empty. So he took the plunge and closed his social media accounts. But then a good friend of his moved from Britain to the USA. Until then, apart from trips to the pub (which were no longer possible), they’d only really communicated on Facebook, which meant John needed a new way of keeping in touch with his friend. That made him think about letters. Compared with posting online, letter writing creates quite a few hurdles: laying hands-on writing paper, finding an envelope, an address, a stamp. Then there’s the tyranny of the empty page. How on earth do you start? John realized he had the opportunity to reinvent the letter. In this episode, we discuss:

How John walked away from social media and revived letter writing to stay in contact with friends
How communicating more narrowly and deeply transforms our message into something intimate and desirable
How delayed gratification enhances the experience of receiving communication, and increases its value to the giver and recipient
How communication doesn’t have to be big, impressive, or unusual to be valuable and appreciated

GO DEEPER Sign up at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools for you to live joyfully online and off. Favorite Quotes: “It feels like it’s a product of joy.”“We may think we are more connected than ever… I think we’re actually less connected because of the medium.”“There are so many little things you could talk about that fill you with joy, that are amazing, and they’re all little, but together they form this experience that you just don’t get in any other medium.” Follow John Morse-Brown: Pigeon Store: https://pigeonposted.comPigeon Feed Blog: https://pigeonposted.com/blog/Instagram: @realpigeonposted Follow JOMO:Instagram: @experience_jomo Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, we would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! Support the JOMOcast by becoming a patron at Patreon.com/jomocast. If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at Patreon.com/experiencejomo.

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11: How to Live Joyfully Online and Off, with Ingrid Fetell Lee

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 07:00:00 GMT

Ingrid Fetell Lee is the author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, and the site The Aesthetics of Joy, where she shares amazing actionable tips and essays about how we can find joy absolutely everywhere around us. She’s also been a speaker on TED Talks and brings more than a decade of experience in design and branding to showing audiences how to make life more beautiful and joyful. In this episode, we discuss: - How we can (and should) create joy intentionally- How committing to the present builds a climate of joy- How joy creates health, resilience, and can create lasting happiness- How we can find joy almost anywhere- off- and online Favorite Quotes“At the root of it, joy isn’t just something we have to find, it’s something we can create… for ourselves and for others.”“Fundamentally, when we’re in the present is when we’re most likely to feel joyful.”“When we share joy, our joy intensifies.” GO DEEPER Sign up at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools for you to find joy each and every day. Join the JOMO community and discover all the wonderful ways you can transform your life and find well-being and success. Follow Ingrid: The Aesthetics of Joy - https://www.aestheticsofjoy.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingridfetelllee/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ingridfetell/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ingridfetellLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingridfetell Follow JOMO:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/experience_jomo/ Do you love JOMO? We need your support. Subscribe on iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/experiencejomo

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10: The Joy of Entering Into Rest, with Christina Malecka

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Christina Malecka is the founder of Digital Mindfulness Retreats. She hails from Seattle, a city that she has seen transform dramatically over her lifetime with the arrival of Amazon and the massive influx of the technorati. She has a psychotherapy practice rooted in her experience as a community environmental activist, which she characterizes as a “macro to micro shift to social change.” Christina has observed her clients evolve through the tech revolution, struggling with the anxiety, FOMO, and general distress that results from a toxic relationship to social media and technology. As Max Stossel recently put it: “Social media has poured gasoline on the embers of our “not-enoughness.” Enough said. In this episode, we discuss: - How social interactions through digital platforms deprive us of the social cues like voice and body language essential to human understanding- How the “always-on” expectation of social media and the tech industry causes us to live in a state of continuous stress- How the experiential model of retreats is an effective approach for personal change and growth beyond therapy and self-hacking- How the stress state caused by toxic engagements with technology rewire us for unhappiness and anxiety at the most basic levels- How social media is designed to take maximum advantage of our ability to be manipulated by stress and reward- BONUS: Christina Malecka leads us through a 10-minute meditation to move us from fight-or-flight mode into resting state GO DEEPER Sign up at experiencejomo.com for gentle humor, powerful insights, and actionable tools for you to find joy each and every day. Join the JOMO community and discover all the wonderful ways you can transform your life and find well-being and success. Favorite Quotes“On social media, we’re looking for validation, and we’re not getting it in an embodied way… we go there to feel a sense of connection, but physiologically, we don’t get it.” “If we want to be spending less time on screens, we have to have a sense of what else is important to us.” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow Christina Malecka: https://www.christinamalecka.com/https://www.digitalmindfulnessretreats.com/ Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/experiencejomo

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9: The Joy of Time Well Spent, with Cristian Villamarin and Alanna Harvey

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Cristian Villamarin and Alanna Harvey are the creative minds behind Flipd, the app that demonstrates how digital well-being and productivity are naturally compatible- and how JOMO is not about turning your back on tech, but changing your relationship to it to one that’s intentional, healthy, and positive. Flipd is a productivity package that includes social interaction, education, and tools that don’t just help users stop wasting their time on unintentional phone use, but also reinforce, motivate, and support. As they promote Flipd, Cristian and Alanna have seen tech addiction rear its ugly head- there’s surprising resistance to aids like Flipd from people who need it the most. In the end, helping users achieve success- however they define it- and emphasizing reinforcement and a supportive culture win fans over. Topics covered:

Launching and leading a successful start-up while holding space for active hobbies and relationships outside of work
Building healthy tech habits as a couple (they have some awesome suggestions)
Importance of HOW you build a business (at least as important as WHY)
Framing behavioral change positively is always more effective
Phone and tech addiction provokes the same defensive, self-defeating mechanisms as other addictions
Letting people stay in control and being respectful of their goals works better than coercion
A supportive, accountable community is often what people seeking behavior change yearn for the most
Maximizing feedback, measurement, and metrics helps people clearly define and stay motivated to be intentional about their phones

GO DEEPER Want to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life? We'll send you playful prompts to brighten your day, expand your mind, and push you outside into the real world. We all need a little nudge. Sign up at experiencejomo.com. Favorite Quotes“We’re very focused on time well spent and the activities people are doing- whatever time well spent means to you: studying, sleeping, exercising, we all have a different definition, but it’s setting the intention, “I’m going to put my phone away to do X.” “I spoke an educator the other day who’s calling his 2008-2014 teaching years his golden years, and that everything since then has just completely fallen apart… no one is engaged, students are coming to class not answering questions… he’s a great teacher but literally can’t get people to not use their phones.” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow Cristian, Alanna, and Flipd: https://www.flipdapp.co/ Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/experiencejomo.

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8: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, with Tiffany Shlain

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:00:00 GMT

If you’re old enough to remember the birth of the Internet as we know it, you probably remember the unbridled optimism that accompanied the “digital revolution.” There was no question that “the Web” was all benefit: we’d be more productive, more efficient, better educated, better entertained, better… connected. We wouldn’t have to miss a thing. Tiffany Shlain remembers. She remembers how the birth of the smartphone made always-on living a constant. The founder of the Webby Awards celebrating the best the Internet has to offer humanity, Tiffany has also seen the costs: a generation of children less active, less healthy, less emotionally aware, and the beauty of life in general subject to disruption at a moment’s notice by the next push notification. Tiffany and her husband Ken - a robotics professor at the University of California, Berkley - adapted the ancient Jewish practice of the shabbat, the divinely mandated day of rest, to become the Technology Shabbat, where her family, including their two daughters, foregoes all devices from sundown every Friday to sundown each Saturday. The tradition has become beloved and eagerly anticipated by the entire family, who refer to it as a “vacation” and celebrate the peace and expansion of conscious, lived time. Tiffany shares this practice in her new book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week.

Topics covered:- Technology is a good servant but a terrible master- Tech addiction is real, and its effects on our minds and character are too.- Time, experience, and joy are fuller and richer when we eliminate distraction.- Every ancient religion has included the concept of a day of rest where disconnecting from the pace of worldly responsibilities is a mandate for spiritual health. GO DEEPER Want to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life? We'll send you playful prompts to brighten your day, expand your mind, and push you outside into the real world. We all need a little nudge. Sign up for 7-days of free JOMO Quests at experiencejomo.com. Favorite Quotes“Having one day off each week shocks you anew into the realization of how bizarre it is that everyone is head-down, looking at screens all the time. That should never feel normal.” “A weekly day without screens improves our family’s lives... it provides that same feeling of deep relaxation we get when we go away. And because it expands your sense of time, it makes your day off feel like two days in one.” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow Tiffany Shlain: https://www.24sixlife.com/ | https://twitter.com/tiffanyshlain Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes (or wherever you listen) and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! If you want to be empowered to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life, become a JOMO member and engage directly with Christina at www.patreon.com/experiencejomo

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7: The Joy of Missing Out on Hustle, with Payam Shalchian and Jessica Brunette

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 07:00:00 GMT

This season we are talking about the two elements of Joy: Well-being and Success. Success is the achievement of goals, whatever they are. Well-being is having a positive relationship with our abilities and our limits, whatever they are. We need to miss out on some things to get there. Some beliefs. Some habits. Some hustle. All the FOMO. DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT | A Fireside Special This week, we’re releasing two special JOMOcast episodes with guests from Fireside Conference: an offline conference for techies. Meet Jessica Brunette and Payam Shalchian. Payam, a former management consultant working 70-hour weeks, had little time for the things that supported his well-being, namely his relationships - especially with his wife Jessica - but also with his extended family and friends. Payam would wake up, as many of you do, to a flood of email messages demanding his attention. By nightfall, the pressure wouldn’t let up. When Jess’s sister and brother-in-law shared their vision for opening a bed and breakfast in the country, Jess and Payam were captivated -- by the idea of living in community, and by the freedom to experiment and play. Now co-owners of the Edward Bed and Breakfast, the foursome co-live in the wilds of Ontario’s Prince Edward County. My husband Michael and I spoke with Jess and Payam on our anniversary in September sitting around a picnic table at Camp Walden. We heard how this couple made the choice to slow down and the dividends it’s paid to their well-being, marriage, and all-round satisfaction with life. Topics covered:- Hustle till you make it? Reddit's co-founder says putting work above all else could be 'toxic.’ - CNBC- Realities and true costs of round-the-clock professions- Going through hard things can make for good outcomes- Power in relying on other people- Anxiety about doing one thing- Leaning into someone else’s vision- Power of community- Freedom to experiment GO DEEPERWant to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life? We'll send you playful prompts to brighten your day, expand your mind, and push you outside into the real world. We all need a little nudge. Sign up for 7-days of free JOMO Quests at experiencejomo.com. Favorite Quotes “And we said, “Hey, let’s move in, all 5 of us, what could go wrong?” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow The Edward B&B:https://www.theedward.ca/ | https://www.instagram.com/theedwardpec/ Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! For bonus content and extras like a JOMO manifesto letter print, become a patron at www.patreon.com/jomocast. Every patron gets a shout out on the JOMOcast and a place on the Wall of Thanks for all of time.

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6: The Joy of Other-Centredness, with Peter Katz

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:00:00 GMT

This season we are talking about the two elements of Joy: Well-being and Success. Success is the achievement of goals, whatever they are. Well-being is having a positive relationship with our abilities and our limits, whatever they are. We need to miss out on some things to get there. Some beliefs. Some habits. Some hustle. All the FOMO. DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT | A Fireside Special This week, we’re releasing two special JOMOcast episodes with guests from Fireside Conference: an offline conference for techies. First up, Peter Katz. When Peter - a Juno-nominated musician - showed up for a sold-out concert in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, he’d get a job offer that would change his life forever. Instead of hustling year-round as a creator, he now spends an entire month each year unplugged from touring, from the city, from the non-stop pressure to produce, in order to invest in the lives of teens building resilience in the mountains. It was a risky choice - one that could have jeopardized his career but, instead catalyzed his career and his life. Key takeaways from our conversation: - The joy of missing out on personal gain to invest deeply in others- Letting go of predictability to embrace work that brings you LIFE- Consciously choosing to trade the noise and hustle of the city for the silence of the mountains Topics covered:- The traps of personal branding- The freedom and joy of outward focus- For communities to thrive we all need to elevate each other and we can’t do that if we are isolating ourselves- It takes time to process feelings- The “wow” factor: the importance of curiosity GO DEEPERWant to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life? We'll send you playful prompts to brighten your day, expand your mind, and push you outside into the real world. We all need a little nudge. Sign up for 7-days of free JOMO Quests at experiencejomo.com. Favorite Quotes “There are no bad kids, only sad kids.” “I would not choose the Air Canada Centre [the biggest venue in Canada] over that experience. Not a million years. And this is not the direction I thought I would take as a singer/songwriter.” “Everything GOOD in my life is rooted in saying yes to that.” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you’re passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow Peter’s work:https://www.peterkatz.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/peterkatzmusic/ Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! For bonus content and extras like a JOMO manifesto letterprint, become a patron at www.patreon.com/jomocast. Every patron gets a shout out on the JOMOcast and a place on the Wall of Thanks for all of time.

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5: How Tech Impacts Our Lives, with digital sociologist Dr. Jess Perriam

Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Dr. Jess Perriam is a Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University and lives in London, UK. She received her PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018, specializing in digital sociology and science and technology studies. She is currently co-chair of a new undergraduate distance education class called Understanding Digital Societies. Her research interests are technology use in everyday and public sector digital transformation. When not researching and writing, she enjoys writing snail mail to people around the world. She says: “I’ve been eagerly following Christina’s JOMO journey since we met as she was putting the finishing touches on her book, The Joy of Missing Out. It’s great to see the many ways that she has grown and expanded on this. In particular, the JOMOcast is a way of extending the conversation further. Christina has a knack for connecting with fascinating people with compelling stories to tell, and she delivers this on the JOMOcast. I’m excited to join this conversation and contribute some sociological perspectives on technology use in daily life." jessperriam.comtwitter.com/jessyp jomocast.compatreon.com/jomocasthover.com/jomocast

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4: JOMO for the Very Online, with Aaron Reynolds

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:00:00 GMT

“Notifications are the devil and I work hard to have relevant ones.” ⁠This is the kind of zinger you can expect from this week's conversation with Aaron Reynolds, creator of Effin' Birds. Christina first met Aaron at fireside conference - a tech-free event for techies - three years ago. Since then, he's been an unexpected and enthusiastic supporter of the JOMO movement. When it comes to our relationship with digital, he says: "It’s always a work in progress. You’ve got to keep thinking about it.” Aaron Reynolds is a humourist, professional speaker, and the man behind the wildly popular @EffinBirds and @swear_trek Twitter accounts. When not on Twitter, you can find Aaron producing a series of podcasts and at ComicCon dressed as George Lucas. He has been a baseball writer, a fine art printer, and a mall Santa Claus photographer. Aaron was raised in Mississauga, Canada, a suburb where they cut down all the trees and named the streets after them. www.effinbirds.com jomocast.compatreon.com/jomocasthover.com/jomocast

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3: The Joy of Going Light, with Joe Hollier

Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:00:00 GMT

When you think about it, JOMO is a kind of streamlining- trimming away the things that drag us down and pull us off course. Some of the most essential optimizing in our journey towards joy involve our relationship to technology- and our second guest offers a solution. Joe Hollier is the co-founder of The Light Phone- a beautiful, simple phone that wants you to use it less. The Light Phone is meant to be a friend and tool for people who want to be bound to their smartphone less- or not at all. It grew out of Joe’s awareness, like so many of us, that our phones have started to get in the way of the things that matter so much more. In addition to being an entrepreneur, Hollier is a multi-disciplinary artist who enjoys riding his skateboard, camping, reading books, taking photographs and spending time with his cat, plants and friends. thelightphone.com jomocast.compatreon.com/jomocasthover.com/jomocast

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2: The Joy of Missing Out on Loneliness, with Salimah Ebrahim

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:00:00 GMT

Ever heard of a tech start-up whose mission is to use the online to get people offline? Enter: Artery. You can think of Artery as a mashup between Airbnb and Eventbrite; it matches performers with hosts of spaces to create unique neighbourhood experiences. Their mission is to bring people together- face to face- and build the kinds of connections that are only possible when we unplug and reach out. In this episode, we talk with Salimah Yvette Ebrahim, co-founder of Artery.is about culture ("Culture is the room we're in. How we enter. Where we sit. Who we talk to.",) the demands of leading a start-up, and the joy of missing out on loneliness. Ebrahim has been profiled by CBC Television as one of 25 Canadians who are changing the world and declared by Chatelaine magazine one of 80 amazing Canadian women to watch. artery.is jomocast.compatreon.com/jomocasthover.com/jomocast

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1: The Elements of Joy

Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:36:06 GMT

We all seek joy, but what is it? Joy is a combination of two vital things: success in life and sustained well-being through healthy, meaningful connection to others. Through a combination of forces like FOMO, the always-on culture of work, and the addictive design of social media, many of us have lost our ability to sense and pursue joy- instead spending our energy in pursuit of hollow, ultimately disappointing and unhealthy ends. FOMO’s core messages: You’re not doing enough. You don’t have enough. You are not enough. Fortunately, we can find our way back to our natural joy-seeking selves by reconnecting to our own definitions of success and giving ourselves permission to nurture well-being by fostering real human contact in the areas of our lives where we need it most. Episode webpage: www.jomocast.com Links:www.jomocast.comwww.patreon.com/jomocastwww.hover.com/jomocast

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JOMOcast - Trailer

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 17:58:36 GMT

The JOMOcast - a podcast for founders and creators seeking joy in a digital age. Coming July 10.

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